Underworld Evolution Tanis Novels & Stories

Five years into my marriage to Dante Moretti, the Don of the Chicago Outfit, the entire underworld knew he loved me more than life itself. He’d had a violin—for me—tattooed right next to his family crest, a symbol of loyalty that could never be erased. Until I got the photo from his mistress. A cocktail waitress, sprawled naked in his arms, her skin marred by the dark bruises of rough sex. She had scrawled her name right next to the violin he’d gotten for me. And my husband had let her. "Dante says only being inside me makes him feel like a man anymore. You can’t even get him hard anymore, can you, sweet Alessia? Maybe it’s time to step aside." I didn't reply. I just made a single call. “I need a new identity. And a plane ticket out.”

Twenty-two year old Lorena, who had been living in secret at her parents' house with no contact with the outside world, suddenly finds herself in the arms of Andrew Sanchez, the ruthless son of Jacob Sanchez, a loan shark and king of the underworld, as collateral for her father's loan. As she breaks out of her life long bondage, she begins to discover secrets about who she really was, who her parents actually were, and a twin sister she never knew existed. And more than that, she realizes that fate had brought her to the man she saved years ago when she snuck out to explore the world. But, the world isn't as rosy as she pictured and soon, she realizes that her life was in danger amongst her new family. She teams up with her cop twin to uncover secrets surrounding her stepmother and stepbrother who would do anything to inherit the family wealth.

To end a bloody mafia war, Isabella Rossi is handed over to the most dangerous man in Chicago as a peace offering. Ruthless mafia king Alessandro De Luca is cold, brutal, and completely untouchable, men fear him, women obey him, and when Isabella is dragged into his penthouse, she becomes his prisoner… his possession… and his temptation. But Isabella refuses to bow, her fiery defiance awakens something dark and obsessive inside Alessandro that he can no longer control. Every stolen glance turns dangerous, every argument burns with tension, and every touch feels like a sin neither of them should crave. What starts as hatred quickly spirals into a deadly obsession filled with possessive kisses, dangerous secrets, and nights so intense they leave scars on both their hearts and bodies. But as enemies close in and betrayal lurks in the shadows, Alessandro will spill blood, destroy empires, and burn the entire underworld to the ground before anyone dares take Isabella away from him.

Aire was a survivor—until the person she trusted most turned her into a memory. Betrayed and left for dead in the cold shadows of the city’s underworld, Aire’s story should have ended there. Instead, she wakes up years later in a world that has moved on without her. With her memories returning in jagged, painful flashes, Aire realizes she’s been given the ultimate second chance. But the streets are meaner now, and her killer, Trevon, is sitting on the throne she helped him build. To take him down, she’ll have to navigate a landscape of shadows and secrets, catching the eye of Dee—a hood billionaire whose heart is as cold as the diamond district he runs. Dee doesn't do love, and Aire doesn't do trust. But as their worlds collide, they realize that in a city built on lies, their fire might be the only thing that's real. This time, Aire isn’t just playing the game—she’s rewriting the rules.

The Beast locked me up in his fake castle. As the daughter of one of the most dangerous Bratva bosses in the underworld, I uncovered a secret so deadly, I fled Russia and escaped to America. But my high school enemy, the Beast, kidnapped me and trapped me on his island with no way to escape. And without my medication, I had no control over the heat that consumed me as an Omega. His rough hands made me crave things I never wanted before. I was powerless to resist him. The Beast. My Mate. With my life on the line, I tried to resist my dark, dangerous captor, yet I found myself drawn to him. The truth was supposed to set me free, but in the Bratva world, the only freedom was death. Author's Note: Beast is a stand-alone novel. It is a steamy dark Russian mafia enemies-to-lovers standalone novel with some trigger warnings! There's no cheating or cliffhangers, and always a guaranteed HEA

Iris Hale is hiding a secret even she doesn't know: She is The Ledger. Born with a photographic memory, Iris is the ultimate prize in a bloody underworld war. For decades, five rival Mafia families have hunted her bloodline, ready to tear her apart to get the secrets locked inside her mind. Dante Vitale is a man of shadows and cold steel. As the ruthless heir to the Vitale empire, he has one mission: find The Ledger and use her to crush his enemies. But the woman he finds isn't just a weapon—she’s the only person who makes him feel human. Now, Dante faces a choice: use her to win a war, or start one with every family in the city to keep her safe. But Iris is about to learn that her protector is the same boy who survived the fire that killed her mother. And in the mafia, the only thing more dangerous than a secret is a man who will burn the world down to keep it.

In a world where Humans rule the day and Werewolves the night, lies the fate of an Alpha king Lucien who had been cursed by a witch to never have an heir succeed him— a curse he acquired through his father many years ago and a situation that has left him ridiculed and disrespected amongst his own people, and his brother, wanting to dethrone him. As the humans go about their normal day-to- day- activities, the Lycans hunt at night for the unlucky humans. To the Lycans, humans are needed and usually looked down upon as merely slaves or breeders for more slaves and nothing more. Little does the Alpha king know that the death of his curse lies in the hand of that one human. But how was a mere slave able to cure him when not even the most powerful witch in the underworld could? What will become of the human breeder's fate knowing she's now a threat to the throning of the Alpha's brother? Will she also be able to break the second curse?

“I wish I had not met you once more” After the tragic death of his fiancee, Cullen Anderson raged a war against death that sent him to the underworld, where the Daimons lived. Cullen found favor in the eyes of Thanatos, the god of peaceful death and made him a grim Reaper as his punishment and his second chance. If he fails, his soul will vanish forever. One hundred souls to go, and mission accomplished, but then he encountered Paige, a Filipino-British model. She is the reincarnation of Cullen’s fiancée, Amari, who was brutally killed almost ten decades ago. She was reborn to torment Cullen’s soul once more. One of the Daimons wanted to erase Cullen in eternity forever. But why? Will history repeat itself? Will Cullen win against the plot of the minor gods? Brace yourself as you read the Grim Reaper's diary! The untold stories of darkness, you have never heard before.

First of all, she was his slave and then he enslave her heart. Having her memory sealed, Ariana neither believed in the existence of a witch nor a werewolf, well, that was until she saw the man who had cruelly taken her innocence turn into a wolf and killed three people right in front of her. In the human world, he's simply Dylan Sabastine, a business tycoon but in the underworld, he's an Alpha, ruthless, merciless, and formidable personality. He answers to no one but his heart was soon captured by his unwanted mate. What will happen when he finds out that his mate is a witch and she also finds out that the man who was responsible for the death of her mother and all her sufferings is the same man whom she loved with the whole of her heart, will her thirst for vengeance overcome her love and is he ready to have a witch as his Luna? Find out in this story where hatred turns to love and love turns to hatred.

When Mafia boss Leo Vance becomes the target of a new head of the investigation team, his childhood friend turned enemy, Omar, employs a junior agent, Mae Yrote, to eliminate Leo. However, Mae's mission takes an unexpected turn when Leo captures her, leading to a dangerous game of cat and mouse. As Mae attempts to carry out her mission, she uncovers the dark underworld of Leo's operations and finds herself entangled in a complex web of deceit and betrayal. Both Leo and Mae struggle with their growing feelings for each other, adding another layer of tension to their already precarious, dangerous situation. Mae must navigate between her duty to the government and her conflicted emotions for Leo.  A story where loyalties are tested and destinies are intertwined in an unexpected twist of events. The boundaries between predator and prey blur against a shadow of love, betrayal, and redemption as Leo and Mae's destiny crosses path.