Genre: Romance, Mafia, Arranged Marriage, Dark Love, Drama --- Main Characters: Amara Johnson - 24-year-old ambitious African-American woman, a talented fashion designer who just landed her big break. Fierce, independent, hates being controlled. Luca Moretti - 29-year-old ruthless Italian mafia heir. Cold, dominant, and carries a dark aura. His life revolves around power and loyalty to his family. Antonio Moretti - Luca's father, head of the Moretti crime family. Tessa - Amara's best friend who always speaks her mind. --- Plot Summary: Amara's life takes a shocking turn when her father, deep in debt, promises her hand in marriage to Luca Moretti, heir to the Italian Mafia empire. Forced into a marriage she never wanted, Amara must navigate a world of danger, betrayal, and passion. Luca is everything she hates-arrogant, possessive, and terrifyingly powerful-but also the man who makes her pulse race like never before. Their marriage starts as a contract. But when rival gangs target Amara, Luca's protectiveness awakens something deeper in both of them. Love in the mafia world is never safe-especially when secrets and blood oaths threaten to tear them apart. --- Themes: 🔥 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Enemies to Lovers 🔥 Dark Mafia Romance 🔥 Possessive Hero / Independent Heroine 🔥 Passion + Danger ---

She has lived hidden for eleven years, never allowed outside, never told the truth about her father. Her mother is famous. Her past is dangerous. And the secret she's hiding could destroy two mafia empires. Born from betrayal and a single night of manipulation, the girl carries an impossible truth in her blood-she belongs to two dons. One American. One Italian. Rivals who have no idea their legacy lives in the same child. When the truth begins to surface, it won't just expose a secret. It will start a war.

"She thought she was a pawn. He saw her as a queen. The world? It was just the board they planned to burn together." Rose Scarlett was the fragile girl born into shadows, raised by a family who taught her to fear the world she was meant to rule. Xavier Blackwood was the king of chaos - ruthless, feared, untouchable - until she became the one thing he couldn't control. What began as a political marriage becomes a war of secrets, betrayal, and blood-stained love. When truth bleeds and the past rots away, two broken souls must decide: will they destroy each other - or the world that tried to break them? A dark mafia romance full of slow-burn tension, secret identities, raw pain, and a love that doesn't heal... it scars. Read at your own risk.

Aria is the beautiful, smart, and beloved daughter-praised by everyone and trusted with their father's company. But her twin sister, Alina, lives constantly in her shadow-unseen, uncelebrated, and forced to work under Aria's command. When Aria causes a major financial loss to a powerful, mysterious company owned by an unknown billionaire, their father is forced to pay a large sum in compensation. But it's not enough. In return, the company demands an unusual form of settlement: the CEO responsible must marry their CEO until the debt is cleared. To protect Aria, their parents make a secret decision. Alina is forced to marry the unknown CEO in Aria's place. She's terrified-of the marriage, the man, and the new life ahead. No one knows what he looks like, and he's never appeared in the media. He's a complete enigma. Alina's first night in the mansion is unsettling-she's kissed from behind by a stranger while humming a song known only to her and a long-lost love. The kiss stirs something in her, something painfully familiar. And when she finally meets her husband, Darren Blackwood, she's stunned. He looks familiar-too familiar-but she can't place him. As days pass, memories from eight years ago start surfacing. Clues hidden in the house, songs, and gestures slowly unravel the truth: Darren is the man who once loved her and vanished from her life. The heartbreak returns-but so does the spark. Their love story reignites, beginning with slow trust and deep emotion. But Aria, full of jealousy and rage, isn't done. She wages a subtle war to tear them apart, using lies and manipulation to destroy Alina's newfound happiness. Yet, against the odds, and despite the pain of the past, Darren and Alina prove that love-true, hard-earned love-can conquer even the deepest wounds and fiercest enemies.

Book One - Regina Series Stolen at four. Forged in blood. Liliana De Rosa barely remembers a life before pain. Torn from her family at a young age, she grew up in chains-manipulated, tortured, and forced to believe the people who loved her most had abandoned her. Twelve years later, she is unrecognizable. Passed between rival mafia families, some who taught her to survive, and others who molded her into a weapon, Liliana has become both lost and lethal. Behind the mask of an innocent schoolgirl hides a girl with blood on her hands-a girl who has forgotten how to simply exist without violence. But when her abusive guardians are killed in a mysterious car crash, her world shatters again. Liliana discovers the truth: She was never abandoned. She is the daughter of the most feared mafia boss alive. She has six older brothers who have been searching for her since the day she was taken. Now, reunited with the infamous De Rosa family, Liliana must face a terrifying reality: she is loved, wanted... but no longer the little girl they remember. She is broken. Dangerous. And feared even within the underworld. What happens when her family learns the truth-that their sweet sorella is one of the most ruthless assassins alive, her name whispered in terror across continents? Liliana is not just a De Rosa. She is The Regina Assassin. A killer. A survivor. And a girl who must learn if love can heal what violence has created. Follow her story through pain and love. Liliana Donatella De Rosa. Started 08/25 Finished ??? Rankings #badass - 1🥇 #badbitch - 1 🥇 #mexico - 1🥇 #colombiamafia - 1🥇 #loss - 1🥇 #spain - 2 🥈 #albanian - 2 🥈 #assassin - 2 🥈 #mafiaprincess - 2 🥈 #Italian - 2 🥈 #russianmafia - 2 🥈 #loyalty - 2 🥈

When love finds the shattered, it doesn't come quietly. A story where two broken people were never supposed to collide-let alone fall for each other. A mean girl with heels sharper than a knife, Devora Midnight is guarded, impulsive, and drowning in the weight of her past. Adelio Marchetti is a mafia heir haunted by a lost love-and completely unprepared for the storm Devora brings. She's reckless, unapologetic, and everything he was told to avoid. She's the chaos he craves. He's the control she resents. Their chemistry is electric, their connection dangerous. But as buried secrets claw their way back, the line between love and destruction begins to blur. BOOK 1 OF 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙩 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 SERIES - 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, If you 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 ...𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

You don't survive this world. You become it. She disappeared into the aftermath. He turned the fallout into power. Now she's back-and this time, she's not asking for a place beside him. She's taking one. Devora Midnight walked away from everything-love, power, and the life that nearly destroyed her. But grief never fades. It hardens. It sharpens. Each time it turns survival into something far more dangerous. She's colder. Untouchable. And no longer willing to stand outside a world that keeps taking from her. As war closes in around the Marchetti name, and a child's bloodline threatens to shift the balance of power, Devora and Adelio are forced into the one thing they've never been able to survive- alignment. Not love. Not distance. But choosing each other anyway. Becoming Marchetti is third installment of a slow-burn romance about transformation, consequence, and now what it costs to become something the world can't break. Even if it means becoming the very thing that once destroyed you. BOOK 3 OF 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙩 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 SERIES (Not a standalone)

She turned her grief into gold. He turned his guilt into a throne. Six years later, they meet again-at the crossroads of empire, obsession, and the ghosts they never buried. When power meets its mirror, something has to break. Devora Midnight built an empire from her sister's ashes. Adelio Marchetti built a kingdom from guilt. Now, the worlds they rule are colliding once more-beneath the flash of cameras, the weight of family secrets, and the eyes of enemies who never stopped watching. One dinner reopens old wounds. One secret threatens a dynasty. And one whisper from the past could burn everything they've survived for. Power. Desire. Control. Loving Marchetti is a slow-burn psychological romance about two people who were never supposed to survive each other- and the world that refuses to let them go. BOOK 2 OF 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙩 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 SERIES (Not a standalone)

At seventeen, I was just another foster kid....until Carlos Salazar made me believe in forever. A reckless smile. Dangerous charm. A touch that burned. For one fleeting moment, he was everything. Until the night he left me broken. Now I'm twenty-two. An assassin. My world runs on blood and contracts, not love. The girl he knew is buried.But the cartel doesn't care about scars, and fate doesn't care about promises. My new assignment? Protect the man who ruined me. He doesn't recognize me. I remember everything. The lies. The scars. The night that turned me into this. Carlos wants the sweet girl he lost. But someone else has already seen the woman I've become...sharp, dangerous, untouchable. In his world, softness is a liability. He doesn't promise comfort. He promises survival. I swore I'd never love again. But between the man who shattered me and the one who offers no mercy at all, my heart becomes a battlefield. And when the truth finally bleeds out, all that's left are sinners.....with watercolour eyes. -Really slow burn(kinda) -Dark romance -Assassin FMC -Enemies to lovers -Love triangle -Obsession