{"product_id":"the-story-she-shouldnt-write-adrian-vale-9798195443955","title":"The Story She Shouldn't Write: A Dark Mafia Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe changed one word in his statement. He noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSloane Kovac has spent three years investigating the Chicago outfit. She knows the names, the structure, the money. What she doesn't know is that the man she is investigating has been reading her work since the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNico Ferretti is the underboss. Precise, controlled, and entirely aware of every journalist who gets close enough to matter. When Sloane changes a word in a document she was never supposed to access, he doesn't shut her down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe calls her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a source relationship. It is not a cooperation agreement. It is two people who are exceptionally good at reading each other, realising too late that reading someone carefully enough is its own kind of intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is building the biggest story of her career. He is managing the most dangerous variable in his operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither of them planned for what managing becomes when the variable stops being manageable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story She Shouldn't Write\u003c\/i\u003e is Book 1 of The Underboss series, a slow burn dark mafia romance set in Chicago, where the investigation was never supposed to go this far.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContinues in Book 2: Off the Record.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark romance. Slow burn. Enemies to lovers. Journalist and criminal. Intended for mature readers 18+.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195443955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173045608703,"sku":"9798195443955","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-story-she-shouldnt-write-adrian-vale-9798195443955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}