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Nina Shaw has a rule: she doesn’t cover other people’s mistakes.
Then her father disappears and leaves her with his.
Dennis Shaw borrowed money from the Calabrese family in 2019. He’s been gone for eight months when Marco Calabrese knocks on Nina’s door with the bill.
Nina speaks fluent Italian and Sicilian dialect — her grandmother’s gift, one of the few good things the family gave her. Marco needs exactly that. An arrangement is proposed: eight weeks as his cover, his professional associate for meetings that require fluency, the debt reduced proportionally.
She gets it in writing. She sets the terms. She says: I’ll tell you where my lines are when I see them.
He says: agreed.
Marco Calabrese is the enforcer. He runs hot, laughs too loud, and has been carrying something for five years that he can’t put down. He’s been the family’s weapon for so long he’s forgotten what it feels like to be its person.
Nina Shaw makes him remember.
But the arrangement ends in week ten, and she has no reason to stay, and he’s never been good at asking for the things he wants most — only at taking the things that need taking.
Except this time, what he wants can only be offered.
Owned by the Enforcer is a dark Italian mafia romance featuring a mouthy Manchester bartender who refuses to be afraid, a tattooed enforcer learning that the things worth having can’t be collected, and the specific alchemy of two people who say what they mean finding each other. HEA. Dual POV. Explicit content.