Gorgeous Symone Riley had no worries in her life until being betrayed put fear in her pure heart. But soon, she learns after meeting a kind stranger what fear really is.

The gorgeous Magnolia Richards has her fair share of tough times. Wanting a better life, she leaves her rough city to start a new one. With a new job and apartment, life starts to get easy....or so she thought.

Email Message: Connie: Are you saying you want me to claim you lol? McRae: Trust me love I'd get on my knees for you in front of a crowd. My breath left my body. This is a joke. It has to be. Connie: ...Well...begging would be nice from time to time...jk! McRae: You want me to beg for you Ms. Connie? I will if you want. Connie wasn't sure what she wanted. She moved out of her old city to have a new start. Her success in her new flower shop was a shock to her. However, what she didn't know was that something else would bloom in her shop. Meanwhile, deep in the new city lived Tristan, a powerful bank owner who didn't just tolerate anyone. As the creator of his success, he didn't take things lightly. Anything he wanted he would take. His words were first and always last Until one morning, in a little shop, Tristan crossed paths once again with Connie, and for once, he listened and would forever listened to...her.

Some stories are carved in violence. Others are frosted in secrets. This one is both. Set against the backdrop of mist-covered hills and shadows that never quite stay buried, Blood & Buttercream is a tale of sharp tongues, forbidden glances, and the kind of love that doesn't ask permission. At its center is a woman who builds beauty from broken things-and a man who's never known softness that didn't come with a warning. There's no safe way to touch power. No clean way to love someone drenched in it. But once fate sets the table, everyone must eat. This isn't just a romance. It's a reckoning wrapped in silk and gunpowder. Welcome to a world where loyalty is sacred, family is everything, and love... love is the most dangerous game of all.

{Absolutely mesmerizing} {Cassius and Aiden come up beside me and watches her the same way I do; like she's the beginning and the end, the sun and the moon, heaven personified.} Amaris Ambrose is a ruthless mafia princess that's only had three friends her entire life: Milo, Cassius and Aiden. They've been in love with her since they were kids and they want nothing more than to make her love them the same way but there's just one problem- she's doesn't know how. How do you fall in love if your heart is in a million pieces? *Mature content* TRIGGER WARNINGS: VIOLENCE EXPLICIT LANGUAGE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT SCENES <I have no rights to any of the pictures used in this book>

On his death bed my father had one wish, or two in my perspective. First that i try to live a peaceful life, one he couldn't ever dream of. Second to marry the son of his partner. As the first could only be achieved by the actualisation of the second. He wanted me to wash my hands clean of the mafia, he hadn't raised me to even pick a gun. He wanted a man who would protect me but would have me locked up behind him always. I hadn't even met my future husband but i walk down the aisle at the ripe age of twenty to be tied to a man i knew nothing of

Amara Jordan is used to being invisible. As one of the best housekeepers at Coral Bay Resort, she keeps her head down, does flawless work, and ignores the quiet jealousy that follows her beauty. No one knows about her voice. No one knows about her dreams. And she plans to keep it that way. Until a long-stay VIP checks into Penthouse Suite 4. He notices everything. The details. The silence. Her. Reserved. Controlled. Unreadable. The man in the penthouse requests her by name. What begins as a simple room assignment slowly turns into something far more deliberate. But behind wealth and power lies a past he does not speak about. And when attention turns into something deeper, Amara must decide: Is she stepping into a love story? Or walking into something far more dangerous?

In a world of cold power and sterile luxury, 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙤𝙫 is the untouchable devil. A ruthless billionaire whose empire drips with blood and billions, he lives by one savage rule: 𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮. Skin is poison. Contact is contamination. His body is a locked fortress-until the day his control begins to burn. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘶𝘣𝘰𝘪𝘴. Calm. Graceful. Dangerously composed. The new maid moves through his marble halls like living temptation-soft curves wrapped in a crisp uniform, warm skin that carries the faint scent of lavender and sin. She doesn't cower. She doesn't break. And that quiet defiance sets Dante's blood on fire. His obsession ignites instantly. He isolates her. He watches her every breath through hidden cameras. He pulls her into his private sanctuary and makes her the center of his sterile, suffocating world. What begins as forbidden hunger quickly becomes feral need. The man who recoils from touch now aches to devour her-running starving hands over her bare skin, tasting her trembling lips, burying himself deep inside her slick heat while fighting the revulsion that once ruled him. Every hard thrust, every desperate moan, every filthy whisper of ownership chips away at his sanity. She consents. She surrenders. But she never truly escapes. In the heat of his madness, Dante's touch turns raw, possessive, and devastating. He claims her against cold marble, on silk sheets soaked with sweat, and in the darkness where pain and pleasure blur. He will shatter every rule, ruin his own mind, and lock her in his gilded cage just to feel her come undone around him again and again. She was supposed to be invisible. Instead, she became his addiction... and his only weakness. He will never let her go.

Enzo Vitale was raised to be the heir of a powerful Italian family. Disciplined, ruthless, and untouchable. But behind the iron mask he wears, Enzo is haunted by the ghosts of his past,His nights are plagued by nightmares of fire and loss, his days ruled by violence, power, and the constant pressure of tradition. Marriage, children, softness. He has sworn them all away, convinced they are weaknesses he cannot afford. Yet in the shadows of his sleep, a pair of brown eyes won't leave him. Eyes that feel like home. Eyes that enrage him because they make him want. Kairo never wanted to be tangled in the Vitale world. But debt and desperation pulled her family's small business under their thumb, and she finds herself carrying a burden she never asked for. Fiercely loyal to her grandparents and her mother, she sacrifices her own safety to protect them, even if it means giving everything she has and everything she is. When Enzo and Kairo finally collide, it's not fate. It's a storm. He sees in her those same eyes that haunt his dreams, and she feels the danger in every word he speaks, every touch he steals. He is the man she should fear the most and the one her body betrays her for. As family expectations tighten around Enzo, and Kairo's secrets threaten to unravel, their lives twist together in a brutal dance of control, defiance, and forbidden desire. He wants dominance. She wants freedom. But neither can seem to let the other go.

He left her to protect his bloodline. Now his bloodline is the one thing that could destroy him. Years ago, Amari Grant fell for Luca Moretti - heir to one of the most feared mafia families in Italy. He was her forbidden love, her undoing, and her heartbreak. When his family forced him to choose between his legacy and the woman he loved, Luca walked away... never knowing she was carrying his child. Amari built a new life in silence. She raised their son alone, far from Luca's world of guns and loyalty oaths. Now happily married and thriving. But secrets don't stay buried forever. When word of the boy reaches Luca's enemies, the unthinkable happens - her son is taken. Desperate and out of options, Amari does the last thing she ever thought she would: she goes back to Luca. The man who shattered her heart is now her only hope. When Luca learns the truth - that the child he's being asked to protect is his own - everything he's built starts to crumble. His marriage. His empire. His control. Now the ruthless don will burn the world to find his son and protect him... and the woman who still owns his heart. But rescuing them means war - and in the mafia, love is the deadliest weakness of all.