One Last Job

Carmen Gallagher escaped the mafia life six years ago.She has no intention of going back.In Milan, Carmen has built exactly what she wanted: a successful interior design practice, a legitimate career and a life untouched by the criminal organisation that consumed her father.Then Mateo Kavanagh calls.He knows who her father was.He knows what Patrick Gallagher left behind.And he needs Carmen for one last job.Mateo wants access to a historic villa outside Milan where documents connected to the old Daly organisation are hidden. Carmen can enter without suspicion because she has something Mateo's men do not: a legitimate professional reason to be inside.Three days. Sixty thousand euros. Find the documents, photograph them and walk away.But inside the villa, Carmen discovers something Mateo never expected.A sealed envelope bearing her father's name.What it contains changes everything.Hidden money. A dormant inheritance. A coming legal battle in Dublin. Powerful families quietly moving assets before anyone can stop them. Suddenly Carmen is no longer merely helping Mateo recover information.She has a seat at the table.And Mateo needs her there.Working together means returning to instincts Carmen spent years trying to bury. It also means getting dangerously close to the one man who understands exactly what she escaped, because he has spent fifteen years surviving inside the same kind of world.Mateo was supposed to need her skills.Carmen was supposed to finish the job and disappear.Neither planned for trust.Neither planned for desire.And neither planned for three days to become the beginning of something neither of them is willing to leave behind.One Last Job is Book One of Mafia Princess, a dark mafia romance featuring a reluctant mafia heiress, an Irish crime boss, forced proximity, family secrets, criminal inheritance, morally grey characters, high-heat attraction and a continuing couple whose past is only beginning to collect its debts.