She went undercover to expose the devil of Boston Harbor. He saw through her disguise-and hired her as his secretary.
Boston, 1910.
Twenty-one-year-old Sophia Diabo is tired of writing society columns while men with half her talent receive the stories that matter. A Mohawk reporter in a newsroom determined to underestimate her, she needs an investigation too important to ignore.
She finds one on the waterfront.
Connal Dunn rose from the tenements of South Boston to control the docks, the gambling rooms, and the politicians who depend on both. To the city's respectable elite, he is a useful criminal. To his neighborhood, he is the man who keeps worse predators away.
To Sophia, he is the center of a story that could make her career.
Disguised as a wealthy young gambler, she infiltrates an illegal poker club where senators, bankers, and underworld fixers conduct business beyond the reach of the law. But Connal recognizes the ambitious reporter beneath the silk gown almost immediately.
Instead of exposing her, he brings her closer.
As his live-in secretary, Sophia gains access to his townhouse, his ledgers, and the political machine hidden behind his criminal empire. Every confidence he shares becomes evidence. Every night in his bed brings her nearer to the man she intends to betray.
Connal knows Sophia is keeping secrets. He simply believes he can protect her long enough to discover them.
But the deeper she enters his world, the harder it becomes to separate corruption from survival-or the ruthless boss feared across Boston from the man who sees her intelligence, her heritage, and her hunger for power more clearly than anyone ever has.
Sophia came to destroy a devil.
Now she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice when the story that could set her free threatens to bring his entire world down around them.
Me and the Devil is an explicit dark historical mafia romance featuring a Mohawk investigative reporter, an Irish underworld boss, a seventeen-year age gap, secret identities, forced proximity, political corruption, mutual betrayal, and a dangerous love that refuses to become respectable.
