MARRIED TO THE MAFIA'S GHOST

They buried an empty coffin three years ago.
Isolde stood at that grave carrying a secret nobody else knew yet, and became a single mother before she ever became anyone's wife. She rebuilt a life out of his absence: a cottage on the edge of his family's land, a daughter with his eyes, a grief she told herself she had learned to carry. She married someone else. She lost that husband too. She stopped waiting for anyone to come back.
Then Lucien Veyr walks through the door, and the world she built out of his death does not survive the sight of him.
He is not the man they mourned. Three years of survival have hollowed something out of him and left one purpose behind: revenge on whoever put three bullets in the Veyr heir and left him to die on the rocks below the cliffs. He did not expect a daughter. He did not expect to still want the woman who buried him and married someone else. And he is not interested in sharing her again.
The family that ordered his death is not finished. The fastest way to protect what is left of it is a second marriage neither of them wanted: a strategic, guarded, deeply unwanted marriage of convenience that puts a target on everyone he loves, including the little girl who does not yet know the stranger with her eyes is her father.
Someone close to this family wants Lucien gone for good this time. He is done running. He is done waiting. And the only woman he never stopped loving might be the one thing more dangerous, and more necessary, than the war he came home to fight.
Contains: a single mom, a presumed dead husband, a secret baby, a possessive protective hero, a dark mafia marriage of convenience, and a second chance romance wrapped inside a fight for inheritance and revenge.