Rival’s Oath

By: Ava Love

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In a city built on secrets, choosing each other is the most dangerous move of all.

New York, 1926.
The courts are watching. The papers are circling. And power is no longer decided in back rooms alone.

Lucia Vitale arrives from Chicago with one mandate: keep the alliance alive long enough to survive public scrutiny. She knows how reputations are traded, how silence is sold, and how exposure can be turned into leverage. What she does not expect is Alessandro DeLuca.

Alessandro rules New York through discipline, restraint, and control. He does not bow to pressure and he does not share power lightly. But when federal eyes turn toward his empire, he is forced into an alliance that cannot remain theoretical.

Together, Lucia and Alessandro step into visibility, choosing strategy over safety and alignment over escape. Every appearance is measured. Every absence is noted. And every attempt to fracture them only tightens the line they have drawn.

As the courts escalate and reputations begin to bleed, desire becomes a liability and trust becomes a weapon. The question is no longer whether they can survive the scrutiny, but what they are willing to sacrifice to stand together in it.

Because in a world where paper can ruin a man as surely as a gun, the most dangerous oath is not sworn in private.

It is chosen in public.

Rival’s Oath is a slow burn Prohibition era mafia romance featuring controlled power, strategic intimacy, and a partnership forged under pressure. No easy choices. No safe exits. Only loyalty that costs something real.