"Being with him fulfilled my unscrupulous desires, after all forbidden fruit always tastes so much sweeter." Persephone Maddox is all the things she despises: Sweet, shy, non-confrontational and to put it shortly a person unable to fight their way out of a paper bag. Why would she need to be able to anyway? She was winsome and rich, born with twenty four karats around her ring finger and protected every second of the day. But the second she steps out of her cushy bubble consisting of daddy's money, weekends at the country club and marrying into generational wealth, she bares witness to something no outsider lives to tell stories about. She wished for danger and excitement, and a man who wasn't afraid to trample all over the rules and piss off his father. Then she was stolen away, and kept in the dark palace of Chicago's underworld of organised crime by none other than the Capo of the Chicago Famiglia himself: Don Luciano Armani. He offers to give her the world, make her the ruler of a world she was never supposed to survive in. But she didn't want him. She wanted the untameable Beast she'd met on a cold winter night, who'd hand fed her the pomegranate that would trap her in the underworld forever. BOOK II OF THE SERPENTS AND SAVIOURS MAFIA CHRONICLES (can be read as a stand-alone)

Persephone Blythe. Every man's wildest dream and every woman's deepest fear. She was a seventeen year old scream queen, raised in champagne lavished limousines all her life, and receiving anything and everything handed to her on a silver platter. Now seph has her eye on another one of her mother's new play toys, and she plans on having him.

Thea has grown up her entire life, wishing time would wait for her. Every day seems to pass quicker than the last, every hour faster than the one before. She feels as though her life is simply flashing before her eyes. With her teenage years slowly disappearing, Thea wonders if she'll ever have the time to make the most of them. She might just get more than she bargained for when a mysterious face moves to town and shows her a world much darker than her own. Soon Thea will realise that time isn't the only thing she wishes would wait for her. Start: 9th January 2021 End: 14th March 2021