Would you read this?
I’ve started writing a mafia book series and honestly, I need motivation to actually finish it. I have a bad habit of starting things, then getting distracted by a new idea for another series before I’ve finished the first one. But this time I really want to stick with it.
This is the information for the first book. Would you read it? And do you think I should post the first five chapters I already have?
The book info:
Daphne Valois knows from the beginning that Luca Bianchi is the kind of man who ruins things.
He is not warm, not safe, and not the kind of danger that can be laughed off later like a bad decision in heels. Luca is power in its coldest form, a man built out of silence, control, and the kind of violence that never needs to raise its voice. He belongs to a world Daphne should never get close to, and under normal circumstances, she would know better than to try.
But the real reason she stays away from him is not fear.
It is Lena, her friend.
Because Lena is in love with him. Hopelessly, humiliatingly, destructively in love with him, in the kind of way that makes a woman keep coming back even when everyone can see she is the only one still calling it hope. Daphne sees it. She sees how much of Lena’s heart is tied up in Luca, how badly she wants to be chosen, how deeply she is already hurting herself over a man who was never going to love her gently. And whatever Daphne feels when Luca looks at her, whatever sparks to life between them, that is the line she refuses to cross.
At first.
Because Luca notices her anyway.
And once he does, everything starts to rot.
Daphne is not the woman he is supposed to want. She is bright where his world is dark, soft where everything around him is made of force, warm in a way that feels almost offensive inside a life built on discipline and fear. She does not chase him, does not perform for him, does not shape herself around his attention like so many other women do. She has her own life, her own friends, her own work, her own center. And maybe that is exactly why he cannot leave her alone.
What begins between them is not innocent and it is not simple. It is attraction sharpened by guilt, chemistry tangled up with betrayal, and the slow collapse of every boundary Daphne tries to hold in place. Because staying away from Luca would be one thing if she felt nothing. But she does. And every time she is near him, that truth becomes harder to ignore.
The worst part is that Luca knows exactly where the line is.
And instead of respecting it, he starts pressing on it.
What grows between them is obsessive, ugly, magnetic, and impossible to keep clean. It is built out of stolen moments, resentment, desire, shame, and the constant knowledge that someone else is bleeding underneath it all. Daphne does not step into this story as a girl dreaming about a dangerous man. She steps into it fighting herself, fighting him, and trying to hold on to the version of herself who still believes there are some lines she would never cross. Luca, meanwhile, does not fall softly enough to make any of it easier. Once he wants her, wanting turns into possession, and possession turns into something far more destructive.
Because this is not a love story that begins in the right place.
It begins in the worst one.
With a woman trying to protect her friend.
With a man who does not care what it costs.
And with a pull between them that only gets darker the more they try to deny it.
Daphne knows getting involved with Luca could destroy more than just her.
She knows what it would do to Lena.
She knows what it says about her.
She knows this story does not end clean.
And still, some people are impossible to stay away from.
If you want, I can turn this into a cleaner Wattpad/blurb version that sounds even less like explanation and more like something pasted under the cover.