He hired her to design his empire. He never intended to let her leave it. Architect Gabriella Morello thinks landing the biggest commission of her career will finally put her name on the map. Giancarlo Volpe's forty-two-story tower is everything she has worked for: ambitious, prestigious, and unmistakably hers. Until she discovers what it is really meant to become. Giancarlo isn't simply a powerful developer. He is the capo of the Volpe family, and the glittering Palermo high-rise Gabriella designed is destined to become the fortress at the center of his criminal empire. By the time she understands the truth, the contracts are signed, the doors are locked, and Giancarlo has decided that the brilliant architect who knows too much belongs exactly where he can keep her. Close. Protected. His. Gabriella should hate him. He has taken her freedom, invaded her life, watched her every move, and turned her greatest professional achievement into a gilded cage. But hatred becomes dangerously complicated when attraction burns beneath every argument, and the ruthless man holding the key begins revealing wounds no one else has ever been allowed to see. Meanwhile, a rival mafia family is closing in, someone inside Giancarlo's own organization is betraying him, and Gabriella's blueprints have become a weapon that could destroy them both. interior(1).pdf Caught between obsession and betrayal, Gabriella must decide whether escaping Giancarlo is still what she wants... or whether the most dangerous thing about her captivity is the part of her that no longer wants to run. The Capo's Captive is a dark mafia romance of obsession, forced proximity, possessive love, betrayal, power, and a ruthless man who has no intention of surrendering the woman he has claimed.
