About the Author:
Ella Jade has been writing for as long as she can remember. As a child, she often had a
notebook and pen with her and now as an adult, the laptop is never far. The plots and dialogue
have always played out in her head, but she never knew what to do with them. That all changed
when she discovered the eBooks industry. She started penning novels at a rapid pace and now
she can't be stopped.
Ella resides in New Jersey with her husband and two young boys. When she's not chasing after
her kids, she's busy writing, attending PTO meetings, kickboxing and scrapbooking. She hope's
you'll get lost in her words.
About the Novel:
Can an arranged marriage lead to love?
Recent college graduate Gabriella has finally married the man of her dreams, the older, charismatic attorney Lorenzo Martinez. She's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember and always imagined they'd one day find their happily ever after. Unfortunately, they enter into a union arranged by their fathers.
Lorenzo is charming, protective, and loyal to his crime lord father Carlo. When Carlo asks Lorenzo to marry Gabriella he jumps at the opportunity. He's been drawn to her for many years and knows by marrying her he's helping to protect her father.
Gabby is resentful and won't be Lorenzo's charity case. But sparks fly and the couple soon gives
into their desire, realizing they were meant to be together.
What happens when Carlo's enemies threaten their future? Will someone get caught in the
crossfire?
Content Warning: This is definitely an ADULT novel :)
Excerpt:
Lorenzo walked up the porch steps, turning to stare at her. "Are you coming, Gabriella?" No
one but Lorenzo and his father called her by her full name. She liked when Lorenzo said it. He'd
always made it sound so formal and sexy.
These were the first words he had spoken to her since they left the courthouse. They were
married in the chambers of the prestigious Judge John Cartwright. He'd been a family friend of
the Martinezes for many years. He was their go-to man whenever they needed something done
fast and legally. Well, legal in her new father-in-law's eyes anyway.
She hurried up the steps and followed Lorenzo inside their new home. It was built within a
matter of months after she'd agreed to marry him. Carlo wanted them to have their privacy,
but he also wanted to keep them close. He didn't trust she'd hold up her end of the bargain,
and keeping her on the property was the best way to ensure she wouldn't run.
It was silly, really. How could she run from a family like this? They had ties all over the world.
There wasn't any place she could escape to that they wouldn't know about. She was a woman
of her word. She said she would marry Lorenzo and she did. She'd find a way to cope. She
always had.
Lorenzo pulled his jacket off, poured himself a scotch, and then loosened his tie. "Would you
like a drink?"
"No, thank you," she said.
Most brides would be dancing the night away and drinking champagne by this point in their
wedding night. She didn't think that was part of Lorenzo's plan.
"I didn't think you'd go through with it." He sipped the amber colored liquid as he looked her
over.
"I said I would."
"I know, but when push actually came to shove, I thought you'd run."
"You don't know me that well," she said. "I don't run."
"Good." He smirked as he put the glass to his lips.
Gabby couldn't take her eyes away from those lips. She'd never had the pleasure of having
them on her own. Judge Cartwright hadn't asked him to kiss his bride. She hated herself for
thinking about him that way.
"You could've stopped this. Why didn't you?" she asked.
As they stood in front of the judge, she kept hoping he'd put an end to the charade and stop
the wedding. It didn't make sense to her why he had agreed to marry her. She didn't have a
choice. Her father's gambling debts made sure of that. But she didn't understand why he'd
allowed things to get as far as they had.
"I was just as trapped as you were." He downed the rest of his scotch.
She didn't believe that. She knew he respected his dad, but she didn't get why he wouldn't have
put his foot down and said no to such a life-altering decision.
"You could've told your father no from the beginning. Why would you agree to marry someone
if you didn't have to?"
"Look." He shook his head. "It's done now. We're going to have to make the best of it."
"Make the best of it?" She plopped down on the leather sofa. "I'm twenty-two years old. I just
graduated from college, and you want me to make the best of it?"
"I know this isn't what you might have wanted, but it is what it is. You agreed, and now it's
done. You can't go back on it now. My father won't forgive that."
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