Crown of Ashes: BWWM Mafia Cinderella Romance
Jasmine Hartley
A hotel maid with a dying grandmother. A mafia boss with a dead mother's secret. And a forced marriage neither of them expected to survive — let alone fall into.
I'd been invisible my whole life — night shifts at the Rossi Grand Hotel, tips that barely covered rent, a grandmother with stage four cancer and medical bills that could bury us both. I survived by disappearing into the margins, by needing no one, by making silence a skill. Then Dante Rossi offered to pay for Nonna's treatment — every last dime — if I agreed to marry him. Not for love. For leverage. The most dangerous man in Chicago needed a wife, and I needed a miracle. I said yes before my brain caught up with my mouth.
Now I was living in his mansion, eating dinner across from a man who killed people before dessert, pretending I didn't notice the way he watched me — like I was the first thing in sixteen years that made him afraid. Dante Rossi didn't do flowers or sweet talk. He just stayed. Handed me the keys to every lock, every safe, every secret he had. And I was terrified — not of the enemies circling us, but of how much I wanted to stay too.
- Forced Marriage to the Mafia Boss
- BWWM / Interracial Romance
- He Falls First (and falls HARD)
- Touch Her and Die Energy
- Strong Heroine Who Doesn't Break
Some crowns aren't given. They're earned in ashes.
