Old Debts

Carmen Gallagher thought her father's debts were finally settled.She was wrong.A year ago, Carmen had a clean life in Milan, a successful design practice and six carefully constructed years between herself and the criminal world that shaped her childhood.Now she has Mateo Kavanagh beside her, a legal position inside the remains of the Daly empire, and a past that keeps revealing things her father never intended anyone else to find.Then Desmond Harte calls.He knew Patrick Gallagher before Cormac Daly. He knows what Carmen's father kept hidden from the organisation.And he has been waiting years to give it back.What Harte reveals is not another criminal account.It is something older.Fourteen acres of land in County Wicklow. A forgotten family inheritance. A ruined farmhouse that has stood on Gallagher ground for generations. One piece of Patrick's life that he deliberately kept beyond Cormac Daly's reach.It should be the cleanest inheritance Carmen has ever received.Instead, the secret draws the attention of Cian Doyle, an information broker quietly building influence among the fractured pieces of the old Daly network. Then the Ferretti family discovers that their own history is tied to the land beside Carmen's, through an unpaid debt buried since the 1990s.Everyone expects Patrick Gallagher's daughter to be the vulnerable party.They have forgotten who raised her.Carmen knows these rooms. She knows these men. She knows how leverage works.And this time, Mateo does not need to drag her back into the life.She walks into it herself.Because the past may have come looking for Carmen Gallagher, but she is no longer running from what it taught her.Old Debts is Book Two of Mafia Princess, a continuing dark mafia romance featuring a reluctant mafia heiress, a powerful Irish crime boss, inherited secrets, criminal legacy, dangerous negotiations, morally grey loyalty, romantic suspense and a relationship becoming impossible to separate from the future they are building together.