A Harrow Bay Novel
The Books
The Cataldo Dynasty is a series of interconnected standalones. One couple, one complete happily-ever-after, one shared crime world. Start anywhere. Read in order to watch the Family rise.
Vows of War
A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance
He didn’t arrange the marriage. He aimed it.
For two years the Cataldo family and the Doyle crew bled Harrow Bay dry. Then the enemy’s heir sued for peace and gave away everything. The docks. The money. His pride. Every clause on paper, surrendered without a blink. He argued all night for one thing that was never written in ink. Her.
Nora Doyle is the secret bookkeeper who has kept her father’s crew alive, and she doesn’t beg, she counts. She walks into her own wedding with insurance sewn into the lining of her coat, certain she is just a treaty term, a debt paid in a daughter.
But the war was too clean. The peace was too generous. A man does not concede a whole city he spent two years winning unless the thing he is really buying was never on the table.
Arranged marriage · Enemies to lovers · Obsessed but devoted antihero · Forced proximity · Slow-burn obsession, high heat · Guaranteed HEA · 18+
Long Exposure
A Dark Mafia Enemies to Lovers Romance
He was sent to silence her. He can’t stop watching her instead.
Nine years behind the bar at the Nine Bells has taught Wren Halloway exactly how far this city will look away. So when her 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. She crops it to the one thing that will keep her alive. And she sends a made man a bill.
Rocco Cataldo has spent fourteen years making problems disappear. The Family has already closed the file on the night somebody stood on that mudflat with a light in their hand. Rocco is the only one still looking, six weeks on, and when he finds her she has her hands flat on the counter, handing him exactly what he came for and keeping the rest, and something in him that has never once missed doesn’t take the shot.
So he keeps her close instead. Watched. Under his roof, on terms she wrote herself. A cage with the door standing open, if she is brave enough to use it.
She isn’t leaving. Not for the money. Not for him. And every frame she develops in the dark pulls them both closer to a truth that could bury them: his family’s oldest secret, her mother’s, and a target on her back that no amount of proof can burn away.
Enemies to lovers · Forced proximity · He falls first · Witness under watch · High heat · Guaranteed HEA · 18+
Nothing on Paper
A Dark Mafia Captive Romance
She traded herself to save her father’s life.
He’s spent eight weeks trying to hand her a way out.
Alina Sava walks onto Pier 9 with one sentence rehearsed and a debt that was never hers. Sixty days, she tells the man behind the desk. Sixty days, and she’ll stand for whatever her father owes. She’s braced for a locked door.
What she gets is Tommaso Ferri: a capo who runs the pier from memory because nothing at Pier 9 has ever been written down, who states a rule once and never repeats it, and who puts her in a house with no working lock on it anywhere. The gate opens with two fingers. The only road out floods twice a day. Nothing on that property could hold her if she decided to go.
So every morning, on purpose, she decides to stay.
Tommaso was told to guard her. Instead he spends eight weeks quietly trying to give the whole arrangement away: an exit she won’t take, the truth about a debt that doesn’t add up, and one rule of his own that matters more than all of hers put together. Nobody touches her until she says so, out loud, and means it, and he says it back.
Under the rules he recites from memory sits one line more than he’s ever spoken aloud, and a secret he’s never once explained. Not to her. Not to himself.
This is the slowest burn in Harrow Bay. Weeks of proximity before the first kiss. Longer before either of them stops being careful. When it finally breaks, it breaks all the way, and by then there’s a discrepancy that could cost him the one thing he’s built his whole life on being the man nobody can ever pin down.
Nothing here is written down. Nothing here has to be.
Forced proximity · Consent-forward slow burn · Guard who won’t guard her · Silent capo, brilliant pianist · Guaranteed HEA · 18+
Truce Line
A Cataldo Dynasty prequel novella
A soldier assigned to watch a flower shop on the line between two territories, and the woman who crossed the street and set her own terms. Set in the last six months of the war, ending in the week Vows of War begins.