Book 4 in the Sins of the City series. ✯✯✯ 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀 My father used to say this city runs on three things: fear, faith, and fresh-baked bread. He supplied two of them. And me? I'm in the laundering business. Money, not linen. They tried to poison my father. I drank his wine. They tried to burn us down. I got the family business and the third-degree memories. Now, I run the most opulent casino in Kansas City. I'm quiet. I'm polite. A respected pillar of the community. But cross me, and you'll find out real quick that elegance is just a prettier kind of violence. 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝚰𝐍 My past is a black hole. I woke up with blood under my nails, a head full of static, and this art on my skin that tells a story I can't read. The scars on my body were a map of wars I don't remember fighting. These hands... they know things. Violent things. But now, they dice onions. They julienne carrots. I am just Konstantin. A ghost in the kitchen. They say hell is only a block away from heaven... but I carry the inferno in my skull.

Book 3 in the Sins of the City series. ✯✯✯ My mother's blood paved the way for their perfect little fucking life. They built their castle on the ruins of everything they stole from me, turned my suffering into the price of their goddamn happiness. I was left in the dark, forgotten, like my pain was just some necessary sacrifice for their bliss. But now, it's fucking payback. They'll bleed for every stolen second, every shattered dream, every ounce of dignity they ripped from me. Their laughter will be drowned in their own screams, their city will choke on the blood I spill, and their world will burn under the weight of my wrath. I am Titus fucking Minetti, king of the East Coast. And I don't just rise from the ashes. I fucking own them.

When Serena enters a new workplace, she has one rule; stay focused- no matter what. It soon turns out to be easier said than done when she meets her new boss. Valentino is strict, the epitome of difficult and much to her dismay; unbelievably fucking hot. She's determined to ignore the attraction she feels to him for the sake of keeping her job. But what Serena doesn't know is that Valentino can't get her out of his his head. He thinks about her everywhere. He feels captivated by her. He wants her. And he hates every moment of it.

"Remember how wet you were when you decide to start avoiding me again. Remember how you came all over me. Remember how you felt in this exact moment because I know you'll deny it." - She knew falling in love with him was wrong. She still fell anyway. Now she will have to live with the debt of temptation - When Poppy witnesses a robbery gone wrong and gives evidence to the police to catch the perpetrators, she finds herself in witness protection after discovering the criminals are part of a dangerous gang. But when her witness protection comes to an end, she is soon captured by the gang leader and told she'll give eight years of her life for the man who was sentenced to prison for the same amount of time. Poppy is forced to work for the spiteful leader, Rexx, who uses her natural beauty to swindle valuable information from wealthy men for his own benefit. She's been counting down the seconds until her freedom. When she stumbles across Gabriel Dalton, the underboss to the mafia, he's charming, attractive and tempting. Poppy expects him to be like the rest, only ever after one thing. But that's when Gabriel proves her wrong. After Rexx discovers her acquaintance with Gabriel, he demands that she spies on him to get information about his family and business. Reluctantly she wants to say no, but she has no choice. If she fights it, she'll get hurt-or worse. As Poppy becomes closer to Gabriel, she doesn't expect to fall for him. And little does he know, she's been lying to him this whole time. There is only one thing Gabriel absolutely despises and that is heartless backstabbers. Tropes: - mafia romance - forced proximity - who did this to you? - angst/betrayal - dual POV - spice with some kinks 18+