Fire

I sacrificed my youth to become the hottest name in fashion. Now, I’m designing for my life.

I had the fashion world at my feet, and as a designer – I turned down jobs with the biggest houses in Paris and Milan for one thing: total creative control. Then came the thirty-million-dollar investment to build my own brand and empire. My boutiques in New York, LA, Tokyo, and Rome were finally igniting.

Then the money—and my lawyer—vanished.

I didn’t realize my loan had been sold to a monster until the Italian mafia snatched me from New York. Now, I’m a prisoner in a castle in Rome, held by a man they call the Mafia Prince.

Lando Medici. A man who is arrogant, lethal, and devastatingly beautiful. But he doesn’t want my brand; he wants my genius. His ultimatum is simple: Design or die.

Tied in his stables and treated like an animal, I tried to fight him. I even burned the masterpieces I was forced to create for him – just to see the look on his face. But Lando isn’t a man who loses. He gives me a final choice: yield to him or be sold to the Albanians—the worst of the worst.

The silence of my gilded cage, his castle… once an ancient Roman spa calms me and I find unexpected flow. The lack of New York noise also does the unthinkable. I’m creating the best work of my life. I’m also happy. I’m his.

But as the Medici blood feud closes in, Lando and his cousins Angel and Mica must find their families’ killers… before they find us. I can design world-class gowns in any style, but can I design a way out of a life I’ve grown to love?