Mafia

My father died and left me with more than grief. He left me with a debt. A debt owed to Malik St. James, the most feared man in Atlanta. Ruthless. Powerful. Untouchable. I thought he came to collect money. Instead, he came for me. One minute, I was trying to rebuild my life after my father’s death. The next, I was trapped in a world of power, violence, and dangerous secrets where one wrong move could get me killed. Malik St. James rules Atlanta with fear. Everyone calls him King. He doesn’t forgive, he doesn’t forget, and he always collects what’s owed. But the closer I get to him, the more I realize my father wasn’t the man I thought he was. Someone wants me dead. Someone is hiding the truth. And Malik may be the only man powerful enough to keep me alive. In a city built on loyalty, betrayal is everywhere. As old secrets surface and enemies close in, the line between hate and desire begins to blur. I was never supposed to belong to Malik St. James. And he was never supposed to fall for me. But every king eventually finds his weakness. And I might just be his. “You belong to me, Zariah.” “I don’t belong to anyone.” His dark eyes locked onto mine. “We’ll see about that.”

She was placed in his world to kill him. Three years later, she still hasn't. Instead she has been quietly dismantling every threat moving against Dominic from the inside no orders, no credit, no explanation while playing the fragile woman he thinks he rescued. Now the syndicate is done waiting. A second operative has been sent to finish the job, and Lena knows the truth she isn't just a protector anymore. She's a loose end. Saving Dominic means burning her cover. Burning her cover means showing him everything every lie, every performance, every moment of vulnerability she manufactured. Except somewhere between the mission and the man, some of it stopped being manufactured. And she can't tell the difference anymore.

**The moment her lips parted, I seized the chance, slipping my tongue inside and tangling with hers. She trembled beneath my hold, her tiny fingers clutching over my bare shoulders, caught between resistance and surrender. She wanted to push me away but didn't know how. But I deepened the kiss, claiming her mouth like it was mine to take. She whimpered, gasped, her soft protest lost between us as I swallowed every sound she made. Her body tensed, her struggles growing more frantic as if she was trying to say something but I kept devouring her mouth. But then....one gasp shattered everything. "Luca! Brother!”** Sofia thought returning to the Virelli mansion after years abroad would feel like coming home. Instead, she walks straight back into the orbit of Luca Virelli — her cold, ruthless foster brother and the feared head of the Italian mafia. The same man who spent years making her feel like she didn’t belong. But something has changed. Because the moment Luca sees her again, his icy indifference shifts into something far more dangerous. OBSESSION.

When a Don Virelli dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter Lena is handed a single solution to save her family: marry Dante Moretti. The truce between their warring families depends on it. Lena agrees, but she doesn’t know that she’s already met Dante once before. Months earlier, drunk in a bar, she spent one night with a stranger who called himself “Luca.” He was kind, patient, and gone by morning. Now the man sitting across from her at the official engagement meeting is cold, calculating, and watches her like he knows a secret she’s forgotten. Dante Moretti knows. He was undercover that night, and the moment he saw Lena at the Moretti-Virelli dinner, he recognized her. But admitting it would expose years of lies—starting with her father’s. What starts as a forced alliance turns into something more dangerous: obsession, jealousy, and a slow, unwilling trust. Dante protects her with ruthless efficiency, but every time he pulls her closer, he risks exposing the truth When the truce breaks and the Romano Family enters the picture, Lena and Dante are forced into real proximity. Kidnappings, betrayals, and a war behind the war pull them deeper into a conspiracy that started years before they met. Lena learns her mother made deals with their enemies. Dante learns that protecting Lena means burning down everything he built. Through gala attacks, safehouse confessions, and a pregnancy that changes the stakes, Lena stops being a pawn. She learns to run the Virelli holdings, negotiate with the Commission, and fight for a seat at the table. But trust is fragile. An old one-night stand is leaked, scandal erupts, and their marriage is pushed to the breaking point.

She’s a disgraced biker princess who is forced to marry the mafia king in seven days, a marriage she never wanted and a man she was raised to hate. Lena Orlov is twenty five and out of options. Her family’s club has lost half its territory to the Volkov Bratva, her father cares more about his next drink than he does about her, and her older brother, the same brother who has been hurting her since they were children, has just handed her name across the table like a peace offering to buy them all a little more time. No one is coming to save her. Nikolai Volkov is everything everyone warned her about. He is ruthless, cold, and treats women like they are something he can throw away when he is done. Lena thinks if she just keeps her head down she might survive him. But the longer she stays inside his house the more she starts to learn, about the secrets of her father’s clubhouse, about the brother she trusted with her life, and about the man she married. And while she is trying to make sense of all of it, the world outside the Volkov gates is turning against her. Old enemies have realized the mafia king has finally found something he is afraid to lose, and her name is Lena. Someone is already planning to take her. Someone else is already planning to kill her and break her bond with the king. Will she survive long enough to find out who she can actually trust? And when the time comes to choose between the family that sold her and the man who claimed her, which side will she pick?

Leila Johnson thought surviving poverty was the hardest battle she'd ever fight. She was wrong. One night, a routine appointment ends in kidnapping, murder, and a dangerous offer from Chicago's most feared billionaire mafia kingpin, Zane Rogers. All she has to do is help him recover a stolen chip. One mission. One payment. One chance to change her life forever. But the deeper Leila falls into Zane's deadly world, the more she discovers that nobody can be trusted. Not the charming friend who always makes her laugh. Not the beautiful woman who suddenly appears. Not even the powerful man whose touch is becoming harder to resist. As betrayal after betrayal tears their world apart, Leila and Zane find themselves caught between love, revenge, and a conspiracy capable of destroying everything. And when the final enemy falls, they learn the most dangerous secret of all: Some betrayals don't die. They wait. Years later, just when Leila believes the nightmare is over, a single package arrives at her door. Inside is a black chess piece. A note. And proof that someone has been watching her all along. The last page turns with one terrifying question: Who is waiting inside the black car?

“BLOOD, LUST & CARTELS”
Love was the least dangerous thing she walked into. Rose Daniel thought the worst betrayal was being cheated on until she discovered her boyfriend in bed with his own mother. Shattered and disgusted, she tries to cut ties with Vicenzo, only to fall into the arms of his mysterious rival, Luther Lombardi. But Rose has no idea that she’s caught between two powerful cartel lords locked in a deadly feud. In a world where love is dangerous, loyalty is deadly, and trust is the biggest gamble of can Rose survive the war she's been thrown into?

Alexandro Lancaster is a billionaire feared mafia boss. As the head of the Lancaster mafia empire, he has everything a man could want... wealth, power, and influence. Everything except the woman he lost. When he meets Isabel Ramirez, a cheerful nanny struggling to survive, he is shocked because she looks exactly like his late wife, Emily. Unable to resist, Alexandro hires Isabel to care for his daughter, Kai. What begins as a professional arrangement soon turns into a dangerous attraction. Isabel thought that this is true love, but it shatters when she discovers Alexandro's darkest secret that he is a ruthless mafia boss. Worse, she learns she was never special to him. She was merely a replacement... Heartbroken and abandoned, Isabel disappears from his life. Then fate reveals an impossible truth. She is not Isabel Ramirez. She is Emilia Valeroza... the long-lost heiress of one of the most powerful mafia dynasties in the world. Five years later, Isabel returns as Emilia... a billionaire and a feared mafia queen. She's a woman no one dares underestimate. Now Alexandro must face the consequences of losing the only woman he ever truly loved. But as old enemies rise, shocking family secrets surface, and a woman believed dead returns seeking revenge, Alexandro and Emilia must decide whether love is still worth fighting for or whether power will destroy them both.

i escaped one monster only to belong to another. and somehow, the devil beneath the chapel feels safer for me. they did warn me about the devil beneath the church but they never warned me he would become obsessed with me.