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The Institute
Series · 4 books · 2022-2023

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#1

Ruthless Hunter

2022

She ran from me...but she won't get far... Pretty, plain Annalise Eden. She's the one they secretly call 'the Ghost'. The daughter of a man who's made my family millions. Millions she stole thinking she's saving her father. But she's wrong. Wrong about it all... About him. About me. Especially about me. She's run to a place she thinks is safe. An island that's heavily guarded in the middle of nowhere. Filled with those like me... Rich. Dangerous. Mafia. But hiding amongst my kind won't save her. I'll hunt her. I'll corner her. I'll claim her too. I'll show her exactly who I am. And when she falls for me she won't ever run from me again.
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#2

Rücksichtsloser Beschützer (Die Institut-Reihe 2)

2022

Kat VanHalen ist schön, reich und unheimlich loyal. Aber sie trägt auch ein Geheimnis mit sich herum. Eines, das so tödlich ist, dass es die Insel überfällt, um sie uns vor der Nase wegzuschnappen. Aber da gibt es nur ein Problem ... Kat ist nicht nur eine reiche Frau. Sie gehört mir. Ich habe meinen Anspruch geltend gemacht. Auf ihren Körper. Ihren Geist. Und auch auf ihre Seele. Und als sie sie holten, schufen sie sich einen Feind. Einen, der von Rache und Zorn getrieben ist. Man nennt mich nicht umsonst den Stidda Mafia Prinzen. Mit Fäusten, Wut und einer verblüffenden Gelassenheit jage ich sie durch die Länder ... Bis ich sie finde. Und sie mit allem beschütze, was ich habe. Möge Gott ihren Feinden gnädig sein ... denn ich werde es nicht sein. \*Vorher veröffentlicht als Lazarus Crown, Cosa Nostra Reihe. Rücksichtsloser Beschützer ist ein dunkler Mafia-Liebesroman und gehört zur Welt die Blutbande- Reihe. Lazarus Rossi ist der perfekte Beschützer. Wenn du also empfindlich auf bestimmte Inhalte reagierst, solltest du dir die Warnhinweise im Buch ansehen, bevor du mit dem Lesen beginnst.
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#3

Ruthless Ruler

2022

Evan Valachi is meant to marry a Bernardi one way or another. It better be me… I came to the island with one purpose. Make Evan mine. But when I get here, she’s not the woman I expected. She’s evasive, erratic… And not the Mafia princess I secretly fantasized about. When I’m cornered in the middle of the night by a mysterious woman…I find out why. And the truth shocks me to my core. Something is happening to us on the island. On the one place where we’re supposed to be safe. We’re being hunted one by one. And as truth about Evan comes to light I find myself cornered. Only they don’t realize that I’m not just here for a wife… I’m here for my family’s seat on the Commission as well. And I will take both with blood and vengeance and wrath. I will make Evan love me. And I’ll take my family’s power. By force if I have to… Because that’s how you rule in our world. \*Released previously as Bruno’s Devotion, Cosa Nostra Series and Valachi, First Sons Series. Ruthless Ruler is a New Adult dark Mafia Romance and is part of the Blood Ties Series World. Bruno Bernardi is the perfect ruler so if you are sensitive to particular content make sure you check the warnings inside the book before you begin.
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#4

Ruthless Lover

2023

She hated me…in the most savage, violent way. I deserved it all. Her fists. Her rage. But I didn’t deserve her love. Leila Ivanov, daughter to a dangerous Russian Czar is the perfect woman. Smart, resourceful, stunningly beautiful with piercing blue eyes and a wicked smile. But that’s not why I wanted her. I needed to find a way out of the mess I created. A mess where the CIA came knocking on my door armed with information. Information that was dangerous…and could get me killed. And I’d use the wrath of her family to escape it. But amongst the deceit I found myself falling for her quiet perfection and her deep, throaty laughter. I found myself falling for her. Until it was too late… Those I’d been running from came for me…but they found her instead. Now I’m staring at the bruises on her face and the betrayal in her eyes. and I’m on my knees begging her to stay. I’ll do anything. Pay any price. Kill any man I had to…even if it means my end. Because a life without her…is no life at all. \*Released previously as Lazarus Fall, Cosa Nostra Series. Ruthless Lover is a New Adult dark Mafia Romance and is part of the Blood Ties Series World. Alexi Kilpatrick is the perfect lover so if you are sensitive to particular content make sure you check the warnings inside the book before you begin.

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