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  • Lover in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Lover in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know this has no future.Only heartbreak.Bosco Roth may be the man I've fallen for, but he'll never be the man I marry.He's too dangerous. Too risky.When our three months is over, I'll walk away.At least that's what I keep telling myself..
  • Hearts On Fire by Catherine Wiltcher

    Hearts On Fire by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HEARTS ON FIRE is the final book in bestselling author Catherine Wiltcher’s dark and thrilling Santiago Trilogy. My Devil He came into my life like a raging storm. The man I despised. The killer with no conscience. I fell as hard as a woman like me can fall. When he bleeds, I feel his pain. When we kiss, I taste his tragedy...
  • Pawns in the Bishop's Game by Emilia Finn

    Pawns in the Bishop's Game by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How do you protect the girl, when the most dangerous threat in her life is you? Kane Bishop is a professional enforcer, smuggler, all-around law breaker, and the latest resident of a tiny town hidden by mountains and forest. His job is to keep his kingpin boss safe and off the local law enforcement's radar...
  • Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With more revealed, what does that mean for the future? From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new dark romance trilogy bringing us back to the same dangerous underworld as WEB OF SIN. You do not need to read the Web of Sin trilogy to get caught in this new and intriguing saga, Tangled Web...
  • Revere: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Revere: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Legacy Novel She was once his liar. He was once her savior. Cross Donati fills his days with the mafia, family, and responsibility. The wild boy is a distant memory. A waiting prince now sits in his place. An old debt puts the gunrunner right back into the path of his past, but he only sees his future. Every king needs a queen...
  • Hearts Divine by Catherine Wiltcher

    Hearts Divine by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    HEARTS DIVINE is the second book in bestselling author Catherine Wiltcher’s dark and thrilling Santiago Trilogy. Eve The FBI is forcing me apart from the man who haunts my dreams. The man who stole me, broke me and made me his forever. Dante Santiago. My deepest, darkest secret...
  • Wasted Lust by J.A. Huss

    Wasted Lust by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wasted Lust is a 321 spin-off, full-length, romantic suspense filled with lies, secrets, and the power of redemption by the New York Times bestselling author, JA Huss. A GIRL WITH REGRETS… Sasha Cherlin died the night she let Nick Tate walk out on her for a life of crime. Her very essence was destroyed when they broke their promise to one another...
  • La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Never question my heart, my courage, my loyalty! To my men and to this family I am all things. But to my wife I am only one. Husband." - Don Giovanni Battaglia. The year is 1992. The Battaglia family awaits the birth of the newest members to their clan. Twin boys will be born to the capo di tutti capi of the Neapolitan clans...
  • Unruly: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Unruly: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The crime boss. The hustling queen. Cross and Catherine Donati have been married five years, but the life they’ve chosen still has things to teach them yet. One can never become too comfortable in their business. Trouble soon follows. The principe and principessa are all grown up … It’s tough being at the top...
  • The Cleanup by Mila Sin, Manuela Rouget

    The Cleanup by Mila Sin, Manuela Rouget

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It all started when we ruled our high school. I manipulated and lied my way to the top. Max, Viraj, Roark, and Zach always had my back, each participating in my schemes when it struck their fancy or they needed a thrill.Adulthood and disagreements tore us apart. Max is now a horse-raising aristocrat. Viraj is a lawyer by day and an adrenaline junkie by night. Roark is my resident hacker...
  • Taking Meghan: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Taking Meghan: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alexei Rastov is the most vile, evil, despicable man in the world... And my father tried to force me to marry him. Dragged down the aisle, I prayed to God, to anyone, to save me from a lifetime of cruelty and abuse. Then he came... a force of nature... Disrupting the ceremony with a storm of gunfire and death...
  • Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s death for hire… Some people measure life in hours. Days. Weeks. I measure mine in kills. A covert military mission gone wrong robbed me of my memory and any link to my past. This is my existence now. I execute and survive. Nothing more, nothing less...
  • Snake by Lilly Atlas

    Snake by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Grimm Brothers MC president, Snake, battled his way to his position by any and all means necessary. He was powerful, respected, commanding; but most importantly, he was feared. Then, at the height of power, one ruthless misstep crumbled his kingdom in an instant...
  • Savior by Jessica Gadziala

    Savior by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Elsie has a problem. She has a mystery she is bent on solving, a mystery that led her to run for her life down the streets of Navesink Bank until she found herself rescued by a sexy stranger. Paine has a past. He’s done everything in his power to move on from it, to distance himself from the things he has done...
  • Two Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Two Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Listen up, and listen good— I’ll only say this shit once!Two Tricks does not work with MC gangs, and that’s final. Period. The end.No. No, you don’t get to ask why. Tricks runs the West Coast smuggling ring, so if you want anything to come and go, you play by the rules. You don’t like it? Well, then you’re gonna get a visit from me...
  • Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tor Jude and I managed to salvage something beautiful from the war torn rubble of our lives, a blissful happiness that we paid for in blood. We fought our way here, leaving pieces of ourselves along the way. I thought this was the happily ever after in our twisted fairy tale, but I was wrong. Jude I may be free by definition...
  • On the Edge of Love by Shay Rucker

    On the Edge of Love by Shay Rucker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zeus, the newest and most unstable member of a group of mercenaries known as Mama’s Brood, is given the order to protect Sabrina Samora. Sabrina knows beyond a doubt, the only person she can truly trust is herself; letting anyone else in will inevitably lead to disaster. Problem? Zeus has no respect for her boundaries...
  • Unraveled by Bethany-Kris

    Unraveled by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cara Rossi’s life has been a mess ever since her identical twin was killed. She blames the mafia, its ways, and the people within the caustic culture for a painful reality that turned her world on its side. In an attempt to momentarily pause her misery, a night out puts her on a path with a man she shouldn’t get involved with simply because of his last name—Gian Guzzi...
  • The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He hadn’t planned on being a part of the Family.Life had thrown a curve at him at a young age that made him reevaluate his path in life.And he chose out.But when tragedy strikes, awakening the need for revenge, he finds himself wanting back in. To the Family. The life. The people.Including a woman he never could have seen coming, one he never would have thought he’d want in his life...
  • Entangled by Bethany-Kris

    Entangled by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gian Guzzi has everything a mafia boss could want, but it comes with strings. He shouldn’t be wasting time on a redhead he can’t have, when men like him are not allowed to be affected by silly things like love. A boss’s job is never done, and Gian has far better things to worry about—what with someone wanting him dead, and someone else wanting him in prison for good...
  • Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next heart-racing Lilah Love story is coming. This installment to Lilah's series is a standalone. Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands...
  • Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dante Galante has evaded death a few times in his life, but held captive in a sweltering basement, he's certain that death has finally caught up to him. Bloody and barely breathing, he tries to stay strong, but there's only so much a man can endure before darkness takes over. As a critical care nurse, Gabriella Russo witnesses suffering often...
  • Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blood always leaves the brightest stains where the snow falls. Fresh out of lockup, Kazimir Markovic is focused on two things only—having Violet Gallucci back at his side, and putting his father in the ground. With his plans already in motion the very second he’s free, Kaz goes after what’s most important. Violet first. Vasily second. The Russians are out for blood...
  • Where the Wind Whispers by Bethany-Kris, London Miller

    Where the Wind Whispers by Bethany-Kris, London Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is death where the wind whispers. Left for dead by his own father on a snowy sidewalk, Kazimir Markovic finally understands what true betrayal really means, and just how far one will go to keep a secret. He only needs to survive, to make it home alive to his wife, and then everyone else will know what it means, too...
  • Freaks by Callie Hart

    Freaks by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fix Marcosa is at war. The battlefield: New York City. He knows every street like the back of his hand. The darkened alleyways and back streets conceal secrets only he knows. Somewhere out there, an unknown element is threatening the life of the woman he loves. Fix doesn’t mind shedding a little blood to get protect those close to him, though...
  • Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything changed the night our eyes met across the room. His green gaze upon me prickled my skin with uncustomary warmth while my peek beneath his cuff—of a riot of color on his wrist—sparked my insatiable curiosity. Tall and mysterious, Kader was a man whose secrets I longed to know...
  • Venom & Glory by S. Williams

    Venom & Glory by S. Williams

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The world already knows who I am.Destroyer.Killer.I am ruler.I reign.My kingdom, my family--I am in control.I was never supposed to fall for her.Power. Beauty.Strength.She makes me vulnerable.She could get me killed.And I'll be damned if my heart is my weakness. When it comes down to the kingdom and what I desire . . . the kingdom will always win...
  • Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m broken. He’s broken. We are broken. But sometimes you have to shatter to pick up the pieces. To start over. To overcome our enemies. And find out if we can love again. He’s my anchor, but can our love be repaired? This is the final book in the Sinful Truths series...
  • No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An action-packed mafia romance about secrets, arranged marriage, and redemption by USA Today Bestselling author Amy McKinley.Max’s endgame is clear—take back what’s rightfully his and punish those who have wronged him.Under the guise of assassin Matteo Trambino, Max infiltrates a vital arm of the Chicago Mafia to protect his Sicilian mentor’s granddaughter, Liliana, from her dangerous father...
  • Protecting Charity: A Dark Mafia Romance by Ann-Marie Davis

    Protecting Charity: A Dark Mafia Romance by Ann-Marie Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tensions are rising for the Moreno Family’s most ruthless enforcer… I’m so close to finding my brother, I can feel it. But now there’s a new problem thrown into the mix. A young girl has been sold to the cartel, and I can’t stand by and watch that happen.With a new enemy on my tail, I’m not sure who I can trust… or how to navigate the increasingly steamy encounters with these men...
  • Savage Lover: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sophie Lark

    Savage Lover: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    There’s A Reason I Never Go To Parties…I saw him in a cloud of smoke, like sin made flesh. Even bruised and battered, I’d never seen anything more beautiful...Unless I hate myself, I should stay far away from Nero.He’s a heartbreaker.A mess-maker.A walking disaster.Here’s the problem: I’m in deep trouble with a dirty cop. The only person who can save me is Nero. We’re not friends...
  • Madam Temptress by Meghan March

    Madam Temptress by Meghan March

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I didn't choose this path. No one would. I played the cards I was dealt. The life made me. The city made me. I won't apologize for who I've become. Moses wouldn't have me any other way. He says he want forever, and I'm starting to believe him. But I can't outrun my past, and my sins are catching up with me. It's time to atone, I'll gladly pay my penance...
  • Duke by Jessica Gadziala

    Duke by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It meant war. DUKE The relative peace we have known for years was gone in one violent act. Then, among the ever-present and increasingly bloody unknown threat, I met her...
  • Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boy Mick Sinatra feels the heat from the Feds from without, and disloyal men from within. He has no time for love. But when a woman comes along so unlike the dull socialites and supermodels of his past, he wonders if fate is playing a cruel trick on him...
  • Marcus by Bethany-Kris

    Marcus by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When falling is easy, people often forget about the crash.The time has finally come for Marcus Guzzi to step into his birthright. He’s the firstborn—the next boss to take over his family’s mafia and he’s never been more ready...
  • The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was not the kind of man meant to fall in love. He was the proud enforcer of the Costa Family who perhaps enjoyed the violent, bloody parts of his job a bit too much.All that changed, though, when he was put on a job that had him crossing paths with a woman who changed everything.She was not the kind of woman to have hope. The life she found herself trapped in had very little to look forward to...
  • Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The club has known peace for so long.Too long, it seemed. And now the president is missing,the supply chain is drying up,and there are threats from within and out.Colson should have had nothing else on his mind.But then there she was.The new neighbor.A woman with her hands full of her own problems should have sent him running, but he just couldn't seem to stay away...
  • When He's Dirty by Lisa Renee Jones

    When He's Dirty by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a member of Walker Security, Adrian Ramos has found redemption for a walk on the dark side. For six years the former FBI agent was undercover in the notorious Texas Kings biker club. For six years he changed, he became one of them and when the bust happened, he didn't know who he was anymore...
  • Celt. by London Miller

    Celt. by London Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the Den ... Six minutes is all he needs to get a job done … Kyrnon “Celt” Murphy is one of the best thieves in the world. After all, his childhood was spent with a caravan of Irish Travelers that taught him everything he knows...
  • Pakhan's Salvation by V.F. Mason

    Pakhan's Salvation by V.F. Mason

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rosa My life changed in the span of twenty-four hours. My family had tried their best to make my world as familiar as possible yet something about their touch and words always felt wrong. Only in my dreams, in the arms of the amber-eyed stranger, I found solace. Until the Pakhan of Bratva showed up, claiming I belonged to him. Pakhan Rosa Giovani became mine...
  • Stolen Life by Charmaine Pauls

    Stolen Life by Charmaine Pauls

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A DIAMOND MAGNATE NOVELIan Hart stole a night of my life but he took so much more. His obsession pinned a label on me. His lust put me in an impossible situation. Now I have to choose sides. I have to decide between right and wrong. Only, no matter what choice I make, each comes with dreadful consequences. There’s only one way this can end—how every tragedy ends...
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • Bossy Brothers: Johnny by J.A. Huss

    Bossy Brothers: Johnny by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wasn’t supposed to be the princess I wasn’t looking for. When my father ‘died’ five years ago I took over the ‘family business’. But when I say business, I really mean secret society. Or cult. Or militia. Hell, let’s keep it simple and call it the mob. It’s just not that mob. It’s much darker, much dirtier, and much more dangerous than any old everyday mob...
  • Take by Pam Godwin

    Take by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s a notorious crime lord, a kidnapper, and an artist.Scarification is his outlet, and he just captured a new canvas.Kate refuses to surrender beneath his blade or the cruelty in his beautiful eyes.But she’s drawn to the man inside the monster. A man who makes her ache with his touch. Who owns her with his kiss.A man who worships her as deeply as he hurts her...
  • Scarred Regrets: A Dark Mafia Romance by Adelaide Forrest

    Scarred Regrets: A Dark Mafia Romance by Adelaide Forrest

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Broken men don’t fall in love.We linger in the darkness, consumed by the sins that define us.Irina is the sole reason my heart beats. She’s everything that matters in a world filled with evil that a woman so good and pure should never have to see.She’ll add another scar to my collection — this one engraved on my heart.When she’s taken by our enemy to use for his vengeance...
  • The Score by Bethany-Kris

    The Score by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *Please Note: The Score is not a standalone title. The first books in the Russian Guns series (The Arrangement, followed by The Life) should be read first* In the mess of love and life, nothing and no one is left untouched...
  • The Cleaner by Jessica Gadziala

    The Cleaner by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the name of her podcast suggests, Poppy is on the case. Of a serial killer operating just under the radar in Navesink Bank. And nothing will get in her way. Except, maybe, a good-looking guy with tortured eyes, anxiety, and a cleaning compulsion...
  • Keep Me by J.L. Beck, C. Hallman

    Keep Me by J.L. Beck, C. Hallman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She was my enemy… I was her new captor…. She was the enemy…a tiny little temptress of a woman that made my blood sing for vengeance. I should be punishing her…breaking her from the inside out after finding her in my father’s clutches. But when I discover the truth that she is just as much as a victim of my father's wrongdoings as I am I can’t follow through...
  • Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long forgotten...
  • Mark by Jessica Gadziala

    Mark by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mark- Love and commitment might be great. You know, for my brothers. Not for me. But then, in a chance meeting, I came across her. Why was she different? I couldn’t say for sure. Maybe it was the fact that she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. Maybe it was the the sharp edges she wore like a shield that made me want to see what was beneath...
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