{"title":"Contemporary Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eModern love stories — billionaire, mafia, dark romance, and more. From Candy Steele and Victoria Sinclair.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"crown-bundle-the-complete-dona-series-5-dark-romance-books-pre-order-delivers-june-15","title":"Crown Bundle — The Complete Dona Series, 5 Dark Romance Books (Pre-Order, Delivers June 15)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt forty-three, she buries her husband.\u003cbr\u003eAt forty-eight, they hand her another one — sixteen years younger, \u003cbr\u003echosen for her, and bound by a contract she wrote herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive families. One arranged marriage. And a Dona who refuses to be \u003cbr\u003eanyone's pawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e═══════════════════════════════════════════\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to mafia Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the Ferrante estate sits on Lac des Deux-Montagnes behind iron \u003cbr\u003egates and old trees. Where the St. Lawrence carries secrets the way \u003cbr\u003ethe river carries ice. Where a widow in Armani and pearl earrings runs \u003cbr\u003ethe most powerful crime family in Quebec — and where, at 3 AM in a \u003cbr\u003edarkened kitchen, the only sound is a piano playing Debussy through \u003cbr\u003ethe walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVittoria Ferrante doesn't need a husband. She needs a problem solved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Reyes cartel is hitting her warehouses. The five families demand \u003cbr\u003ean alliance. The Santoros offer their youngest son — Nico, 27, the \u003cbr\u003eeducated one, the spare. A pawn she can contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe marries him on her terms: separate wings, no shared accounts, \u003cbr\u003eno public affection, no children. A leash dressed as a vow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen he plays the piano in the east wing at 3 AM.\u003cbr\u003eAnd she finds herself standing in the doorway, listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 4.67\/5 — Goodreads readers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFIVE NOVELS. ONE EMPIRE. ONE WOMAN WHO REFUSES TO BREAK QUIETLY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e═══════════════════════════════════════════\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 BOOK ONE — CROWN\u003cbr\u003eThe contract is signed. The marriage is political. Then someone \u003cbr\u003ecomes for her life — and the husband she meant to ignore is the \u003cbr\u003eone who saw it coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 BOOK TWO — OATH\u003cbr\u003eThree months under the same roof. A snowstorm. A piano. A hand \u003cbr\u003eon a hand on a bench. By morning, every rule she wrote is broken — \u003cbr\u003eand the dossier on her nightstand will end everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 BOOK THREE — BLOOD\u003cbr\u003eHe chose her over his own blood. His father will not forgive him. \u003cbr\u003eHis brother has sworn to bury him. And Vittoria will not open the \u003cbr\u003ebedroom door — even when he sits on the floor, on the other side, \u003cbr\u003eall night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 BOOK FOUR — EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003eWar comes to Senneville. They take Nico. She takes the war room. \u003cbr\u003eA 43-year-old Dona walks into hell to bring her husband home — \u003cbr\u003eand walks out carrying something neither of them thought possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 BOOK FIVE — REIGN\u003cbr\u003eEvery seed. Every traitor. Every name that ever smiled at her over \u003cbr\u003ea glass of whiskey. 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