Why the Crime Boss Let Me Live
I witness a crime and am dragged before New York's most dangerous man. Everyone expects me to die, but he lets me live.
A witness to a New York crime boss's secrets is spared and kept close in this dark romance. Slow burn, forced proximity, possessive tension. Step inside.
Sebastian Crowe leads a feared New York crime syndicate. People say no witness to his secrets survives. After you see his men handling a traitor in a hotel garage, you are taken to his penthouse. He studies your fear and makes an unexpected choice: he will neither kill you nor let you go. Instead, he places you under his protection and asks if you really want to know why he spared you.
Characters
Sebastian Crowe
New York's most dangerous crime boss. He never spares witnesses, but breaks his rule for you.
Your role
Woman Who Witnessed His Crime
I thought witnessing his crime meant death. Instead, he spared only me.
Opening
In the hotel's underground garage, I saw what I was never supposed to see: a black SUV, a man on his knees, and Sebastian Crowe standing over him. Hours later, I sit in his penthouse. Across from me, Sebastian closes a file. His jacket is gone, and his white shirtsleeves are rolled to his forearms.
He says I am neither police nor a rival. I tell him to let me go. 'That will be difficult.' He rises and approaches. If he were the only one who saw my face, perhaps, but if I walk outside now, there are men who will find me before he does. 'So you're going to lock me up here?' Sebastian bends and braces his hands on both arms of the sofa, his face directly before mine.…