Immortals rule the night in my world. They’re dangerous, deadly and occupy the darker side of our city across the river. I was told stories about them when I was young. How they prowled the city streets for prey, hiding behind Armani suits and expensive cars. I knew they were real…I’d just never seen them. Now I’m standing face to face with the most dangerous of their kind, the leader of the Crown City blood-thirty hunters, a Vampire called Elithien. A creature my father is about to make an ally. My father, the head of the most dangerous Mafia families in Crown City is dying. And he thinks these savage monsters will somehow protect me when he’s gone. Elithien hunts me in the dead of the night, and corners me in a dark alley. He captures my wrists, pressing them against the wall over my head. He kisses me, whispering he wants to tell me the truth about my bloodline. Only it’s a truth I don’t want to believe. A truth that will unravel everything I know. But running from him won’t save me. Nothing will… Because these monsters like the chase.

I was their payment on a debt…and they were my salvation. My Vampires dragged me from the river and brought me back to life, and In turn I saved the one man who gave his life for me...my bodyguard. Only to save him will be to turn him into the monster he despises. With Unseelie Fae blood in his veins Russell locks himself away until danger comes for me once more. I vowed revenge on those who tried to destroy us. I’ll make them pay with five merciless Immortals at my side. Because to them, I’m not a possession…to them I am forever. I’m starting to think they’re my forever too…

He captured my hand and kissed my palm. “If anything happens to me they’ll take care of you.” Tears shimmered in my eyes, like a damn burst inside me. A car crash finally igniting. He was the flames. They were all the flames. Burning inside me like a damn inferno. He stretched my arm over my head. I lifted the other in instinct, feeling his fingers grip my wrist. I’d never been so turned on…so agonizingly desperate for a man to consume me. “You are ours.” He warned. “Say it…say who you belong to.” “You.” My heart blazed as I whispered. “I belong to all of you.” They promised to keep me alive. They promised to keep me safe. But what happens when death is payment for a debt I never knew? Death or an eternity in servitude? The Costello’s are steeped in betrayal. Lies and corruption taint my family’s bloodline, owing debts to monsters more dangerous than the Vampires I love. Now the Inner Circle has come to collect. Only I won’t go easy. To protect those I love I’ll fight for them a thousand times over…if need be I’ll die as well. In a dark alley I face down my corrupt past. I have one small chance to keep us alive. As my thoughts turn to those I love; Elithen, Hurrow, Justice, Rule and my savage Unseelie bodyguard, Russell, I pray we make it…hearts and lives intact.

I thought becoming the head of the Crown City Mafia was tough… A woman standing in the middle of a man’s world. But it wasn’t a man’s world I wanted. It was them. My Vampires. They’re seduction and savagery all in one perfect disguise. Elithien, Hurrow, Justice, Rule…and my deadly bodyguard, Russell. I fought my family for these immortals and killed for them as well. For one perfect moment I thought we were safe. Only safety is an illusion. My father wasn’t the most dangerous creature out there. Those in the shadows have risen to power and they want my father's place in the dangerous immortal mafia world. But there’s only one thing stopping them…me.

“Don’t come any closer,” I warned, my FBI badge useless in the face of this fanged monster. “I’ll scratch and bite.” “You’ll crawl and beg too.” Phantom promised as he strode closer, a glint of desire danced in his eyes. “And that Special Agent…will only be the start of it.” The Costello’s were mine. Mine to corner. Mine to hunt. Mine to bring to their knees. I’ve hunted Ruth for years now. Sat outside her house. Tracked every shady deal she’d ever done. She’s my ticket to her family, and the entire cesspool they play in. The Costello’s are lower than low…they are liars…they are mobsters. They are Mafia. This is more than a case for me. This was personal. The last bullet in my father’s ruined policing career. He’s a drunk now and alone…and I’m his only visitor—pathetic huh? Only a war erupted. A war which I’m now part of…a war between the beasts that roam west of my city and the powerful Immortals they answer to. I replayed that night in slow motion. Fangs. Blood…and Phantom. The Alpha of the Wolves. The one I saved from a rogue Vampire. And the one who saved me. I carry his bite mark on my shoulder…and the memory of his pack. He might think he has a handle on me… He might think this is more than what it was… He’s about to find out how wrong he is.

Crown City is divided. Mortals on one side of the river and the beasts on the other. Only I’m a woman caught in the middle, and now I’m forced to choose a side. Return to the FBI who’s hunting us, or run with the Wolves? Phantom, Church, Vitold and Arran. They’re hiding for a crime they didn’t commit, bullet-riddled and bleeding they’re considered weak now and their territory fair game. But there’s nothing weak about Phantom. Or our pack. As other Wolves start circling, looking for a way to take what’s ours a new darkness emerges. One that has hunted me before. And as Phantom’s past rises we are forced to confront a beast so powerful it could destroy us all. Only I won’t let it. I will fight. I will hunt. I will love.

Chaos ruled my life. Dark, foul…malevolent. I thought my battles were over. Thought I was finally part of the pack. But that Unseelie curse in my chest has other ideas. She wants the Wolves for herself…and she’ll force me to do the unthinkable. Betray the Vampires. Now Crown City’s Immortal Mafia Clans are divided. Wolves against Vampires. The Fae trapped in the middle. And the FBI is hunting all of us down. But there is a new enemy in the shadows. A darker, more powerful beast who’s out for blood and Phantom faces a predator like he’s never battled before. There is no more running now, no more pleading. No more deals to be done. There is nothing but standing up to be counted…and fight like never before.

Hate. Retribution. Revenge. It burns in my veins and keeps me awake at night, hunting Crown City’s streets like the ones who took from me. But it’s not these streets where I want to spill blood. It’s over there, across the bridge. Where the shadows of this world cloak their sick, foul secrets…and where they trade magic for mortal lives. I can’t get across there. Can’t walk in their world. If I could, I’d take this knife and shove it between his ribs. But I doubt I’d find a heart. None of them had hearts. Not their leader, Shrike, or Mojin, the one I see the most, or Honor and Ruin, the ones I don’t see. The ones no one sees. They’re the ones who corrupt. They’re the ones who kill. They’re the ones who took my brother from me… Only I found a way to get to them now. This new seductive club the Wolves opened called Dark City needs mortal women to entrance these beasts and I’m the one they’ll want. The one who hides the truth behind her smile. And a knife against her thigh. Only when I take my chance I’m the one taken instead. But my enemy doesn’t want me dead…they want something else. Something those dark Unseelie eyes promise…and I might never sleep again. Note: Each Mafia Monster series can be read as a stand alone in the same world. There is cross over of your favorite characters to help you understand underlying motivations better, but it's not necessary to read from book one.

“I’m going to kill you,” I promised. “Keep saying that, my little Venatrix,” Mojin urged. “I enjoy the sound of fury on your lips.” Fight. Fight them. Fight this… I’m trapped in an existence deeper than Hell. The need for revenge entwined with lust. It’s all centered on them…the Fae. I attacked with daggers and fists. Swinging a baseball bat when I could. Still they caught every blow. Worse, they pulled me closer, taking me into a place I couldn’t escape. A place that pulsed with Unseelie green. A world of the Fae. Where I lost myself. And found them. But something is crawling from their Unseelie realm into ours. Something powerful, and it’s bringing with it terrifying creatures of the dark. Beasts, the Unseelie call them. Our city is under siege from these infernal creatures. It’s up to us to defend it. All of us. Vampires. Wolves. Fae. And now me. I had the rest of my life planned out, what little there was left of it anyway. Find those responsible for my brother’s death and seek revenge. But the longer I stay with these Fae the more I realize the truth. Maybe we’re all monsters…deep inside.