My father died owing the Devil eight hundred thousand dollars.

I thought the funeral was the end of his mistakes. I was wrong. Before the dirt had settled on his grave, Cristiano Salvatore sent men to my door at two in the morning.

Cristiano is not the kind of man you refuse.

Powerful. Controlled. Feared across Brooklyn. The kind of man who does not raise his voice because everyone already knows what happens when he does.

He gave me two choices.

Pay a debt I could never afford.

Or marry him.

Two years as his wife, and my father's debt disappears. My sister stays safe. Our lives remain intact. On paper, it sounds simple. A contract. A ring. A role to play at family dinners.

But nothing about Cristiano Salvatore is simple.

He says this marriage is only a transaction. He says I am a solution to a problem. He says there will be no intimacy, no affection, no expectations beyond the lie we must sell to his dangerous family.

Then he looks at me like he owns every breath I take.

The brownstone becomes my cage. His ring becomes my shackle. His rules become the walls closing around me. And the more I fight him, the more I see the man beneath the Devil - scarred, ruthless, haunted, and far more dangerous to my heart than to my freedom.

I agreed to survive him.

I did not agree to want him.

And when enemies inside his family start circling, our fake marriage becomes the only thing standing between us and a war.

Cristiano Salvatore bought me to settle a debt.

But the Devil does not know what it will cost him when his wife decides she is no longer for sale.

DEBT TO THE DEVIL is a forced marriage age-gap mafia romance featuring a ruthless antihero, a debt-trapped heroine, a marriage of convenience, family betrayal, dangerous devotion, and a possessive husband who learns too late that some contracts are written in blood.