Kidnapping

Remo Falcone is beyond redemption. As Capo of the Camorra he rules with a brutal hand over his territory – a territory the Chicago Outfit breached. Now Remo is out for retribution. A wedding is sacred, stealing a bride sacrilegious. Serafina is the niece of the Boss of the Outfit, and her hand has been promised in marriage for years, but kidnapped in her wedding dress on her way to church by Remo, Serafina quickly realizes that she can’t hope for saving. Yet, even in the hands of the cruelest man she knows, she is determined to cling to her pride, and Remo soon understands that the woman at his mercy might not be as easy to break as he thought. A ruthless man on a quest to destroy the Outfit by breaking someone they are supposed to protect. A woman intent on bringing a monster to his knees. Two families that will never be the same.

"This story is dark romance at its best. Simply perfection!" – Charmaine Pauls, USA Today bestselling author A fortune teller once told Mila she’d find a man who would take her breath away. She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn’t ask questions. Not about her papa’s absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace—Russia. Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she’s always wanted to. She boards a plane to Moscow. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. But it doesn’t take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor’s heart.

Our eyes meet across a sea of people in a crowded club and the effect of his gaze is immediate. Broad shoulders, piercing eyes, an intense aura emanating from him, he’s nothing like any man I’ve ever seen and he makes me feel things I never have before. When I attend an event a week later and see him there, I’m determined to find out who he is. I get more than I bargained for when I witness him execute a man. Turns out the handsome stranger from the club is the head of the most powerful drug cartel in England. And once he sees me, he’s as determined to have me as I am to evade him. I refuse to be sold, to be given away as payment for my father’s gambling debts, to suffer the same fate as my mother. So I run away. But Thiago ‘El Diablo’ da Silva has decided he wants me and what the devil wants, he gets. And he won’t stop until he’s found me and made me his. This is a mature, dark cartel romance with a sometimes very irredeemable jealous/possessive hero with extreme proclivities towards violence. It contains situations that some readers might find offensive.

Nobody touches what's mine without fatal consequences, But when the most beautiful woman is brought to face my fury, My dead heart suddenly begins to beat again. There are no fairy tales in this life. Beauty will never fall for the beast. But this monster doesn't intend to let her go. Everybody has a price. It's just a question of currency. My sweet little hacker can't be swayed by money, But she will do whatever it takes to save her family.

From USA Today \& Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard comes a new STANDALONE, full\-length MAFIA ROMANCE novel. I was born into the Cosa Nostra, so I've always known an arranged marriage loomed in my future. When the Capo dei Capi of the Cosa Nostra comes to Sicily to give his approval for his cousin, Stefano, to take me as his bride, I know my fate is all but sealed. Marrying Stefano is the last thing I want, but being a woman, I don't have a say in the matter. Damiano Falco is merciless and rules the Cosa Nostra with an iron fist. Everyone fears him and won't dare go against him. I'm still trying to accept that I'll have no choice but to marry Stefano when Damiano utters the last word anyone expects to hear. "No." He doesn't give his approval, nor does he offer any explanation. But if I think his refusal will set me free, I have another thing coming. Instead, my bags are packed, and within hours, I find myself sitting on a private jet with the head of the Costa Nostra. The ruthless man doesn't tell me anything, and I have no idea what my future holds. To say I'm terrified is the understatement of the century.

Christian “Priest” DiLustro. A charming prince. Only when it suited him. I had a taste of him and got addicted. But he was a heartless bastard and an arrogant mafia prince whose only goal was to ignore me after we scratched the itch. Just when I thought we both moved on, he swooped in, claiming he made a promise and he intended to keep it, even if it killed us both. Ivy Murphy. An Irish mafia princess. Mine. We might have started as a dream, but now I was her nightmare. I was damaged goods, scarred by my past. Still, I couldn’t allow anyone else to have her. So I stole a marriage contract and her heart. It wasn’t mine to own, but I took it anyway. For better or worse, in sickness and health, I intended to keep her. Until death do us part.

You might say my obsession has become a compulsion in the way I need to know everything about Scarlet Laurent. Even though I’ve taken a step into the background, I could never look away from my Little Sparrow. She’s a sliver, buried under my skin, a constant reminder of her presence, with no way to dig it out. Staying away from her for the last ten years has been a brutal form of torture. Her times run out and when the clock ticks midnight on her 25th birthday, I’ll tie her to me forever. After all, I can’t kidnap what’s already mine.

A horrible incident entwined their lives forever. As an enforcer for the Famiglia, Maximus Trevisan has no trouble hurting others, but his life begins to unravel when he’s forced to hurt someone he’s meant to protect. Sara’s plans for her future were simple. Marry the man she was promised to, have several children, and build a happy family. But when her life plans are ripped from her hands, she’s left with no choice but to marry Maximus. It’s the last thing she wants, but it’s a burden she’s willing to carry in order to protect her family’s honor. Yet the darkness from their past follows them. Can they overcome their demons, or will they let it destroy them?

There’s never been a time when I haven’t been in love with Yelena Melnikov. She was a temptation that I was powerless to resist. I gave her my heart when we were kids, knowing we’d have to hide our love. We hid it for years until one night of careless passion leads to a pregnancy. For me, this changes nothing. Yelena as my wife, Yelena as the mother of my children…that was always the plan. I thought telling our family would be the hardest part. I’ve never been more wrong in my life. Val has always had my heart. I thought telling our family would be the hardest thing we’d ever have to go through. I was wrong. What we’re about to face is so much worse. All I ever wanted was Valentin Melnikov as my husband and a houseful of kids, but now someone is threatening to take all that away from us, and I’m not sure we’re going to survive it. This is a very steamy dark mafia romance with some humor mixed in! This is the fourth book in the Melnikov Legacy series. The books are interconnected, but each can easily be read as a standalone. No cheating, no OW drama, and an HEA is always guaranteed! Please see warning at beginning of novel and read responsibly.

Gabriel and Amara—Blurb coming soon

A dark billionaire romance with a secret society twist and a happy ever after. The Garde values four ideals: The Truth we twist. The Beauty we flaunt. The Freedom we grant. The Power we take. I believed their lies until Lacey O'Shea. She’s the only daughter of the Garde's leading family, and she was meant to be mine. But her father stole her from me to sell to another. So I stole her back. But there's more to the conspiracy that kept us apart, and we have to keep our relationship secret from her former fiancé, the Baron, to find the truth. He wants to lock her away, but she’s a bird desperate to flee her gilded cage. I'll fight the Baron, the Garde, and the whole damn world to free her. ROUGE is a spicy story set in modern-day Las Vegas and a complete STANDALONE in the Tattered Curtain series. Guaranteed HEA. Author’s Note: This is not a retelling. The Tattered Curtain series transforms classic tragic plays, such as Romeo & Juliet, La Dame aux Camélias, and Orpheus and Eurydice, into dark and twisty HEAs. All CWs/TWs can be found in the front of the book, the author’s website, or on Goodreads. Mature readers only.

For my dark romance girlies who love a broken hero who knows exactly how many freckles you have on your body. Maksim For years, revenge was my religion. Every breath, every calculated move existed for one to annihilate the man who stripped away my humanity and left me in hell's embrace. Until her. She looked at me like I was something more than the darkness I'd become. I told her the truth—I'm no hero, least of all hers. But she fails to grasp one crucial a soul this ravenous doesn't release its prey. Not even when it should. Julia My entire world burned to ash in a single night. Now I'm trapped in a foreign land, at the mercy of demons who feast on pain and collect screams like currency. I should be planning my escape. I should be surviving. Instead, I'm lost in the eyes of a Russian soldier who stole my heart with one look and refuses to give it back. We share nothing—no history, no common ground, no future. Our pasts are written in different languages of suffering. When my chance for freedom finally comes, I'll have to choose. But how do you walk away from the man who owns your very breath?

When I’m stalked and kidnapped from the convent by my father’s enemy, a cowboy hellbent on revenge, everything changes. I’m torn from my cloistered life of simplicity, thrown into the center of a bitter fight, and held at his mercy in a small cabin in the middle of the Colorado wilderness. There could be a silver lining though. The quiet, bespectacled, heavily tattooed horseman has an offer: If I give him what he wants, he’ll grant the only wish I have. He might even be the one person capable of delivering it. It’s a dangerous temptation. Just like the way he looks at me. If I’m honest, the more I learn about the man underneath all the scars, the more I’m questioning everything I thought I believed. Especially when he makes a confession of his own. But the cost for our deal? It’s steep. I’ll have to break every vow I’ve ever taken.

Lukyan Volkov It was my time to motherfucking shine. I've always been underestimated. The type of personality I had ensured that. I liked to joke around a lot. Have fun. Make people laugh. Being underestimated kinda came with that territory, and that was okay. I didn't mind. But now, I had the chance to prove myself. To show that I wasn't just the idiot, class clown of the Bratva. To show my true potential. What I was capable of. To show my siblings and my father that I could be depended on by doing the impossible. Killing the patriarch of our family. A man the whole world feared. My grandfather, Sergei Volkov. A plan was in place to accomplish that, which involved me taking part in an arranged marriage. There was just one, small problem. My stalker would never allow it. Lyla From the moment I saw him, he was mine. Lukyan Volkov. Handsome, broad-shouldered, with Golden Retriever energy and a soul that yearned to be dominated. He was everything to me. My whole world. And I would do whatever it took to have him. For the better part of a year and a half, I've stalked him. Broken into his house just to watch him sleep. Catalogued his every move and added thousands of photos to my ever growing scrapbook. I couldn't stay away, even if I tried. Our connection transcended everything. I was obsessed. I knew that. Understood that, and I didn't fucking care. Nothing and no-one would ever come between us. My plan to make him mine was a risky one, but what was love without a little risk?