Paris Hernandez-Ricci At twenty-five years old, Paris Hernandez-Ricci has spent the last three years rebuilding the life that was ripped away from her. A runaway mafia queen and single mother to three-year-old twins, Paris fled after walking in on the man she loved in bed with another woman. Heartbroken, pregnant, and completely alone, she disappeared without looking back, determined to give her children the peaceful life she never had. Now, she's built a career she loves, a home filled with laughter, and a family to her that's missing one thing. Then fate intervenes. One unexpected meeting forces Paris to come face-to-face with the husband she hasn't seen in 5 years-the man who shattered her heart and never stopped looking for her. --- Gabriele Ricci At twenty-nine, Gabriele Ricci is one of the most feared mafia dons in the world. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. But he wasn't always that man. Five years ago, Gabe married the woman who became the center of his universe. Paris was everything he never knew he needed-strong, stubborn, endlessly compassionate, with honey-brown skin kissed by rich melanin and mesmerizing green eyes he could have stared into forever. Then one night, everything fell apart. Drugged by his obsessive ex-girlfriend and framed to make it appear he'd betrayed his wife, Gabe woke up to an empty house and a goodbye he never had the chance to explain. For three years, he's searched relentlessly for the woman he loves more than life. He never stopped hoping she'd come home. --- Five years. One misunderstanding. Two children. When fate brings Paris and Gabe back together, neither of them is prepared for what follows. Paris is forced to confront the man she believes destroyed their marriage. Gabe discovers that the woman he's spent years searching for didn't leave alone-she left carrying his children. Now circumstances have brought them back together? What's gonna happen? welp read and find the fuck out!

---▪︎ A Wattpad featured story ▪︎--- Twelve years ago, an incident changed my life. I was sent to London by my father with a new identity; all alone, away from my family and home, away from everything that was me. With a new persona as Jennifer Ryson, I rose from the ashes and became a force to be reckoned, a name to be remembered, the richest businesswoman in London. Alas, past is like a haunting spirit who follows you until you face it square in the eye. Twelve years later, that's exactly what I'm forced to do. Unravel a mystery that changed my life. The only problem? The key to find out what exactly happened that night is by taking the help of my nemesis who I'd rather butcher in his sleep. Lykas freaking Vitallis. My business rival, my sister's to-be fiance and a connection to my past I do not want to acknowledge. But beggars can't be choosers afterall.

"The Hacker and the Mob Boss" ❦ Reyna Fields seems to be an ordinary girl with her thick-framed glasses, baggy clothes, hair always up in a ponytail, and her head tucked away behind a computer screen. However, no one knows she's armed with a genius IQ and a heart of gold. She hacks her way into virtual systems on a search for her mother. Unfortunately for her, she has hacked into the wrong database. She hacked into the database of the notorious mob boss, Santino "Saint" Venturi. Saint is the opposite of his name. He's known for his ruthlessness. As a mob boss to a mafia, he learned to eat or be eaten. When Reyna stumbles upon his database, a plan dispersed into his mind. He's going to take her. ❦ "I don't share, angel." "He's a friend," she found herself saying. Dante was too busy staring at her to notice the fiery glare in Saint's eyes. She was mentally praying that Dante would just look away. His fingers trailed up her leg before his hand latched onto her sex. He held her there while a small gasp left her lips. "I will fuck you on this table if he doesn't stop looking at what belongs to me." ❦ READ BOOK 2 -> The Kingmaker HIGHEST RANKING: #5 romance - 6/26/22 Dark Romance Cover by @-simplyhan

𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 Aphrodite Jupiter DeVonti. The head of the Russian Mafia, she stands alone during it all. From day one she only had herself, built from the ground there stands the leader of the most powerful Mafia in the world. After being abandoned by her family at the age of six, she was set off into the streets. Aphrodite wished and prayed she'll be rescued from the depth of life, but the prayers were never answered. She soon gave up on the people she once trusted and stopped putting trust in anyone. There upon ten years, she's brutal and emotionless. Silence, that's what she works with, not a single emotion nor sound has ever come out of her. On her toes, all of the time, looking for treason in the midsts of every individual. Everyone wishes to know who's the face of the infamous, in-allied, Mafia in the world. Well, they'd never predict it to be the exact person that they rejected, once upon a time. Her protection, her safety before all. Right? Well yes, until the Italians got attacked year's ago and immediately had to call one of the members of theirs to help them with her get away. Bombs, ruckus, blood. Every day, every hour, every minute, something else was going on. They acted on impulse and sent her away to a boarding school. Though Aphrodite never told anyone this, she has various scars from her fragile body being tormented for three months before being booted onto the streets. Nobody knows her voice, nobody has yet to gain the once unbroken. She watched kids enjoy the time with their parents from the outside of the streets, she wanted that yet never got to experience it. It was jealousy that coursed through the veins of mistake. Though, treachery soothed into the skin. The year's forward after the betrayal she was caught in a small police chase. Not knowing what would hold because of that, she follow the authorities back to the station.

She always went to the same café. The same order of a blueberry muffin with a cup of cold brew and condensed milk. She was that girl who held it together and seemed savvy. He never liked interactions much less dating. He was a CEO of the largest company in America during the day, but a ruthless Mafia Don by night. He's a complex, intimidating mystery. Then they met. [First book I've ever written so there may be some plot holes or errors] Romantics Series #1 ❥

25 years ago the Brazilian mafia had a daughter who was claimed to be dead But was she ever really dead? Dimitri Petrov never had a real family his mother ran out on them causing his father to spiral Erina on the other hand never had a family to start with she bounced around in the foster system The two fixed each other But will they stay together?

Aurora and Kaden Ferrari have only ever had each other, ever since they were sold at the age of 5 to be put into foster care. They have always known about their family and who they are...but after what they did, they can never look at them again. What happens when they reunite with their family 12 years later and are made to live with them? Will their family know what they have been through?

Scarlett Liksis (Lik-sis), 23, had lived her life from a drug addictive mother, an abandoning father, a sister who acted just like their mother, and a brother who made himself scarce from his family, and gets the full attention of a devilish good looking emerald eye god. Scarlett is the one and a million girls who people should fear, for the quiet ones are the ones who are more dangerous. Ryder Quantum, 28, is the successful heir to the strongest mafia gang in the United States. He's feared by all and makes his statement loud and clear. Heartbroken and falling into an abyss of hell, he's making sure it doesn't go that way ever again. But enter the beautiful brunette with an hourglass body that he could not get himself over, and all hell breaks loose inside of him. As much as Scarlett would just love to lay low and live life freely, the threat of her brother comes haunting her with the abandoning father demanding for her to be part of his family again Scarlett's life gets twisted even more when Ryder decides to be the center of her attention.

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘂𝘀, 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀." Her whole life Aurora was alone, those who were once considered her family left. She always belived in love, but never belived to be worth being loved, and that's what happens when everyone tells you the same thing over and over again, it's hard to belive otherwise. The Marino's have been searching for their principessa for 14 years, they never gave up and always belived that one day they would see her again. To everyone they were cold and heartless, but that's what happen when the only light of their lives is taken way. What happens when Aurora is forced to live with her father, step mom, six brothers and a step sister? Will they find out each other secrets? Will the past catches up with them and bring unintended consequences? --------------------------------------------------------------------- This book contain topics that might be triggering, please read the disclaimer at the first chapter. This was my first book ever hence it is the way it is. But I hope you enjoy it :)