A Harrow Bay Novel
The Cataldo
Dynasty
Dark contemporary mafia romance about dangerous men who are honest about what they are, and the women who walk in with better terms than anyone expected.
One port city. One crime family. A great many people keeping books they shouldn’t be keeping. Every book is a standalone with its own complete happily-ever-after, so you can start anywhere.
Truce Line
A Cataldo Dynasty prequel
He was paid to stand across the street from her shop.
She was the one who crossed it.
For four days a man in a gray jacket stood on the corner opposite Reyes Flowers and watched the door. On the fourth day Paloma Reyes quit waiting for him to leave and carried him out a coffee.
Franco Trapani has one job: watch the shop on the seam between two territories and report what comes near it. When she asks him straight out what he is doing there, he tells her the truth, badly. So she sets her own terms. Every evening, before he goes, he tells her everything he saw.
Neither of them thinks about what a rule like that can be used for.
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The books
Reading order
Interconnected standalones. Each one is a complete story with its own HEA. Read them in order and you will watch a family rise.
Book One · Out now
Vows of War
Dario & Nora
He didn’t arrange the marriage. He aimed it.
Nora Doyle walks into her own wedding with insurance sewn into the lining of her coat, certain she is just a treaty term. But the war was too clean and the peace was too generous, and a man does not concede a whole city unless the thing he is really buying was never on the table.
Arranged marriage · Enemies to lovers · Slow-burn obsession
Book Two · Out now
Long Exposure
Rocco & Wren
He was sent to silence her. He can’t stop watching her instead.
When Wren Halloway’s camera catches a Cataldo enforcer putting a body in the water, she doesn’t run and she doesn’t call it in. She develops the print, crops it to the one thing that will keep her alive, and sends a made man a bill.
Enemies to lovers · He falls first · Witness under watch
Book Three · Out now
Nothing on Paper
Tommaso & Alina
She traded herself to save her father’s life. He’s spent eight weeks trying to hand her a way out.
Tommaso Ferri runs Pier 9 from memory, because nothing at Pier 9 has ever been written down. He puts her in a house with no working lock on it anywhere. So every morning, on purpose, she decides to stay.
Forced proximity · Consent-forward slow burn · Silent capo
About
Nova Bianchi
The Cataldo Dynasty started with a question: what does a man do when the one thing he wants can’t be taken, only given? Every book since has been some version of the answer, which is usually ask, and then live with what she says.
Expect morally grey men, competent women who are never rescued from their own decisions, slow-burn obsession, high heat, and an ending that pays what the first chapter promised.