Rico (Russo Cosa Nostra (Part of the Chains and Crowns Chronicles) 5)

She was only supposed to save his life. She never expected him to steal her heart.

Dr. Olivia Hale has spent her life saving people.

She knows how to handle blood, trauma, and impossible cases. What she doesn’t know how to handle is being taken from her hospital and forced to save a man who belongs to the darkest world she’s ever encountered.

Rico Russo is Cosa Nostra.

Powerful. Ruthless. Dangerous.

And very much not the kind of man Olivia should ever get involved with.

She wants nothing to do with his world, his enemies, or the secrets surrounding the man bleeding out on her operating table. She fights him every step of the way, refusing to be intimidated by his reputation or the danger that seems to follow him everywhere.

Rico understands exactly why she should stay away.

His life is built on violence, loyalty, and enemies who would use anyone he cares about against him. Olivia is everything his world doesn’t deserve—intelligent, compassionate, stubborn, and completely untouched by the darkness that surrounds him.

He should let her go.

Instead, he finds himself drawn to the woman who refuses to fear him.

What begins as necessity slowly becomes something neither of them can control.

Every argument brings them closer. Every danger forces them to rely on each other.

And beneath the fear, the secrets, and the walls they’ve both built, an undeniable attraction begins to grow into something far more dangerous.

Something neither of them is willing to name.

But when Olivia discovers that being taken wasn’t an isolated incident and that someone has been watching her for far longer than she realized, Rico’s greatest fear becomes reality.

She has become a target.

And protecting her means putting her directly in the crosshairs of the world he has spent his life surviving.

Rico knows he should send her away.

Olivia knows she should run.

Neither of them does.

Because sometimes the most dangerous thing a woman can do is fall for the man who was never supposed to let her go.

And in Rico Russo’s world, loving the wrong woman could get them both killed.