"My mother always told me not to play with fire. I guess I should've listened." ... Alana has spent her life adhering to strict rules, raised in a family where appearances meant everything. Trained to be the perfect daughter-calm, composed, and obedient-she's never dared to step out of line or show her true self. Sergei has been betrayed more times than he can count, leaving him hardened, ruthless, and haunted by paranoia. He's built walls no one can penetrate, trusting only in his own power to survive. ... When a professional encounter with an angry Sergei at Alana's job leads her to be kidnapped, she's thrown into his ruthless underworld, held captive in exchange for her life. What will happen when their lives collide in a marriage neither wants but can't resist? Will their undeniable passion spark the possibility of love or will it fade once reality hits? #1 in enemies #1 in dark #1 in darkromance #1 in mafiaromance #1 in manipulation #1 in adultthemes #1 in captive #1 in russian #1 in heartbreak

"I love to taste you, but I hate kissing you" Chris admitted, his words cut me deeper than one thousand knives. He refuses to love me, but loves to touch me. "Truth or dare Chris?" I ask in between sloppy kisses, loving the way that his hands roamed my body. "Dare" he says, as he began to suck on my neck. "I dare you to love me" I say, feeling his smile press against my neck before saying the most dreadful words. "Never, Lucie" When Chris and Lucie meet, he couldn't stand the way that she holds herself, so beautiful but so fragile as she waited to be loved. He wanted to ruin her in more ways than one. Drug dealers and secrets are never a good mix, and when you start sleeping with one, the outcome is only imaginable. What harm can be done when it's just sex? 489 Pages #12- Hate #5- Truthordare 100k- 4/3/21 Editing- 1/6/22

Fragment: "Unexpectedly, your mother became pregnant once again. We were extremely happy about it, but once the doctor said that it is a girl, I was euphoric. I rushed to tell the news to the Russo and the alliance was confirmed on the same day. Your mother was very unhappy about my decision and now I understand why."- finished papa. I took a moment to register the information. I am that promised girl. I am the one who has to marry. Leonardo Vincenzo Russo - austere, merciless, ruthless, vile Capo of Italian Mafia. Man of devilishly sinful beauty, wealth and power that know no bounds. He doesn't take no for an answer. He takes and never gives. Diavolo. Fire burns in his veins. Camila Emilia Reyes - courteous, sensitive, loving, winsome, tender, benevolent and compassionate woman, who has grit, wittiness and power burning in her. Woman of enrapturing comeliness, who has heart of gold. She has power, fame, fortune. Stuck in arrangement, they have no choice, but to get married. Will it work when two hearts have never known love and passion, faith and devotion, attraction and desire?