22-year-old Iris Amyrah James meets 30-year-old Leonardo Sorelli on a night out with her friends. Iris is a bold, independent, and most of all rebellious girl. So when she gets dared to go flirt with the handsome devil, she doesn't hesitate. Before she even opened her mouth, Leonardo could tell that she wasn't only beautiful, but she was different. Upon meeting her, Leonardo wants more with her, but his own secrets are getting in his own way. Nothing prepared them for the turmoil they will go through. Nothing prepared them for the secrets and the lies that will shake them up. Nothing prepared them for how hard they were going to fall for each other. With the fashion designer and the mafia don caught in a storm of secrets and scandalous pasts, will they make it in the end, or will they crash and burn? MATURE 18+ 🦋Highest Rankings🦋 #1 stephenjames - 06/06/22 #2 blackauthor - 06/06/22 #2 pocauthor - 06/07/22 #1 glowprincess - 08/19/22 #1 blacklead - 07/23/22

Noelle's quiet life shatters overnight, when she receives a call that her father has died. Once the daughter of a feared crime boss, she's spent the last 5 years trying to outrun her family's shadow, evening changing her name - until the debts her father left behind drag her straight back into the world she swore she'd never return to. To protect her mother from the brutal retaliation of the DeLuna syndicate, Noelle agrees to the unthinkable: marriage to the new Don, Kairo DeLuna, a man as dangerous as he is magnetic. Kairo rules with ice in his veins and secrets in his eyes-known for his lust of sadistic brutality, Noelle is given no choice. Save her mother, or watch the only family she has left face the consequences. Their union is meant to seal a business deal and bury her father's mistakes - yet what begins as an arrangement of power soon becomes a battle of desire, trust, and survival. As Noelle is pulled deeper into Kairo's world of betrayal, bloodlines, and revenge, she must decide whether her heart is her greatest weakness... or the weapon that could change everything.

"𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠." ── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ── 𝐍𝐚𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 - A twenty-year-old woman with goals and ambitions working in the mafia. She's got people she dislikes but no one holds hatred in her heart like French Mafia leader 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭. But after they spend a significant amount of time together, they realize that they're not so different after all. Tolerance comes into the picture, then friendship and what's next might be...love? ── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ── "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬."

𝐁 𝐎 𝐎 𝐊 𝟏 𝐁 𝐖 𝐖 𝐌 𝐃 𝐔 𝐀 𝐋 𝐏 𝐎 𝐕 ☆ ☆ ꨄ ꨄ ☆ ☆ "𝐇𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐈'𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞." ☆ ☆ ꨄ ꨄ ☆ ☆ She's a middle type of girl. A mix of both worlds, surviving off of a small part-time library job. An encounter with the wrong people in an alleyway leads her into learning things about her past. Adding to the confusion, there's only one person with the answers to her questions. The mafia is a dangerous and cruel world. Sin reeking off of every member. Valentina's worse, she just hasn't realized it yet. She's been stuck with a wicked man for a while now and she's managed to learn things from that time. Things that'll help her survive. The Mafia was never new to him. It's all he's ever known, the Italian mafia was crashing down and he had to make a rational decision. All he could do is hope that he doesn't make a huge mistake. ☆ ☆ ꨄ ꨄ ☆ ☆ "𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟, 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚." ☆ ☆ ꨄ ꨄ ☆ ☆ 𝐒 𝐓 𝐀 𝐑 𝐓 𝐄 𝐃 ~ 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 - 𝟎𝟑 - 𝟑𝟏 𝐅 𝐈 𝐍 𝐈 𝐒 𝐇 𝐄 𝐃 ~ 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 - 𝟎𝟖 - 𝟎𝟏

"This is a one time thing, you know that, right? We're not gonna be anything after this." - Amari Rousseau wasn't looking for love, in fact it was the last thing she even wanted. But when Nikolai Evans comes into her life her mind is changed for the better. We don't lie to the people we love - a lesson Nikolai is yet to learn. How will Amari react when she finds out Nikolai's kept a secret from her, one that will change everything? - BWWM *ON HOLD*

-- Estella Athena Knight. Always have been a special girl, she attracts the attention of the mafia king in a way that makes her blood boil. August Nicolai DeLuca. A simple game of cat and mouse, and a pool full of hatred and desire brought excitement to them both, but who would have thought when a simple plan of destruction brings them together. Even if they secretly like it. ~ Third book in the -love and war series

"Because where there's roses, they'll always be thorns, right?" - Aurora Valentina Marino was adopted by the Italian mafia family, the Marinos, at a young age. With her life in danger she's forced to marry Elias Moore, head of the American mafia. Neither of them are particularly fond of each other. They say there's a thin line between love and hate; Aurora and Elias seem to be balancing on that line. Which side will they fall on? - BWWM

Brianna Lynn Green 22 year old girl. Her parents died in a car crash and she's dating an absuive man. She falls pregnant and decides to leave. What happens when she runs into the don of Italy and New York and her soon to be boss. Valentino Morales 26 year old man. Don of Italy and New York. He has no remorse when he kills. He lets nobody get away with betraying him. But what happens when he meets a woman and her kid that could possibly change his life for the better or make it even more worse.

[COMPLETED] "I'm so lonely, Angel." I tell her from my seated position, looking up at her. "I just want to be loved, please." She strokes my cheek and smiles gently. "I'm here now." It's been three years since Camil has seen his family and the girl that he met at the hospital. He's gone down a dark path and there's only one person who can show him the light. One person that can make him whole again. His Angel. *SPIN OFF TO IN CONTROL* It's definitely advised that you read the first book otherwise you may be slightly confused.

[COMPLETED] "You're so beautiful." He whispers, his thumb brushing against my bottom lip. "It's a shame you won't be so much when I'm finished with you. I'm gonna play you like a piano, my precious girl." "We shouldn't be doing this Cyrus." I whisper staring up at him. His face hardens and he slips his thumb in between my lips. "Open your legs for me, pretty baby." In which a dominant, thirty year old man, who has never been in a serious relationship, becomes infatuated with a twenty-three year old black girl.