In my world, marriage is a transaction between two families. Nothing more.

So, when the head of the Mancini crime family approaches me with an offer to marry his daughter in exchange for what I need to destroy my enemy, I accept.

But when a woman I've never heard of shows up on the contract, questions arise.

If forcing her hand in marriage is what it takes to get what I want, then so be it. A wife was never meant to be anything more than a business transaction. A means to an end.

She might be easy on the eyes, a pretty little brunette with curves I want to sink myself into, but her sharp tongue and even sharper attitude may just be my undoing.

I make it a point to know everyone I need to know in this world, so that begs the question—who the hell is this woman?