The Consigliere. A Dark Mafia Romance of Dangerous Secrets, Forbidden Desire, and Criminal Power - Adrian Vale

She came to New York chasing a money trail.
He was waiting with the part of the story no one else knew.

Elena Vasile has built her career exposing the places where crime, politics, and money meet. When a European investigation leads her to New York, she expects danger, surveillance, and lies.

She does not expect Luca Marchetti.

Consigliere to one of the most powerful Cosa Nostra families on the East Coast, Luca is precise, controlled, and impossible to read. He does not threaten her. He does not tell her to stop.

He gives her a better question.

What begins as a dangerous exchange of information becomes something far more complicated. Luca knows where the bodies are buried, where the money moved, and which secrets powerful institutions will kill to keep hidden. Elena knows he is managing the story. She also knows he is telling her the truth.

Every answer pulls her deeper.
Every meeting becomes harder to define.
Every line between source, subject, and desire starts to blur.

But in the world of the Cosa Nostra, truth is never clean.
And the man helping her expose the scandal may be the one man she should never trust.

The Consigliere is Book Two in the Cosa Nostra series, a dark mafia romance filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden attraction, investigative tension, powerful families, criminal empires, and a slow-burn love story where truth can be just as deadly as betrayal.