This however was an idea that didn’t sit well with Aria for so many reasons including the fact that she feared Luca after hearing a rumor that he became a Mademan at eleven after killing a man and that he’d once killed a man with his bare hands. As much as they were coming together to fight a common enemy, they still had bad blood between them, and to prevent themselves from backstabbing each other while fighting the Russian Mob The Bratva’, and the Taiwanese Triad, they decided to solidify the truce with intermarriage between their families.Īfter a meeting between the two mafia groups, The Chicago Outfit and The New York family, it was decided that Aria the most beautiful woman from the Chicago Outfit and daughter of the consigliere of the boss would marry Luca, the oldest son of the New York family, and future Capo dei Capi after his father Salvatore Vitiello.

As the saying goes picking the devil you know over the angel you didn’t’ they preferred to hold a truce now and come together to fight these new threats.īut holding a truce after being at war for so many decades wasn’t just something that could be accomplished over a handshake. It would’ve continued that way had they not been threatened by the presence of a new enemy two foreign mafia groups.Īfraid of the might of the presence of the Russian Mob, The Bratva, the Taiwanese Triad, The Outpost, and the New York family decided to put their differences aside and fight these common enemies. The Outfit (a notorious Chicago-based mafia group) and the New York family had always been at war for time immemorial sometimes fighting for territory or honor as they called it. Bound By Honor by Cora Reilly is a contemporary mafia, arranged marriage type of book about the chemistry between Aria and Luca a Mademan whom she was forced to marry to unite their families against a common enemy.

Bound by honour by cora reilly