"Being with him fulfilled my unscrupulous desires, after all forbidden fruit always tastes so much sweeter." Persephone Maddox is all the things she despises: Sweet, shy, non-confrontational and to put it shortly a person unable to fight their way out of a paper bag. Why would she need to be able to anyway? She was winsome and rich, born with twenty four karats around her ring finger and protected every second of the day. But the second she steps out of her cushy bubble consisting of daddy's money, weekends at the country club and marrying into generational wealth, she bares witness to something no outsider lives to tell stories about. She wished for danger and excitement, and a man who wasn't afraid to trample all over the rules and piss off his father. Then she was stolen away, and kept in the dark palace of Chicago's underworld of organised crime by none other than the Capo of the Chicago Famiglia himself: Don Luciano Armani. He offers to give her the world, make her the ruler of a world she was never supposed to survive in. But she didn't want him. She wanted the untameable Beast she'd met on a cold winter night, who'd hand fed her the pomegranate that would trap her in the underworld forever. BOOK II OF THE SERPENTS AND SAVIOURS MAFIA CHRONICLES (can be read as a stand-alone)

"He is my drug, addiction, rehab and the only antidote to cure this irrevocable sickness running through my veins" She'd always had a one track mind: Find the perfect husband. It shouldn't have been hard, she was everything a made man wanted. She was the daughter of the Capo, docile and polite, undisputedly beautiful and the girl every man wanted. Even from the early ages of her youth she had been tagged as elite wife material. Aurora Cremonesi was a name that was everywhere. The whispered words of the mythological legend her beauty created were echoed from every corner of the underworld. The untouchable Mafia Principessa was a modern day Psyche. There was only one man in the Underworld who didn't want her, or to know anything of this abstract belle. Vincenzo Salvatore. The most infamous playboy on the East Coast and heir to The New York Borgata. He had acquired her hand through the need to protect his syndicate and that's all the beloved Cremonesi girl would be to him: a business deal. It was done. The year Aurora would turn eighteen she would wed Vincenzo and become his wife. But when the four years of waiting are up and Vincenzo returns for his Principessa she is gone. Replace by a woman with hateful, serpentine eyes and a heart so cold you'd freeze to death before getting the chance to thaw it. He hadn't spared her a glance all those years ago but now, The Evil Queen he'd take home with him piqued his interest. He wanted her. She hated him. So he'd sworn to break her. To delve into her past and find out why she hated him, why the Princess turned to the dark side and she vowed to kill him. Slowly. To make everyday they shared a bed the nightmare of his life. But in a world dominated by men, what would become of a Queen who'd lost her King? BOOK I OF SERPENTS AND SAVIOURS MAFIA CHRONICLES (can be read as a stand-alone)