Konstantin Palermo's table seats fourteen. Marisol Reyes is allowed at the far end.
Rurik Palermo is forty-eight, his father's enforcer, and the reason her mother lowers her eyes. He calls her accent a problem and her clothes an embarrassment and he is never, ever wrong about the counting house.
Then he starts closing doors for her.
Then she finds the file his father had sealed the same year his mother died, and Rurik stops being the man at the far end of the table.
A dark age gap bratva stepbrother romance about a house with too many rooms and two people who have to live in one of them.