GIOVANNI by Claire Kirby
I inherited my Nonna’s restaurant, along with a debt to the mob I can never repay, and a baby I never meant to conceive.
Giovanni Conti walks into my kitchen like he owns it—because apparently, he does.
Underboss to Atlantic City’s most powerful crime family, twenty-one years my senior, and dangerous in every way that matters.
He could take everything.
Instead, he makes me an offer: work exclusively for him until the debt is paid.
I move into his penthouse world of silk sheets and blood money, cooking for hardened men who could kill, while he watches me work with an intensity that makes my skin burn, and my panties dampen.
When rival threats escalate, Gio moves me into his bed.
For my safety, he says.
For his pleasure, I know.
Then I discover his secret—he’s been using Nonna’s debt payments to keep neighborhood businesses alive, protecting people who can’t protect themselves.
This brutal man has a heart buried so deep, I’m the only one who’s found it.
And when I tell him I’m pregnant, the ice in his eyes melts to pure joy.
Until the Russos grab me in retaliation, and Gio thinks I’ve betrayed him and chosen his enemy.
By the time he realizes the truth, I’m already gone.
And so is any chance our baby will know its father.
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Author Bio:
Claire Kirby grew up the daughter of professionals who passed on to her their joy of reading. That joy of reading morphed into a joy of writing, and Claire began to produce compelling love stories with raw authenticity. Her work offers sensuous, steamy portrayals of smart, yet vulnerable, women and heart-breaking alphas with a touch of the bad boy in them.
Claire lives north of Denver with her husband Eugene, their golden retriever Jack, and Jack’s little sidekick, Norma, a Siamese cat. When she’s not at her desk plotting new stories for her characters, she likes to spend time hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, or zipping around town on her e-bike.