Italian Crime

She's the temptation he can't resist Gina Leonardi is seventeen and romantic. She wants to be an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, but it’s next to impossible—her family is in the Mafia. She desperately fights for her rights, mutinying against the world where men treat women like accessories. He's everything she hates Renzo Castellano is twenty-nine. He's a true Cosa Nostra. He has no room for sentiments in his life because business always comes first for him. Taking care of a rebellious teenage girl is the last thing he wants. A chance encounter shatters their worlds because it’s ...

I was hired to protect Fiamma Luciana. But who’s going to protect her from me? Winter Haven may be draped in Christmas lights, but there’s nothing festive about this job. Fiamma—the don’s reckless, untouchable cousin—is wild, defiant, and everything I’m forbidden to have. Yet every time she’s near, she sets my blood on fire. This isn’t just a job—it’s a death trap. Marco Vitale plans to use her as a pawn to dismantle the Lucianas, and I’m the only one standing in his way. I should be focused, cold, unbreakable. Instead, my loyalty and desire are at war. One wrong move,...

She's pregnant with my baby, now she's on the run. Nicolette was supposed to be a one night stand. She's the daughter of my brother's sworn enemy. But a few nights in a fancy hotel room changes everything. I heard Nicolette left town, running from the man that knocked her up. Except I'm the only man she's been with. If she's going to be the mother of my child, she belongs to me. I don't care how long I have to hunt her or what it takes to keep her. Nicolette Calvino will be mine. Savage Prince is the fourth book in The Valenti Crime Family series, featuring a morally grey anti-hero that ...

Mistake #1: Stealing from a mob boss. Mistake #2: Getting pregnant with his baby. Mistake #3: Keeping that baby a secret. It’s been years since I crossed Domenic Caputo. He spared me, warning me never to return. But revenge is something I can’t resist… just like I can’t resist him. Domenic Caputo is a gorgeous, powerful mafioso. But there’s no way I’ll let him control me. Except in the bedroom. The one place I allowed myself to be utterly dominated. The night we shared left me with a precious secret. One that has his eyes. Now he hires me to track down a dangerous team of ...

Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

Amelia is the most beautiful mafia princess of them all. What she doesn’t want to be is just another broken mafia wife. She came to me for help to escape her fate. I’m the only one the Famiglia doesn’t even think about messing with. I am Mauro Fieri and no one dares to challenge me. Only Amelia never got that memo. Now she’s my new obsession. I have lots of ideas for dealing with this sassy beauty. And I will do whatever it takes to keep her. I’ll give her the whole wide world. However, there will be a price to pay. This runaway mafia bride will find no escape from me.

Tutto quello che desidera Taylor, una giovane insegnante annoiata da giornate sempre uguali e senza sorprese, è trascorrere una vacanza esclusiva nella soleggiata Cape Cod insieme al fratello Jude, con in testa un unico pensiero: l'abbronzatura. Certo, non può immaginare che a pochi minuti dal suo arrivo nella villa da sogno che ha affittato (e che, nota bene, le è costata anni di faticosi risparmi) incapperà in un cadavere con un proiettile conficcato in fronte. Dopotutto, forse, la vacanza di Taylor non è rovinata come sembra. Anzi, chissà?

She’s the enemy’s daughter, but I’ll burn the world to make her mine. When you’re born into a powerful Mafia family, you learn that control is everything. And love? It’s just another weakness. But then she walked into my life: Carlotta D’Amici. Fierce and sassy, wrapped in the kind of curves that could bring a man to his knees. I saved her once, and now she’s mine. She just doesn’t know it yet. Our families have been at war for decades, so getting close to her is dangerous. But her eyes hold a secret that keeps me coming back for more. Tangled up in a world she can’t ...

The men, mostly virgins, gather in the darkest corners online, drawn together by a common bond: self-hatred. They hate the way they look. They hate their disastrous sex lives. They hate alpha males. There is only one thing they hate more: women. Women are the root of all their problems. Women are inferior and deserve to be punished for rejecting them. Even before they first hear about her, Eva Santella, independent, beautiful, confident, represents everything they despise. So they get together online and feed on each other's rage and disappointment and frustration. And there, in their ...

ONE NIGHT. It was only supposed to be one night... How did it turn into so much more? Emma Waterhouse doesn't have time for guys. College classes and fun with her roommates are more than enough to keep her busy. But when her roommates drag her out for a night of drinking and dancing, she's ready to let loose for one night and break all her own rules. Lorenzo Romano is the hottest guy Emma has ever seen and he seems to only have eyes for her. Is he too good to be true? What can one night hurt? One night of hot, mind-blowing action with Lorenzo will be enough, right? Things take a turn when ...

Dicembre 1964. Scipione Macchiavelli, giovane funzionario di Pubblica sicurezza, viene trasferito dal commissariato romano «Via Veneto» a Noto, in Sicilia. Ad accoglierlo, oltre a un ambiente per lui quantomeno inusuale, c'è un'indagine assai piú complessa di quelle a cui era abituato. Nella capitale ha avuto a che fare con casi non troppo impegnativi; appena arrivato nell'estremo Sud della penisola gli tocca occuparsi della misteriosa scomparsa di un notabile del luogo.

A guided tour of Boston's underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were killed, and bodies were buried.

Hot Mr. Scrooge is my neighbor. Hope The man loathes Christmas. What person doesn’t warm up to the best holiday of the year? The cabin I purchased mentioned it needed light work, not a gut renovation. Looks nothing like the picture. The brooding beast next door said he’d help spruce up the place if it will get me to leave him alone. Deal. Because who wants to be around the Grinch longer than they have to? Even if he’s tall. Has a gorgeous face you can stare at all day. And a body you’d love to mount on your sleigh repeatedly. Then I wondered could I help Mr. Non-Christmas ...

My family’s empire is crumbling as the feds close in. And the woman I can’t let go of might be our greatest betrayal. I'm caught in a web of lies and betrayal. Every move I make could be my last. Trust is a luxury I can't afford. But the truth? The truth might destroy us all. There's a rat in our family. The feds are closing in. And a secret that could change everything. I have to choose: Loyalty to my blood, Or a chance at redemption. The clock is ticking. The stakes have never been higher. And I'm running out of time. Who will survive when the dust settles? Only one way to find out.

Sofia Felix Valenti is a smooth criminal. He owns this city and everyone bows like he’s a god among made men. Until the day his bride makes her escape. I’m the one who helped her do it. And now, all his ruthless focus is on me. I will pay a heavy price for this betrayal. I though I was prepared for the worst of the worst. Only there’s an unexpected twist I never saw coming. He wants me as his bride. Will I escape his twisted plots or will Felix break me, body and soul? Felix I’ve always longed for Sofia. An impossible dream. My arranged marriage and her painful past stood between us...

Will he avenge his family or acknowledge the woman he loves is no longer his enemy? Fifteen years ago, the mafia murdered my family. I’m Connor Barrett - the most powerful man in NYC. I fund politicians, sleep with beautiful women and my enemies don’t know I exist. Yet. I’ve been single-minded in my revenge until a woman with sinful curves pours a drink down the front of my Armani tux. When I learn her surname and discover she is a mafia princess, I have a decision to make. Use her or toss her. But I’m not keeping her. When I agree to become her fake fiancé to get close to her ...

Quando riceve una telefonata dalla sua ex compagna di università Gabby, che la invita a trascorrere il Natale nella sua casa sul lago in una sperduta località della Scozia, Sasha sa che sarebbe meglio non accettare. Dodici anni prima, mentre festeggiava la Vigilia di Natale con le cinque persone a lei più care, era accaduto un fatto orribile che aveva cambiato per sempre la loro amicizia. E da allora Sasha non ne ha più parlato con nessuno.

Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods. She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend, Enrico - and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him something that would have changed everything. A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and died, to sell his family home.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Stealing from a Mafia Don could cost me my life. The Heart of Italy: rumored to be crafted by the Gods, split in two and lost in time. Rafaele, a ruthless Mafia Don, possesses one-half, While learning his enemy, Fiero possesses the other. Now we’re tasked to steal it from him. But father, with a sleight of hand, snatched Rafaele’s first. This cost him his life. Now, to stay alive, I must finish the job by infiltrating Fiero’s world. He’s a kingpin as lethal as a viper, tatted with piercing hazel eyes, And a charm potent enough to relieve any woman of her heart and panties. I vowed ...