THE CAPO'S CAPTIVE by Julieta Santos

She found a number that didn't belong. Now she belongs to him. Vera Solano has built her entire life on one principle: the numbers never lie. As a forensic accountant for a federal oversight firm, she finds the truth hidden inside other people's careful deceptions, puts it in a clean report, and goes home to her quiet Wicker Park apartment. Alone. Organized. In control. She is very good at this. She has never once lost her footing inside a set of books. Then she finds the wrong number in the wrong ledger, and by the time she reaches the parking garage, a man is leaning against her car. Niccolo Barone is Chicago's most dangerous open secret. Capo. Billionaire. The man the family sends when something needs to end quietly and completely. He has spent twenty years building a legitimate empire above the city's river while running the machinery of a criminal dynasty beneath it. He does not make mistakes. He does not allow loose ends. And he does not let women who have seen the inside of his financial architecture simply walk away. He takes her to his penthouse above the river instead. What follows is not what either of them planned. Because Vera does not beg, does not break, and does not stop watching him with those precise amber eyes that see more than anyone in his world has ever been allowed to see. And Nico cannot explain why he keeps sending the legal pad, covering her with the cashmere blanket, sitting across from her in a restaurant his mother used to love. He took her freedom. She is cataloging his soul. In a city that never forgets what lives in its bones, two people are about to discover that the most dangerous thing in the world is being seen completely. Some cages are made of glass and concrete. Some are made of the truth. The Capo's Captive is a full-length, standalone dark billionaire mafia romance with an HEA. If you read slow burns that ignite fast, morally complex heroes who fall hard, and heroines who never lose themselves, one-click now and meet Vera and Nico.