Ruin

In a world ruled by blood and secrets, love is the one thing that can destroy everything.

Tommy Demonio is a mafia heir with a mind like a scalpel: brilliant, precise, and deadly. He knows the rules of the world he was born into: take orders, fix problems, and never show weakness. There’s no place for Giovanna—perfect, forbidden Giovanna—in the bloody future carved out for him. But she’s the only one who can quiet his chaos.

Giovanna Marino has always lived on the edge of other people’s choices, the heiress to one of the city’s most powerful families. Her father is dead...

In a world ruled by blood and secrets, love is the one thing that can destroy everything.

Tommy Demonio is a mafia heir with a mind like a scalpel: brilliant, precise, and deadly. He knows the rules of the world he was born into: take orders, fix problems, and never show weakness. There’s no place for Giovanna—perfect, forbidden Giovanna—in the bloody future carved out for him. But she’s the only one who can quiet his chaos.

Giovanna Marino has always lived on the edge of other people’s choices, the heiress to one of the city’s most powerful families. Her father is dead set on making sure that she stays away from Tommy in favor of a safer option, but Giovanna is feisty, smart, and too stubborn for her own good. She wants more than a life dictated by her father’s secrets. And she’s done being a pawn in a game she didn’t sign up for.

TOMMY: They say I’m dangerous, and they’re not wrong. But Giovanna? She doesn’t fear me. She sees the man I truly am, a man trying to survive his legacy. To our fathers, she is leverage in a war that started long before we were born. But to me, she’s not a weapon. She’s the peace I’d kill for.

GIA: He’s chaos in a suit, everything my father taught me to avoid: heartless, violent, all sharp edges, a hurricane in motion. I know I should run, heed my father’s warnings, but Tommy doesn’t ask for my heart. He claims it like it was always his. Now it’s war, and I don’t know if I want to survive him or be devoured whole. In a city ruled by empires and vendettas, falling in love isn’t just reckless, it’s an act of war. But when desire turns to rebellion and trust shatters beneath the weight of battle, Tommy and Giovanna must break free from the legacy that binds them or lose the only thing that ever mattered: their love. When power is a weapon and loyalty is currency, will Tommy and Giovanna’s love become collateral damage?

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This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that may not suit all readers. Please check the author’s note for content warnings before reading. This is also the first half of a duet and as such ends in a cliffhanger that is resolved in the second half of the duet, Rise.