<![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — A Dark Mafia Arranged-Marriage Romance]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia They came to collect on the morning she buried her father. She married the heir to make them pay.

Lena Russo knows exactly who ruined her family: the Marchettis. So when the debt comes due and Dario Marchetti — the cold, dangerous heir to the crime dynasty — offers marriage to settle it, she says yes, and walks into the lion's house carrying the one secret that could burn it to the ground.

There's just one problem with revenge: nobody warned her he'd be the only person who ever truly saw her.

A serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

Early episodes + bonus scenes are on my Patreon. Links in the description.

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Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043211 b59749c7-13d2-4b40-85c2-aa38937926f0 50 trailer 1 1 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:38:14 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 1: The Debt]]> They came to collect on the morning we buried my father, which tells you everything you need to know about the Marchetti family and the kind of mercy they keep.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043214 fdc12093-d5d4-4f2a-89ef-0d18f3531cbc 968 full 1 1 1 1 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:43:03 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 2: The Vow]]> They dressed me like a queen for a wedding that was really a transfer of property, and I let them, because a woman learns early that the costume you are put in tells you exactly what role you are expected to play — and the moment you understand the role, you can decide how to ruin it.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043226 c7e1031c-bb1f-4c83-935e-1f67e9656a5c 929 full 1 1 2 2 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:44:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 3: House of Knives]]> A marriage, I learned in my first week, is mostly a matter of breakfasts. You can learn more about a man across a breakfast table than across a bed, because at breakfast no one is performing; they are only tired, and hungry, and briefly, accidentally, themselves.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043228 b74958f3-a5a1-4429-a01b-21fec11f6866 997 full 1 1 3 3 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:46:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 4: The First Crack]]> The Marchettis kept a box at the opera, and on my eleventh night as a married woman I learned what the box was really for, which was not music.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043231 acd8d4e2-7e3c-44b0-b427-9b0ba2ef99fa 969 full 1 1 4 4 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:48:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 5: The Name]]> Tomas Vela died with a name on his lips, and the name was not the one I had built three months of hatred around, and I knelt on the floor of my father's old harbor office holding a dead man's hand and felt the entire architecture of my revenge come down around me like a building with its keystone pulled.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043237 1df16c79-74bd-4d0a-b491-c9342ee4ffbc 942 full 1 1 5 5 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:51:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 6: Closer]]> There is a particular exhaustion to living in a house where one man wants to kill you for what you know and another is falling in love with you for what he doesn't, and I wore it, that week, like a second dress under the first.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043251 8a113871-ea4d-45e9-9c73-4b0d5257bc6d 955 full 1 1 6 6 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:54:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 7: The Third Way]]> My father used to say that there are only ever two moves on the board — you can give them what they want, or you can become something they want more — and that the whole art of staying alive in this city was knowing which game you were in before you opened your mouth. I had eleven days, two families who wanted a dead man's ledger, and a husband I'd decided to keep alive, and so I did the thing my father had trained me for since before I understood I was being trained.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043254 847b39d9-d775-4052-986c-399a99454e8a 987 full 1 1 7 7 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:57:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 8: Heat and Force]]> My father said the Marchettis built everything out of heat and force, and then they owned you. He meant it as a warning. He never lived to learn that a warning, in this city, is just a recipe — and that his honest daughter had been paying attention.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/empire-of-ashes-mia/3043765 b4c8267a-2ad5-471a-a568-2a51088054ad 1058 full 1 1 8 8 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:02:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Empire of Ashes — Season 1, Episode 9: The Glass House]]> My father taught me that everything a man loves is a door someone will eventually walk through to gut him. I spent thirty-three years deciding he was wrong, one careful brick at a time. My wife unbuilt it in a cannery in under a minute.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

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