Bound by A Gangsta's Love Series by Miss J.

Eighteen-year-old Makani Hughes is young, intelligent, beautiful, and living a very carefree life. So much so that she lets her carefree life get in the way of her studies, causing her to be expelled from school. Enter Reed Cook: a man sixteen years her senior. He promised to take care of her, but six years and two kids—who don’t belong to Makani—later, all those promises are gone out the window... moreEighteen-year-old Makani Hughes is young, intelligent, beautiful, and living a very carefree life. So much so that she lets her carefree life get in the way of her studies, causing her to be expelled from school. Enter Reed Cook: a man sixteen years her senior. He promised to take care of her, but six years and two kids—who don’t belong to Makani—later, all those promises are gone out the window. Being bound to her company, Skintastic, and taking care of her stepchildren, Makani starts looking for ways to get out of her emotionally and verbally abusive relationship with Reed. Makani gets the chance and confidence to leave her relationship once she meets the dark and mysterious Gio Mancini.A former kingpin, Horace ‘Gio’ Mancini has gone from running the streets of New York to running legit businesses in California. Gio has been in an open marriage with his wife, Piper, for a decade, allowing him to quench his dark desires of women obeying his every command as he’s being called Master Gio. Entry into Gio’s lifestyle wasn’t for the easy, weak, or the vanilla, but from the first time he laid eyes on the very naïve Makani, he knew she had to be his. less

Just when Makani gets the strength to leave Reed and everything tied to him behind, her whole world comes crashing down around her. It’s over her dead body that he will allow her to leave, and he’s determined to send her to the grave before he allows her to love another. Surviving a near fatal accident, Makani refuses to let the chaos win. She does her best to salvage the pieces that remain and move on from Reed, diving head-first into Gio’s world... moreJust when Makani gets the strength to leave Reed and everything tied to him behind, her whole world comes crashing down around her. It’s over her dead body that he will allow her to leave, and he’s determined to send her to the grave before he allows her to love another. Surviving a near fatal accident, Makani refuses to let the chaos win. She does her best to salvage the pieces that remain and move on from Reed, diving head-first into Gio’s world. He’s awakened a fire in her, and there’s no way she can go back to the life she knew before, but will she be forced to go back when Gio’s deepest, darkest secrets are revealed?Standing on the porch of a woman who he claimed he only wanted to spend a few days with, Gio realizes that, like Makani, he cares more than he wants to admit. Gio knows that in order to have Makani in his world, he has to reveal that he’s married with no plans to divorce his wife—that is, until he finds out his wife, Piper, has no plans of changing her ways, and that her newest flame will die trying to see Gio pay for the crimes he committed when he was younger. Because Gio still loves her and wants the best for her, he presents her with an ultimatum that she shouldn’t resist.Still reeling from Gio’s ultimatum, Piper finds herself questioning everything in her life, including the life she once thought was so secure with the man she loves. Knowing Gio isn’t a man who believes second chances, she’s prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth before she lets another woman lay claim to his heart. Still a slave to her newest addiction, Piper doesn’t realize she’s been pillow-talking with the enemy until it’s too late. Will Piper choose a new life, or will she die trying to reveal to the world who her husband truly is? less