Claimed By The Mafia Beast

Synopsis

Ava Blackthorn has spent seven years building a future with her fiancé Aiden, right up until the night she overhears him mocking her as nothing more than a placeholder for his real love, Brianna. Humiliated and publicly struck in front of a room full of strangers, Ava does the one thing she swore she'd never do: she calls the brother she abandoned nine years earlier, fleeing a violent childhood home. Liam Blackthorn is no longer the boy Ava left behind. He is now the country's most feared mafia king, and his right hand, the lethal and quietly devoted Nathan DeLuca, is sent to bring her home. Thrust into a world of private jets, guarded mansions, and casual brutality, Ava must reconcile the brother who once protected her with the man who now rules an empire built on fear, even as she finds unexpected comfort, and a growing attraction, in Nathan's steady, dangerous presence. But peace doesn't last. Aiden resurfaces with a warning that Liam is in danger, luring Ava into a trap that reveals the true scope of her betrayal: Aiden was hired years ago to secretly protect and monitor her for Liam, only to turn traitor out of jealousy and align himself with Brianna, who is revealed to be the ruthless head of the rival Rocco family, and Liam's oldest, most vengeful enemy. Held captive and forced to choose between Aiden's life and Nathan's, Ava chooses Nathan without hesitation, severing her last tie to the life she thought she wanted. As a rescue mission turns into all-out war between empires, Ava is caught in the crossfire of a rivalry rooted in old rejection and long-simmering rage. When Brianna's final, desperate shot is aimed at Ava, Liam throws himself into its path, dying in his sister's arms, but not before passing his empire, and her protection, into Nathan's hands. Six months later, standing at her brother's grave, Ava steps into the life she never expected to want, not as a victim of betrayal, but as the woman standing beside the man who never lied to her, ready to claim her place at the head of the empire her brother built.