I was supposed to be a bargaining chip. He was supposed to be my jailer.

My sister married the most dangerous man in Chicago, and I became collateral. Now I'm trapped in a villa on the Amalfi Coast with Marco Bianchi — fifteen years older, stone-cold lethal, and the only thing standing between me and the enemies who want my family dead.

He calls it protection. I call it a gilded cage.

He communicates in single syllables and enforces rules I never agreed to. His eyes track every exit. His hands know seventeen ways to kill a man. And when he looks at me, I forget he's supposed to be the villain.

But Marco has his own demons — an exile's guilt, a decade of solitude, and a blood feud that's about to catch up with both of us. The walls he built aren't just around me. They're around him.

When the past comes for us, I have to decide: am I the hostage waiting for rescue, or the woman Marco taught to fight? Because in his world, love is a liability. And I just became the most dangerous thing Marco Bianchi has ever held.

He swore he'd protect me.
He never said he'd love me.
He's doing both anyway.

Bound by Blood is Book Two of the Blood Dynasty series — a dark mafia age-gap romance where the protector becomes the protected, the captive becomes the cure, and "always" is a promise written in blood.