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  • Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take what matters most to her," said the voice. And he knew he would. He had to. Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele’s abusive husband stole her baby and gave it up for adoption. Then he kicked Miranda out of his house. So she remade herself. Thirteen years later, the feisty, stubborn skeptic came to Atlanta hoping to find her daughter...
  • Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Somebody is killing young boys in the neighborhood and its homicide Detective Mellina August’s responsibility to figure out who. She’s the new kid in the precinct and not everybody’s happy about her landing this case, but that won’t stop her from solving it. All she needs is a good partner and she’s golden...
  • Deception by Naomi Chase

    Deception by Naomi Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sisters can share too much. . . Acquitted of murder, Tamia Luke is on a mission to reclaim all she's lost, including her ex, Brandon. He's about to get married, but Tamia's determined, even if it means resorting to deception--a family habit. Her sister, Fiona, betrayed Tamia to save her own skin. Now the two share a scandalous secret that may destroy both their plans to start over. .
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    black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Edge Of Darkness by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Road rash and Jack meets handcuffs and street smarts. I am a wandering disaster. A hedonist, a lover, a son, and a rebel. My name is Yuma. I’m sober enough to see the need for redemption, but too blind to realize I already found it. I am an independent seeker. An overachiever, a friend, a misfit, and a cop. My name is Lissie...
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    alpha-mc  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? The sixth book in the Lilah Love series...
  • No Escape by Julie Moffett

    No Escape by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought meeting the in-laws would be easy as long as they met on neutral ground and she was fully prepared with a spreadsheet full of etiquette dos and don’ts. But unfortunately for Lexi, things don’t always turn out as she planned.Meeting the in-laws is a daunting task even for those who are outgoing and socially capable...
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    humor  female-mc  alpha-mc  suspense  romance  mystery  cozy  fiction
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Malcolm by Jessica Gadziala

    Malcolm by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He was happy with his quiet life.With the club, with his family, with his cabin in the woods.He didn’t think he needed more than that.Not until he came across her.But when a string of unfortunate events starts to seem less like happenstance and more like something someone had planned...
  • Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A look into the life at McKay-Taggart on the day Charlie and Ian have their babies...
  • Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke O’Reilly has seen it all, done it all, and lived through it all. When a career ending injury forces him to retire from the military, he struggles to adapt. Luke was born to be a soldier, not conform to the nine-to-five mediocrity of everyday life. He needs to protect and serve like he needs his next breath...
  • Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even when he does good, he’s bad… Detective Lazarus Dimas doesn’t play by the rules. On the streets, he’s a force to be reckoned with, a dangerous man with a badge and a gun. But he does have a soft spot — the sexy Assistant District Attorney Journey Ramsey. There is something about the woman he can’t shake. She’s irresistible and off limits...
  • Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A honeymoon in Maui. A luxury beachfront resort. A handsome wealthy new husband. A vicious murder. After all, this is PI Miranda Steele we're talking about. And where Miranda goes, trouble follows. That lovely honeymoon gets hijacked when she finds the body of a popular fire dancer on the beach. Of course, she has to investigate...
  • Roaming Wild by Tracey Devlyn

    Roaming Wild by Tracey Devlyn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's loved him forever... The last thing traveling nurse Evie Steele expects to find aboard the RV housing her mobile health clinic is her brother’s best friend. As always, Deke’s close proximity stirs her forbidden desires and long-suppressed dreams. But his sudden reappearance in her life and curious interest in her patients makes Evie wonder what he’s hiding. ..
  • The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The beautiful daughter of a prominent Michigan doctor,Narice has never strayedanywhere near the wrong sideof the law. Then her fatheris brutally murdered -- andsuddenly federal agents areswarming around her likeflies, making accusations about a stolen North African diamond...
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    humor  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jade Raised by a drug kingpin, you would think that I would be intimately familiar with chaos but the roles in my life were flipped after my father’s death. Boarding school, owning businesses, and mingling with the social elite became my norm.Until one day, the chaos returned...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  suspense  female-mc  humor  black-mc  poc-mc  romance
  • In the Line of Ire by Camilla Chafer

    In the Line of Ire by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Private Investigator Lexi Graves receives an expensive bag from her new husband, she’s delighted… for all of five seconds. That’s exactly how long it takes her to realize it’s a fake. Then another fake bag turns up, along with an outraged mall manager that is desperate to find the culprit before the mall’s impeccable reputation for selling quality goods is tarnished...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  female-mc  alpha-mc  humor  romance  mystery  cozy
  • Wreckless Love by Nina.

    Wreckless Love by Nina.

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rushon “Wreck” Porter, the second oldest of the Porters has found love in all the wrong places until he meets Gia. One night of partying turned into a two-year love affair that had just as many ups as downs. Wreck didn’t think this sweet college girl would even know pain until he got to know her...
  • Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a broken man arrives in town desperate to locate his missing girlfriend, loved-up PI Lexi Graves is determined to reunite the lost loves. However, the further Lexi delves into the case, the more it appears that the missing woman doesn't want to be found...
  • A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate—and the bad memories it holds—years ago. But their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed promise to make things right...
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    black-mc  female-mc  humor  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Delicious Torment by Linsey Lanier

    Delicious Torment by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when your old flame turns out to be a killer? A ritzy steeplechase. A terrible commotion in one of the stalls. A beautiful young horse breeder found dead. Newbie private investigator Miranda Steele knows she shouldn't get involved. But when the dead woman's sister begs her to take the case, Miranda can't resist the powerful need to set things right...
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    alpha-mc  crime  female-mc  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • No Place Like Rome by Julie Moffett

    No Place Like Rome by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Lexi Carmichael Mystery Italy might seem like a long way to go to hide after a disastrous date. But when sexy uberhacker Slash (no, that's not his real name) asks me to go with him to Rome on an investigation, the timing is sort of perfect...
  • Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall...
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    black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous bad boy Mick Sinatra is in a good place in his life. His beautiful, African-American wife has been offered a starring role at a theater on London’s famed West End. His son, Teddy, has taken over the day-to-day running of his ruthless crime family. His daughter, Gloria, has learned the error of her ways...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous gangster Mick Sinatra has recovered from the vicious attack that nearly took him out, but the organizations that spearheaded his downfall are still up and running. His own organization is fractured and bleeding and his ability to maintain control is questioned. He knows he must trust no man, he must verify everything, and he must fight to the death to reassert his dominance...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary
  • Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartthrob mobster Mick Sinatra is on a roll. It’s six weeks after the birth of his twins. His beautiful African-American wife is enjoying success in her business unlike she’d ever had before, and they both are looking forward to success in the bedroom after six weeks of abstinence. His grown children are all working for him, with Teddy Sinatra as his new enforcer...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary
  • Raw by Trevion Burns

    Raw by Trevion Burns

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This was it. She was going to prison. She’d tested Detective Lincoln Hill’s determination one time too many. Underestimated his keen wit. Misjudged his naked resolve. But she couldn’t dwell on how she’d been caught. She couldn’t dwell on anything but the fact that her quest for revenge was officially over. Brought to an end by her best friend...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  humor  poc-mc  suspense  abuse
  • Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Derrick Arlington is one of the world's most eligible billionaires. Voted Sexiest Man Alive—two years running. And I just so happen to look exactly like him. It’s never come in handy until I get offered an actual job out of it. It was supposed to be so simple. Go to the Winston Isles, stand in as his body double for a few weeks, go back to my life...
  • Carwrecked by Francesca Penn

    Carwrecked by Francesca Penn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Celeste FontanneComplicated is too simple a word and doesn’t quite describe my life. I’m trapped in between prison and truly being free. Figuratively, I may have escaped from my cell, but I’m still very much in the building. I’d gotten a glimmer of freedom, which lasted mere minutes until it came to a screeching halt. Now, I must climb out of the dregs of my former life and begin anew...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  black-mc  humor  poc-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • Rouse by Trevion Burns

    Rouse by Trevion Burns

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Veda Vandyke returned to Shadow Rock Island with one goal: exact revenge on the ten monsters who’d attacked her at age eighteen. When she’s blessed with a second chance at motherhood, however, Veda refuses to let her miracle number-two meet the same tragic fate as the first, even if it means abandoning her vengeful quest forever...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  humor  poc-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  billionaire
  • Heller's Punishment by J.D. Nixon

    Heller's Punishment by J.D. Nixon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In her latest adventure, rookie security officer Tilly Chalmers has three new assignments to cope with - chaperoning a devious addict to a rehabilitation clinic; live-in security for a strange and isolated religious cult; and protecting a national TV host in a damaging court case...
  • The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daryl Graham has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be.Connie, an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage...
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    black-mc  crime  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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 Magic by D. Camille

    Black Magic by D. Camille

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty year old billionaire Jordan Black is all about handling his business, in the boardroom and most definitely in the bedroom; and his business is controlling everything and everyone around him. That is, until he meets Sage Parker, the ultimate temptation and the younger sister of his close friend and business associate, which makes her the forbidden fruit he will never taste...
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    alpha-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Life Mastered by Blue Saffire

    Life Mastered by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yours: Life Mastered Book 3 in the Yours Series Yours Book 3 This is my family! My future the air I need to breathe. Someone really thought it wise to threaten that. Just when things are coming together the way I need them someone has chosen to come after my world. Big mistake! Before this is all over everyone will know ….I AM Nicholas Lincoln...
  • Save Me If You Can by Christina C. Jones

    Save Me If You Can by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Deception and betrayal always carry a price, and sooner or later, someone has to pay.For a long time, Terry King and Damien Wolfe have dodged those debts while the people around them paid – in loneliness, grief, constant fear, and the loss of innocent lives.But no more...
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    alpha-mc  black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two brilliant agents track one cunning psycho.FBI Agent Alexander King has a special gift for catching vicious predators. He gets inside the twisted minds of psychopaths and hunts them down. However, this case in a small Georgia town is challenging his skills. A serial killer named The Angel Maker has kidnapped and killed six little black girls...
  • Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the past and present collide, the result could be fatal. Fortress Security operative Lily Stanton survived life on Nashville's streets and thrived in the Army. Abandoned as an infant, her Fortress teammates have become family, so her world is rocked when a woman claiming to be her mother begs to meet her...
  • Eyewitness by Phoenix Daniels

    Eyewitness by Phoenix Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet Taylor Montgomery, the beautiful, but disgruntle, Chicago cop. She was disgruntled, not because she didn’t love her job, but because she was fed up with the slippery politics associated with the department. Yet, she donned her uniform every day, wearing it with pride, and patrolling the dangerous streets of The Windy City...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  black-mc  crime  female-mc  humor  poc-mc  suspense  adult
  • Temp Girl: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Temp Girl: part 6 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance. Change is good... but not great. In TEMP GIRL, an entitled diva is forced to take a job at a temp agency to get by, and takes a tumble into reality...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  humor  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself. Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. Not one frown on her face. I would kill to make her happy. * * * * * From Harlem to Prague, Moscow to St. Petersburg...
  • Cold Cruel Kiss by Toni Anderson

    Cold Cruel Kiss by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the daughter of the US Ambassador to Argentina is kidnapped in broad daylight on Christmas Eve, the FBI sends one of its best negotiators to investigate.Supervisory Special Agent Max Hawthorne arrives at an embassy thrown into chaos as US and local law enforcement hustle to track the young woman...
  • Shock and Awesome by Camilla Chafer

    Shock and Awesome by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a thief who preys on the super rich women of a high-end dating website turns up in Montgomery, it’s up to Private Investigator, Lexi Graves, to lure him out before he goes to ground. To make matters worse, he's evaded capture numerous times, and this might be the last chance to catch him before he retires altogether from the high stakes game...
  • Kissing in Action by Camilla Chafer

    Kissing in Action by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Lexi gets her latest gig, tracking down a blackmailer guilty of extorting thousands of dollars from the country’s hottest girl band, it’s practically a dream come true. However, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous doesn’t turn out to be as much fun as she hoped...
  • Heller's Girlfriend by J.D. Nixon

    Heller's Girlfriend by J.D. Nixon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tilly Chalmers’ life is complicated. Her boyfriend is demanding more attention while her boss, Heller, is always a distracting temptation...
  • Aftermath by S.W. Frank

    Aftermath by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE ALFONZO FAMILY SAGA CONTINUES IN THIS LATEST INSTALLMENT: AFTERMATH: Alfonzo Volume VII "Forgive me father, for I have sinned...again!" -Alfonzo (Aftermath) The families have gathered in Palermo for a final farewell to beloved Capo de tutti, Alberti Luca. During the mourning, there is discourse and a simmering feud between cousins flares into a near fatal brawl...
  • Associates by S.W. Frank

    Associates by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The charismatic Alfonzo Diaz, his wife Selange, Giuseppe, Nico and the family return in this latest edition of an underground hit, many readers call 'raw' and 'addictive.' Alfonzo knows what is not spoken is found in actions. Observe, listen and often truth is revealed. “Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests...
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