In a city that never sleeps. In the midst of bright lights and bustling nightlife, there is danger that lurks within the shadows, hiding in the deepest and darkest parts of the cityscape. No one is safe, and there is nowhere to hide for when evil prevails, it strikes without delay. It's the perfect place to witness your first murder. Or murders. Adriana Bennet is a 23 year old college graduate who moves to the Big Apple for a new beginning. After a long night shift of waiting tables, she finds herself witnessing a double murder. Running was never an option. They are everywhere, monitoring her every move for the past nine years. She soon learns that there is no escaping her unfortunate fate when she is kidnapped and held captive by one of the most notorious gangsters in Italy. There is a thin line between love and hate, but that line begins to blur when she realizes that there may be more to these affairs than she is led to believe. As she is forced to enter a world of lies and imperilment, now Adriana has to face the people who committed these crimes awhile living in a paradox of her own, struggling to maintain her sanity and remain alive.

I dreamed of him again last night. He came to me in his riveting form, dressed in the liturgical signature black attire. His dark hair slicked back, accentuating the alluring frame of his chiseled jaw, with the figure of a sculpted deity, just as I'd remembered him. His invigorating smile was seducing me, taunting me, reigniting the sparks that had been scuffled by the lingering absence of his affinity. His daunting eyes consumed me, staring, burning with the intensity of a thousand flames. His beguiling features were enticing, drawing me in, and I was falling deeper, further into his arms until he was drifting and faded away in the shadows. Mornings after were imbued with feverish yearning that waned throughout the day, leaving me to a dreadful emptiness, a void that failed to dissipate during the two years apart. It had been the longest winter without him. All Adriana wanted was to be free. But it came with a cost, one that she hadn't expected to so deeply regret. The very life that she had once tremendously despised was now what she craved the most. But things are different after being away, for she is no longer the helpless, vulnerable girl taken nearly two years ago by the man who now holds her heart on a thread. The man who made a promise. A promise that he couldn't keep. She remembers everything from the moment she was rescued from the claws of one evil to the nightmarish events that transpired in the hands of another. As her dark past collides with the present and her love for the ruthless Mob Boss is put to a test, Adriana has to confront the demons that were responsible for her ruin and make an irreversible decision that will seal her ultimate fate. This is the second book to Il Paradosso Mafia Series. #1 omerta #2 crimefiction

The story of the Lucchese family is a tale as old as time. Cast out of their village in Palermo, Sicily, this mafioso clan has secrets that have been buried for years after breaking the rigorous rules of Cosa Nostra. For Niccolo Montanari, former Lucchese, life as the brother and underboss to the notorious leader of their criminal organization and mafia tycoon, has been one for the books. Heinous and unmerciful, he is the one to fear the most. The scars he conveys tell the treacherous stories of a hitman and the traditional curse that has him bound to his brother's hierarchy. With an empire threatened to be destroyed by their enemies and a past very close to exposure that may bring to the surface what lies beneath, the only thing holding this family together is pending catastrophe. Niccolo has a plan. It requires a marriage with the damaged principessa and daughter of the barbarous leader of the Calabrian 'Ndrangeta. But is the proclaimed psycho of the family capable of showing human sentiment, or will this union fail, sending their domain to its pulverizing debacle?