{"product_id":"2940185358177","title":"The Mafia King's Hidden Baby: A Secret Pregnancy Mafia Romance","description":"The deadliest man to step into my bakery didn't want a pastry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wanted a ghost—and he brought his mute five-year-old nephew to find her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI run a quiet, late-night patisserie in New Orleans' French Quarter. I mend broken spirits with warm sugar and coffee, keeping my head down and my own past buried. So when a dark-eyed stranger walks in ten minutes before closing, I assume he's just another lost tourist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI couldn't have been more wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatteo Bellandi checks the locks before he ever looks at me. Dark eyes like midnight. A scar slicing across his jaw. The kind of lethal presence that screams Italian syndicate, wrapped in a bespoke suit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo naturally, when I try to hand him a napkin, I trip over my own apron and leave a powdered-sugar handprint across his expensive lapel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(In my defense, he looks like a sin worth committing.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's his silent nephew who breaks my heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo. Five years old. Terrified of the world. Clinging to Matteo's leg and refusing to speak a single word—until he takes one bite of my cinnamon brioche and smiles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey keep coming back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNight after night, I tell myself Matteo is nothing more than a stern, grieving uncle trying to save the little boy he loves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen gunshots shatter my front window.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were aiming for Leo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe survives, but the attack sends him deeper into silence. He won't eat. He won't sleep. He won't let go of my hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo I leave my quiet bakery behind and step into Matteo's heavily guarded fortress on the Bayou.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI tell myself I'm staying only until Leo feels safe again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat I can ignore Matteo's smoldering looks, his lethal protection, and the dark promise in his touch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was lying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause in the Bellandi family, weakness is a death sentence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd now I've become Matteo's greatest weakness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause I'm carrying the next Bellandi heir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if his enemies discover my secret, they won't just come for me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey'll come for all three of us.","brand":"Victoria Tirondola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48528814113009,"sku":"2940185358177","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940185358177_p0.jpg?v=1786270359","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940185358177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}