Broken Crown

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the final standalone in the bestselling Mafia Royals Romances... Unrequited Love. Arranged Marriage. A love triangle for the ages. A contemporary mafia retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I will do anything for my family, and as the heir to the Campisi Mafia throne, I fall on my sword and do what's expected of me—it wasn't an accident that I was given the name King. I marry the girl I love—who's already in love with someone else, and because I'm a masochist, I make him her personal bodyguard. After all, who better to protect the woman I love than the man she loves? I have seven days after our wedding to own her—body and soul. Seven days to show her everything I feel. But tragedy strikes, and I'm forced to take the weight of the mafia crown on my head. Now I need my Queen by my side. I don't know who's with me or against me, but I will rule them all with an iron fist and make everyone proud. As our seven days come to an end, I wonder how I will ever be able to let her go. "Until it ends," I whisper. A tear slides down her cheek. "Until it ends." Amen. The final stand alone in the Mafia Royals Romances... Prepare yourself...For utter carnage..."Light is easy to love. Show me your darkness." --R. Queen Jamais Vu. When you see something, you should know but don't remember or recognize. I felt this my entire life when I looked in the mirror. A boy growing into a man who's supposed to fill the shoes of his father, follow in his footsteps without question. And lead the Five Families. It's not the pressure that gets me. It's the fact that I'm not him. And I don't have someone by my side to help me lead. So when a powerful mafia family from Italy gives us no choice but to join families by way of an arranged marriage...I say yes. But that's not where my story begins. Because I saw her. I fell for her. Long before they ever made the arrangement. She loves someone else. I love her. So I go along with it in order to keep her by my side, knowing she's seeing him. Touching him. Loving him. Tolerating me. Our love story is complicated. I give her everything in hopes that one day she'll give me a smile, a hug, something... Soon I'll be the most powerful man in the Cosa Nostra. I have everything but her until the tide shifts, and I have to rescue her from the very family who promised her everything. I used to be afraid of my namesake. Of my future. But now? Now, I'm giddy as hell to rain destruction on the families who oppose my rule. Who oppose what we represent. I'll destroy what I love most before I let them destroy her. My crown was broken, singed, and torn the minute I was told she was promised to someone else before me, and I'll die before letting him have her. You want broken? Come at me. I dare you