Backseat Secrets

When the Don gets dropped off, every rule Carlo swore by goes up in smoke.

Carlo Lucchetti is paid to drive, protect, and disappear. He's older, lethal-quiet, and loyal to a fault. Marcella "Marci" Marchesi is the twenty-year-old Mafia princess who slides over the console the second her father vanishes from view.

Leather seats. Fogged glass. Bad decisions.

New York watches. A red camera light blinks where it shouldn't. A corrupt detective hovers with questions that sound like flirting and feel like threat. Carlo changes routes, switches cars, lays down rules... then breaks them the moment Marci says his name.

He's supposed to be her shield, not her sin.

She's supposed to be untouchable, not touched every chance she gets.

Each ride tightens the noose-jealousy, surveillance, and a city that eats the careless. To keep her safe, Carlo has to keep his distance.

To keep her, he can't.

What you'll get:

• Forbidden bodyguard romance vibe with an age gap
• High-heat, obsessive protector
• Voyeur tension
• New York noir texture: Midtown towers, Hamptons hideaways, after-hours clubs
• HFN for Book 1 with a soft hook into Book 2