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I always thought my worst holiday was the year my ex dumped me in front of the Christmas tree. Turns out, that was adorable compared to this one. I’m supposed to meet my fiancé’s family. Supposed to smile, be charming, and prove I belong in his world. Instead, my car dies on the side of the highway. Enter the grump in the grease-stained T-shirt. The grump is broad-shouldered and built like he wrestles engines… and wins. His old truck smells like motor oil and pine cones. He is everything my fiancé isn’t. Quiet, solid, maddeningly capable. I know I should keep my distance. I’m ...

I saved a dying mobster—and he made me disappear. Julia Romano is an ER nurse who follows rules, says her prayers, and keeps her head down… Until a gunshot victim is wheeled into Trauma One—brutally handsome, heavily tattooed, and watching her like he already owns her. His “cousins” lie. A detective leans over her shoulder. And with one keystroke—JOHN DOE—Julia turns Dante Vitale into a ghost. By morning, his bed is empty. His chart is scrubbed. And Julia’s name is stamped all over a crime she can’t undo. Then the man she saved comes for her. Dante doesn’t offer ...

One night. One meeting. Mafia vs Bratva. One chance to end a war that has bled our families for a generation. Then I see him across the warehouse floor. Dario Ravello. The Rossini family’s most lethal enforcer. His eyes promise violence. His stare is a warning. I should look away. I don't. When gunfire erupts, he’s the one who slams me against a concrete pillar—a wall of muscle and heat shielding me from the bullets. He smells like gunpowder and something expensive I shouldn't want. Our families make a deal to stop the bloodshed. I'm the collateral. The Volkov princess traded to the ...

The night bullets tore through my family’s diner, I didn’t just become a witness. I became the reason men with guns started watching me. I saw my coworker die on black-and-white tile. I felt the broken glass fall like rain. I smelled the coffee turn metallic with blood. And then Gianni Vescovi—my dangerous late-night regular with expensive cologne and a smile that never reaches his eyes—dragged me out the back and stole me into the dark. I tell myself it’s temporary. That I’ll go to the police. That truth still matters. But Gianni doesn’t keep me like a hostage. He keeps me ...

She was trained to keep secrets. He hired her to bury his. Dr. Alessandra Mancuso is a Midtown psychiatrist with a spotless reputation, a family in Little Italy, and a strict rule: patients don’t get under her skin. Then Emilio Rizzo walks into her office—scarred, magnetic, and built like trouble—and asks for help sleeping with the things he’s done. She should refer him out. She should call for consultation. She should stop seeing him. Instead, she becomes the one person he trusts… while she’s also treating Detective Ethan Ward—the cop hunting Emilio’s boss. One recorded ...

I was just supposed to sit and smile at my father’s poker game. Instead, I became the bet he couldn’t cover. I’m Elise Gabiano—daughter of a gambling addict, and the prize Sylvio Barone collects. He’s my father’s age. Ruthless. A king. He takes me to his penthouse and lays it out: locks, boundaries. Except—I’m not here to break. I’m here to negotiate. I want to see. I want to learn. I want everything. He says yes… and then he makes sure I do too. I learn the game—how to wear the crown, how to turn jealousy into strategy, how to make every door open for me. I wasn’t ...

One week in paradise was supposed to be pure sunshine. An escape from engagement worries. Zero drama. Then the silver fox at the tiki bar makes himself known. His eyes say trouble. His smile says trust me. I join him for a swim at the private beach—the water is warm, but his hands are warmer. The next day, a seaplane skids onto the lagoon. My BFF Gabi Carrera bolts down the dock, designer tote swinging—“Dad!” she gasps. Turns out the fox who made me moan against a coral pillar is Rafael Carrera, owner of the entire island. And he’s decided I’m the only treasure worth keeping. ...

Violence made us a couple. Christmas might be the thing that breaks us. Adrian is the gun in Nikki Rivera’s hand—the ex-Army sniper who turned his dishonorable discharge into a full-time job keeping our queer empire alive. I’m the ghost in her machines—the hacker she dragged out of a torture chair and turned into a weapon with a laptop instead of a rifle. Together, we keep the worst monsters away from Liquid, the nightclub that doubles as sanctuary for every queer kid New York chews up. This winter, the monsters change shape. A rescued teen whispers about a “Christmas run.” My ...

Nic Salermo doesn’t do Christmas. He does collections, quiet threats, and making problems disappear for the Vitale family. When the Don orders him into a cheap Santa suit to hold court at a neighborhood bar on Christmas Eve, Nic treats it like any other cover—eyes on the exits, gun under the red coat, a sack at his boots stuffed with cash instead of toys. Then Lucia Vitale walks in wearing a red dress and a dangerous smile. To everyone else, she’s the Don’s well-behaved daughter, too sweet and too smart to know what really pays for her charities and penthouse view. Lucia is done ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 7 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...

My father buried his “son” fifteen years ago. On paper, Nico Navarro died in a house fire in Bay Ridge. In reality, I walked out with a duffel bag, a stolen dress, and a new name: Nikki. Since then I’ve turned every ugly lesson he ever taught me into a weapon of my own—nine clinics, seven safe apartments, one underground bunker, and a nightclub called Liquid that glows like a heartbeat over the West Side. Out here, queer kids call me a saint and a monster in the same breath. I don’t care which one sticks, as long as they live long enough to argue about it. Rivera is the only man ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 5 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...

Mateo Vega is drowning—in debt, in loneliness, in a dead-end IT job where being gay is just another liability. When he’s kidnapped by a rival crew, all hope seems lost. Enter Adrian Cross. All hard muscle and lethal precision. The more danger Mateo faces, the closer Adrian gets. Now Mateo is part of the crew. Adrian’s partner. Maybe more. There’s a war brewing on the streets of New York. And together, they’re about to light the fuse. Can they survive the heat—and each other? A gritty, high-heat LGBTQ+ mafia romance packed with explosive action, forced proximity, found family, ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 4 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I was walking into the heart of the Valenti mafia. I didn’t know the man behind the name was a billionaire crime boss who ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 9 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...

She went undercover to ruin him. He made her want to burn the badge instead. Detective Valentina Caruso is supposed to be untouchable—clean record, good Italian girl, Organized Crime’s newest rising star. Her job is simple: slip into Inferno, get close to Alessio Vitale, and hand the DA a case that finally sticks. Alessio is everything she was trained to arrest—controlled violence in a tailored suit, a king in a neon-lit kingdom, and far too smart to trust a pretty stranger in a too-short dress. He watches her like he already knows her secrets… and touches her like he’s claiming ...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 8 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...

She took the case to save her career. The mafia took her to keep her alive. Sofia Bellomo is a defense attorney, not a pawn—and definitely not the kind of woman who gets claimed by a notorious New York crime boss. But when Renzo Vescovi puts her on retainer, the rules change overnight: guarded doors, encrypted phones, controlled exits… and the unsettling realization that the men around him don’t just protect him. They protect what’s his. Dominic, the brutal shadow who moves first and asks questions never. Gideon, the polished fixer who knows every pressure point in court—and every...

He owns the city’s darkness. Now he wants to own me. No contracts. No promises. Just his. There’s no getting out once I’m in. I should run. I don’t. Maybe it’s the money. Maybe it’s the way he looks at me like I already said yes. Now I’m under his protection. Under his control. His new toy. His favorite sin. And he’s rough on his toys. Episode 3 of a multi-part dark romance serial filled with obsession, possession, power games, and slow-burn sexual tension. Welcome to a brutal world of power, seduction, and survival. When I took a sketchy delivery job, I didn’t realize I ...