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  • Flirt With Me by Kristen Proby

    Flirt With Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes an all new novel in her beloved With Me In Seattle Series!There are two things Maeve O’Callaghan values more than anything else: her family and her career...
  • Hadley by Addison Jane

    Hadley by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    People change, it's a fact of life. Hadley found that out the hard way after her husband came home one day with darkness in his eyes that she'd never seen before. Realizing that she couldn't allow him to drag her into the shadows, she watched him walk away, thinking she’d be free to move on with her life. But now she was on the run, seeking safety from a man she once vowed to love forever...
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  • My Best Friend's Wish: Work Husband Series by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    My Best Friend's Wish: Work Husband Series 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...
  • Time to Bounce by Lani Lynn Vale

    Time to Bounce by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Loneliness is overwhelming in its intensity. There are times you think you can cope, that you can make it despite the hollow feeling in your chest. Then there are the times when you realize you can’t breathe through the pain of loss. When Gable Buchanan Carter walks into Athena’s life, it’s like a light is switched on inside her chest. Suddenly she can breathe...
  • 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...
  • A Mafia Princess by Michelle Hardin

    A Mafia Princess by Michelle Hardin

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • The Sin Trilogy Bundle by Georgia Cates

    The Sin Trilogy Bundle by Georgia Cates

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    The Sin Trilogy is now available in a single volume. A NECESSARY SIN: I’ve watched him from afar for years. And he has no idea. I take joy in that. Through my observations, I’ve learned what makes this charming villain tick. Whisky. Power. Beautiful women. And Sex. Lots of it. Sometimes you must get into bed with the enemy for the greater good...
  • Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    He was the bad boy I fell for in college. Now he’s a sexy single dad and Charleston’s most successful venture capitalist. Dominant and decisive, Ford Montgomery is used to getting what he wants. And he just set his sights on me... Ford Montgomery was my first everything. First love. First guy I slept with. First heartbreak when he dumped me without explanation...
  • 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...
  • Second Breath: A steamy, opposites attract romance by Danika Bloom

    Second Breath: A steamy, opposites attract romance by Danika Bloom

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Dylan Rhodes. Up-and-coming lawyer. Media darling.And an unapologetic player who treats women like tea bags—gets them wet, then tosses them out. Everything about this man warns me not to trust him. Tells me to kick his breath-taking body to the curb. Get him out of my study.But I need the data for my college thesis. And he’s the perfect man to prove that the dating mind-tricks I’m testing, work...
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past...
  • Cold Secrets by Toni Anderson

    Cold Secrets by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When an international ring of sex traffickers kidnaps an eight-year-old girl in Boston, FBI Agent Lucas Randall heads undercover. But his rescue operation goes disastrously wrong and Lucas barely escapes with his life. Now the ruthless traffickers are hunting him down, along with everyone else who threatens their operation...
  • Angelique by Sergeanne Golon

    Angelique by Sergeanne Golon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The story begins in 1648 during a time of insurrection, terror and revolt in a divided France. Angélique de Sance de Monteloup, a vibrant twelve-year-old tomboy, is the daughter of a simple nobleman impoverished by taxes and other burdens...
  • Thunder by Susan Fanetti

    Thunder by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Thorin “Thunder” Vaduva is a journeyman MMA fighter—toiling in the shadows, a set of strong shoulders to lift other fighters toward stardom. After years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he’s trying to get his life on track—be a good father to his teenage son, get his fights in, do his work, keep his head down, keep his demons at bay.Nina Rodriguez is trying to get her life started...
  • Fostering Hope by Amanda Perry

    Fostering Hope by Amanda Perry

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Bouncing around from one foster home to the next is nothing new for Parker. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, she's ready to be free of the system and be on her own. But when a social worker places her in a new home, Parker will discover what it means to be part of a family who will do everything in their power to keep her safe...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    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...
  • Love & Heartbreak by Sage Young

    Love & Heartbreak by Sage Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I don’t hate my enemies because that can affect my judgment. I respect them because they now have my attention."Power, Money, and Blood. Christos Laskaris didn’t choose his life; it was his birthright as the son of one of the most powerful mafia bosses in the country. The shadow of his father’s legacy forced Christos to rule without mercy to prove himself worthy of being the heir to the throne...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Captured by the Mob by C.M. Steele

    Captured by the Mob by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nero: As the Underboss and enforcer for the Bianchi Family, I've got my hands full. When dealing with my enemies, I'm quick, efficient, and I never slip up. That's until one beauty accidentally gets in the way, seeing more than she should. I can't let her go, and I can't end her, so I do the only thing I can...I take her captive. Mariana: I thought my day couldn't get any worse...
  • The Fight Within by Tiana Laveen

    The Fight Within by Tiana Laveen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sean Mahoney is unapologetic about the way he sees the world and how he expresses such beliefs with a cutting, rough delivery. In his domain, things are black and white, good or bad, right or wrong, with a healthy dose of good cheer...
  • Unruly Protector : A Hero Club Novel by Esther E. Schmidt

    Unruly Protector : A Hero Club Novel by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An arranged marriage.A moment washed in blood.A heart fueled by vengeance.It all consumes the life of one Unruly Protector.Clemente accepted an arranged marriage as part of a deal to keep his sister safe. Though, he never expected the woman he was now connected with for life creating a weakness he never saw coming...
  • Finley's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Atlas Rose, Raven Scott

    Finley's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance 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...
  • 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...
  • Bound For You by Amarie Avant

    Bound For You by Amarie Avant

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    I was taken by the monster in my nightmares . . . AVABroken hearts carry dark secrets, and I'm determined to put mine to rest. On a cold night, when I attempt to take my life, I'm stolen away. Abducted by a man whose sins should've condemned him to hell. Who sets my heart on fire with fear and desire. I don't need a happily ever after, or to be captivated by his intoxicating, ruthless ways...
  • Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Holding Her in Madness by Kimber S. Dawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leo's Story of loving A Woman Gone Mad Fuck first love. Fuck fate. And Fuck You. I'm Leo and this is my side of the story. This is where I came from, where I've been, and where I'm at...this is the story of a man that loved A Woman Gone Mad...
  • Marco DeLuca: Savage Bloodline by Cassie Verano

    Marco DeLuca: Savage Bloodline by Cassie Verano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His loyalty to the family is unparalleled. However, when someone murders the woman he’s pledged his life to, Marco will get revenge, sanctioned or unsanctioned. Setting off on a deadly trail of retribution to avenge her murder and cleanse his own guilty conscious causes him to cross paths with someone from his past...
  • Bratva Blood Brothers: Yakov by Cali N. Tae

    Bratva Blood Brothers: Yakov by Cali N. Tae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously released as Bratva Blood Brothers: The Turgenev FamilyYakov and Freddie have found and lost love so quickly...
  • Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha and Jemila Forever After by Cali N. Tae

    Bratva Blood Brothers: Andrusha and Jemila Forever After by Cali N. Tae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    (Books should be read in order. None of the books in the series is a standalone.)Andrusha and Jemila are engaged. They’re ready to start a life together, but they find that the road to forever after isn't paved as smoothly as they thought. The line between good and bad becomes thinner as the plot for revenge heightens and betrayals come to light...
  • King of Ice by Asia Monét

    King of Ice by Asia Monét

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Javier I was once told the best revenge is usually taken in silence.After a brutal attack on my family that left my father dead and our cartel vulnerable, retribution has been the only thing on my mind. For months, we’ve laid in wait, meticulously planning for the storm to rage over our enemies.When a moment of opportunity arises to set our plan in motion, I don’t hesitate to take it...
  • Fade In by M. Mabie

    Fade In by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Tatum Elliot is a successful writer on a hit television show, lives in an Upper East Side apartment and loves her life. She wouldn’t change a thing. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a choice. She's losing her sight...
  • Scorch by Abbi Glines

    Scorch by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A world of racing horses, wealth, power, and organized crime was what Garrett Hughes had been born to lead. He thrived as the boss of the southern mafia. Women had come and gone in his life, but he had never needed any of them. Once he was given his heirs, he no longer cared about marriage. He had one family, The Family. He didn’t need anything more...
  • Your Love Is King by Adrienne Thompson

    Your Love Is King by Adrienne Thompson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Plus sized divorced nurse and single mom, Marli Meadows, is tired of the monotonous rhythm of an unfulfilled life. She is seemingly stuck in a perpetual cycle of low self-esteem and bad decisions...
  • Impossible Odds by Jill Ramsower

    Impossible Odds by Jill Ramsower

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was a vision of power and privilege.Ruthless arrogance personified.A total stranger and an irresistible challenge.I approached him in a busy casino and felt the sting of his brutal rejection. Then I did something incredibly brazen. Impulsive. Reckless.I stole from him.The object was inconsequential, only worth a handful of dollars.I didn’t do it for the money; it was about making a statement...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  mafia  suspense  contemporary  m-f
  • Fractured Vows by Jessica Ames

    Fractured Vows by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sariah4 weeks, 28 days, 672 hours—that’s all I have left until my fate is sealed.I am promised to a monster. A man twice my age. He plans to keep me like a pretty doll, making me move to whatever whims he has.Trapped, all my choices are taken away apart from one.A handsome stranger. He tells me his name is Lucas and for one night I'm able to leave my cursed future behind...
  • Irresistible by Nichole Rose

    Irresistible by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Diego's Story.Before they fell head-over-heels, the Valentino brothers ruled Chicago with iron wills and closed fists. Now, the men in their inner circle are taking the reins and taking the plunge into their own deliciously wicked happily-ever-afters. The streets of Chicago will run red as these bad boys set out to tame the curvy women fate has in store for them...
  • Walk the Line by J. Kenner

    Walk the Line by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elena is too young for me, not to mention she's my boss's daughter and my babysitter. That's beyond complicated. And I'm not even looking for a relationship- but I can't deny the attraction that sizzles between us. I need to ignore it. A single dad, all I want is to take care of my little girl, do my job, and enjoy my friends. Anything more is asking for complications I can't afford...
  • Until Death by C.D. Samuda

    Until Death by C.D. Samuda

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BlazeI'm set in my ways. I run my business the I way have always done, without outside influence or input. I don't usually care about the consequences of my actions, that is ... until I met her. She is fierce, sassy, and a mother who protects her children like a lioness protecting her cubs. I have never wanted children until I see what an amazing mother she is...
  • A Linton Scandal by Ivy Harper

    A Linton Scandal by Ivy Harper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the glittering world of wealth and indulgence, billionaire Mihai Linton crosses paths with Juliette Roux, a talented chocolatier with a heart as sweet as her creations. A single night together ignites a passion neither can forget. Two months later, Juliette discovers a life-changing secret—she's pregnant...
  • Deceptive Knight by Sienna Snow

    Deceptive Knight by Sienna Snow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am a liar, a deceiver, a devil in the dark.I will hunt you, steal your secrets, and use them against you.You will never see me coming.Then I met my match.She cut out my heart, left me bleeding, without a backward glance.But, she made one mistake...she stepped back into my world, trying to run from her past.She's mine, and she will soon learn there is no escape when fate says she belongs to me...
  • Ruthless Vows by Elizabeth Knox

    Ruthless Vows by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He chose me, and now I have no way out of this. Anastasia I ran from my old life, wanting to leave the Hawthorne name along with it. For the first time in my life, I was living in peace.Only, my peace was short-lived. I was running out of cash and I couldn't call daddy dearest. If I did, he'd know where I was.So, a friend hooked me up with an interview at a wife for hire agency...
  • Rhapsody by Cecilia London

    Rhapsody by Cecilia London

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I'm never going to stop loving you, Caroline. It's just not possible."Major Caroline Gerard returns from a dangerous mission battered and bruised. Terrified to confront the emotional and physical gap between her and her husband, she's determined to do whatever it takes to avoid reality. Commander Jack McIntyre has been tasked with saving American democracy, but he has to save his marriage first...
  • Unhinged by Bianca Cole

    Unhinged by Bianca Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madness is his forte, and I'm entrapped in his chaotic world. My life was good. I was about to start my senior year at brown, so I took a last-minute getaway with my best friends to Mexico. That is, until we're snatched on vacation and thrown into a nightmare we could never have imagined. Nothing could've prepared us for the darkness that awaited us...
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