Fractured Empire

Leon Moretti lost his wife. For anyone else, that kind of event would be a devastating reality that sets their life back. As the Underboss of The Outfit, he has no time for grief. He shared no love with the woman he spent years with, but they have two children together that he loves more than anything else in the world.Taking care of his sons is a task he takes seriously. Not only is it his wife’s dying wish to make sure their children grow up with two loving parents, Leon knows it’s his duty as a father to provide his boys with a mother figure. Even if it means searching the surrounding mafia families for the perfect fit to slip into their lives.Katya Lukáčová has a complex history of mafia associations. The daughter of a Slovakian syndicate now the stepdaughter to The Ruler of The Gods, a powerful Greek organization. So, of course she’s heard of the infamous Moretti family, but marrying one of them had never been an aspiration of hers.Scoring a Moretti husband is, however, her best friend’s newest goal. Katya’s ambitious friend doesn’t care that Leon is a widowed man who has two children relying on him, only that he’s the third highest ranking member of his family who will need a new wife. Despite feeling uneasy about her friend’s motivations, Katya is dragged along to support her in meeting a man that every mafia princess would want.Nothing goes remotely to plan when both girls are struck with the reality that Leon knows exactly what he’s looking for in his new wife. And Katya ticks every single box.This is a single dad, mafia romance.