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Cruel Ruin
A Dark Romance Age Gap Mafia Arranged Marriage RomanceBy Valeria Moreno
Length11h 49m
About this audiobook
Bianca Rinaldi was handed to Matteo Cavalcante to end a war.
She was supposed to be a transaction. A signature. A wife he'd bury and forget like the two before her.
She had other plans. Within four months she learned the family books, cultivated the consigliere, and quietly disentangled her father's debts from the marriage contract Matteo had signed without reading carefully enough.
Matteo is forty-nine, cold since his second wife was murdered, and incapable of looking away from the twenty-three-year-old who sits at the end of his own table and never flinches at anything.
When a prosecutor with a grudge comes for both families, Bianca brokers the deal without asking his permission. He is furious. He is, for the first time in fifteen years, afraid.
She moves out. He follows.
*A dark, age-gap mafia arranged marriage romance for readers who like their wives in charge and their dons on a leash.*
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (1.5K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Content Warning
10Eight
2Prologue
11Nine
3One
12Ten
4Two
13Eleven
5Three
14Twelve
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6Four
15Thirteen
7Five
16Fourteen
8Six
17Epilogue
9Seven
18About the author
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