{"product_id":"the-casella-ruin-signed-book-2","title":"The Casella Ruin (Signed) Book 2","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"266\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"266\"\u003eDarcy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"567\"\u003eI never believed I was beautiful — not when my life was buried in the brutality of London’s criminal underworld, serving one of the city’s most ruthless mob bosses. There are no riches waiting for me, no glamour behind the blood money — only survival in a world ruled by power, violence, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"609\"\u003eAnd then the Casella brothers find me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"611\" data-end=\"646\"\u003eSuddenly my fate is bound to his.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"900\"\u003eNicholas Casella — arrogant, untouchable, and dangerously self-righteous — pulls me into a dark mafia romance I never asked to be part of. Now trapped in a web of crime, loyalty, and forced proximity, I must fight for my freedom before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"954\"\u003eBefore his hatred destroys me.\u003cbr data-start=\"932\" data-end=\"935\"\u003eBefore he kills me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"973\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"973\"\u003eNicholas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1002\"\u003eSecrets define our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eWe carry them like weapons, like scars that never heal. I sometimes wish I could disappear among them — vanish into the abyss rather than face the future laid before me. A future tied to a woman I neither trust nor love. An enemy forced into my life through obligation and blood feud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1350\"\u003eThis arranged marriage is not salvation — it’s punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1602\"\u003eI resent everything she represents, and as long as our lives remain bound together, she will bear the consequences of her family’s sins. My habits, my darkness, my pain — they are all things I’ve tried to bury, but she drags them back to the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1625\"\u003eShe may be my wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1627\" data-end=\"1717\"\u003eBut in this enemies-to-lovers mafia romance, I have no intention of treating her like one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C B Frey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43371892244686,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/1423\/3294\/files\/TheCasellaRuin.jpg?v=1770522578","url":"https:\/\/itsalovestorybookshop.com\/products\/the-casella-ruin-signed-book-2","provider":"It's A Love Story Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}