A Double Standard's Series. Dark Romsnce. Secrets. My life is nothing but secrets. Secrets that I've have kept so close that they have embedded into my soul, woven into the tapestry of my skin. Secrets that I pray no one finds out. I'll never tell the truth to the new people my path may cross. I'll always hide my biggest secret from the people I left behind.... The Harper's, my ex husband Demarco. Moving on has been a feat but a must. If Demarco only knew, what would it change? If the Harper's ever found me out would I be next on their list. No, I must forever hide these secrets with my life. They mustn't know. After a hard divorce from her husband Demarco Harper, Samantha makes a fresh start. However that start wasn't so fresh. It's a struggle to hide that she was once married to a ruthless Italian Mafia king. It's a even bigger struggle trying to keep two very big secrets from her ex husband and his family. If her secrets are ever revealed the hand of the man she vowed to love forever may be the one to kill her. No matter what though she will always love Demarco but staying away is what's best for him and his new wife. With love in her heart and pain in her body Sam made the ultimate sacrifice.... Set Demarco free and let him find his own happiness and love for his new wife. Join Sam on her journey of overcoming heartache, becoming a fierce business woman, finding true love and hiding her most deceitful secrets all in the name of love. A queen in her own kingdom.

~ALERT~ This book is apart of the Double Standards Series. You must read Double Standards to understand this story. It will be fun Ivy, they said. You deserve a night out, they said. What they failed to mention was that I would nearly loose my life by some dark stranger covered in tattoos. My fiancee recently jipped me at the alter and my friends insisted a night out on the town was just what I needed to make a comeback. After hour's of their badgering, I pulled myself from my tissue covered bed and allowed them to doll me up. Then it all happened to quickly. One moment I was sipping my drink and feeling fine as rain for the first time since my fiancee ran out on me. The next moment gunshots rang out through the club and everyone scattered including my friend's. As for me, I dove under the table. Soon a male's feet came into view and I don't know why, but I slid my hand from under the table and snapped a picture with my phone. Suddenly the table flipped away and eye's that had no soul bore into mine. Samantha's gone but I live with her everyday. I carry her everywhere. I'll never love another, in fact I don't even want to. It's been two year's now since she was taken from me and the pain only grows. In those two year's I've built an Empire like none other, an Empire so strong, so powerful even the God's fear it. I'm known now not as Demarco Harper but the man with no heart, and for two very strong reasons. One being I show no mercy, two being I kill all my victims by the heart. No one needs a heart. A heart will get you killed. That's my last thought as I enter my enemies night club to collect a few more hearts.

This is the third book in the Harper mafia series. If you haven't already, I suggest reading the first two before starting this one (Double Standards and Double or Nothing), so you can better understand the characters as well as the twists and turns. My name is Ari Tomini. I grew up under the command of the Harper Empire. My father, Travez, was one of the many men London Harper controlled. As for my mother, she was breed to stand by her man and for the life, just as I have. I've been in Italy for some years now receiving the best education but now I'm 18 and returning home to claim what and always has been mine. Yes Demarcus Harper belongs to me and no one can change that. I will be the queen.

This is the sequal to Double Standards. If you haven't read it yet please do before you read this! "I'm telling you now that your cherry belongs to me, but I'm also telling you that one day you'll love me like I love you, but I won't give a damn". That was Cole's famous last words to me. How true they was. "I don't get in a car with a stranger" I'm hardly a stranger cupcake". "You chased me through the woods" "I had to because you ran and you took something of mine" A tale of love, betrayal, murder, and a king in the making. Meet London and Laney Harper's children.

Part Four in the Harper Trilogy. If you haven't already, I suggest reading Double Standards first followed by Double Or Nothing, then Double Betrayal before starting Double DEUCES. Join the Harper's once again as they face betrayal, love, and murder. 🚫 Warning: This is a dark romance. Intended for mature reader's.

He stared down at me with those cold dark eye's. Backing me up against the wall with his hand pressed against my throat he growled out. "Do you know the ways I could kill you? The things I could do to you babydoll? I'll ask you again, what did you see in my black bag?" Through tears, I stammered out. "N-nnothing. I saw nothing" Giving me that malicious smile of his, he spoke in that deep Italian accented voice "Good answer Laney, good answer". Finally letting me go, I placed my hand to my throat where his hand had burned into my skin, and watched him leave me standing there. Little did I know that when I robbed him as a prank it would change my life forever. LIttle did I know he harbored dark secrets and was the rising Italian mafia boss. Little did I know he would become so important to me. Little did I know that London Harper would own me heart, body, and soul. What the hell was I thinking. I came to this small southern town strictly for business, yet managed to get robbed by some college girl. If it had been anyone eles, they would be dead before the sun set, but I can't bring myself to harm her. She has become my obsession. I eat, breath, sleep Laney Valor. Wanting so bad to whisk her back to New York with me,to live the normal life for once, but how can I corrupt the soul of this innocent beautiful girl. She knows nothing of my darkness, nothing of the mafia lifestyle. Torn between what's right and what's wrong, I leave her behind, but this wicked women seems to keep popping up in my life in the most unexpected ways. Laney simply won't disappear. Let the corruption begin..... 🚫 Warning: This is a dark romance. Intended for mature reader's.

Jennifer Roselli is arranged to marry Nathan Daxus. Nathan is a powerful mafia boss. Jennifer will do anything she can to escape him. Can these two opposites find love in each other? What happens when old ghosts reappear? Can love exist in a world full of guns, drugs, death, lies,and secrets?

Book Three in the Mafia Series (Fire Away) The hardest step she will ever take is to blindly trust in who she is. -Atticus Charlotte and Luca are now married, raising their family in the tumultuous mafia world. Charlotte's grown accustomed to the violence and hysteria by now, but she'll have to get more involved than she ever intended when her family is at stake. Book contains strong language and mature themes. This series is posted as a draft and is unedited/revised.

#1 Italy Rosalie Teodora Boncotti is the Italian heir of the former mafia leader Andres Boncotti. Andres Boncotti died a month ago passing down his leadership to Emillio Beau Delgatto. Andres Boncotti died saving the Pistole e rose mafia house ( guns and roses.) Rosalia Teodora Boncotti is a 19 year old girl in Italy. She's a literature major and works at a grocery store while looking for a job at a publishing company. Rosalia's dreams are brushed to the side when she ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, ending up apart of her deceased fathers former gang. Of course it's against her will. She heavily despises gangs after they let her dad die. It's the one thing she hates most in the world She's like a firecracker. Light the wrong fuse and she explodes, but there's a better outcome after the loud explosion. Emillio Beau Delgatto is a 19 year old mafia leader. Passed on by the deceased family friend Andres Boncotti. Emillio is a cold rutheless self centered man. He doesn't belive in love, or lust. That's until a fiery firecracker comes booming into his life. Her attempts to make him hers again. Everything is all but easy, considering he's a stubborn devil.

I felt his nose run up and down along jaw and collarbone. Every few seconds he left soft kisses that made shivers run through my body. His arms were wrapped around me tight, still they were tightening around me pulling me closer to him. "W-what d-do you w-want?" I whispered to him. I hate that I stuttered. His arms tightened even more making me let out a whimper. he chuckled. "I want you" he said humorlessly. "N-no,-"I was gunna say more till he cut me off. "Do not defy me if what I want. I always get what I want and you are what I want" he said harshly in my ear from behind me. Suddenly a cloth was placed over my mouth and nose. I started to cry as I held my breath. I kept telling myself not to breath in or it will be all over. "Shhh" he cooed. "Just breath in like a good girl kitten" he commanded. I breathed in seeing as I couldn't hold my breath forever, and he told me too. Hey, I didn't want to get hurt. I felt my eyes get droopy as I lost my balance and leaned into the man behind me. "I'm sorry princess. But good girl. I'll give you a great when you wake up". Was the last thing I heard before it went dark and I fell into a sleeping bliss of horrible dreams. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Katherine smith a 17 year old girl who lives all by herself.She is quiet, jumpy, obedient, and kind person. She is very beautiful and innocent. Katherine now works at a small café as the cashier. When Melissa, one of the waitresses didn't show up for work, Katherine took over her shift for the night. That's when she met Mr. Román. Mr. Román Bass Fransisco, a terrible 26 year old man who is a ceo of Fransisco CORP also the Mafia leader and gang leader. He owns half of all the cop stations, FBI, and other stores. He is a heartless, cruel, evil, emotionless, strong, dangerous man. He doesn't care about anyone, well not until he ran into Katherine at the ca