Four years ago, I ran from Dante Caruso before he could become the center of my life.

One night. One mistake. One powerful older man with dangerous hands, quiet eyes, and the kind of control that made me feel seen for the first time in my life.

By morning, I was gone.

I told myself I was choosing freedom.

Then I found out I was pregnant.

For three and a half years, I raised our twins alone in Dublin. Finn and Cara were mine - my whole world, my responsibility, my reason to keep going. Dante never knew they existed. I convinced myself that was safer for everyone.

Until my brother gets shot.

With nowhere else to go, I return to New York and walk back through the one door I swore I would never open again.

Dante Caruso is still the same man.

Older. Colder. More dangerous.

A brilliant surgeon with mafia blood on his hands and an empire of secrets behind him.

But the moment he sees my children, he knows.

They have his eyes.

They have his face.

And suddenly the man I ran from is no longer willing to let me run.

He saves my brother. Opens his home. Makes pancakes for children who do not yet know he is their father. And every quiet, careful thing he does makes it harder to remember why I left.

But Dante's world is not safe.

My brother's debt has dragged us into danger. Men are circling. Secrets are rising. And the more Dante protects us, the more I understand the truth I have spent four years avoiding.

I did not just run from him.

I ran from the life I was afraid to want.

Now Dante wants his children.

He wants the family he never knew he had.

And when a merciless mafia doctor decides something is his, he does not let it go.

SECRET BABIES FOR MY MAFIA DOCTOR is a secret baby age-gap mafia romance featuring a powerful silver fox surgeon, a single mom heroine, surprise twins, forced proximity, second-chance longing, family danger, possessive protection, and a man who will burn his world down before he loses the family he was denied.