Blood & Mistletoe

I was supposed to be driving home for Christmas—

not finding a corpse in my trunk

and a powerful, much-older mafia king hissing my name through the phone.

“Bring me the body, Riley.

Or you disappear next.”

That’s how I meet Rafe Ferretti.

Twelve years older.

Twice as dangerous.

And entirely too used to being obeyed.

I should fear him.

But fear doesn’t explain the heat

when he backs me against a wall

and calls me trouble like it’s a promise.

Dragged into his war,

I become the woman he can’t afford to lose—

the only one who can unravel the ledger that could ruin us both.

Rivals hunt us.

The feds close in.

Christmas becomes a ticking bomb wrapped in snow.

He thinks I’m fragile.

He’s wrong.

I won’t break for him—

but God help me, I might burn with him.

Because somewhere between blood on the snow

and mistletoe hanging over forbidden nights,

the most feared man in New York looks at me

as if I’m already his…

…and the most dangerous part?

I don’t want to run.