Quintessential Dynasty Series|| Book 1|Lorenzo Santini|| 18+ -An arranged marriage mafia romance- 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙜𝙪𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙. 𝙄 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚. *** Men have weaknesses, but not the NYC Camorra Capo, Lorenzo Santini. He has weapons. Blood and death lurk beneath his immaculate suits and callous eyes. I would know, after all, he's my husband. However, I've also been beneath the suits, and I reckon he's more perilous for my heart than my life. Cold. Cruel. Calculated. That's what they say about Lorenzo Santini. And he'll be damned if that changes even if it kills him. Copyrights© 2020 @averymarinoxo All rights reserved. -Due Editing- If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this work in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/averymarinoxo Thank you. ⚠️⚠️Please be advised that this story contains strong language and mature themes.⚠️⚠️

In this Series, Billionaire Bachelors meet their match in a wicked plan of their own. 3. The Fall Bride ****** It all started with a will, or perhaps it goes way back. Mama Bear. Always protective and cautious, Janet Julien was mostly known as JJ or Mama Bear. Her life was quite simple. A lovely job provides for her, a lovely town to live at, a lovely son to cherish. Everything was going perfectly lovely until the green-eyed man from a drunken night filled with passion and much more, came back. Successful Entrepreneur. Always aspiring for success, Ivan Dwayne's life turned anything but simple when his dad's will comes out. In order to own the family's multi-billion company, he has to marry. He planned everything to do just that but when he applies for a marriage license, he finds out he's already married. Now he just has to find the woman he married on one silly drunken night. But what happens when these two meet with a marriage certificate in one's hand and a baby in another's? Read to find out. ****** Tighten your seat belts for a ride into the life of Janet and Ivan. 2021 © SADIA KARIM

In this Series, Billionaire Bachelors meet their match in a wicked plan of their own. 1. The Summer Bride ****** It all started with a red-haired little girl. Compassionate. Claire Bishop has always been a compassionate woman. When losing her one and only job shatters her completely, Claire thought all was lost. With moral rules and warm heart, she accepts a offer she can't refuse, even if at the end she might just lose her heart in it. Perfectionist. Tyler Sanders has always been a perfectionist, let it be in business or in family. People admired him for his way in business, people feared him for he knows everything about everyone. He took pride of his calculated life but soon, it started to crumble because a little girl couldn't stay without a mommy anymore. He knew money could buy anything, hence he used that to his advantage but in the process, he didn't expect himself to lose what he thought was, a broken heart. But with a bit of help from a little girl, will they join their heart? If so, then how? Well, read to find out. ****** Tighten your seat belts for a ride into the life of Claire and Tyler. Started - 05/04/2015. Finished - 14/05/2016. #31 in Romance - 19/09/2016. 1M Reads - 25/03/2018. #9 in General Fiction - 14/08/18. 2M Reads - 06/07/2021 2015 © SADIA KARIM

In this Series, Billionaire Bachelors meet their match in a wicked plan of their own. 2. The Winter Bride ****** It all started with a bitter need for revenge. Tabloids Good Girl. Ashley Davis has always been the good girl. The magazines even named her the good girl as she was completely ready to settle with her life but then a mysterious billionaire stormed into her life and changed everything. Mysterious Billionaire. Everyone knew him but no one knew what goes in his head. He was as cold as ice. Revenge was everything for him. When a year ago his parents were killed at a hit and run, Neil Harris vowed to find out who did it and take revenge at any cost, anyhow possible even if he had to marry the said killer's daughter to destroy the family. But what happens when a cold revenge was all it took to bring them together? Read to find out. ****** Tighten your seat belts for a ride into the life of Ashley and Neil. Started - 17/03/2015 A Long Hiatus. Finished - 01/05/2021 2016 © SADIA KARIM

As a kid, Thalia had always imagined having the perfect life any girl could dream of. She always daydreamed about her perfect wedding, her perfect white dress, and her prince charming. Thalia would always bombard her mom with thousands of questions about what her wedding would look like. Thalia's mom used to read her fairytales about princesses in white dresses, huge weddings, and their perfect Prince Charming. At the age of eighteen, all of Thalia's childhood dreams are destroyed by an unwanted arranged marriage. During a mafia work dinner, Thalia finally meets her soon to be husband, the one and only Antonio Guido Brambilla. From seeing Antonio's dark and bright sides, Thalia soon softens and finally understands the hardships he has to go through. From his calm attitude and alluring presence, Thalia can't help but be drawn towards the soon to be mafia leader. Finally, Thalia gets the happy ending she dreamed of as a kid. With a fresh new life, a lifetime of a wedding, and the man she fell in love with, Thalia wouldn't change a thing about her new life. But, with all the other dangerous gangs, and a small collision with a person who could over all destroy her and Antonio's relationship, will Thalia be able to withstand her new love life with Antonio or will the new life's hardships toil with her mind? ⚠️ Sexual Activity, Violence, Language ⚠️

"Famiglia vuol dire tutto ~ Family means everything." The Knight Brothers had been brought up with that phrase since they were a little bambino. This series consists of the brothers whose one action would change the course of their life. 2. The Billion Dollar Night. ****** Ayden Lorenzo Knight, the secondborn, fiercely and brutally loyal to his older brother and family. With daylight, he becomes the loving member of the family, but by nightfall, he is the deadly assassin that roots out all their enemies, and enjoys while doing so. An obsession strays him yet fails to anchor him. Years later, the object of his obsession comes for help, with a surprise that completely changes him. Aria 'Bianchi' Moretti, the lone survivor in a world full of vices. Left alone for good, she prayed for a protector every night. Easy to trust, hungry for love, she falls for a man who's a mysterious passerby. Years later, she sought out the same man with a surprise revelation, wishing and praying he be the protector she needs. Bound by a night of surprise, will they accept and be there for each other or will a tragedy drive them apart? Read to find out. ****** Started: 01/01/2025 Finished: 20/04/2025 2025 © SADIA KARIM

Remi sensed a set of eyes on her. It was the first time she met Jahari, in her Sophomore year of high school. She falls for him, commits herself to him, and is sooner or later deceived by him. It is never "just about sex". They reunite years later at the same college, and she is dragged by her weaknesses that attempts to destabilize her seemly optimal lifestyle. Jahari's touch is all too familiar, even if she has a new life and a new boyfriend. Everything is destined to get messy and be left in shambles. He is the last thing she wants in her life. But in ways more than one, he owns her.

Therriana Mercer was a 38 year old college Mythology teacher. Moving back to her hometown upon pending divorce, she hopes that she and her 3 year old daughter can start over. Starting a new teacher in a new college, can be stressful, but Therriana is determined to power through. So far so good until Therriana meets Jesse Kincade. A tall, heavily tattooed, sexy 19 year old student, who happens to be the baby brother of an old ex-boyfriend, who is now her friend. Therriana tries hard to avert eyes, but the task shows to be difficult. Especially when he compliments her with names like "butterfly" and "queen", and follows her, openly flirts with her in class, makes her feel naughty and exotic and says things like how he's going to bend her over her desk and show her who her daddy is. Conflicted between her career, her divorce, her ex and heart, Therriana can't figure out what to do. She wants to do what's right but the wrong feels so damn good... TRIGGER WARNING BAD!!! THERE IS SOME DISCUSSION OF FENTANYL ABUSE, DATE RAPE DRUG CONSUMPTION AND GRAPE TRAUMA ALSO MILD TALK OF SUICIDE MISCARRIAGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE TRIGGER WARNING GOOD!!! MILD BDSM PRAISE KINK SUB/DOM PLAY PLEASE TAKE CAUTION WHEN READING

People always say I have the kind of lips that make you stare, soft, full, the kind that look like they belong in a glossy ad. And with my face, I guess I could get away with a lot more than I do. But I don't. I've never been that girl. I've always been quiet, a little shy, the kind who stays in her own little world. At least, I was. Because now, there's Toni Laurent. Charming, confident, and completely off-limits. He's about to become my stepfather, but that doesn't change the way he looks at me, or the way I feel when he does. Innocence doesn't stand a chance against a man like him.

BOOK 1 He hovered over me in silence while I gathered my senses. "Why are you here Deacon?" I finally asked. I heard his gruff sigh before he knelt down, and placed his warm hand under my chin, lifting my gaze to meet his. "Because you are mine Ellis Belrose." his dour voice echoed in my mind while he looked into my eyes. --------------------------- Ellis Bellrose is finally graduating high school. She has interned her last semester at Pacific Northwest Living magazine in hopes of landing a paying job by the time she graduates college. Everything was going to plan. Until she met him. Deacon Vidar, the Alpha of the Priamos pack. She doesn't know it yet, but he is her mate. Ellis feels an undeniable connection to him, something is always drawing her to him. Deacon Vidar is intense, and cruel. He is a great Alpha and has precise plans for his pack. But After 130 years on this earth he was beginning to think he didn't have a mate at all, let alone a young, fragile, human mate. Deacon wants Ellis more than anything, even if it means taking her against her will. Will Ellis give into their mate bond, and fall in love with the harsh creature that is Deacon Vidar? Is their compatibility the least of their worries? *THIS STORY HAS HEAVY SEXUAL & MATURE CONTENT*