🎲 Gamble
Author: Jessica Hall
Publisher: Alphanovel
Genre: Dark Romance | Mafia | High-Stakes Drama | Forced Proximity | Debt & Redemption
📖 Synopsis:
One poker game. One impossible choice. Her freedom or her family’s life.
When Fallon returns home from work to find her father unconscious and strangers ransacking their house, everything spirals. Her little sister is dying—her only chance is an expensive surgery the family can’t afford. In a desperate attempt to save her, Fallon’s father made one fatal mistake: he tried to rob the casino she works at.
Now, Leone Pressutti, her cold, enigmatic boss—and a feared underworld figure—makes her a brutal offer:
💰 Win a high-stakes underground poker tournament, and he’ll pay for her sister’s treatment.
❌ Lose, and her father dies… and she becomes Leone’s property.
Fallon is no novice—she’s been quietly counting cards for years, waiting for her break. But nothing can prepare her for the ruthless world she’s about to enter. Not the pressure. Not the power plays. And certainly not Leone—a man who sees everything, wants everything… and always wins.
The final hand? Her opponent is Leone himself.
But the game was rigged from the start. And when it ends, Fallon realizes she was never playing for her freedom—she was always the prize.
🔥 “I bet everything… and lost myself to him.”
♠️ Tropes & Themes:
✔️ High-Stakes Gambling
✔️ Mafia / Dark Billionaire Romance
✔️ Forced Proximity / Ownership
✔️ Heroine in Peril
✔️ Seductive Power Plays
✔️ Emotional and Psychological Intensity
✔️ Enemies-to-Something-More
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