Power: The illusion of control. Perfidy: A deliberate act of betrayal *** Five years ago, Brad Miller broke every rule to protect the woman who never asked to be saved. He walked into hell and came out wearing the hot crown. Now he owns the operation, money flows, the crew obeys, and Tatiana sleeps beside him every night. It should be enough. But nothing stays clean for long in their world. Not loyalty. Not love. When Vicente Robles, the worst rival of them all, resurfaces with teeth bared, and tension inside the Syndicate begins to fester, Brad finds himself pulled in too many directions. He's used to watching his enemies hard enough to know their next move. But this time, the crack doesn't come from the outside; it comes from her. Tatiana. Now, Brad is forced to confront everything he's ignored for years: Can he protect his cartel without losing the only woman who ever made him weak? Can he forgive her without losing himself? And how far is he willing to go to keep what's his from slipping away? Because the truth is, no matter how ruthless he becomes, or how tightly he grips his empire, Tatiana remains the one variable he can't control. His strength and his weakness. His reason and his undoing. This is a story of how power don't ever make sense, how love doesn't always guarantee stability, how power can ruin you, and how the past never really dies.

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, 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.

At twenty-two, Olivia Monroe loses everything when her parents are murdered in a precise, professional hit. Grief barely has time to settle before she's abducted by O1S, a clandestine syndicate buried in the shadows of global crime and espionage. Her past is erased. Her future rewritten. Her humanity dismantled. What remains is a weapon. After being forged through brutal training and psychological conditioning, Olivia becomes one of O1S's most lethal assets. Silent. Obedient. Indebted. Morality has dissolved into mission protocol; survival has become the only identity she's allowed. And standing at the center of her new life is Dylan Voss. Cold, methodical, and feared even within O1S, Dylan is a district leader known for shaping monsters out of broken people. To him, Olivia is nothing more than another one of his creations. But something between them refuses to stay professional. Every command tightens a leash he swears doesn't exist. Every punishment tests a boundary she insists isn't personal. Every glance that lingers a heartbeat too long cracks the steel wall they've built around themselves. The tension between them is dangerous, addictive, forbidden, and it threatens the one rule O1S demands above all: feel nothing. As Olivia rises through the syndicate's ranks, fragments of her parents' murder begin to surface, whispering of a truth O1S would kill to keep buried. The deeper she digs, the more volatile her world becomes, forcing her into choices the syndicate considers unforgivable. And Dylan, when the time comes, is the only man who can protect her... or end her. Whatever he chooses in that final heartbeat will certainly change everything.

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.

Nazario De la Garza has spent most of his life far from the grand cage his family calls home, choosing labs and enforcement on the outskirts of Miami over the mansion that raised him. He prefers guns to politics, isolation to blood feuds, distance to the suffocating power of his father, Don Vasco De la Garza, despite being the heir to it all. He only returns because Vinicio, his brother, asked for single night and brotherly favor; for him to attend his proposal party meant to fix a shattered treaty. But the moment Naz steps inside the house he had abandoned, he meets the woman who will destroy whatever morality he has left. Ariadna Ramon. His father's notoriously gossiped-about wife. She's new. And she crashes into him drunk before the party even begins-blonde hair in disarray, blue eyes unruly, champagne on her mouth, rebellion in her pulse. Too young for the life she married into. Too reckless to pretend she wants it. Too tempting for a man who has spent years starving every impulse that makes him dangerous. One look at her, and something snaps inside him - catastrophically. Curiosity. Desire. Darkness. Ferocity. The ones he swore he'd never let himself feel. Naz was raised to inherit his father's empire - routes, orders, structures - but the trophy wife was never part of the inheritance. For a territorial man, crossing that line is instinct, but watching her belong to the man who made him is torture. While Ariadna is a woman seeking to reclaim the youth she traded for safety and status, Naz is a bastard trying to feel anything other than the slow spiritual decay that has haunted him since his mother's death. Together, they find liberation not in love, but in danger. Somewhere between manipulation and mania, they need each other with a hunger that is both addictive and agonizing. The problem never lay in actions, but in consequences. Because crossing Don Vasco De la Garza has always been a gamble that ends in a grave.

ＳＩＮＳ ＯＦ ＡＣＥ 𝓗𝓮 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓭, 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓲𝓷. On the night Vinicio De la Garza is set to propose to Josefina San Antonio--the daughter of a rival whose hand would seal power, territory, and loyalty between Miami's two most ruthless crime dynasties--nothing goes as planned. For nine years, Benita Guzmán has been the invisible housekeeper who keeps the De la Garza mansion spotless, scrubbing away the blood and dust left behind by their business. A quiet fixture. A ghost in plain sight. But tonight, she sees something she shouldn't, and it's Vinicio slipping out of the security room moments before chaos erupts, moments before his father begins drilling the truth about his fiancée's dead bodyguard out of everyone. When Don demands answers about tampered CCTV footage, Benita should say what she saw, yet for reasons that elude Vinicio, she pushes forward and takes the blame, exposing herself to humiliation and punishment to cover up for him. For the first time since she walked into the mansion, Vinicio really sees her, not as the quiet shadow that cleans up his world, but as a woman brave enough to lie to Don. And even stupid enough to bleed for him when it came to that. Maybe it's madness to feel something new for someone else on the night he's supposed to seal the business contract he calls a marriage. But timing has never stopped Vinicio, and neither have rules. As weeks bleed into months, the ring on his finger starts to feel like a shackle, the empire he's meant to protect tightening like a cage. And because some poorly-treated housekeeper isn't supposed to matter to him, yet somehow, she's the only thing he can't get his hands off. Unfortunately, his desire for her is more fatal than forbidden. And every heartbeat in her direction is one step closer to having her blood on his hands.

He kills for a living. She writes to expose men like him. When their paths cross, everything they believe in goes to hell. César Villar works for an organization that cares for results not questions. He has been trained to disappear targets before dawn and collect payment at dusk. When the file of a journalist prying too deep into Syndicate business lands on his desk, he's ordered to measure the damage, close the leak, and exterminate the loose end. Only, the face staring back from the dossier carries the same blue eyes and blonde hair as the woman he buried years ago. To him, Melissa Parker's not exactly a name he can cross off and forget. She's the mother of a five year old girl. She's beautiful and smart. She's fighting like hell to protect her child. Suddenly, every moment César spends with mother and daughter drags him deeper into the parts of himself he buried alongside his first love, turning the hunter in him into a traitor of his organization, and the price for his betrayal is both their lives. ═══ ⋆★⋆ ═══ Daisies and Embers is a gripping romantic thriller about two people on opposite sides of the gun: a killer who's lost his soul, and a woman whose fight for truth will cost her everything.

Salvador Jimenez Ortiz, the ringleader of Cartel Del Sol, has everything it takes to succeed in the brutal world of cartels - terror, cunning, and ambition. But he also has something most cartel bosses don't: a wife, Marisol, who is nearly as dangerous as he is. Together, they built the perfect empire, had the perfect family, and lived a perfect love story. But, naturally, not everyone is pleased with the novelty of that. Everything starts to fall apart when Marisol makes a decision that nearly costs them their entire operation. Despite the chaos, Salvador is determined to give her the best tenth wedding anniversary and thirtieth birthday, planning a getaway far from the danger. But that dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare when they're attacked, and Salvador is forced to watch as Marisol is brutally assaulted by their enemies. No one escapes that kind of trauma unchanged - not Marisol, and not Salvador, who blames himself for failing to protect her. As they try to piece their lives back together, both of them spiral into self-destruction, unleashing their vengeance on themselves and everyone they think to be involved. But like most revenge plots go, something's bound to go wrong, a betrayal uncovered, and a snake who should have been loyal is found coiling around its own deceit.

With a Mobster|| Book 2 of the Chicago Mob Series Alessandra Benedetti thought she had tasted true freedom, however fleeting. But the moment Renzo Santoro is cornered, she's forced to make an impossible choice. To trade her freedom for his life. Returning to her betrothed is a death sentence in itself, a slow descent into a marriage built on control, cruelty, and the weight of her past mistakes. But the nightmare doesn't end there. With the fate of her family now hanging in the balance, Alessandra is given one final ultimatum: deliver Renzo to them or watch the future of the Benedetti's crumble. Trapped in a game she cannot win, she has no choice but to play. And the clock is ticking. Yet nothing complicates a losing hand like carrying a baggage for the wrong man. Like a reckoning that could set fire to everything. Like a decision that turns an already twisted web into a noose around all their necks. As alliances fracture and betrayals mount, Alessandra makes a decision that leaves everyone, even the love of her life, dangling over the edge. And when the dust settles, she may find that the war she thought she was fighting was only the beginning of the end. ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✦ ✦ ✦ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✦ ✦ ✦ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Ranked #1 in seconds Ranked #1 in love-struck Ranked #15 in confused Ranked #51 in loyalty Ranked #62 in mobster (As at November 2025)✔️

Made a Mobster|| Book 0.5 of the Chicago Mob 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 well. 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.