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Kutte and Crown
A Ransom Demand, Locked-Down House Biker MC RomanceBy Jax Holloway
Length8h 30m
About this audiobook
Lorenzo Vitale was fourteen the night he pressed his spine against the inside of a metal storage locker in a garage that smelled of gasoline and his father's cigarettes. He had followed the black sedan to prove he was old enough to understand. What he heard instead was a voice saying *You should've taken the deal, Sal,* and then a laugh, loose and careless, the laugh of a man with all the time in the world. *Eighteen years later, he still heard it sometimes.*
Now he runs the family, and Enzo Moretti is in the wingback across his desk in brass cufflinks, trying to look like a man who has arrived. The Moretti operation is small. The Castellanos have been squeezing their trucking routes. Enzo needs an alliance and hates needing one. *My daughter's life for your docks against the Castellanos. That's the trade.*
The terms are already typed. *Marriage within sixty days. Your daughter takes my name, my protection extends to your entire operation.*
Then Cassandra Moretti comes through the study door mid-argument. *Not a shipping container, Papa. You can't just hand me over.* She stops in the middle of the room with her arms crossed and her chin up, a sparrow tattooed on her inner wrist *with wings spread like she was already halfway out the door.* She knows who he is. She says so. She also works out, faster than anyone in his own house, that he is not doing this for power.
What Lorenzo offers her privately is stranger than the contract. Sign it, move into his home, and in six months, when the Castellanos are neutralised and the alliance is solid, she can walk and he will not stop her. He has a sister to think of. *My sister Alessia is nineteen years old. The Castellanos have already made threats against her.*
Neither of them holds to six months. Cassandra stops surviving the house and starts reading it: the steel basement door with the keypad, the capos taking meetings after the meetings, the man who keeps warning Lorenzo that his own fiancee will betray him. Lorenzo starts saying out loud the thing he has been circling since he was a boy in that locker. *It was an inside job. Someone in the family set him up.*
By the time he stands in front of the capos and says *Cassandra will serve as my consigliere,* a chair is already clattering backwards. No woman has ever held that seat. That is the point.
A dark mafia romance of docks, casinos and family business, with explicit scenes, an arranged marriage neither party honours, and a laugh the hero has spent his adult life hunting.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Debt I Cannot Pay
3Chapter 2 - The Cage I Walked Into
4Chapter 3 - The Heir’s Burden
5Chapter 4 - The Martyr’s Daughter
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6Chapter 5 - The Wound I Refuse to Tend
7Chapter 6 - The Secrets I Keep
8Chapter 7 - The Lie We Both Tell
9Chapter 8 - The Devil’s Garden
10Chapter 9 - The Sparrow’s Flight
11Chapter 10 - The Blood We Share
12Chapter 11 - The Grave of Truth
13Chapter 12 - The Oath I Break
14Chapter 13 - The Cage of Trust
15Chapter 14 - The Pact We Write in Ash
16Chapter 15 - The Price of Loyalty
17Chapter 16 - The Wound I Can’t Hide
18Chapter 17 - The Betrayer’s Laugh
19Chapter 18 - The Consummation of Ash
20Chapter 19 - The Kingdom of Secrets
21Chapter 20 - The Devil’s Bargain
22Chapter 21 - The Father’s Ghost
23Chapter 22 - The Ransom of Blood
24Chapter 23 - The Journal’s Last Page
25Chapter 24 - The Inferno of Rescue
26Chapter 25 - The Wound of Love
27Chapter 26 - The Grand Gesture of Fire
28Chapter 27 - The Crown We Share
29Chapter 28 - The Wedding of Ash and Gold
30Chapter 29 - The Dynasty of Hawks
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Jax Holloway
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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