The Darkest Cage

He took me to win a war. He kept me because he couldn’t let me go.I am Massimo Rinaldi. The family’s weapon. The hand my father points at the things that need breaking. When the war with the Falcones turned, I was sent to take their don’s daughter as leverage - a bargaining chip, a hostage, a body to trade.I was supposed to use her.I wasn’t supposed to want her.Valentina Falcone walked into my house in chains and refused to act like a prisoner. She counts the exits. She sharpens her tongue like a blade. She looks at the biggest, hardest man in New Jersey like he should be afraid - and God help me, he is.Keeping her means defying my father. It means a locked door I’ve started guarding to keep the world out instead of her in. It means choosing an enemy’s daughter over my own blood, at the exact moment someone inside the family is feeding us all to the wolves.She was never meant to be mine.Now I’ll burn both houses to the ground before I hand her back.She is not a girl who gets rescued. She’s a girl who gets even. And the war neither of us started is about to become the only thing worth surviving.A standalone dark mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. Book 2 of the House of Rinaldi trilogy.Readers who love their heroes possessive and their heroines dangerous will fall for: enemies to lovers · captive romance · forbidden love · touch-her-and-die · morally grey antihero · a heroine who fights back · slow-burn to scorching · found family · a Sopranos-flavoured crime world · a traitor hiding in plain sight.Darker, deadlier, and hotter than Book One. For readers 18+.