Santo Amato never wanted a wife.
He wanted control, power, and the space to build his tech empire while serving as underboss of Cosa Nostra. He lives in the shadows, haunted by a dark past and darker alter ego-Scythe. Marriage was meant to be a business move. Nothing more.

Vasilisa Popov wasn't what he expected.
A Bratva princess and tech heiress, she should have been spoiled, shallow, and silent. Instead, she's warm, bright, and fearless-a woman who paints fairytales and sees the good in even the darkest hearts. She unsettles him. She softens him. She sees the monster inside him... and loves him anyway.

Santo tries to stay away, to stay cold, to stay safe. But her presence lingers, her light piercing through every wall he's built. And when her life is threatened, he's faced with a truth he can't ignore-he's already lost too much. He won't lose her, too.

Will he reach her in time, or will she become another ghost in the ruins of his past?

RUINS is a mafia romance about love that dares to bloom in the shadows, about a self proclaimed monster and the woman who see him clearly-and stays.