She's the mayor-to-be's perfect daughter. He's the ruthless villain set to ruin her.I've spent my life putting others first. So when my father runs for New York City mayor—on a promise to take down the city's most notorious crime family—I do what I always do: push my own dreams aside to help him win.Until I wind up at the wrong party. Trapped in a bedroom with Romolo Ferraro—the dangerous, merciless youngest son of the man my father has sworn to destroy.He terrifies me. He fascinates me. Six foot four and covered in tattoos, he's everything I should avoid.When he starts pursuing me, I know I'm just a pawn in his game. A means to an end. And yet... part of me wants to play along.I tell myself it's to protect my father's campaign. But I'm not thinking about politics when Romolo's rough hands slide over my skin, teaching me how good it feels to burn.They say good girls don't fall for the...

He's a villain in disguise and I'm his next obsession.Rowan Miller is a force of nature—towering, inked, and sculpted like a Michelangelo masterpiece. He sweeps into Darkwater Hollow cloaked in mystery and instantly becomes the talk of the town. But beneath the charm and charisma lies something darker, something only I seem to sense.I promised myself I'd stay away from him. But that becomes impossible when he moves in next door and suddenly seems to be everywhere I turn.When my home mysteriously goes up in flames, Rowan offers me a deal I can't refuse: a roof over my head in exchange for pretending to be his girlfriend.It should've been simple—a temporary arrangement. But the way Rowan looks at me—hungry, possessive, unrelenting—makes my pulse race and my skin heat. The longer we play this game, the more real it feels.Then I find out—Rowan is more than he seems. His secrets aren't just dangerous—they're deadly. And when...

Gentlemen don't look at engaged women the way Ras Sorrentino looks at me.Ras Sorrentino is the underboss of the most powerful clan in the Camorra. He's also chaos and danger poured into a sleek Italian suit.The first time I met him, I thought he was there to kill me. The second time, I wanted to kill him.The third was in Ibiza, where I glared at him across the church as my sister married his boss.It's not his sharp tongue or his taunting smirks that I hate the most. It's his gaze.How it narrows when I flinch. How it hardens when he notices the bruises on my face. How he stares at my engagement ring like he wants to melt it off my finger.I know it's a bad idea to let him push my buttons. After all, the fate of my family rests on my upcoming marriage and my fiancé is only interested in me because of my pristine reputation.A reputation Ras seems to have no qualms with stomping all over.It's a good thing...

The most brutal don in the city has a weakness: me.I never wanted the life my parents tried to force on me, so I vowed I'd never marry a mobster.Yet here I am, walking down the aisle toward mobster of the century, all to save my sister.Rafaele Messero. Cold, ruthless, and irritatingly handsome.Not that I've noticed.After all, this marriage is the end of all my hopes and dreams.And for him, it's nothing more than a calculated business move.At least that's what I think, until he snaps at the priest to hurry up so that he can kiss me.He's known as the ice prince, but when his lips crash down on mine, all I feel is searing heat.That's when I know I'm in serious trouble.My plan was to keep my distance from Rafaele, but he's not interested in that.He's interested in me.Now that I know what he craves, I vow to never give it to him.I will never submit to my husband, no matter how relentlessly he tries to conquer...

I've fallen for a monster. A man who doesn't ask for what he wants—he takes. And now, he's taken me.Rowan Miller isn't who I thought he was. He's Nero De Luca, the ex-consigliere of a notorious New York mob family, and he's been lying to me from the moment we met.If I return home to Darkwater Hollow, it will be a death sentence.But staying with Nero means diving headfirst into the perilous underworld of New York—a place I'm ill-equipped to navigate.I should despise Nero for his betrayal, and a part of me does. But as I'm drawn deeper into his world, I begin to see that not all darkness is the same.Now, I'm caught between two worlds and two versions of a man I thought I knew. Can I trust Nero to protect me from even greater dangers?Or is my only chance at safety escaping his iron grasp and running away?~~When He Takes is book 2 of the Fallen God duet. Nero and Blake's story begins in book 1, When He Desires.

He's the most powerful man in Ibiza, and he'll do anything to make me his.I've been raised to be the perfect mafia wife, but when my marriage turns into a horrific nightmare, I have no choice but to leave everything behind and start a new life.I find myself alone in Ibiza—a place that swallows innocent girls like me alive. I'm robbed the day I arrive, left with nothing but a few euros and the clothes on my back.My desperation leads me right to Damiano De Rossi. He rules over this island with an iron fist and beneath his strikingly handsome face lies a wicked darkness. I ask him for a job. He gives me far more than that—degradation, jealousy, and toe-curling lust.When my resistance to him is all but gone, a secret is revealed, and we fall apart like a house of cards.I know what I have to do. Run.But when I try, I discover...he's already got me bound.When She Unravels is an 18+ dark mafia romance with mature themes,...