La Famiglia: Matteo by Laura Sutton

Is love enough to overcome the past?

Matteo di Ruggerio met the love of his life when he was only eight years old. She was his first everything… including the first and only woman to break his heart, when she dumped him and moved across the country when they turned eighteen.

Now, six years later, she’s back, and Matty is being forced married to marry her… for the good of la famiglia, his brother Dante says. It’s fine, because Matty doesn’t believe in love anymore. They can be married– and even enjoy all the fun that a marriage offers in bed– for a few years and part again. He can protect his heart, but can he protect Emily from the unknown danger that is coming for his family?

When Emily Culpepper left Matty on that fateful day all those years ago, she thought she would never have to see him again. She had planned her life around it, in fact. But one broken engagement, and her father neck-deep in debt to Dallas’ primary criminal family, changed those plans.

Now Emily must marry him, the only man she ever truly loved, but she’s keeping a secret she feels nothing but shame for. Can she protect her heart and her secrets from Matty’s wicked smiles and the touches that set her body and soul aflame?

And when outside dangers become too much, can Emily and Matty learn to trust each other again?