Married to the Don to Keep Me Silent
A Closed-Door Marriage of Convenience Mafia Romance
by Erena Jabrial
He married her to keep her silent. He forgot the choice to speak belongs to the wife.
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At 3 a.m., ER doctor Ivy Marlowe stitches a stranger's arm and types his name into the chart when he pays her not to. Thirty minutes later, she watches him stand over a dying man in her hospital garage with a gun in his hand.
Now she's the FBI's only witness against Nico Vescari, the quiet, dangerous don of Red Hook. A rival family wants her dead before she can testify. Her little brother owes them forty thousand dollars. And Nico has one offer: marry him. A wife can't be forced to testify against her husband.
Her terms: her own bedroom with a lock on her side. Her brother's debt erased. Her residency untouched. And he never lies to her.
He agrees to all of it. He just won't always answer.
But Ivy is a doctor, and doctors notice things. Like the splint she built on his right hand. Like the gun that was in his left. Like the fact that someone inside his own house is feeding her schedule to the men trying to kill her.
The privilege is hers. Only she can keep it, and only she can break it.
For readers of: Readers of clean and closed-door mafia romance, forced marriage romance, and romantic suspense with a smart heroine.
Heat level & content
Closed-door — no explicit scenes. Adult romance all the same: it is a mafia story with violence, coercion and real danger in it. 18+.
The psychology behind the hook
Forced proximity, the grovel, the second chance — these are not random. They are stories about whether someone will choose you after seeing the worst of it, which is the same question anxious attachment asks at 2am. That is why the pull is physical.