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  • The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. They may be known for their big house, fancy cars, and lavish lifestyle, but that doesn’t make them immune from some over-the-top drama. L.C. Duncan has run his successful car dealership in Jamaica, Queens for more than thirty years, but when the recession hits and the competition gets a little rough, some say it’s time for him to retire...
  • Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson

    Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again...or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara burn the sexy racer from her head or the memory of his passionate caresses from her body? Thorn had wanted Tara since the day they'd met...
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  • Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the fire department’s joker, Kyle (Sumo) Matsumoto, loves nothing better than ribbing the guys at the station. However, he’s all business when he’s on a call, and when he tries to snag the attention of a cute little baker. Then life takes a more serious turn when he’s plunged headfirst into fatherhood—of a teenage boy—giving his teammates the last laugh...
  • My Best Friend's Wish by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    My Best Friend's Wish by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents My Best Friend’s Wish Work Husband Series DarioWhen I was younger, I believe I heard something I shouldn’t have. After what I overheard, I don’t believe our mother just up and left us. I was a kid. I didn’t have money, power, or respect to get the answers I needed back then. Not until now...
  • The Don by Stella Andrews

    The Don by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Most fairy tales include a dark figure.The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see.In my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility.Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection.She came into the family and seduced three brothers.Then she married their father who sent them away...
  • Toby the Protector by Blue Saffire

    Toby the Protector by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Award winning Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 3: Toby The Protector Book 3 in the Brothers Black Series I’ve wanted her from the first time I saw her. How was I supposed to know I couldn’t have her? She was made for me. I was made for her. We’ve tried to avoid each other, we’ve tried to be apart. It almost killed us. I’ve loved him since before I met him...
  • Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 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...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  betrayal  contemporary  mystery  length-medium  m-f
  • Noah the Beast by Blue Saffire

    Noah the Beast by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I’m the giant that they should’ve left sleeping. Touch my family that’s a problem, touch my woman that’s your life. That woman has been my world since we were kids. I’m already missing a few screws, but I become unhinged when someone mentions Rebecca “Bean” Lockhart’s life. My beast is awake and someone is about to go to sleep. I’m the wrong Black to F@$k with. I’ve love Noah Black all my life...
  • Kelex: The A**hole Club Series by Blue Saffire, Fairy Proofmother Proofreading

    Kelex: The A**hole Club Series by Blue Saffire, Fairy Proofmother Proofreading

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Trigger Physical assault/abuse A**hole Club KelexAward winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Book 6 The A**hole Series Kelex I walked in on my father as he massacred a man. From that day I vowed never to be that monster. I’ve been avoiding the family business anyway I can. However, one night changes everything...
  • Hush 3 : Hidden Family by Blue Saffire, Take Cover Designs

    Hush 3 : Hidden Family by Blue Saffire, Take Cover Designs

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hush 3 Award-winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Hush 3: Hidden Family Michael I am the youngest of four but I have more responsibilities than most. I’m not complaining. I earned the role I have taken. I sought out my brother and asked him to bring me in. He did so reluctantly but I’ve become so much like him the world sees us as one.It has worked in our favor for years...
  • Emanuel's Heat by Tiffany Patterson

    Emanuel's Heat by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Janine I walked right into him outside my hotel room while on vacation. Somehow that turned into my spending the following three days in Cabo San Lucas with him. Emanuel, the firefighter and obvious heart breaker. But I don’t have time for love. Not anymore, after a recent break-up, career change, and relocating to a new city...
  • A Mafia Princess by Michelle Hardin

    A Mafia Princess by Michelle Hardin

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Carterina Anastacia Stone wakes up from the most terrifying experience of her life to find that her life has been totally flipped upside down. Nathan Salerno is her gorgeous fiancé she can't remember even meeting, and the mother she thought abandoned her, is demanding to be a part of her life. Lies. Secrets. The truth...
  • Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MouserShe only came into our lives on a whim because we outsmarted the woman who was trying to double cross us. While I hated Sakura at first her actions have proven she’s not only as loyal as they come, but has undeniable honor. Sakura used her connections and pull to save one of us, the most innocent of Reapers, Orion Monroe...
  • All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 in the Townsends of Texas Series.Lena I have one goal in mind: Write another album. The completion of my next album would grant me freedom from my record label. A label owned by my scheming, lying, and manipulative ex-fiancé. Too bad writer’s block has had a death hold over me for months...
  • Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling romantic mystery about a child protector hero from the USA Today bestselling author, Janie Crouch. Previously published as Texas Bodyguard: Brax.A baby in his care… A target on their backsA skilled security expert and bodyguard, Brax Patterson is ready for anything… except unexpected custody of his reckless half brother’s baby boy...
  • Zach: The Four Families by Cee Bowerman

    Zach: The Four Families by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    With the help of his friends in the Four Families, Zach Campana has been working hard to rectify his father and grandfather’s mistakes, but a decision made not long before his father’s sudden death could change Zach’s future and rip away everything he’s worked so hard to build. After watching the senior Campanas hurt everyone around them, Zach made a vow that he would never be like either of them...
  • Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A shocking death in the Sinatra family and a Gabrini is to blame. Mob boss Sal Gabrini and his uncle, boss of all bosses Mick Sinatra, find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly battle when Mick the Tick will stop at nothing to avenge what he views as cold-blooded murder. The Gabrinis stick together. The Sinatras stick together...
  • La Dolce Vita by Sienna Mynx

    La Dolce Vita by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Someone powerful will fall. Someone greedy will die. Someone guilty will lose it all. Destiny has sealed their fate as husband and wife, but nothing has changed the Don. No evil will ever come between him and Mirabella again. Or so he thinks. Don Giovanni Battaglia has sacrificed all he intends to for la famiglia...
  • Embers by Nicole Fanning

    Embers by Nicole Fanning

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the city of Chicago, power is a currency. In the right hands power can bring success, safety, and security. But in the wrong hands, it can mean danger, destruction...and almost always death. For nearly a century the Pace Family Mafia has held that power...
  • The World in Reverse by Latrivia S. Nelson

    The World in Reverse by Latrivia S. Nelson

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Italian heartthrob Nicola Agosto was Memphis’ most eligible bad boy seven years ago, but after falling in love with local college beauty queen, Ivy Winters, he settled down and started a beautiful family. Now as a father of four and a loving husband, he has ascended up the ranks of the Memphis Police Department and positioned himself as a dependable and trustworthy top cop...
  • Teddy Sinatra 1: Chains For Love by Mallory Monroe

    Teddy Sinatra 1: Chains For Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Pressure is the new normal for Teddy Sinatra. As the oldest son and heir-apparent to take over the Sinatra Crime Family, the underworld, his men, and his siblings all expect perfection from him. His father, the king of mob bosses Mick Sinatra, is very much still in the game and expects his son to be worthy to someday take his place...
  • Nolan by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Nolan by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Nolan Bishop has felt like an outsider in the Savage Kings MC ever since he gave up the nomad lifestyle to try and put down some roots. He’s a convicted felon, searching for his place in the world without screwing up his probation...
  • Mafia King by Rachel Van Dyken

    Mafia King by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in her Mafia Royals series…One of the first rules they give you when you're undercover—never fall for the enemy.I didn't just fall for the enemy.I became what I was supposed to hate.What's worse: I fell in love with one...
  • No Mercy : A West Side Story by M.J. Fields

    No Mercy : A West Side Story by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jersey Shore’s most villainous anti-hero is brought to his knees in this raw and gritty romantic standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author MJ Fields“They may see a villain, but I see a hero who was broken and will rise again.”Like a storm, Marcello Effisto tore through most of his life, wreaking havoc on those who opposed him … unapologetically...
  • Savage Roses by Sienne Vega

    Savage Roses by Sienne Vega

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I made her a promise I’ll destroy the world to keep…Revenge is the only thing that stands in my way.Then Delphine and I can finally be together.My father has no idea the hell he’s in for.I’ll savor the moment I get to play in his blood.But when he reveals what he’s really capable of,I realize I may have underestimated the devil...
  • Forbiddenly Yours by Anise Storm

    Forbiddenly Yours by Anise Storm

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NICOLEI've always been the perfect daughter, sister, and friend.After all, my father and brother are Titans. We’re high society, so I have an image to uphold. Costa Rica was supposed to be just a last summer hurrah before the new semester began.It ended up being the night when the good girl did something bad. A one-time indiscretion...
  • Atonement by S.W. Frank

    Atonement by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone must pay for their sins. Call it kismet, destiny, karma, fate or whatever the hell you like, payment will be exacted, the only question is at what cost? Atonement, Volume IV of the Alfonzo mob saga returns and in this edition, Alfonzo's choice not to kill a rat may eventually be his undoing...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  betrayal  contemporary  length-medium
  • Awakening by S.W. Frank

    Awakening by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AWAKENING: Alfonzo Volume V The Family Saga continues.... Drink and women can't erase the betrayal of one woman Alfonzo swore to love forever. It's only sharpened the blade of hurt.Sometimes the hardest battles to win are the internal wars...
  • Bad Behavior by Vivian Wood

    Bad Behavior by Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Vivian Wood Cynic. F*ck up. Outsider. That’s Jameson in a nutshell - not to mention drool-worthy, dreamy, and perfect fantasy object. He’s also my older brother’s best friend and business partner. I’ve had a thing for Jameson ever since I was old enough to have dirty dreams...
  • Love Above Law by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Love Above Law by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Agent Lex Taylor My assignment—take down human and drug trafficker Miguel Santino and rescue Leyna Martinez, the sister of an outlaw MC member. One look. That's all it took. My center of gravity shifted, and I knew; she was going to be mine. I take down criminals; the rats of society. I eat, sleep and breathe the law, but I'm willing to risk it all—my badge and my life to protect her...
  • Ryder's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Raven Scott, Isabella Starling

    Ryder's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Raven Scott, Isabella Starling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s hiding a dirty secret… and I’m going to use it to destroy her.RYDERNobody is as off-limits as her - Nicoletta Carlucci, my brother's wife to be.But Nicoletta doesn't want my brother. She wants me.Except she doesn’t know something - I’ve found out about her dirty little secret.Nicoletta isn’t who she says she is.She’s a filthy liar, and I’m going to expose her...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  mafia  contemporary  suspense
  • Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha Part 2 by Cali N. Tae

    Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha Part 2 by Cali N. Tae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    (Books should be read in order. None of the books in the series is a standalone.)Now that Andrusha and Jemila have fallen in love, the urgency to enact their plan of revenge has increased. Her father and Romeo have ramped up their efforts to find her and nothing will stop them from getting her under their control again...
  • Brizio DeLuca: Savage Bloodline Series by Keta Kendric

    Brizio DeLuca: Savage Bloodline Series by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I couldn’t leave well enough alone. My obsession with finding out what happened to my brother landed me in the hands of Brizio DeLuca. His offer to help me came with rules that set me on a path lined with torture, death, and destruction. I was minding my business and working on becoming a better man. And here she comes...
  • Bratva Billionaire by Flora Ferrari

    Bratva Billionaire by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Roman When I first met her she pretended not to want me, but I could see the truth in her eyes. Soaking wet from the rain, I vowed right there and then to track her down and make her mine. I wasn't expecting her to worm her way into my life through my dogs, the very next day, but Chloe Wilson is nothing but surprising. I should have expected nothing less from the woman of my dreams...
  • THE GOOD MISTRESS II: The Wedding: A BWWM Billionaire Romance by Amarie Avant, Avant Amarie

    THE GOOD MISTRESS II: The Wedding: A BWWM Billionaire Romance by Amarie Avant, Avant Amarie

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What would you do if you found your happily ever after, but the world was hellbent on keeping you from it? Somalian native, Mila Ali, endured two broken engagements. She never seemed to be destined for true love until billionaire Blake Baldwin came storming into her life...
  • Beyond the Badge: Rez by Jeanne St. James

    Beyond the Badge: Rez by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Sometimes an opportunity comes along that you just can’t resist… As a member of the Tri-State Federal Drug Task Force, Antonio Alvarez seizes the opportunity to go undercover with the Deadly Demons MC when it unexpectedly arises...
  • Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha Part 1 by Cali N. Tae

    Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha Part 1 by Cali N. Tae

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    (Books should be read in order. None of the books in the series are a standalone.)Jemila Giordano is kidnapped in retaliation for her father killing the head of the Russian Turgenev crime family. What Andrusha Turgenev doesn't realize is, for Jemila, the kidnapping is a rescue. She has hated her father her entire life and wants to exact her own revenge...
  • Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I want to ruin my fake husband.Right up until I sleep in his bed for the first time.I have to marry the man that killed my father.He’s Jayson Costa, mafia prince, obscenely wealthy, emotionally distant, and sinfully attractive.I don’t care how good that control freak looks in a Jayson’s everything I despise...
  • Romancing Tommy Gabrini by Mallory Monroe

    Romancing Tommy Gabrini by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    A romantic affair was the last thing Tommy Gabrini was looking for when he attended a dinner party at a friend’s house. He had broken up with his longtime girlfriend five months earlier and was contented to play the field for the rest of his life. But when a gorgeous, sleek, African queen in red walked across his path, he knew something dramatic was about to happen...
  • The Masseuse by Violette Dubrinsky

    The Masseuse by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Jezebel Carter agreed to a spa session to appease her sickly sister, she expects one thing and one thing only: to leave tension-free. It’s a spa, after all. Instead, she leaves with memories of a gorgeous man with talented fingers, who probably doesn't work at the spa and is a possible pervert. Ramsey Stone is no pervert...
  • On The Line by Kathryn Shay

    On The Line by Kathryn Shay

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kathryn Shay spent five years riding fire trucks with a large city fire department, eating in their firehouses and interviewing hundreds of America's Bravest. Read the novels that resulted from her intense relationship with firefighters!“Powerhouse author Shay follows up AFTER THE FIRE with another dramatic and dynamic thriller...
  • The Dragon by Violette Dubrinsky

    The Dragon by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BOOK 2 Sequel to The Masseuse Never tickle a sleeping dragon… Past events have changed Ramsey Stone. In place of the warm, loving masseuse now stands a ruthless man with one pressing goal: revenge. No matter the cost, Ramsey will have his vengeance. Jezebel Carter has come to the realization that the man she knew and loved doesn’t exist...
  • Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Simone Livingston wants desperately to start again. She and her husband Keith have both agreed that their marriage is worth saving. Despite the deep betrayal and lies she's suffered thanks to his infidelity. Their arrival in a small town run by the wealthy conniving Hollingsworths tests her faith in her husband and the sacred vows of her marriage...
  • Anarchy by S.W. Frank

    Anarchy by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Charismatic New York Mob Boss Alfonzo Has Returned with a Vengeance! A designer drug has exploded on the Miami club scene, but it's quickly spread to the east and west coasts to become a new drug of choice among rich college kids and suburbanites...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  betrayal  contemporary  length-short
  • Animus by S.W. Frank

    Animus by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shooting on the steps of cathedral in Palermo, on a day of celebration has left scars in the hearts and bodies of the Giacanti family. Alfonzo cannot forgive the cowards who struck at men when women and children were present. An enforcer goes hunting as the injured lay wounded in hospital beds. It is the vow of an aching heart, which one man recites in silence...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  betrayal  contemporary  length-medium
  • Finley's Claim by Atlas Rose, Raven Scott

    Finley's Claim by Atlas Rose, Raven Scott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call me the Cosa Nostra Prince. The first son of the most dangerous Salvatore Mafia family. We run the crime. We take the money. We control the war.So when our ‘launderer’ decides to run with one hundred million dollars of our money, you can bet we’ll hunt them down. Only they’ve run to a place they think they’re safe. A place that’s heavily guarded.An island in the middle of nowhere...
  • Burn Me by Shantel Tessier, Kaylee Ryan

    Burn Me by Shantel Tessier, Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirteen authors have joined forces to bring you their sizzling stories-some sweet, some five-alarm hot, but all for a good cause. Burn Me is an anthology to raise money for Hope For Heroes Foundation, which helps military, fire, police, and EMS personnel who've experienced life-altering disabilities while in the line of duty...
  • Caesar DeLuca by Sienne Vega

    Caesar DeLuca by Sienne Vega

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A steamy interracial mafia romance about a deadly capo and the beautiful stranger he can't resist. Betrayed and left to die, I’m bleeding out in the snow the first time I see Ariana Rowe. She takes me in at my darkest hour and nurses me back to health. No questions asked. I should be plotting my revenge against my enemies and those who turned on me...
  • Savage Hunter by Kristen Luciani

    Savage Hunter by Kristen Luciani

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m obsessed with the virgin mafia princess I was hired to protect.Lily and I were never supposed to meet.Our fates collided in the wrong place at the wrong time,And one hot night in Las Vegas bound us for life.I know I need to focus on her safety but I cannot resist the dark impulses that consume me whenever she’s near.My job is to protect her.My desire is to control her.To claim her.To own her...
  • Mafia Heir by L. Steele

    Mafia Heir by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mine to protect. Mine to take. She is MINE!Five brothersOne broken familyA past that will haunt them forever"If you dare leave me for another if you ever look at another man if you ever let anyone else touch you... I’ll not let him live, Beauty...
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