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When Marco Valentino stares down the barrel of a gun at the Metropolitan Museum, he expects to die. What he doesn't expect is for his would-be assassin to lower the weapon and walk away. Adrian Kozlov has waited five years to avenge his father's murder at the hands of the Valentino family. But when the moment comes, something about Marco's defiant courage makes him hesitate. That hesitation will change everything. Soon both heirs discover they're pawns in a larger game—someone has been manipulating their families toward mutual destruction, feeding them intelligence designed to escalate ...

Boston’s underworld runs on loyalty, fear, and blood—and Marco Rossini has built his life on all three. As heir to the Rossini crime family, Marco is ruthless, calculating, and prepared to defend his empire at any cost. But when the FBI delivers Dylan Chen—a disgraced analyst turned rogue informant—into his custody, Marco’s world tilts on its axis. Dylan carries secrets powerful enough to bring down the Rossinis, the Calabrese rivals, and every crooked ally in between. He also knows the truth about Vincent Rossini’s death, the night that still haunts Marco’s every step. But ...

Five years ago, Adrian Chen buried his brother. Now he's infiltrated the Russian Bratva to kill the man responsible. Nikolai Sokolov is everything Adrian expected—dangerous, ruthless, commanding. He's also everything Adrian didn't expect—intelligent, magnetic, and impossibly beautiful. As Adrian works beside the enforcer he's meant to destroy, every lie cuts deeper than the last. Every stolen glance, every accidental touch, every moment of forced proximity breaks down the walls around his hollowed-out heart. In the violent world of the Bratva, trust is a luxury and love is a death ...

Eight years ago, Francis Giordano offered his heart to his father's enforcer and got it shattered in return. Now 26, Francis has built a life outside the family's violent legacy—he's a successful gallery owner, a respected artist, and determinedly single. He's everything a mafia prince shouldn't be: gentle, gay, and uninterested in the family business. But when assassins destroy his gallery and try to end his life, there's only one man his father trusts to protect him: Joseph De Luca. The same man who rejected him. The same man who called him a "spoiled prince" and sent him running to art...

Six months on the run. One chance at freedom. A vampire who can walk in daylight. Jay Hurley is on the run from his vampire captor with nothing but a fake ID and three hundred dollars. Now he's tending bar at Nocturne, trying to rebuild a life from the shattered pieces of who he used to be. The enigmatic club owner is everything Jay's captor wasn't: patient, protective, impossibly gentle. And despite being a vampire himself, Giulio possesses a rare mutation that lets him walk in sunlight, bridging the gap between human and monster. As Jay learns to trust again, their careful friendship ...

When Gabriel Moreau's brother disappears with a half-million-dollar debt to the mob, Gabe offers the only thing he has of value—himself. Executive chef and owner of a small French bistro, Gabe has spent three years building his dream from nothing. But when dangerous men destroy his kitchen demanding payment for his brother's gambling debts, he finds himself standing face-to-face with Lucian Rossi—the youngest mob boss in the city, who accepts Gabe's offer to work off the debt as his personal chef. Lucian rules his criminal empire with cold precision and an iron fist. He doesn't do ...

Five years ago, Chris Hayes and Matty Rossi were everything to each other—until a record deal tore them apart and turned them into the emo scene's bitterest rivals. Now Chris fronts Scarred Saint, the mainstream success story with soaring vocals and MTV rotation. Matty leads Venom & Velvet, the scene's authentic hardcore darlings. They've spent half a decade trading barbs in interviews and carefully avoiding each other's tours. But when legendary musician Stephen Paglia is diagnosed with cancer, the two are forced to reunite for a charity single. Two weeks in a Los Angeles studio to write...

Adrian Cross is the Phantom – an elite hacker who destroys the corrupt with surgical precision, exposing their crimes with meticulous paper trails. Dante Moreau is something darker, more visceral – a street-level vigilante who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in the name of justice. When their paths collide, sparks of animosity immediately fly, but are they destined to be something more than rivals? Vigilante Heat is a 16,000 word M/M dark romance thriller with explicit scenes and a happy ending.

For eight hundred years, Dorian Ashford has been a prisoner of the sire bond—enslaved to the ancient vampire who turned him, unable to resist, unable to die, unable to be free. Kieran Vale has spent decades hunting his father's vampiric creations, trying to atone for the monster's legacy written into his dhampir blood. When he finally tracks down Dorian—his father's first and most prized creation—Kieran expects a fight to the death. He doesn't expect Dorian to surrender. "Finally," the vampire whispers. "I've been waiting for you." What begins as a mission of vengeance becomes ...

Saito Takumi has spent eighteen months drowning under an impossible debt inherited from his father's suicide—working three jobs, hiding the truth from his teenage sister Mei, and slowly dying from exhaustion. When a confrontation with yakuza collectors catches the attention of Matsuda Ryuichi, the powerful oyabun of the Yamamoto-kai clan, Takumi's life takes an unexpected turn. Matsuda offers him a deal: become his personal financial advisor, live in the yakuza compound, and the debt payments pause. What seems like salvation becomes complicated when attraction sparks between the young ...

Finding the truth was supposed to set him free. Instead, it made him a prisoner. Forensic accountant Daniel Park is brilliant at uncovering financial crimes—which is exactly why the Russian bratva wants him. When he discovers evidence that threatens their operations, crime boss Dimitri Krylova gives him a choice: use his skills to find an internal thief, or watch his family suffer the consequences. Daniel's new reality comes with a shadow he can't escape: Mikhail Sokolov, a former Spetsnaz operative assigned to ensure his cooperation. Misha is everything Daniel should fear—dangerous, ...

Nick Castellano has spent eight years hunting the vampire who murdered his family, never knowing he's been watched—and protected—by a mysterious guardian in the shadows. That guardian is revealed to be Sebastian, a tormented vampire fledgling who was forced to participate in the Castellano family's massacre. But Sebastian isn't the only monster from Nick's past. Anthony, the ancient vampire sire who orchestrated that night of blood and flames, has returned to reclaim his beautiful, defiant creation. Centuries old and devastatingly charismatic, Anthony wields his dark magnetism like a ...

Six years ago, Vincent Rossini died in an explosion—or so his family believes. In truth, he has lived as Vito Calabrese, enforcer for the very family that destroyed his life. But when Jake Morrison, the underboss who once betrayed him to save him, reveals the truth of his father’s deadly plans, Vincent has no choice but to rise from the ashes and reclaim his name. Returning to Boston means more than facing his brothers who mourned him—it means standing beside the man who broke his heart. Jake carries six years of guilt, six years of gathering evidence against his ruthless father, and ...

When a coffee-stained scholarship student collides with a brilliant doctoral candidate, their instant antipathy ignites more than just arguments—it awakens a four-century-old mystery. Dorian Blackwood has fought for everything—his scholarship to prestigious Thornfield University, his spot in the restoration program, his right to belong. The last thing he needs is Gabriel Rossi, with his perfect translations, Italian silk shirts, and insufferable assumption that money can buy expertise. Gabriel has spent his life hiding who he truly is behind family expectations and academic achievement....

For thirty years, Cassian has protected his town from the corrupted forest's monsters—at the cost of every positive emotion he possessed. At seventeen, Cassian walked into the cursed woods and made a desperate bargain: his joy, his love, his hope—everything that made life worth living—in exchange for the power to keep his people safe. Now, decades later, he rules the town's underworld with cold precision, feeling only anger, fear, and emptiness. He's become as dangerous as the creatures he fights against. Then Kael arrives, bound to work off his brother's debt, and sees past the ...

When Jason Callahan photographs the ruins of New Haven, he captures what the city wants to forget—crumbling cathedrals, abandoned buildings, and the beautiful decay that marks time's passage. Living alone and haunted by past betrayals, he's built a life documenting dead things that can't disappoint him. Then Lucien St. Clair walks into his world. Elegant, enigmatic, and dangerously compelling, Lucien sees through Jason's carefully constructed walls with eight centuries of practice reading human nature. As Jason finds himself drawn into Lucien's orbit—and the shadowy vampire society that...

When ER doctor Timothy Morrison saves a mysterious patient with impossible wounds, he never expects the man to heal within hours—or to return with coffee and conversation that makes Timothy feel alive for the first time since his sister's death. James Anderson has walked the earth for two centuries, carrying the secret of his vampiric nature and the weight of his maker's murdered dream: a synthetic blood that could free vampires from the need to hunt. When Timothy is attacked by James's enemies and left dying, James faces an impossible choice—let the man he's falling for perish, or ...

Ten years ago, Ben Fudou vanished from Danny Rodriguez's life without explanation, leaving nothing but heartbreak and unanswered questions. Now Danny runs Safe Harbor, a struggling shelter for LGBTQ+ homeless youth in Chicago, pouring everything into kids the world threw away. When he spots Ben across a glittering charity gala—now a billionaire CEO—Danny wants nothing more than to escape. But Ben holds the key to saving Safe Harbor from eviction. His offer? He'll buy the building and secure the shelter's future, but only if Danny agrees to co-direct Ben's new foundation. It means ...

Some secrets are buried so deep, even moonlight can't reach them. Ethan has spent five years perfecting the art of isolation. He works his corporate job, keeps his apartment sterile, and most importantly—he disappears for four days every month with excuses no one questions. It's safer that way. Lonelier, but safer. Then he meets Richard on a rooftop at 2 AM. Richard, the ER nurse from across the hall who works nights and can't sleep. Richard, with his terrible coffee and easy smile and dangerous curiosity about the things Ethan won't say. Richard, who doesn't know that the man he's ...

He took my freedom. Then he gave me everything. One wrong turn down a dark alley, and I witnessed a murder. The killer—Alexei Konstantin, ruthless Bratva enforcer—took me prisoner to protect his secrets. I should hate him. Should fear him. But the man who kidnapped me isn't the monster I expected. He's damaged, dangerous, and the only person who's ever made me feel truly seen. When my abuser from the past resurfaces, Alexei risks everything to protect me. Leaves his criminal empire. Gives me the freedom to choose. And I choose him. Now we're building a life together far from the ...