A Marriage of Bleeding Roses

Unable to cover a four-million-dollar debt, Adelina's father offers the house, the restaurant, her sister, and her nine-year-old brother, but the man at the table names Adelina instead.

She is sold to Salvatore Marchetti and, eight days later, marries him in a chapel of four before moving into the New York house known as the Devil's Garden.

She knows what he is, yet he does not raise his voice, force himself on her, or lie, and he would rather keep his distance than touch her without being asked.

On the worst night of his life, seventeen-year-old Adelina set an unordered plate before him in a Bensonhurst restaurant without knowing his name, and he has sent her one unsigned rose every year since.

Now she lives in his house and his mother's garden while her father's debt and five men who know she exists threaten what comes next, and Salvatore will give them his hands and the rest of his life before he gives them her.