The task was fill in for my best friend as the lifeguard at a private birthday party. But the next thing I know, I'm pulling a little girl out of the pool and resuscitating her.
That's when I learned a key detail my best friend failed to mention. The party was for a pint-sized mafia princess, and I'd unknowingly saved the life of the Don's four-year-old daughter.
Now, in Matteo Bellini's mind, he owes me a debt.
Yet somehow, his repayment gets twisted around to a point where I find myself as the nanny to his two little girls, living under his roof.
Captivated by the charming single dad, I begin to believe that his world isn't as dangerous as everyone keeps trying to warn me. So, of course, the minute I let my guard down, I am proven very, very wrong.
Bellini Born is the first book in the Bellini Mafia series, but can be enjoyed as a standalone.
The Bellini Mafia series is a spin-off of Goalie Goal from the Indy Speed Hockey series.
Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.
Siena is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a love of sports is bred into a girl's DNA. Her love of romance novels came early as well. She would often accompany her romance reviewer mom to book lovers' and romance writers' conventions, where she sat in on workshops and met numerous best-selling authors. It wasn't long before she was filling notebooks with her own stories, which often starred herself and a certain real-life prince.
As luck would have it, she met and married a handsome athlete instead. After several temporary residencies in multiple states and Germany, they finally settled in Michigan, the land where youth hockey reigns supreme.
Her stories no longer feature herself but draw from her past experiences as an educator, businesswoman, fashion consultant, and world traveler when creating her strong heroines. “Oh yes,” she says with a wink and a smile, “There are bits of me in all of them.” Now, she spends her days writing happily ever afters for fictional characters and her evenings at the local hockey arenas cheering for her three children.