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When four bullets nearly end his life, enforcer Dante Moretti wakes up in the one place no one in the family knows exists—the Ice King's private sanctuary. Luca Santoro didn't get his reputation by showing weakness. As underboss of the most powerful crime family in the city, he's spent years perfecting his cold, untouchable facade. But when his best soldier is ambushed and left bleeding out, Luca breaks every rule to save him—taking Dante to his secret villa to heal. Six weeks of forced proximity in Villa Serafina changes everything. Dante has wanted his captain for three years, ...

To end a war, they were forced to marry. They never expected to fall in love. Matteo Moretti has one rule: never trust a Volkov. For three years, their families have been at war, and the Russians took everything from him—including his beloved brother. Now, to secure peace, Matteo is being forced into an arranged marriage with Roman Volkov, the enemy's lethal enforcer. Twelve months of playing house with the man he's sworn to hate. How hard could it be? Roman Volkov doesn't want a husband. Especially not a Moretti. But duty demands sacrifice, and if marrying Matteo ends the bloodshed that ...

He never expected to inherit his father's debt. He definitely didn't expect to become payment. When Luca Costa's estranged father dies, he inherits more than just grief—he inherits a two-million-dollar debt to the Valentino crime family. With no way to pay and nowhere to run, Luca is given a choice: work in one of their omega establishments for ten years, or provide "personal service" to Dante Valentino himself. Dante has wanted Luca since he first saw him at a gallery opening two years ago. Brilliant, beautiful, and completely unaware of being watched, Luca was everything the ruthless ...

Three months after surviving brutal captivity, Nico Rossini refuses to be the weak link in his powerful crime family. When the Russian Bratva demands a Rossini as collateral for a new alliance, Nico shocks everyone by volunteering—and by accepting the request of Alexei Volkov, the ruthless enforcer known as the Savage Prince. In Moscow, Nico finds himself thrust into a world of elegance and brutality, where beauty is a currency and weakness is fatal. Alexei is everything his reputation promises—cold, lethal, untouchable—yet behind his ice-blue eyes lies an obsession that burns ...

When the trauma surgeon saves his first love's life, he discovers some wounds never heal—and some loves never die. Dr. Ethan Cross has spent ten years trying to forget Marco Santini. Ten years since the man he loved vanished without explanation, leaving nothing but a cryptic text message and a shattered heart. Ethan threw himself into medicine, building a career saving lives in New York's busiest ER. Then Marco is wheeled into his trauma bay—unconscious, bleeding out from a gunshot wound, and even more dangerous than Ethan remembered. A standalone MM mafia romance featuring second-...

Nathan Ward never wanted to be a hunter. But as the son of the legendary Marcus Ward, he had no choice—until a vampire's revenge transforms him into the very thing he was trained to destroy. Awakening as a fledgling vampire in enemy territory, Nathan makes an audacious proposal: an arranged marriage to Alaric Ravencroft, the ancient and powerful coven leader, to broker peace between their warring peoples. It's strategic. Logical. Purely political. At least, that's what Nathan tells himself. But as he navigates vampire society, learns to embrace his new nature, and grows closer to the ...

What if love was forged in the fires of a mafia alliance, where one omega's freedom hangs by a thread? In the shadowy underbelly of New York’s crime families, Luca Santoro, a fierce omega heir, faces an impossible choice. His family’s empire crumbles under FBI seizures and rival threats, forcing his father to broker a desperate deal: an arranged marriage to Nikolai Kavinsky, the cold, calculating underboss of the powerful Kavinsky Bratva. Suppressants failing and instincts awakening, Luca steps into a world of ruthless alphas and unbreakable bonds. What begins as a business transaction ...

When Luca Santori inherits his father's crime empire, he discovers more than just money and power—he inherits Dimitri Thorne, a century-old vampire bound by a blood debt to protect the Santori family. Luca wanted nothing to do with his father's violent legacy. But when rival families attack and vampire hunters close in, he has no choice but to accept Dimitri's dark protection. What starts as an unwanted obligation transforms into something neither man expected—a love that defies the boundaries between human and vampire, mortal and immortal. As Luca navigates the treacherous world of ...

When his brother's death leaves an impossible debt, Luca Ferrara offers himself as payment. He expects death. He gets something far more dangerous. Luca walks into the Volkov estate knowing he won't walk out. His brother Marco owed the Russian mafia more than he could pay, and debts don't die with the debtor. But Yuri Volkov, the cold and calculating heir, has other plans. Instead of a bullet, Luca gets a cage—a luxurious penthouse prison where he belongs to Yuri in every way that matters. He's collateral. Property. A means to an end. Yuri has spent sixteen years hunting his mother's ...

When exhausted medical student Ethan Chen literally crashes into Oliver Castellano at a charity gala, he has no idea he's just spilled champagne on New York's most dangerous mob prince. Oliver should be furious. Instead, he's fascinated by the one person in the city who doesn't know to fear him. What starts as a generous tip becomes a whirlwind romance, with Oliver paying off Ethan's crushing student loans and introducing him to a world of luxury he's only dreamed of. But Oliver's "logistics" empire is built on blood, and his gentle touches hide hands capable of violence Ethan can't imagine...

When visiting scholar Evan Austen arrives at Oxford to study ancient manuscripts, he's drawn by more than academic curiosity—something in the city calls to him like a half-remembered dream. Dr. Arthur Byrne has walked Oxford's shadowed corridors for four centuries, hiding his vampiric nature behind a succession of false identities. But when he catches Evan's scent in the Bodleian Library, he recognizes the impossible: the soul of his lost love Alexandro, who died in Venice in 1623 during a failed immortality ritual. As Evan experiences vivid dreams of Renaissance Venice and discovers he ...

He was assigned to protect him. He wasn't supposed to fall for him. When Julian Moretti becomes a pawn in his crime family's deadly game, he's placed under the protection of the one man everyone fears—Nikolai Raven, the cold, ruthless enforcer who's never failed an assignment. For twenty-eight days, Julian is Nikolai's prisoner in all but name. Controlled. Watched. Protected. Julian should hate him. This beautiful, lethal man who dictates his every move. Instead, he finds himself drawn to the humanity Nikolai hides beneath the perfectly tailored suits and dead-eyed stare. Through paint-...

A marriage born from duty. A love forged in fire. Joseph Vitelli has spent his life as the invisible second son—brilliant, strategic, and utterly expendable. When his family needs an alliance with their oldest enemies, the Russos, Joseph becomes the bargaining chip. One wedding later, he's bound to Luchino Russo, heir to a rival empire and the most infuriatingly perfect man Joseph has ever met. Luchino never wanted this marriage. He definitely didn't expect to fall for the sharp-tongued financial genius who sees through every carefully constructed wall. But as bullets fly and conspiracies...

Marco Valentini has a secret that could destroy him. As the heir to a powerful crime family, he's spent a decade hiding his omega nature behind suppressants and sheer willpower. When his father is assassinated, Marco must claim his birthright as Don—while his ambitious uncle circles like a predator and his family's enemies close in. The only person who knows the truth? Dominic Russo, his father's loyal consigliere. The alpha Marco has wanted for years. The man who just took a bullet meant for his heart. Now Marco must navigate conspiracy and succession while his suppressants fail at the ...

He destroyed everything I loved. So I made him mine forever. Elias Reed is the hunter organization's most lethal weapon—cold, efficient, and responsible for the massacre of Dorian Ashford's peaceful vampire coven. When Dorian captures the man who burned his family alive, death would be mercy. Instead, he chooses something far crueler: he turns Elias into the very thing he's spent a decade hunting. Bound by an unbreakable sire bond, they're forced into intimate closeness neither wants. Elias struggles with his new monstrous nature while Dorian battles guilt over his twisted act of revenge....

Ten years ago, Kenji Nakamura fled Tokyo with a broken heart, believing the man he loved had chosen duty over their future together. Now a successful financial consultant in New York, he's forced to return when his firm accepts a mysterious client requiring urgent restructuring. That client is the Yamamoto-kai yakuza clan. His contact is Hiroshi Yamada—the man who shattered him. Hiroshi has spent a decade hiding his truth beneath expensive suits and yakuza violence. Covered in traditional tattoos that tell stories of loss and regret, he's become the weapon his clan needed him to be. But ...

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...

He was sent to kill the vampire lord. Instead, he became his. Matthias Vale has been trained since childhood by the Order of the Silver Dawn—beaten into a weapon, taught that pleasure is sin and vampires are irredeemable evil. When he's sent to assassinate the ancient Lord Kieran Ashford, he expects to die completing his holy mission. He doesn't expect Kieran to know exactly who he is. Or to keep him as a captive "guest" instead of killing him. What begins as a battle of wills becomes something far more dangerous. Kieran doesn't want Matthias's death—he wants his corruption. His ...

When a dying tattoo master's final wish forces together a gentle kindergarten teacher and Tokyo's most feared yakuza enforcer, the ancient art of tebori becomes a bridge between two impossible worlds. Riku Hayashi chose teaching over the family legacy of traditional tattoo artistry, building a quiet life of finger paints and butterfly lessons far from the yakuza clients who frequented his grandfather's studio. But when Master Hayashi begs him to complete an unfinished phoenix on the back of a dangerous man, Riku can't refuse his grandfather's dying wish. Shin Tanaka, the Yamamoto-kai's ...

In the wasteland that was once civilization, survival means making impossible choices, and Wes has made more than his share. When the battle-scarred drifter arrives in New Haven, he's running from a past that won't stay buried and an enemy who won't forgive. All he wants is to disappear into the ruins of another broken city. But New Haven has its own problems, and information broker Robin needs a partner who can handle himself in a fight. What starts as a simple business arrangement becomes something deeper when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything the city has built. Someone...