An Irish mafioso with a strong grudge. An Italian mafia princess with a dark secret. Two enemy empires united by sacred marriage vows. Let the games of hate begin.

Reyna If this arrogant Irish mafia boss to whom my brother is trying to sell my innocent niece, thinks I'll be fine with this whole arranged marriage thing, he should think again. I don't care if this fight with the mafia will make Gianni a capo of the Five Families and forever cement our place among the Italian crime syndicates New York. I don't care how much money, territory or power it brings us. I especially don't care if the Irishman is the most handsome man I've ever seen. I won't let my eighteen-year-old niece be sold into slavery the same way I was. But if that happens, I'll make it right. It's not for nothing that they call me the Black Widow.

SpiderI should have married Lily. Sweet, naive Lily, who will make a wonderful wife. A wife who won't distract me, which is exactly what I need. So why can't I stop thinking about her aunt, the swamp witch? Reyna, who hates me. Reina, who challenges me. Reyna with the guts of a Viking, the body of a fertility goddess, and the habits of a wild cat. The sooner this wedding is over and I can return to Boston with my new wife, the better. Because nothing good can come from what I feel for a woman who is not the one I am bound to in the wedding contract. For a woman who killed her own husband in cold blood. For a woman who I want so badly that it seems... I might be crazy to start a war with the mafia over her.