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Like a Mobster by T-misha
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Sun in the South |• Southern Skies Series by T-misha
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Yvonne Beltrán built her life from scratch: a celebrated television presenter with a sharp investigative reputation, a prime-time slot at a respected New Mexico newsroom, a quiet countryside home, financial freedom. Then a con artist dismantles it all, leaving her publicly disgraced and cornered at thirty. Out of options, Yvonne turns toward the one force in New Mexico that still bends rules and opens doors: power. Seducing Esteban Vásquez -- the elegant, elusive, obscenely wealthy mayor -- looks like leverage. It isn't. What Esteban calls politics survives on blood that never makes the news. Beneath the luxury and charm is a man embedded in the state's quietest, deadliest criminal empire. According to Yvonne, marriage to power so clean seems like the fastest way back to the life she lost; until Yvonne learns too late that it doesn't protect her. It implicates her. It was meant to be temporary. Strategic. But life beside Esteban changes the math. Ruthless and impossible to escape, he is also the first man who has made her feel chosen rather than used. Having already lost one wife to betrayal, Esteban refuses to lose another. Yvonne's mistake, however, is believing she still holds the advantage. So when a source comes to her seeking protection from powerful men who wash their hands with blood, she takes the story -- believing she can still control how far the truth travels -- only to realize why it was never meant to make the news. She isn't investigating power from the outside. She married the center of it. And in Esteban's world, loyalty is non-negotiable. Now Yvonne must decide who she's willing to betray: her husband, ruthless in power but devastatingly gentle in love; her source, facing prison for a crime he didn't commit; or herself. Because time is closing in. And when the reality of that finally dawns, there will be no clean exits, only consequences for staying when she still could have left.
Made a Mobster {Slow Update} by T-misha
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Made a Mobster|| Book 0.5 of the Chicago Mobsters Series Before he ruled territory, Renzo Santoro had nothing to rule. No inheritance. No protection. No future promised to him. Only a devoted mother, a sharp mind with empty pockets, and an eye for opportunity most people missed. It started small. Petty products moving hand to hand, favors traded instead of cash. Renzo didn't chase money; he studied flow. He learned where pressure cracked, who could be trusted, and which risks paid back twice. Money came after. Fast. Dirty. Addictive. Then power followed--heavier than he expected--demanding loyalty, blood, and silence. Women wanted proximity. Men wanted deals. Most decisions he made carried weight, most mistakes came with a cut... or a body count. This is the story we were never told: how Renzo fought for power in a world that didn't reward desperation. How he survived greed without becoming sloppy, desire without ending up in an unmarked grave, and pressure after years of being crushed beneath it. How he learned that fear was louder than love; and far more useful. From college hallways to street corners, from small deals to city-wide influence, Renzo Stefano Santoro didn't rise because he was ruthless. He rose because he was the brightest of the bunch, and had learned control. By the time Chicago learned his name, the things that once threatened to elude him--money, women, power--were his to command. The mobster Alessandra Benedetti would one day love with every fiber of her being wasn't born. He was made.
Ink & Bruises by T-misha
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Spencer Flynn has spent years keeping her past sealed. She doesn't speak of it or revisit it. A supermarket cashier, her life is small by design, shaped by quiet routines and minimal interaction, with nothing forcing her to remember what she escaped. Everything changes when Celine Moreau, a high-level PR executive, offers Spencer a job that doesn't match her comfort zone, but the chance to try feels like a step toward reclaiming what's left of her life. She accepts and does not prepare for the chaos of her first day. For Spencer, tattoos mean healing, so she finally gets that Medusa one she's always wanted, unaware it belongs to someone powerful. Mino Corsetti. Owner of one of the most successful luxury car companies in the U.S., he nearly loses his mind when he discovers a stranger wearing what he considers his personal design. Spencer meets his fury with attitude, only to be left shocked when he sits across from her in a boardroom the next day as her boss's biggest client. Bracing for termination, she is instead assigned a major project for one reason alone: Mino recognizes the meaning of her tattoo and becomes fixated on uncovering her kind of darkness, and why they mirror each other's damage so well. Where Mino thrives on control, dominance, and pain, Spencer finds grounding in surrender and in receiving pain that gives her a sense of agency she has never had. Their connection feels natural, even comforting at first. But trauma bonding has always been the most dangerous form of love. Fascination twists into a dangerous fetish. Desire deepens into dependency. Healing rips open old wounds, leaving them both addicted to the dark intensity they share. Soon, every choice, touch, and altered boundary pushes them closer to a place where pain and desire are indistinguishable, where the consequences could scar them psychologically, physically, even fatally. And that line between desire and death... may just be exactly where they have always been headed.
Power and Perfidy |• House of Perfidy Series by T-misha
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Power: The illusion of control. Perfidy: A deliberate act of betrayal *** Five years ago, Santiago Vides broke every rule to protect a woman who never asked to be saved. He walked into hell and came out wearing a stolen crown. Now he owns the operation. The money flows. The Brotherhood calls his name. And Tatiana sleeps in his bed. It should be enough. But empires built on blood and betrayal rarely stay quiet. When Vicente Robles, a ghost with a grudge, resurfaces with unfinished business and whispers begin spreading through the Brotherhood, Santiago prepares for war the only way he knows how: by tightening his grip. What he doesn't anticipate is the fracture coming from the one place he never armored against. Tatiana. Her betrayal forces him to confront a truth he's avoided for years: power is easy to defend. Love isn't. Because no matter how ruthless Santiago is, no matter how many men kneel at his feet, Tatiana remains the only thing he cannot manage. And in underworld where control is survival, one uncontrollable variable is all it takes to bring everything down.
By the Mobster by T-misha
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Alessandra Santoro, after wrestling her way out of the shackles of her old life, has finally carved her place beside Renzo. Not as decoration, but as fire. Together, they're on top of the world, certain their love is enough to make them unstoppable, untouchable, unbeatable. But in the empire Renzo built, freedom is never free. Trust is but a weapon, and love often wears the face of leverage. When a deal Alessandra forces through turns into a test of loyalty, she learns - again - that marriage in the mob is less about devotion and more about survival. And when Renzo is forced to stand in her way just to keep her from burning everything down, he remembers exactly why he wrote off feelings in the first place. He can command the underworld with a single phrase, but he can't control the one woman he swore he'd never lose. As her ambition crosses into dangerous territory, he must choose between his reign... or the first heart that ever softened him. Just when it couldn't get any worse, old ghosts rise and buried monsters resurface, turning their obsessive desires into conflict of interest, and their devotion into war. Obsession and devotion made them unstoppable before. But this time, they might be the very things that ruin them both.
For a Mobster ✔️  by T-misha
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In a world built on rules, what they feel for each other is a massacre. ✦ ✦ ✦ Alessandra "Sessie" Benedetti was never meant to want things, and never allowed to refuse them. As one of the consigliere's docile daughters, her entire future had been stamped since she could tie her own shoelace. Marry Tiziano, the Don's volatile son. Smile at everything. Obey every rule. Die quietly inside. So when she dares to want something for herself, just once, her father makes sure she never forgets the price of defiance. Broken and bleeding from her furnished cage, Alessandra makes a break for it, only to discover life outside the cage is just as deadly. In Chicago, her last name makes her more disposable than desirable. Enter Renzo Santoro. Her family's most dangerous enemy. The last man she should ever be within ten feet of, much less want. She saves his life on instinct, with an identity that doesn't exist. Before she can regret either of those decisions, Renzo is already orbiting her little world. And the girl raised to fear men like him? She's starting to think fear and desire might feel exactly the same. When Renzo finds out who she really is, there is no corner of this earth cold enough to contain what she unlocks in him--the fury that wants a bullet in her, and the fixation that wants her regardless. Now the only thing more dangerous than loving a man like Renzo... is what he'll do to keep her from the men who got to break her before he even knew her. And that... that's when the real war begins. ✧・゚: ✧・゚: ✦ ✦ ✦ :・゚✧:・゚: ✧・゚: ✦ ✦ ✦ :・゚✧:・゚✧ Ranked #2 in Mafialove Ranked #6 in loveandloyalty Ranked #3 in raging Ranked #1 in mobster Ranked #3 in loveindanger Ranked #11 in badboylov