Proud Souls

Viteliya Condello - a child of blood and betrayal of the Italo-Russian mafia, who was left among the shadows too soon. The 'Ndrangheta group raised her in iron embraces, instilling that freedom is the right of the strong. She did not need a sham marriage, did not bow her head, did not ask for mercy. Until she spilled the first blood. Cristiano Rinaldi - ice and calculation, a pureblood Italian whose power extends over Toronto, turning the city into his empire. He saw her - untamed, dangerous, doomed - and decided that she would be his. The marriage became a deal. A salvation. A trap.
But can the storm be tamed? Love the cold that burns from within? Or must their world collapse into an abyss, where there is neither trust nor mercy - only a passion that destroys stronger than bullets?