The Captain

When Elia Lucia is sold to Magnus Severin, the most dangerous man in the city becomes her new owner... and the one man who looks at her like she already belongs in his bed.

Elia Lucia learns she's been sold the way people in her world learn everything that matters. From a contract placed in front of her and a man waiting to claim what it says is his. She expects cruelty. Possession. A life traded from one powerful family to another. What she doesn't expect is Magnus Severin himself. The Captain of the Severin empire studies her once, slowly, and something in his gaze changes the rules of the entire transaction.

Magnus built his reputation on control. Control of his empire. Control of the violence that made him feared across the city. Control of every weakness a rival might try to exploit. Elia Lucia threatens all of it. She's brave enough to challenge him, stubborn enough to refuse his authority, and beautiful enough to make him want things he's spent a lifetime denying himself. But the deeper Magnus digs into the contract that placed her in his hands, the more it becomes clear that Elia was never meant to find safety with him.

Someone orchestrated the deal that brought her to Magnus Severin. Someone who believes the Severin Captain won't notice the trap until it's too late. They're about to discover just how wrong they are. Because once Magnus decides something is his, he protects it with ruthless devotion... and the woman sold to him may be the one thing he refuses to lose.

The Captain is a dark, intensely romantic mafia romance and the final book in Those (Damn!) Texas Dantes series filled with high-stakes danger, obsessive devotion, and a heroine who refuses to be erased-even when the man bound to her by blood, fire, and Brand is willing to burn the world to keep her.