**PREVIOUSLY TITLED MINIERA** THIS BOOK IS BEING EDITED HERE AND THERE. THIS WAS COMPLETED AROUND 3 YEARS AGO. Xo **THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK IN A STAND-ALONE SERIES. YOU CAN READ ALL THESE BOOKS ALONE, BUT IT IS RECOMMENDED TO READ IN ORDER TO GET THE MOST ENJOYMENT FROM THE SERIES** Natalie Brown's life has been far from ideal or perfect. For as long as she could remember, life has revolved completely around taking care of her alcoholic and drug addicted mother. Just as Natalie finally decides to let loose and go to Italy with her best friend-her mother makes a deal with someone very dangerous. Giovanni Amaro. He is hard. Cold. Ruthless...but, also he is plagued with a past that haunts him with every breath. Now, in the present, a mafia boss that needs a wife and an heir. He got Natalie and she was not what he expected in the least and as he begins to care for her, he begins to worry. He has enemies...bad ones and they will use Natalie to get to him. But, then again, some enemies are closer to home than you think. Natalie's mother made a deal...and now Natalie will pay the price. ***************** "I am not just someone to be bought and sold off!" Natalie shouted with outrage. Giovanni chuckled darkly and took a step forward so their bodies were intimately touching. He wrapped a hand around her throat, softly, possessively. "Ever since I first laid eyes on you, you've been mine. You hear that, mi amour? Mia..." Mine' ...

"You seem to have forgotten that you're not marrying a commoner, Alina. You're marrying the prince of all vampires, so look alive and get me some coffee." Alina Deluca lives a normal life up in the Californian north. At least that's what she makes the world believe. Locked within her hypnotising emerald eyes are horrors she could never speak of even if it killed her... secrets that border the paranormal. Erick Stayton, the Vampire Prince, is her nightmare. To her, he was no more than a cold, savage predator that lusted for her blood and took away everything she had that one traumatising night four years ago. Except she is bound to be his bride by an arranged marriage deal she can never understand Now, at twenty-one, she is to marry her nightmare in a month's time. Mustering her every strength to set things right in her awry life, she gets embroiled in an ages old feud and a struggle for power of mind-boggling proportions. Strangely enough, she finds herself connecting with Erick.

It is a well-established fact amongst those who lurk the criminal underworld that love is nothing more than a weakness. It is a weakness that those who want to destroy you will take advantage of in order to bring you down to your knees in the dirt at their feet, with the barrels of their guns pressed against the skin of your temple, ready to end your life with one meaningless flick of their finger. However, Vittorio Lucente, the Don of the most influential and notorious crime family the underworld has ever known, quickly learns that love is an emotion beyond his vast control, and that the moment he starts to fall for the broken beauty behind the bar, it is impossible for him to just stop. Rose feels as though she is a shell of who she could be, having had to live a life where violence and pain was thrust upon her the moment she was born, but that doesn't stop her from falling deeper and deeper into a world where brutality is almost as normal as needing oxygen to live. Rose has her thorns, and yet Vittorio is still all too willing to take a firm grip on her and risk his very own blood being drawn, just so long as he can keep her safe away from those wanting to hurt her. They both have their enemies and they not only threaten to tear the two of them apart, but they also threaten to completely shatter both of their worlds. - A/N - I started this book in 2015, and I'm continuing it in 2020. This is also likely to be the first out of a two book series. Warning: There will be violence and mention of abuse, sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol and sex. Author's Note: This is my first original story and these are my own characters.

** Special Note ** This story will be edited at a later date to fit my current writing style, however, I am leaving this first very rough draft up until then. Highest Ranking -- # 1 in General Fiction - Feb 2015 to April 2015 Twenty-two year old Lea Mason didn't mind living a boring life far from the limelight that her parents enjoyed. In fact, she thrived in the solitude and mundane routines that she surrounded herself with. Carter Stephens, crime boss extraordinaire, enjoyed dishing out pain and punishment to those that dared to cross him. His only rules for life were simple: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer, know their every weakness and use that weakness to destroy them, never leave a witness alive, and never, under absolutely no circumstance, feel. **All rights reserved. No part of 'A Cartel Affair' may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher.** **Please note - All Photos and Media content are owned by their respective photographers and/or artist.

Sometimes, getting over the pain of betrayal and breakup means you have to GET UP. GET EVEN. GET A BETTER MAN. SAMPLE THE FIRST TEN CHAPTERS OF THIS REVENGE ROMANCE!

~Sequel to: "I Got Caught In A Storm... And Now I'm Stuck In Naruto!?"~ It's been two and a half years since Minxie Takeda left Konoha and became Itachi Uchiha's student, and boy, have things changed. Smarter, stronger, and more beautiful than before, she returns to Konoha with her twin brother Ryuu Takeda, former Akatsuki member. Reunited with her friends and going on missions again, she is happier than ever before. But things don't remain happy and peaceful for long. New enemies are rising with deadly intentions, and they all have one common target: Minxie. Everything the young heroes know is beginning to fall apart, and they must all go to the end of the Earth to protect what is precious to them. Join Minxie as she faces trials of love, desire, and danger, all while trying to save the world and complete her destiny. In the end, only one side can win the war that has been foreseen since the beginning of time. With the Final Battle nearing, Minxie and her friends must sacrifice and make quick and hard decisions if they want the world to be saved. One thing's for sure: The eternal battle between the Light and Dark is finally coming to its end, and its end will truly be tragic.

A woman named Thanerah Kross, an ordinary woman, meets Hidan from the Akatsuki by being a sacrifice for Lord Jashin. What Hidan didn't know is that their fates are intertwine together. Furthermore, they both have a destiny with the fates of the Jashin religion. Can they save the religion before it is too late? Is Thanerah the answer for Hidan's cravings to fill the empty hole in his heart? Will she fulfill him or destroy him?