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Marked (Mafia Born, #2)
Mallory Hart
_____Once upon a time, all Giuseppina Delarosa cared about was escaping her suffocating past. Then Darragh entered her world and offered the unlikeliest of escapes. But in the dark world of the mafia love doesn’t come easy, and now she’s playing a dangerous game to keep Darragh alive. Staying one step ahead of her captor is a necessity to save everyone she loves, but it will take more than Giuseppina’s ever sacrificed to win this power game with Lucien Rocci.Darragh O’Callaghan never cared for anyone until Giuseppina changed his entire life. As the new Kingpin of the Irish mafia, the stakes are higher than ever before. In a world where tradition and honor rule them all, he’s faced with new consequences as he searches for the woman he loves. As war erupts around the city and new alliances are formed, Darragh will have to play a dirty and bloody game to keep his family alive.Can they overcome the dangers from every corner of NYC, or will the life finally catch up destroy them both?Marked is the second and final book in the Mafia Born Duet. It is a direct sequel to Hit and cannot be read as a standalone.
Savage Vow
Zoe Blake - 2021
She was far too young and naïve to be betrothed to a monster like me. I would bring only pain and darkness into her sheltered world. That’s why she ran.I should’ve just let her go… She never asked to marry into a powerful Russian mafia family. None of this was her choice. Unfortunately for her, I don’t care. I own her… and after three years of searching… I’ve found her. My runaway bride was about to learn disobedience has consequences… punishing ones. Having her in my arms and under my control had become an obsession. Nothing was going to keep me from claiming her before the eyes of God and man. She’s finally mine now… and I’m never letting her go. Special Preorder price of $.99c only available for a limited time.
Until Tomorrow Comes
Adelaide Forrest - 2021
I left with an obsession.With one look, Isa captivated me. She consumed me, drawing me into her world without ever knowing the dangers of mine. I intend to make her mine, no matter what lies I need to tell to manipulate her into falling in love with El Diablo. It should be simple enough, but secrets lurk in the depths of her multicolored eyes, and I’ll do anything to understand what broke her before I had the chance.Because she’s mine to break.IsaRafael Ibarra tore through my life like a raging inferno.Consuming every part of me he touches, he promises to show me passion and the real Ibiza. Though our tryst can never be anything but temporary, I never want to leave the man who makes me wish things were different. But there’s a nightmare hiding within his multicolored gaze, a phantom rattling at the cages who wants to devour me, to take me and claim me as his. He’s temptation, pushing me toward sin with his wicked touch. But the sins of the flesh are different from the sins of the mind, and as much as I hate his secrets.I will never tell him my own.Until Tomorrow Comes is the first book in the Beauty in Lies trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. This is a DARK mafia romance and contains graphic violence, mature content, and elements that may be triggering. Please read at your own discretion.
The Lottery
Karpov Kinrade - 2022
Keep everyone alive.I don’t have time to be distracted by the brilliant Azalea Clark.Even if she does make me ache with insatiable need.I can’t have her.I can’t break the rules.Or I’ve doomed us all.The Lottery is a complete stand-alone contemporary romance with an HEA ending.From USA Today Bestselling Author Karpov Kinrade comes a steamy and sizzling romance that proves even at the edges of humanity, love conquers all.
Mine
Natasha Knight - 2020
She was never supposed to walk into my club. But she did. I shouldn’t have looked twice at her. But I did. The criminal underworld is no place for a girl like her. One night with Katerina isn’t enough, but men like me can’t afford to be weak. So, I tell her to leave me behind. She does, but not before she sees something she shouldn’t. When she goes into hiding, it’s my duty to hunt her down. I have a job to do, and she needs to disappear for good. But four years later, Kat isn’t alone anymore. And the little boy right beside her looks just like me.
Until Kendal
Victoria Pinder - 2022
Sure, part of me didn’t want to argue, but this stranger in town turned something on inside me I thought was dead…So I brought him to the garage in town, showed him the local hotel, and stayed for dinner.He’s only in town for the night and, for once, it’s nice when a guy calls me his.One night away from my life sounds perfect, but, in the morning, I realize Joel had a secret. And that secret can affect my friends.I knew better than to get involved. So I spilled the beans. I’d see my friends again, not Mr. One Night.But I didn’t expect he was more. And I misjudged him. I’m not good at apologies.Letting a guy anywhere in my heart usually ended badly.But there is nothing usual about Joel.Nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. I absolutely did not expect what happened. Find out if the BOOM and a sexy stranger change my life, forever.Until Kendal is part of Aurora Rose Reynolds's Happily Ever Alpha World. If you loved Until Jax, then you will want to read Until Kendal.
His Virgin Queen
Mink - 2020
Even so, I still held onto the hope of living free of the families. But when I’m given to Antonio Tuscani, I realize my thin dreams of escaping this life were just that -- dreams. Giving up -- I accept my fate … Until a fierce-eyed boss, Nick DaVinci, shows up on my wedding day to exact lethal vengeance. NickI came for Tuscani blood, and I took it.The doe-eyed bride in her white dress and veil of innocence doesn’t bat an eyelash when I do what I was born to do. I’m the head of the most powerful mafia family in the city, and I didn’t get here by sparing enemies. But Sophia’s demeanor intrigues me, and soon I realize she is far more than a mafia princess -- she is a queen -- and I will stop at nothing to keep her by my side. *-*Mink's Note: Curl up with your fav feline for this safe, sweet, steamy, a 'lil dark, and a lot dreamy, HEA.
Blood & Agony
Elizabeth Knox - 2021
There’s no point in denying it. You see what you get and what you get is a bastard who doesn’t give a fuck about what’s going on around him, unless it’s beneficial to me of course.I work for Katya, the owner of an elite tattoo parlor called Pins & Needles. There are five locations across the world: Moscow, London, Miami, Los Angeles, and Sydney. The front of Katya’s business is the parlor, but what she’s actually done is set up an underground shop for the arms dealing business she inherited from her dead husband, in addition to other nefarious activities. No one has a clue about what’s really done here, not even the damn feds and for the first time in the seven years I’ve been working for her we fuck up. One of the tattoo artists, Dema, sees something she shouldn’t. As Katya’s right hand man I can’t let this get out. I know what I have to do, and it’ll either be me throwing her body in the woods, or locking her up and selling her to the highest bidder, ensuring she’ll never see the light of day again. Funny how neither of those happen and I end up putting my own neck on the line for her. I’ve never cared about anyone in my entire fucking life, yet here I am, craving something more than blood and agony.
Dark Heart Volume 1
Ella James - 2020
Looking back, it makes sense. I was young and needed saving. Luca was my strength. He could take on anything—the world, for me. They say first love cuts the deepest. Ours became a blade that bled me out. It turns out I didn’t know a villain when he held my heart in his hands. Now it’s darker—more like his. Elise was my whole world—until my world burned, and I destroyed her with me. Some betrayals, you can’t undo, no matter how much you wish you could. I can’t help who I am now, and why would I want to? I run this city. No one’s going to take me down—not even the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. I heard they’ve got a file eight inches thick on Don Galante. But dodging bullets is my business. They play dirty, but there’s no one dirtier than me.The DA learns the hard way who’s in charge; he’s out. It should be time for celebration. There’s just one problem: his heir. Or should I say heiress? Elise O’Hara wears a crown of lies, a gown of red, and a fat diamond on her left hand. Now it’s me and her. Or her and me. Only one of us will be left standing when the story’s over. This is how you write a tragedy.
Twisted Bargain
Alexandria Bishop - 2021
Between his drug and gambling addictions, it seems like whatever I do, we’re always drowning. Until he does the unforgivable.Trading me to the tortured billionaire in our small town. His debts are erased and I have to do whatever Marco Blackstone demands. I should have run screaming when the first task he gave me was to clean the blood stains from his expensive five piece suit.When I overhear a conversation I shouldn’t, our bargain becomes even more twisted when Marco fakes an engagement to save my life. And I become even more trapped in this world I never wanted any part of.I don’t know who I can trust. But I’m running out of time when my fake engagement turns into anything but and I just might have to say “I Do,” for real.
Finding Beauty in the Darkness
Nikki Ash - 2021
It chose me. Born into a powerful mob family, darkness and danger are all I’ve ever known.But when I stumble upon Aria being held captive in the basement of a senator's house, everything I've embraced and accepted about my life gets thrown out the window.I’m drawn to her strength, to her lightness, to her beauty in my dark world. But she deserves better than trading one cage for another.Now I’m torn between protecting Aria... And keeping her for myself.
Black Sheep
Meghan March - 2019
Every family has a black sheep. In the infamous Casso crime family, that black sheep is me—Cannon Freeman. Except I’m not a free man. I’ve never been free. Not since the day I was born. I owe my loyalty to my father, Dominic Casso, even if he won’t publicly acknowledge me as his blood. I’ve never had a reason to go against his wishes… until I met her. Drew Carson turned my world upside when she walked into my club looking for a job. Now, my honor and my life are on the line. Going against my father’s wishes might buy me a bullet straight from his gun, but black sheep or not, it’s time to make my stand. She's worth the fallout.
Brutal Prince
Sophie Lark - 2020
He’s ruthless, arrogant, and he wants to kill me.We got off on the wrong foot when I set a (very small) fire in his house.Our families believe a marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare.I think I might need to murder him while he sleeps.This would all be a lot easier if Callum wasn’t so damned good-looking.But I’ve got a lockbox around my heart. Because even if I’m forced to marry him…I could never love a brutal prince.“Brutal Prince” is the explosive first act in the epic “Brutal Birthright” series. It’s a stand-alone Dark Mafia Romance, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers. It contains blazing hot bedroom scenes for mature readers only!!!
Hook
Elisabeth Grace - 2016
Men coveted the very idea of me. Escort. Call girl. Prostitute. Hooker. Whore.I'd heard it all. Done it all. Over the years I'd felt a lot of things about my occupation...but not regret--never regret. I had my reasons for doing what I did and nothing and no one had ever made me question them.UNTIL MARCO VALENTI.He'd changed me and I'd naively fed into the fairy tale.But Marco wasn't my Prince Charming. He had secrets of his own. Secrets that would eventually rip away everything I held dear.
Bourbon & Bullets
Elizabeth KnoxClarise Tan - 2022
The ones who have the ability to start wars with one signal. They make no apologies for the power they hold.What do they all have in common? None of them wait. They take what they want and make no apologies for doing so. In Bourbon & Bullets, a collection of dark romance and romantic suspense authors take you on a wild ride while their heroes, or anti-heroes, find their happily-ever-after.***Bourbon & Bullets is a mafia romance themed anthology organized by Knox Publishing. Please be aware this is intended for mature audiences only, and the contents within may be triggering to some readers.