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The Sinner's Queen
A Stalker in the Shadows, Twin's Secret Contemporary RomanceBy Delia Marsh
Length8h 12m
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The prints run parallel to the east fence before veering back toward the street. Too deliberate for a jogger. Too spaced for a single man. The snow has begun melting at the edges, which means somebody stood close enough to count the cars in the driveway while the family gathered inside.
Raffaele learned at seventeen that a man who cannot reach his weapon in under two seconds is already dead.
In the main hall, thirty-two capos, consiglieres and soldiers stand in clusters with whiskey in hand. Antonio Corvinelli enters at seven sharp, leaning on a cane that is entirely a prop. What he has come to announce is not put to a vote.
*"He's agreed to a union. Chiara Vitali. To you, Raffaele."*
April. Enzo Vitali signs over control of all Vitali holdings as her dowry, and she carries them into the Corvinelli family.
Chiara is standing in her father's study while he folds a handkerchief before the bloodstain has fully dried. He tells her he is dying in the same voice he would use to report that the market closed down twelve points, and that he will not leave her unprotected. He hands her a folder she does not open, and an instruction: Friday, the Gardenia Club, wear blue.
She runs the restaurants and the real estate. She holds the power of attorney. And the men around that table have already worked out what she is. Matteo says it aloud. *"She's a girl. She'll fold."*
Raffaele's answer is that the Vitali name has held Brooklyn for forty years, and you do not simply take territory like that.
What neither house says out loud is the arithmetic underneath the wedding. A loan of three hundred thousand against a dying man's restaurants, ballooned toward half a million, and the rival holding company that has been circling those holdings like a shark for three years. Under that sits an older grudge, about a grandfather, a territory, a wife and a gutter.
Inside the walls, somebody is passing information out.
It ends with a rifle on a third floor with *For Lorenzo* engraved above the grip, a frightened boy who gets a broken wrist instead of a bullet, and a woman walking back into her own ballroom with blood on her dress to finish the dance.
A closed-door mafia romance about an arranged marriage, an inherited debt, and a bride who was never the least dangerous person at the table.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Debt I Refuse to Inherit
2Chapter 2 - The Caged Dove
3Chapter 3 - The Terms of Surrender
4Chapter 4 - The Vow and the Thorn
5Chapter 5 - The Island of Broken Men
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6Chapter 6 - The Edge of an Open Hand
7Chapter 7 - The Night We Shared a Wound
8Chapter 8 - The Antechamber of Wolves
9Chapter 9 - The Thread That Ties
10Chapter 10 - The Snake at the Table
11Chapter 11 - The Armor of Honesty
12Chapter 12 - The Line Between Kings and Murderers
13Chapter 13 - The Cost of a Whisper
14Chapter 14 - The Moment I Chose Her
15Chapter 15 - The Cage Opens Both Ways
16Chapter 16 - The Warehouse of Dust and Promises
17Chapter 17 - The Blood of a Brother
18Chapter 18 - The Hourglass in My Chest
19Chapter 19 - The Axe of Truth
20Chapter 20 - The Lie We Built Our Thrones On
21Chapter 21 - The Queen in Exile
22Chapter 22 - The Trap Woven in Silk
23Chapter 23 - The Crown of Thorns
24Chapter 24 - The Feast of Ashes
25Chapter 25 - The Cost of the Throne
26Chapter 26 - The Vigil with No Candles
27Chapter 27 - The Inheritance of a New Rule
28Chapter 28 - The Peace That Must Be Sealed
29Chapter 29 - The Queen’s Gambit
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Delia Marsh
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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