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  Burn With Me , (Gods of Hazelwood: Icarus ) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Aurora Summers is nothing but baggage. Beautiful, dangerous, off limits baggage. The plan was simple: Destroy the girl. Ruin her life. Make her and her mother leave. Only … she’s not as easy a target as I thought she’d be. She’s nothing but a pawn, a tool for my father to use against her mother. But pawns don’t fight back the way she does. They don’t violate my sanity the way she does. She put herself in the mouth of the beast. I wanted her out of the way, but now … I can’t let her go. *This is a Dark, College, Mafia, Stepbrother, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Romance. Icarus retelling/inspired story* Burn with me is the first book in a duet. Well it's supposed to be a duet but we all know Lucy and these characters could decide otherwise. Either way, this is book one. So first things first. If you have read any of Lucy's more recent books then you already know that Lucy's character...

  Blade of Iris, (Mafia Wars) K.A. Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies. The Volkov’s are the nightmares they warned me of as a child, the ones they spoke of in the dark in hushed tones. Traitors, killers, the boogeymen themselves sent to scare children like me. Children of their enemies. A Kelly. A family that they have been at war with since before I was born, and now? Now I am to marry into the Bratva Pigs. To become their blushing bride. My fathers plan, theirs as well. A marriage to create peace. To unite the families and end the bloodshed once and for all. We are a symbol of hope, of the future, of harmony. I have other ideas. I’m going to make these Vegas Kings fall. I’m going to kill the Volkov’s and serve their hearts up on a platter for my father. They won’t see it coming… The Blade of Iris will be their end. Even if it starts the Mafia Wars. *Blade of Iris is a full-length reverse harem novel in the dark and twisted Mafia Wars wo...

  Forget-Me-Not Bombshell, (Mafia Wars) Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: A dark Mafia STANDALONE romance from Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti I was sold to my enemies. The Butchers of the London mob who run an empire built on sin and greed. The stories I’ve heard about the way they rule their underworld are enough to make my heart race. But those rumours have nothing on the truth. Danny, Church, Frank. The three men who own me now. The head of this so-called kingdom and the two savages who enforce his wrath. They made a peace deal with my family which came at a cost – me. A mafia princess gifted to them as a bride. So here I am in my white dress with a gun to my head and a knife in my garter. I won’t become their plaything. I won’t become their prize. The war between our families might have ended with this union, but I’m starting a battle of my own. And I’ll trade my body ...

  Make Me Beg, (Rich Demons of Darkwood) C.R. Jane & May Dawson ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: The monsters almost made me love them. And now I’m paying the price. But so are they. Stellan, Cain, Remington, Paxton and I are locked together in a war that I refuse to lose. They’ve taken my freedom, my money, my reputation…but they can’t take my soul. They keep forgetting I was forged in fire by a demon. Monsters don’t scare me. They think I’m trapped in their mansion with them. They think every time I seek their mouths, their hands, it means something. They think they can break me with their punishments…and their pleasures. But I’m only playing their game to win our war. One by one, I’ll find their secrets, however bloody they are, and make them think I’m saving them…only to use those dark secrets against them. Death. Bloodshed. Betrayal…and now Sex. That’s all my life will ever be. Now it’s time to welcome these men into my nightmares. These monsters think they’re t...

  Wilted Orchid, (Mafia Wars) Loxley Savage ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies… The rivalry between the Italians of the Outfit and the Cosa Nostra has been ongoing for decades. So imagine my terror when I find myself, the daughter of the Cosa Nostra's boss, at the bitter end of a raw deal with the heirs of the Outfit. Now I’m a casualty of a so-called ‘peace treaty,’ forced into the calloused, blood-stained hands of the Moretti brothers. Salvatore, Armani, and Fausto. The handsome faces of the Outfit bosses don’t hide the monsters that lurk beneath. They claim I’m theirs, that my life was forfeited to them in a pact sealed with my dead father’s blood. But they’re not the only ones who want to own me. When someone from my past lurks in the dark corners of my new existence, things turn from bad to worse. My cries for help are lost, buried among the chaos of the Moretti's dark world. My life was never mine. And now, if I don’t figure a way out of this,...

  Ruining Dahlia, (Mafia Wars) C.R. Jane ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies. And not just my enemies. I was sold to monsters. I should know all about how to survive monsters though, I come from a family of them. We aren't Butchers in name only, and surely the Rossi family can’t be as bad as the devil that’s been destroying me since I was eight years old. New York City, the powerful head of the Cosa Nostra, is my new home. Where Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi now think they own me. The thing they don't realize is that I'm more than what I seem. A dahlia has always bloomed best in the light, and even though everything about this place and these men is shrouded in darkness, I’m determined to thrive…to win. They play a game for keeps, a game where the only rule is that there are no rules. They want to ruin me. But what disturbs me most is that I just might like it. It’s me against them, and only time will tell If I'll be the winner or be ...

  Gunmetal Lily, (Mafia Wars) Rebecca Royce ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies. There was a deal made to keep the peace. War wasn’t good for business. But deals were broken all the time. What did these powerful families have as collateral? Their daughters. A decade earlier, they decided that we were expendable, that we could be sold in marriage to keep their dealings honest. I didn’t matter more than the security I could bring to the marketplace. I was twelve when they decided that, in ten years, I’d belong to the Hernandez family. Everyone knew what was coming for me. Everyone…except me. I have no choices. The daughter of mobsters, I now belong to the Mexican Cartel. But even the terrible images those words evoke are nothing compared to what is coming for me. My new family will discover I am more than just a pawn in their chess game. I'm named after a flower, but I don't wilt. I am determined to come out ahead in their Mafia Wars. *Gunmetal Lily is a...

  Binding Rose, (Mafia Wars) Ivy Fox ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies. You would think that being forced into a loveless marriage to ensure an alliance would be unheard of in this day and age. And in most cases, you would be correct in that assumption. But not for me. A cartel princess has no vote on who she can or cannot marry—much less love. Any decision in my life was forfeited just by being born into the most powerful Mexican cartel there is. Still, it does sting that I’m to be hand-delivered to the Irish mob and marry into the Kelly family, who my own brother has coined to be nothing more than bloodthirsty savages. They’re animals, Rosa. Filthy, unscrupulous, vicious animals. Those were his exact words, yet he still followed our father’s orders to walk me down the aisle, making sure I didn’t run from my obligation. As if that was even an option. All my choices were stolen away from me the minute I became another pawn to be used and abused at the...