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  • Undone by Ivy Layne

    Undone by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lily Knox Sinclair is a man of a few words. Intense. Focused. Touching him is a bad idea. I already know that. I know it and I want to do it anyway. My life is a mess—A man is the last thing I need. My dead husband left behind nothing but trouble. Knox has answers, but he isn't sharing. I don’t know if I can trust him. I want to. I can’t afford to be wrong...
  • Fantasy in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Fantasy in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bones is the son of the man who killed my aunt. He's the descendant of a psychopath, a murderer. His handsome face, blue eyes, and strong physique can fool anyone into believing he's a good man. Including me. My loyalty to my family makes me despise him. But I also can't stop thinking about him. Thinking about his kiss...
  • Dancer in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Dancer in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Griffin offered to take me home but I refused, knowing he needed to get Vanessa home. I walked to my apartment and took a short cut down an alleyway. That was the worst mistake of my life. Four men grabbed me. I fought them off, but when the barrel of a gun was pressed between my eyes, I knew the game was up. But then a man appeared from the shadows and scared the men away like rats...
  • 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...
  • Savage Things by Callie Hart

    Savage Things by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Zeth At the eye of a violent storm, everything is calm. It’s only when the storm shifts that your life explodes into chaos. The $#*& is finally about to hit the fan for Zeth. After months of blissful quiet, the wolves are at his door, teeth bared and snarling, baying for blood, and the sinister elements of the Seattle underground are closing in tight...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  multi-pov  organized-crime  steamy  adult  angst  book
  • Queen in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Queen in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Muse told the world how she felt about me.Instead of feeling joy, I felt terror.This isn't what I want.This isn't how our relationship is supposed to be.I end things because I have no other choice.But I struggle to cope with my misery, to sleep in an empty bed without her beside me...
  • Wicked Things by Callie Hart

    Wicked Things by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "This is the reason I called her my angry girl in the first place. I was teasing her back then, but the truth of the matter is that she impressed me. She blew me away with her strength of character and her fire. She’s not just angry. She’s fierce. She’s determined. She’s strong. She’s brave as f#*$...
  • 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...
  • Deviant Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Deviant Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you more in her dark mafia, high school bully romance series.Whoever said to keep your friends close and your enemies closer… was right. Being around her is the worst kind of torture. Emmie is an obligation I can’t avoid… an oath I can’t break. And having her in my life is the last thing I want or need...
  • The Enforcer by Renee Rose

    The Enforcer by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s my weakness, my obsession. And now my prisoner.I spent twelve long years in a Siberian prison.Since my release, nothing's held my interest.Nothing except her.Week after week, I watch her band perform.I can't get her out of my mind.When my past catches up to me, she becomes a target.The only way to save her is to lock her away.Hold her prisoner until things blow over...
  • La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Don Giovanni Battaglia and Mira Ellison.... The year is 1991. Two years after discovering love and losing it Mira Ellison has finally accepted her destiny. She will become Donna Mirabella Battaglia, the wife of one of the most notorious crime bosses in Southern Italy...
  • Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Filthy King by Serena Akeroyd

    Filthy King by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I'm nothing like my father.My brothers don't realize I'm a thousand times worse.Grief fuels my every action.Vengeance burns through my veins, dictating every decision I make.I'll shatter allegiances to please him.I'm nothing like my father.You don't realize that I'm a thousand times worse...
  • Bad Deeds by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bad Deeds by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds , the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Would you bleed for the one you love? To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make...
  • Firefly by Molly McAdams

    Firefly by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The next captivating installment in New York Times bestselling author Molly McAdams’s Redemption series. As the Princess of the Irish-American Mob, there’s no shortage of men ready to help guard and protect me. To slowly suffocate me to the point of seeking freedom—a place where I can breathe. Kieran Hayes has been saving me for as long as I can remember...
  • The Chameleon by Amelia Shea

    The Chameleon by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two hundred fifty dollars. It’s exactly what Camille Gwin was worth twelve years ago when she was traded to the leader of the Underground to pay off a debt. Barely an adult, she was initiated into the harsh reality of a new world. The Underground. Camille knows how it works. Play the game or get played. Her rise in the Underground came at a cost...
  • Devil's Vengeance by Nina Levine

    Devil's Vengeance by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I know she’s forbidden. I’ve been warned. But I’m in too deep. Hailee Archer was mine the minute I met her and there’s no way in hell I’m giving her up. Our club is at war, though, and her brother is our greatest ally.  He’s made it clear he doesn’t want me anywhere near her.  He’s threatened to walk away from our club if he doesn’t get what he wants...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  multi-pov  steamy  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Beautiful Prey 2 by Phoenix Daniels

    Beautiful Prey 2 by Phoenix Daniels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jessica Watkins Presents Beautiful Prey 2 by Phoenix Daniels Follow newly married Victoria Storm as she prays for the life of her husband, Jack. In the meantime, her good friend Natasha Walker takes over her duties as an undercover officer posing as a prostitute, while she deals with past issues and a new love interest. Meet Gianni Storm, successful club owner and cousin to Jack Storm...
  • 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...
  • Disgrace by Bethany-Kris

    Disgrace by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Siena Calabrese is no longer the prized daughter of la famiglia. Her transgressions against her brothers and family have stained more than just her reputation. Her best chance at keeping breath in her lungs would be to sit down and shut up like she was taught to do. She definitely shouldn't be feeding information to her family's enemies...
  • Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    CONTINUING CAT AND REESE'S STORY (read the beginning of their story in Dirty Rich One Night Stand) Get ready for Cat and Reese’s story to continue in this novel that will test Cat and Reese’s relationship. Reese is preparing and trying the second hardest trial of his career when the past comes back to haunt him and Cat, just as their lives are getting ready to change irrevocably...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  legal  multi-pov  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • War by Stevie J. Cole, LP Lovell

    War by Stevie J. Cole, LP Lovell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The kind of life I’ve lived, it haunts you. Stains you. Destroys you. It took everything from me. My love. My family… my transgressions were paid with Tor and Cayla’s blood and I want revenge. Blood. Death. His head in my hands.I’ve lost everything, and all that’s left to do is end the men who took them from me. Betrayal. Secrets. Vengeance.This is war...
  • Darragh's Dilemma by Ciara St. James

    Darragh's Dilemma by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The O’Sheerans aren't what most might expect a mobster family to be like, however, make no mistake, when it counts they have no problem making those who threaten those they love and protect disappear. The days of being outright feuding mobsters have been tamed, but they’re still the largest Irish mobster family in the US...
  • Envy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Envy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in her Eagle Elite series… Every family has rules, the mafia just has more....Do not speak to the bosses unless spoken to. Do not make eye contact unless you want to die. And above all else, do not fall in love. Renee Cassani's future is set.Her betrothal is set...
  • Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Francesca Morelli.Sweet as sin, like the cupcakes she slings at the Morelli bakery. Her sweetness and killer looks are what reeled me in, but her unexpected vulnerability really sealed my fate. I don't care if there’s a war brewing between our families. I don’t care if I have to go through her evil dictator of a brother...
  • Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes the epic conclusion to the heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense, Hard to Love series.With her I was always on the highest high. That's why it was so easy to fall. I never stood a chance without her. The two of us were made for one another. It's as simple as that. The world could try to rip us apart, but it would fail...
  • Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reno Gabrini, the longtime owner of the PaLargio Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip, faces his toughest foes yet when he has to face the ghosts of his past. Just when he thought life was sailing right along, and his family were all making their own dreams come true, the sins of his past come back with a vengeance and seek to dismantle all that he holds dear...
  • Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reno Gabrini and his beautiful African-American wife Trina wheel and deal in Vegas as he runs the mighty PaLargio Hotel and Casino and she runs a high-end clothing store. But everything changes for them when lies are spread about romantic entanglements and their son is victimized...
  • Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It should have been the best time of his life. Italian tough guy and business mogul Sal Gabrini asks his beautiful African-American girlfriend, criminal defense attorney Gemma Jones, to marry him. And she says yes. But the world around them says no. No to their happiness. No to their union. No to any peace for either one of them...
  • 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...
  • Black Hat Hacker (Chicago Syndicate World) by Soraya Naomi

    Black Hat Hacker (Chicago Syndicate World) by Soraya Naomi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Although part of the Chicago Syndicate world, Black Hat Hacker is a complete standalone and can be enjoyed either with or without reading the rest of the series. You don’t know me. But that’s only because I don’t want you to. I have the most lucrative job in the country as a hacker in the notorious underworld...
  • Bene by Bethany-Kris

    Bene by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A vendetta can change everything … Bene Guzzi is walking a fine line. In his family, the mafia, and even with his own twin. Being a Guzzi principe means he doesn't have time to be a screw up, so he needs to fix it and fast. Vanna Falco is nothing that she seems. Her angel's face hides a past filled with pain and her secrets might be enough to finally take the Guzzi family down for good...
  • Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cian O’Sheeran was the second oldest O’Sheeran child. His family was the largest Irish mob family in the US. Well, technically, to the world, they were former mobsters gone straight. The world might speculate and say they still were mobsters, but no one outside the family and their closest people knew the truth. Afterall, it was hard to remove all traces of a hunter from their bloodline...
  • Master Of My Mind by Jenna Jacob

    Master Of My Mind by Jenna Jacob

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Biggest Club Genesis Book Yet! After the shocking death of my Master left me stunned, the revenge his ex-wife and daughter sought was almost as devastating. Seeking refuge at Club Genesis, my one safe haven, I returned to heal and get back on my own two feet. But I soon learned that fate had other plans for Leagh Bennett...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  grief
  • For Cam by Soraya Naomi

    For Cam by Soraya Naomi

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Cam can be read as standalone, but it's advised to read book 3 For Adriano before book 4. Book 1 and 2 center around another couple.Camilla Guillermo’s life has been turned upside down ever since she joined the Chicago Syndicate and was reunited with Adriano Montesi, the cocky and charismatic Mafia man who captured her heart two years ago...
  • Dusk by Aleatha Romig

    Dusk by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, dance with me. Dance with me into the colors of dusk.” ~ Ben Harper.I’ve served my country, a man, and a cause. I’ve given my whole being while at the same time finding its true meaning. There was no way for me to know the day I met the men who were to become my best friends that they would introduce me to the love of my life...
  • Effortless: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Effortless: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Camilla Donati doesn’t do relationships—it’s just not her thing. She wants a fun time, not a long time. She might be exactly what Tommaso Rossi needs to make his vacation from the responsibilities as a Capo, a break worth taking. He didn’t expect to find a woman like her with a mind full of filth. She didn’t expect a man who would shatter all of her rules with only a grin...
  • Blame It on the Shame: Part 3 by Ashley Jade

    Blame It on the Shame: Part 3 by Ashley Jade

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There's something lurking in all of us. Something we hide and shelter from those we love in order to protect them. A darkness we try to suppress because we're ashamed of who that makes us. Because that's the thing about Shame. It wounds us. It damages us. Or, for the few poor souls out there like me...it defines us. It's there—in the shadows, beneath the surface...just waiting...
  • Retaliate by M.N. Forgy

    Retaliate by M.N. Forgy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being the Vice President of the Sin City Outlaws Motorcycle Club comes with its perks. Respect, power, and easy women whenever I want. I have control in everything I do. Because of that, I wasn’t expecting my president to put me on babysitting duty, and on a female cop of all fucking people. I kill law enforcement, not protect them...
  • The Redemption of Roan by Kathy Coopmans

    The Redemption of Roan by Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Roan Diamond’s loyalty to the family may be obligated by blood, but nobody ever said he had to love them all, right? As the next in line to head the Diamond dynasty, he has loose ends to take care of, and one of those is his brother Royal. Yet his plans for revenge fall apart the minute he lays eyes on Alina—Royal’s ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be the daughter of the rival Solokov family...
  • Duty by Bethany-Kris

    Duty by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They say heavy is the head that wears the crown … Andino Marcello’s world is turned upside down when he becomes the next heir apparent to the Marcello empire. He was comfortable in his place as a Capo, but comfort is for the weak in the world of mafioso. The boss’s seat is waiting...
  • 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...
  • Damage Control by Lisa Renee Jones

    Damage Control by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Damage Control, the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series. The only thing more dangerous than a dark secret is a damaged heart… Shane Brandon has been pushed to the brink, torn between his corrupt family and his explosive, all-consuming desire for Emily Stevens, who he now knows is not who, and what, she seems...
  • The Gift by S.R. Jones

    The Gift by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Keep your friends close, and your enemies in your bed...ANDRIUSI’m the man they all fear. King of the murky world in which I live.A Bratva hitman with no mercy.Then she comes along, courtesy of a mob boss with no morals. She’s given to me.A gift...mine.To own, to keep. To do with as I please.With blonde hair, and violet eyes, and an innocence begging to be tarnished, she torments me...
  • Mercy by M.N. Forgy

    Mercy by M.N. Forgy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m an outlaw. I don’t fall in love and I sure as fuck don't run... Until Jillian McAdams. I fell for a law abiding Sheriff, breaking my vows to my own club, and turning her against her family of blue. An outlaw and a sheriff, it can only end in one way… Mayhem. Now we both have to pay the ultimate price for betraying our families...
  • Beautifully Brutal by Nicole Edwards

    Beautifully Brutal by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes love isn’t beautiful... Sometimes the only way to describe it is beautifully brutal. If you think you know him… You’re wrong. If you think you know his family… Wrong again. If you think you know his story… You don’t. If you did, you’d likely wonder how the hell a man like Maximillian Adorite managed to make it to this point in his life...
  • Bride by Logan Chance

    Bride by Logan Chance

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author, Logan Chance, comes a powerfully spell-binding enemies to lovers duet ready to capture your heart. Here comes the bride, all dressed in lies. Love and cherish are not in Gabriel Prince’s vocabulary. He’s used to getting what he wants, and what he wants is me—as his bride. I won’t give in to Gabriel’s undeniable sex appeal...
  • You Don't Know Me by Georgia Le Carre

    You Don't Know Me by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sexy spin off standalone to the bestselling, You Don't Own me (The Russian Don series) is available now to Preorder. You do not have to read 'You Don't On me' books 1 & 2 as this Bad Boy Mafia Romance is Noah's story and can be read as a complete standalone and has guaranteed HEA. Tasha I knew Noah Adamovich was trouble the first time our eyes locked. I was sixteen that summer...
  • The Tyrant by Penelope Sky

    The Tyrant by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I've fallen in love with Cato, and I'm not afraid to say it.He doesn't need to say it back. I know how he feels.Even if he doesn't have the balls to admit it.Our daughter will be here soon, and our lives will change forever...
  • When Fates Align by Isabelle Richards

    When Fates Align by Isabelle Richards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Why would fate bring them together only to tear them apart?Lily and Gavin were brought together in a clash of tragedy and chaos. Amid the ashes of lives gone wrong, they thought they found a second chance at love. With trouble from their previous lives lurking around every corner, they quickly learned that love from a star-crossed romance isn’t enough to survive...
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