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Before the kill list. Before the blade. Before the red dress and the cartel and the man she wasn't supposed to want... There was a phone call from a barracks room in Germany, and a sister who answered on the third ring. Zoe Marin has spent eight years as a ghost. Military intelligence, no name, no home, no life outside the mission. Now she's out. Discharged, directionless, and holding on to the only thing that still makes sense: her sister Camila, an artist in San Diego with paint on her hands and a laugh that could rewire a broken heart. Mateo Reyes is the heir to an empire he's quietly ...

Some men are never punished. That doesn't mean they're safe. Trinity Slade spent years watching the system protect predators. Now she's become the thing they should have feared all along. Men who hurt women are disappearing. Sebastian "Bast" Pell isn't looking for them. He's making sure they stay gone. He knows how to solve problems the courts won't touch. How to make a predator vanish without a trace. Together, Bast and Trinity stop waiting for justice. And start delivering it. This is not a story about redemption or crossing a line. It's about what happens when the line disappears ...

She built the surveillance state. Now it wants her dead. Marguerite designed Aegis to protect the world. Instead, it became a weapon. When the Court decides she's a liability, she runs—straight into Luca, the man her system tortured into a perfect killer. He's been sent to bring her in. But in the cold streets of Prague, the hunter and the mastermind discover something the machine never predicted: each other. To survive, she'll have to burn everything she built. To stay human, he'll have to break every rule he was programmed to follow. Because when you've spent your life designing cages, ...

He's a Vassallo. She's the girl who was never supposed to look at him twice. In Palermo, that kind of mistake gets you killed. When a Vassallo son draws blood over her name, Luisa Russo's life begins to unravel. Windows break. Neighbors whisper. And his father sends men to fix it... along with a price to make her disappear. Marcello Vassallo was raised to be untouchable. A wolf in expensive suits, dangerous even when he smiles. He knows better than to chase a girl from the quarter. But he keeps showing up anyway—at her shop, at her church, on the streets where no Vassallo son belongs. And...

They put a billion-dollar bounty on her head. They turned the city into a hunting ground. They thought she'd run. They were wrong. Trinity Slade survived the fall of Aegis. She dismantled a queen. But now a tech billionaire with a god complex has unleashed something worse than assassins—he's unleashed everyone. The Apex app is live. Every mercenary, every desperate civilian, every monster in San Francisco is watching. Hunting. Waiting for her to slip. But Trinity isn't prey. She's the apex predator. And she's about to remind them all why. In a city turned kill zone, there are no rules. ...

Three weeks after choosing Mateo Reyes over her mission, Zoe Marin is living a lie with a heartbeat. She wakes up beside the cartel heir whose father's fentanyl killed her sister. She tracks his movements while he cooks her dinner. She loves him in the dark and plans the destruction of everything he comes from in the light. But Zoe isn't the only one hunting. Santiago Reyes has taken over the investigation his brother stalled—and he's methodical, relentless, and closing in. Worse, a new predator has entered the game: Joaquín Salazar, brother of Zoe's first kill, who doesn't want justice....

They married me to a dead man. Now his brother wants to ruin me. The Vassallo manor is a gilded cage where widows are trophies and vows are written in blood. I was meant to be nothing more than a pawn—a name spoken at the table, a body dressed in black. But Dante Vassallo doesn’t play by their rules. He watches me with eyes like knives, touches me like a warning, and leans close enough that I feel the danger in his breath. Every glance is a sin. Every touch, a betrayal. And if I give in to him, it won’t just break me—it will destroy us both. A gothic mafia romance full of family ...

Six names. One blade. Zoe Marin spent eight years as a military operative learning how to disappear. Now she's back in San Diego with a kill list and a ceramic blade, hunting the cartel that murdered her sister. Camila, the artist, the girl who painted sunrises she'd never finish. Mateo Reyes is the son his father can't afford to lose. Brilliant, dangerous in ways he's trying not to be, he's been tasked with finding whoever is gutting the family empire one body at a time. He's not supposed to want her. He's supposed to find her. And kill her. She knows who he is. He knows who she is. ...

She burned the machine. Her protégé built it back. Six months of peace. Then the message: Found you. Valentina has created a system that doesn't surveil, it architects human behavior. And she needs Marguerite's help to perfect it. To destroy it, Marguerite must return to the grid. To save Luca, she'll become the Sovereign one last time. But the machine remembers. And it's hungry. Because the only thing more dangerous than building the cage is going back inside.

They thought she was a vigilante. They were wrong. Trinity isn't saving anyone anymore. She's become something the city whispers about in the dark. Something with a silver signature and an appetite for guilty men. But now someone else is killing in her name. The bodies are piling up. The methods are wrong. The victims? Innocent. A copycat has stolen her symbol—and they're using it to butcher anyone who crosses their path. The media calls them both "The Monster." The internet is keeping score. To stop the pretender, Trinity has to become the predator they think she is. Bast wants to end it...

Trinity Slade hunts the guilty. Aegis Security hunts for profit. When a corporate-backed kill squad starts executing criminals with legal immunity—and turns the city against Trinity in the process—she’s forced into a war she can’t win with blood alone. To survive, she must outthink the woman who designed the system. And who trained her lover. Because justice without humanity isn’t justice. It’s tyranny.

They fled into the desert with nothing but a dying truck, a borrowed rifle, and a secret that wouldn’t stay buried. He was supposed to protect her. She was supposed to hate him. But the world behind them is burning, and every mile of sand pulls them closer to something neither understands—a love born of ruin, a vow forged in fire and dust. In the borderlands between Texas and Mexico, Zeno Vassallo and Maria are running from the remnants of a powerful family and the sins that made them. Each town offers another disguise, another lie, another chance to lose the past. But in the silence of...

Some monsters deserve cages. Trinity Slade gives them graves. After watching predators walk free in her courtroom, former advocate Trinity stopped believing in the law. Now she delivers verdicts the system won't. Sebastian "Bast" Pell taught her how to hunt. How to shoot center mass. How to disappear evidence. How to be ice instead of fire. Arthur Penhaligon traffics women through charity galas and vineyard auctions. He thinks his money makes him untouchable. He's wrong. Trinity was supposed to observe. Instead, she opened the doors and let ten girls run. Now Penhaligon is dead, and a ...

His brother rose from the dead. And took the only woman Dante ever wanted with him. Dante Vassallo came to Palermo for vengeance—to dig up the ledgers that prove what Antonio really is and watch his sainted empire crumble. He didn't come for her. But Isolde is everywhere. Draped in black. Veiled like a relic. Playing the miracle wife while her eyes say she's drowning. She was given to Antonio once. Now she's trapped in a resurrection she never asked for, wearing his brother's ring like a shackle—and looking at Dante like he's the only door out. Every secret pulls them closer. Every ...

First, she kept the tie clip. It was a souvenir from a man who smiled as he walked free. Trinity Slade stood in the wreckage of a guilty verdict that never came, watching her faith in the legal system turn to ash. She had been a good advocate. A believer. But belief doesn't stop monsters. Now she has a collection. Trophies taken from men who thought they were untouchable. Trinity isn't just watching anymore; she’s hunting. Sebastian Pell knows exactly what she is. He recognized the shift in her eyes the moment she stopped seeking justice and started seeking revenge. He isn't there to pull...

Camila Marin has three paintings to finish and six weeks to finish them. She has a gallery show, a sister coming home from overseas, and a noise in her head that never stops. Then a man at a bar names the noise. Nico Salazar knows how to give a woman what she needs. He also knows how to make sure she can't leave. Blessed Are the Broken is the story of what happened before the body. Before the burner phone. Before a soldier came home to an empty apartment and an unfinished painting on the easel and a sister who was already gone. This is Camila's story. She only gets to tell it once. A ...

NO STONE UNTURNED Twenty years ago, Avery Stone fled Granite Springs after her father's suspicious drowning destroyed her family. Now she's back for her mother's funeral—and nothing has been forgiven or forgotten. When Avery discovers her mother's journal, the pages reveal a truth more devastating than murder: her father's death was just the beginning. Half the town was complicit in a conspiracy that runs deeper than the river that claimed his life. But some secrets are worth killing for. As Avery digs into the past, someone wants to make sure she joins her parents in the grave. In a town...