King’s Captive: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (Merciless Kings, Book 1)

Why we recommend it

An arranged-marriage mafia opener built for readers who want their kings ruthless and their captives unbroken. The merciless-kings setup promises a cold, calculating villain hero and a heroine bartered into his world, where every interaction is a power struggle. Dark, intense, and dripping with possessive menace, it rewards anyone who loves a morally bankrupt man undone by the one woman he cannot control.