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  • Born Sinner by Cora Kenborn, Catherine Wiltcher

    Born Sinner by Cora Kenborn, Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My sins will be her penance. A Corrupt Gods prequel. I came to this college for one reason—her. A cartel princess. Mexican royalty. Sworn enemy of the Colombian ranks I’m destined to climb. I’m meant to hate her. Destroy her name and sacrifice her innocence. But Lola Carrera isn’t the delicate flower her family thinks she is. And I just took a match to her ivory tower. Obsession is a loaded gun…...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  virgin heroine  suspense  cliffhanger
  • 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...
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  • The Godfather’s Christmas Twins by Ajme Williams

    The Godfather’s Christmas Twins by Ajme Williams

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five years ago, I gave birth to his twins. Five years ago, I let another man claim them as his own. Five years ago, my father forced me to marry a mobster. And now these twins are calling their real father "Uncle Max. ". One night of sin with my godfather changed everything. Max Giraldi—seventeen years my senior, my brother's enforcer. By morning, he vanished...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  age difference  m-f  secret child  pregnancy
  • Defiant Devotion by Leona White

    Defiant Devotion by Leona White

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm paid to kill, not to care. One night with a mysterious woman in a small town haunted my dreams. Then I found her again – the lost Baranov princess. Carrying my child, running from demons I was hired to protect. She's thirteen years younger, innocent despite her darkness. The virgin sacrifice in a mafia war I never wanted to join. But now her enemies are mine to destroy...
  • Gunner by Rebecca Joyce

    Gunner by Rebecca Joyce

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah~. I am the only daughter of Beth and Mike Brewer (the town of Rosewood’s only coffee shop owners) and I have been in love with Cord ‘Gunner’ Montclair since my parents moved to Rosewood, Virginia. The problem? The beautiful man is eighteen years older than me and refuses to give me the time of day. To make matters worse, my father has openly threatened to kill Gunner if he even looks at me...
  • Arranged by Stella Gray

    Arranged by Stella Gray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On my eighteenth birthday my father, the senator, gives me the gift he thinks every little girl dreams of. The man of my dreams, and the wedding to match. Stefan Zoric is heir to an elite worldwide modeling agency. Practically a prince. My arrangement is simple, as far as sham marriages go...
  • Long Way Down by Lauren Gilley

    Long Way Down by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When she was six, a horrific crime against a family member determined the course of Melissa Dixon’s life. It eventually drove her away from her tiny, Mississippi home town, away from her family, and into a career in law enforcement. Living and working in NYC, she keeps the past locked away tight, memory relegated to rare nightmares...
  • Savage Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Savage Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hope Ford brings you a steamy cowboy romance about forbidden love and the lengths a cowboy will go to for the woman he loves. Amanda. I might be young and naïve, but I’m not stupid enough to fall in love with my family’s enemy. You know that old story about the Hatfields and McCoys? Well, in our case, we’re the McCoys and they’re the Bryants...
  • Dario DeLuca (Savage Bloodline) by Sade Rena, M.L. Preston

    Dario DeLuca (Savage Bloodline) by Sade Rena, M.L. Preston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The first lesson my father ever taught me was that power is the only currency, loyalty is the law, and always take what you want. When the Mayor of our city begs me to keep his precious daughter safe, I seize my chance to strengthen the DeLuca hold on the town. I’ll keep her safe, but it’ll come at a price. Mia Gordan, the sheltered heiress, must become my wife...
  • Crowned In Blood by Melissa Cummins

    Crowned In Blood by Melissa Cummins

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's determined to make me his. I'd prefer to shoot him instead. Catalina. Life has never been easy for me. Now, the mafia empire I ripped from my dead husband's hands has been destroyed from within. To survive, I must form new connections. But only one man has what I need: Marco. A man as ruthless as the husband I killed. A man as handsome and seductive as the devil. A man I can never trust...
  • 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 Bratva's Weakness by Cassi Hart

    The Bratva's Weakness by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    James. I‘ve inherited the family business –. Yeah, exactly, that kind. The kind you can’t just walk away from. So instead, I’m trying to make it legitimate. When I hop in the car of a complete stranger,. that’s when I realize how much I need to change. Because in order to keep Allie safe, in order to keep her mine,. I need to rewrite the rules. But other players in the game don’t agree...
  • Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enrico. She wasn’t supposed to be on my radar. Another woman who was caught up in the traffickers’ sights, but one look at January and I’d become as lost as Dario and Alessio before me. I had no choice but to hunt her down and make her mine, even if that meant doing some illegal things. Nothing new to me anyway. January. The brute...
  • Dangerous Obsession by Cassi Hart

    Dangerous Obsession by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Arya. Being a Bratva princess isn’t easy, and with an older brother as protective as mine calling the shots, I’m lucky he let me return home to Rosewood at all. I’ve spent most of my life attending boarding schools in Belgium, but now that I’m an adult, I want the freedom to decide where I live...
  • Driftwood Daffodil 3 by T.L. Hodel

    Driftwood Daffodil 3 by T.L. Hodel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    One night, one deal, and one bullet changed everything. My name is Novalee Ford and I'm the torn petals blowing in the breeze. My name is Giovanni Mancini and I'm the broken stem of a wilted flower. Together we are the daffodil that stands strong in the shadows.
  • Adore You (Love on the Clock) by Nichole Rose

    Adore You (Love on the Clock) by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chance meeting and a mechanical bull will unravel a former detective in the blink of an eye. Jason. Miranda Dawes is the sweetest little thing I've ever seen. I was obsessed with her the minute I met her…and then she disappeared without a trace. Imagine my surprise when I found her at work the next morning. And my horror when I realized something I said in the heat of the moment chased her away...
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    virgin heroine  age difference  humor  m-f
  • Corrupted Oath by Brook Wilder

    Corrupted Oath by Brook Wilder

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He destroyed my world when he corrupted me in his bed. By all means, I'm supposed to hate him. But somewhere along the line, the monster who stole me ended up stealing my heart. He promised me he would do anything to protect me. Anything to protect our baby growing in my belly. To keep me close. And never let me go...
  • 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...
  • Sold to the Russian Bratva Boss by Rosalie Rose, B. Rose

    Sold to the Russian Bratva Boss by Rosalie Rose, B. Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My father sold me to a Russian thug. But I'll never accept him as my husband. Even if my darkest fantasies include his body against mine. .. Olivia. Husband. Now, there’s a word I didn’t expect. But what was I meant to do? Disrespect my dead daddy? Be responsible for the collapse of his “empire”? F'ing Dimitri. The bastard might be my arranged “other half,”. But the role ends there...
  • Auctioned to the Kingpin by C.M. Steele

    Auctioned to the Kingpin by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The rotten piece of work I once called my father was dead, but he didn't go quietly. He found one last way to mess with my life. This time it was going to cost me the family legacy if I didn’t comply. The devil was in the details and in his grave. Marry or my enemy inherits everything. With his final demand came a special Christmas gift with a note. Son,...
  • 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...
  • Enemy Mafia Boss Daddy by Kira Cole

    Enemy Mafia Boss Daddy by Kira Cole

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Our marriage was supposed to avert a war. But making a husband out of my enemy has turned out to be harder than I thought…. Damien Russo is fifteen years older than me, ten times as broody,. and stubborn to a fault. He also happens to be the new leader of the Russo Mafia and my reluctant husband-to-be. As far as arranged marriages go, this is not a bad deal...
  • Terror of Tuscany by Lena Little

    Terror of Tuscany by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    They say I’m the Terror of Tuscany, and that’s exactly what I’m going to be if anything goes sideways with this shipment that I’m expecting next Tuesday. The name’s Gio, and people call me a lot of things, but unprepared definitely isn’t one of them. But that’s absolutely what I am for the first time in my life when I come face to face with my new stepsister...
  • Where Dark Hearts Devour by Victoria Holliday

    Where Dark Hearts Devour by Victoria Holliday

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I know only one way to acknowledge the anniversary of my mama’s death – by drinking away the memories in a back street bar. But there’s nothing like waking up to the news I’m to marry the don of New York’s biggest mafia family to induce the hangover from hell. My husband-to-be is unhinged and terrifying, but marrying him is the only way to save our family...
  • Cillian by Kate Randall

    Cillian by Kate Randall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I never imagined that an alluring thief would turn my carefully constructed world upside down. Or that I would like it. Nova. I’m no thief with a heart of gold. I steal from the rich and give to myself to make ends meet. One day I’ll have enough to get the hell out of New Orleans to start fresh, away from the memories of everything I’ve lost...
  • Emerald by J.A. Low

    Emerald by J.A. Low

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was left for dead. Now she’s back for revenge. Elena gave her heart to the wrong man, and he repaid her with a bullet to the back. Now, she’s a ghost with a mission to rescue the women stolen by the Bratva and burn the empire to the ground. To pull it off, she needs help, but the last person she wants it from is the cocky, sun-kissed beach bum with a hero complex...
  • Hostile Bond by Autumn Archer, Hostile Kingdom

    Hostile Bond by Autumn Archer, Hostile Kingdom

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Full blurb coming soon! Hostile Bond is the final book in André and Sinéad’s Souza Cartel duet by USA Today bestselling author Autumn Archer.
  • The Bratva’s Secret Baby by Deva Blake

    The Bratva’s Secret Baby by Deva Blake

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m forced to marry my ruthless Bratva ex. How long until he finds out that my child is his heir? After his rejection, I took my baby far away from the city and got a job as a librarian. I loved my innocent life, but now I’m forced to enter a marriage pact…. With the Bratva daddy who once turned me down. I see him everyday in my child’s blue eyes. But I refuse to live in the past...
  • Torn by Honor by Stephanie Amaral

    Torn by Honor by Stephanie Amaral

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Francesca. While men made war, women were expected to keep the peace. I had loved a man before. I swore that would never happen again. So marrying for the sake of the family wasn’t the worst thing. That’s what I thought. I was a mafia princess afterall and serving as a trading item was my only role in this world ruled by men...
  • Farmer Finds a Bride by Cassi Hart

    Farmer Finds a Bride by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Melissa My dad hasn’t been the same since my mom left us several years ago. He’s obsessed with gaining political power, going so far as to promise my hand in marriage to one of his important campaign donors. My groom is a scumbag, but I can’t get my dad to see my side at all. He won’t even let me apply to college so I can follow my dreams...
  • Grumpy Suits: An Office Romance Collection by Cassie Mint

    Grumpy Suits: An Office Romance Collection by Cassie Mint

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re stern and bossy. Rich and powerful. They rule the city…. And these girls will bring them to their knees. This collection brings three steamy office romances, where the grumpy bosses fall HARD. Settle in for…. Silver Fox. He’s older and wiser. A king in a three-piece suit. And there’s a secret side to him that only I see. Sweet Tooth. I’m an ambitious lawyer. She’s a cake pop delivery girl...
  • When Worlds Collide by Jordan Silver

    When Worlds Collide by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He was the son of an old family, a family not only of wealth but a great history going back hundreds of years. As such his future had been mapped out at birth. He knew his duty and had never given it much thought. Until his years in the marines showed him a different world. Still, he was more than happy to follow the status quo, until he met her...
  • Butcher of Belfast by Lena Little

    Butcher of Belfast by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m damn good at what I do, but what I do is pretty damn bad. I came to America to build my empire. Watch it flourish. Used the people beneath me as stepping stones to reach my goals. Then Brianna Declan walked into my life, and untangled every scheme I had. She was a hurricane that set the winds of change in motion, and I got swept away in her almighty power. But she’s had a bad hand delt to her...
  • Snow Many Promises: A Snowed Inn Romance by Elle Christensen

    Snow Many Promises: A Snowed Inn Romance by Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Colin Ferguson agrees to a fake marriage as a favor to his dying friend, he expects to put a ring on her finger before they go their separate ways. Then he meets Cara O'Malley and he decides their marriage would be anything but temporary. Snow Many Promises includes additional chapters and two new epilogues from when it was published in the Snowed Inn anthology.
  • The Bratva's Revenge Bride by Rina Lawson

    The Bratva's Revenge Bride by Rina Lawson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m forced to marry the enemy. How long before he’ll claim my innocence? As the daughter of the Italian don, I hate the Varkov Bratva. But the only way to get revenge for my family is to marry the much older Bratva boss. He’s cruel and cold. And I hate how my body reacts to him…. Vlad Varkov is our greatest enemy; our families detest each other...
  • Possessive Undercover Cop by Flora Ferrari

    Possessive Undercover Cop by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The minute I see her, I want her. I know she’s destined to be mine. Nick O’Connor lives in the shadows and under an alias. As part of an elite group tackling some of the most vicious criminals in the Russian underworld, he has no time for women. But then he meets Jenna, an intriguing mix of innocence and self-sufficiency. Suddenly he has only one goal in mind. To claim her as his. Heart and soul...
  • Mr. Judge by Flora Ferrari

    Mr. Judge by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    a steamy standalone instalove romance (a man who knows what he wants book 285).
  • Bratva Boss's Babysitter: An Instalove Possessive Male Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Bratva Boss's Babysitter: An Instalove Possessive Male Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Erik Godunov is a man to be feared. Six foot seven and built like a dominating bear, with steel colored hair and eyes that pierce, I should be terrified of him. He’s a Bratva boss, a man used to getting what he wants. And what he needs from me is to be a nanny for his ten year old niece, Kat. She’s an orphan after her mother died, and I relate to that, big time...
  • Working Hard by Loni Ree

    Working Hard by Loni Ree

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brendan. Falling hard for the mob boss’ niece isn’t conducive to a long life but my heart didn’t get the memo. One look at the curvy little spitfire dancing around my living room, and I know my life will never be the same. When Hunter Cannon smiles at me, my heart is hers for the taking. Now, I just have to find away to keep her overprotective uncle from killing me while I woo my soulmate. Hunter...
  • The Boss's Possession by Sam Crescent

    The Boss's Possession by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carson always gets what he wants. His days of living on the streets, begging for food and money, are over. He rose up to become … the Boss. The king. This city is his and no one takes anything from him. The moment he meets sweet Willow Kaye, Carson knows he has to have her. He wants to possess her and will do everything in his power to do exactly that. There is only one problem, her grandmother...
  • Australian Obsession by Flora Ferrari

    Australian Obsession by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My brother’s best friend is an inked bad boy from Australia…and I’m completely obsessed. I decide to escape the cold of the Northern Hemisphere’s brutal winter to get closer to the older man of my dreams...
  • Like It Rough by Sam Crescent

    Like It Rough by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    On her wedding day, Chloe discovers the man she thought she was marrying was not Roman Smith, but Roman Sidorov, a member of the Zaitsev Bratva. The people responsible for killing her parents and her brother. Even though she hates him for lying to her, Chloe can't deny that she loves him. They're married now. There's no turning back. Roman was sent to kill her...
  • Ecstasy Captured by C.M. Steele

    Ecstasy Captured by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Candy tasted like sugar-coated sin laced in ecstasy. One look was all I needed to know that one night would never satisfy the obsession coursing through my veins. She could run all she wanted, but I’d find my sweet Candy and when I did, she’d pay for leaving. I crossed a line with a man I didn’t even know, giving him more than I took and leaving with more than I bargained for...
  • Cruel Offer by Stella Gray

    Cruel Offer by Stella Gray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ll make her the most desired woman in NY…but that means letting her go. The Agency was always going to choose Piper-Lily’s husband. Her father’s name opened doors, but he needed the money a good match could bring. Turns out, no amount of money was going to fix the Ponzi scheme he was running. Overnight, Piper-Lily went from my most anticipated client to persona non grata...
  • Baby for the Bratva by Bella King

    Baby for the Bratva by Bella King

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yuri was supposed to be my secret lover,. My night of passion deep in the Caribbean Sea,. Rocking the entire cruise ship with our forbidden desire. I wasn’t supposed to fall for his piercing blue eyes,. His abs that rolled like waves in the ocean,. Or the way he commanded my body like he was the captain of my ship. Now, I’m pregnant with his baby,...
  • Betrothed to the Badman by Hayley Faiman

    Betrothed to the Badman by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Devyn O’Neil, princess of the Irish Mob, was raised to know her place. Marrying a man of her father’s choosing has always been her fate. Yet, she never imagined that one day she’d play the part of a pawn between men on the verge of war. She never dreamed she’d be betrothed to a Russian badman. Timofei Vetrov, son of New York’s Bratva king, grew up to be a bad boy prince...
  • Baby For The Mafia by Lena Little

    Baby For The Mafia by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Possessive, vengeful, psycho…even a murderer. I’ve been called a lot of things, but jealous was never one of them…until now. Until her. This feisty young woman needs discipline, and I’m just the one to give it to her. She’s got a gift of her own…one that I have to have for myself. Me and only me for the first time…for forever. But she’s also got a secret, one she’s not telling me...
  • Claimed and Bred by the Bratva by Jailaa West

    Claimed and Bred by the Bratva by Jailaa West

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    He’s twice my age, built for war, and obsessed with putting his baby in me. I should run—but all I want is more. One look at her, and I lose twenty years of discipline. Amani is light—young, untouched, and completely unaware that her laugh just hooked a Bratva boss. I watch her. Protect her. Obsess over her. And when desire becomes unbearable? I take her. Surround her in luxury...
  • Texting the Mafia Prince by Flora Ferrari

    Texting the Mafia Prince by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    People say the mafia prince is a bad man, but he’s the only one who can save me…I’m being blackmailed. When I see the tall, handsome, older Luca Marino at the gym, I take a chance. I sneak him my cellphone number, praying he’ll call or text so I can beg for help. He agrees, but it comes with a steamy price. I’m not used to this sort of intensity...
  • Mine: Bloody Business Prequel by A.J. Wolf

    Mine: Bloody Business Prequel by A.J. Wolf

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **Bloody Business Prequel**. Mafia Family | Arranged Marriage | Enemies to Lovers. A burning sneer, a snide remark, and a stolen kiss. Three distinct memories among a million others that stain my childhood with Remy Luciano. Sour gummy worms and a nickname. Two more memories and everything I loved to hate started blurring at the edges. A wedding dress made for another...
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