"Still hate me, princess?" Vivi's back hit the elevator wall. "Deeply." Dane smiled against her mouth. "Liar." "You're arrogant." "Correct." "Crude." "Usually." "Insufferable." His hand slid to her jaw, thumb pressing under her chin until she had nowhere to look but him. "And you still opened your mouth for me." Her breath caught. Dane leaned in, smoke and mint and expensive cologne all over him. "Careful, George," he murmured. "You keep pretending this is hate, I'm gonna start believing you." --- Vittoria Camille George has spent her whole life being impossible to embarrass twice. Howard. Harvard Law. Upper East Side apartment. Perfect coffee before work. Perfect hair. Perfect answers. The kind of Black excellence people praise because they do not see the pressure it took to survive it. Then her fiancé kisses his blonde coworker at their engagement party, and Vivi learns that heartbreak is one thing. Public humiliation is another. Now she is back in New York, working for Morrow House Legal, rebuilding her reputation one immaculate court filing at a time. She has no patience for distractions, especially Dane Calder. Dane is defense counsel at Blackletter Litigation. Tall, brilliant, filthy-mouthed, cigarette-smoking, and too good at making Vivi forget she is supposed to despise him. He argues like he was born with a verdict in his pocket, dresses like trouble with a retainer, and looks at her like all that polish is something he wants to ruin with his hands. Vivi thinks Dane is arrogant, invasive, and allergic to decency. Dane thinks Vivi is spoiled, sharp, sweet as sin, and lying through her teeth every time she says she wants him gone. Between rival firms, family pressure, old wounds, and a case neither can afford to lose, Vivi and Dane become the kind of mistake that starts with hate.

Everyone knows the name 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱. A ruthless new don. A ghost in the underworld. A man who took over a kingdom built on blood and fear. But they're wrong. The 𝘮𝘢𝘯 they were searching for was a woman all along. 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞 is the woman hiding behind the most dangerous name in the mafia, and she'll do whatever it takes to protect the empire she stole from a corrupt leader who deserved to die, it just so happened to be her father. No one knows who she really is. No one knows the face behind the name. And no one knows that the most reputable real estate agent they underestimate is the same person every mafia family is trying to destroy. Until 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐚 is her biggest rival in the business world. The heir to an allied mafia family. The man she was promised to before she even knew the deal existed. He thought he knew Alex. He was wrong. Now, bound by a marriage neither of them wanted, they must survive enemies closing in from every direction. But when rejections and petty sabotages turn into undeniable tension, the biggest threat might not be the people hunting them. It might be falling for the one person who knows exactly who the other is.