Ivy Glenn was a small town girl, ready to embark on a new career thousands of miles from the home and ideals that stifled her all of her life. Fresh from college, she had been given the opportunity of a lifetime by snagging the coveted title of Project Manager for a prestigious east coast advertising agency, Wallace Advertising. She had grand ideas for herself as well as the man she would be working for; Aiden Wallace. Ivy was told that her predecessor was severely lacking in motivational skills and the department had suffered for it. She was going to whip it into shape but little did she know her new boss would be the one doing the whipping. Aiden Wallace was from money, old money. He used it as much as he needed to for business purposes but truth be told he hated it. It drew people to him and their intentions were not always good. His brain isn't wired as others are. He needs something extra from his relationships. Other than his best friend, Jensen Woods, and those women lucky enough to be chosen, his predilections remained hidden beneath his well tailored suit. Will Ivy be able to keep her distance or will she be like a moth to the flame, Icarus flying too close to the sun? Will she reject him when she learns of his lifestyle or will it be exactly what she wants and desires?

"Why didn't you tell me?" Marco's voice boomed with authority as Cay's body shook from his outburst. "I tried" she cried softly. "I was six weeks pregnant, when I found out. I tried coming by your home, everyday for a week, only to be told that you didn't want to see me. I knew what I had to do, so I set my mind to the task at hand, got a job, found a little apartment and with Julietta's help, I had Julian." He tried to digest everything that he'd been told and with the sudden knowledge that someone had deliberately deceived them both, he was angry. More than angry, he was livid. He had missed four years of his son's life and that was unforgivable in his book and now he needed to know who so desperately wanted to keep them apart. Will Cayenne be able to forgive Marco? Would she ever be able to open her heart again to the only man that she'd ever been with and loved? Only time would tell but she was willing to try, if only for little Julian's sake. Follow the twists and turns of Marco Salvatore DeLuca, Mafia boss of the New York area and Aerin Cayanne Daniels' lives as they try to find their way back to each other amidst all the danger, lies, deceit and suspicions his lifestyle could throw at them.

Galina Ivanov was now truly without any family. Her grandmother, Zoya Erin, had just passed away and when Galina received a registered letter summoning her to a lawyer's office downtown Boston, she couldn't imagine why until the reading of her will. It seems that her grandmother left her considerably well off and left her a small house. The catch? In order to receive these things, Galina would have to travel across the world, to another continent, to St. Petersburg, Russia. Once there, her life would take an interesting turn as her life was on a collision course with a Russian Mob boss by the name of Ilia Savin. In somewhat poor health from a heart condition, Galina packs what little she has and prepares for the journey of a lifetime. Would she survive her encounter with Savin? Could she save him from a life of loneliness and solitude? Is it possible that Ilia would fall for her?

Carina Romanov is a 27 year old business woman. Her Russian parents, Boris and Nadia Romanov, adopted her when she was 5 from an orphanage in New York. Ever since then she has called Brighton Beach her home. She had seen and heard many things through the years but what made Carina a favorite was the fact that she was loyal and trustworthy. She never revealed any of what she'd been privy to. When her parents decided to retire she took over Romanov's, their restaurant, remodeled it and made it an even more popular spot among the locals, especially anyone in organized crime. When Carina was 10 her mother told her that she would be betrothed to someone in Russia. Dimitri Alexandrov. Their families had been connected for many years and because Carina had been in this type of life for years it was not a shock to her. For 17 years she would get letters, phone calls and sometimes packages from Dimitri but she'd never met the man. She was always told that one day he would just show up and her new life would begin...but until then she would have to settle for images that the sound of his voice would invoke, learn to trust him to keep her safe and forgive those closest to her for keeping her in the dark regarding her adoption. She would soon be in danger from things she didn't even know about, from people she didn't even know and a biological father who wanted her dead. *All characters are purely fictional.

A 25 year old woman moves from Texas to pursue her dream of being a photographer. She had always hoped that her career path would lead her to New York, her fantasy since a little girl. The Big Apple! Little did she know that with one click of her camera, picking this particular subject, would change her life forever! This story is strictly fictional as are the character's names. Some of the places that I describe are real places in New York, as I wanted to try and mix some real geographical locations with some fictional locations. This is rated R 18+ and has violence, language and sexual situations.

A big thank you to @Rujula07 for the new cover! Amethyst Langston is a romance novelist with a tragic past. The same year her book hit the New York Times Best Seller list, she had a signing at a local book store where she encountered a man most thought harmless, he was anything but. After being kidnapped by Ethan Hamilton and surviving a tortuous eight days, he slipped up and eventually was caught, leading the FBI to a broken and almost dead Amethyst and the heinous trail that Hamilton had left behind him. The trial was the trial of the century, dragging her through all of the painful memories of what he subjected her to, but because she was able to keep her head, the jury came back with a unanimous decision of guilty. Now the penalty phase. Guilty by reason of mental defect. That was laughable. Ethan Hamilton knew exactly what he was doing. He was pure evil. Boston, MA seemed like a good place to start over and after meeting and talking with the court assigned counselor, she did just that. Putting her in touch with a new group, Amethyst meets a quirky, yet sweet English woman named Nigella Ambrose, who is a volunteer at the group. The women form a friendship that rivals anything that Amethyst has ever had and sooner rather than later, Nigella talks her into going on a blind date with a friend of hers. Enter Declan St. James, CEO of DSJ Security Technologies and a real jerk. He's a self made billionaire who thinks the world revolves around him and after his date with Nigella's author friend goes south, he's done. Until they run into each other again. Can Amethyst help him through a hurtful past? Will he let her? Will Declan's heart soften enough to let her in? Will he be able to protect her from her past and the dangers that lie ahead? The names, places and events are all fictional. Any likeness is a sheer coincidence. This work is mine and mine alone.

Dominic Valentine (pronounced Valen-teen) Giossi was the head of a very powerful Italian crime syndicate based in Little Italy...New York. At 30 years old he'd gained the respect of the family heads as well as the Russians and Greeks. He was fair but ruthless in his business dealings; he demanded loyalty from those that worked for him. It didn't matter if you were house staff all the way up to his second; you didn't go against the famiglia. His father passed away when he was 20 and all the biological family he had left was his mother, Valentina Giossi. She was a good, caring mother and she understood the business enough not to interfere but she also wanted Dominic to settle down with a good girl. This is the story of when fates collide and do you fight it or ride it out to see where it takes you? And would she be the 'more' that he was so desperately looking for? THIS STORY CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT, LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE. 18+ READERS ONLY. The character names and a lot of the places are fictional and any likeness they represent is purely coincidental.

A big thank you to @Rujula07 for the new cover!!! Calliope Rose Mancini is twenty-six years old and serves as a companion to her nona and when she insists that Calliope attend to her and travel with her to Las Vegas, she has no idea what is actually waiting for her there. Having been destined from a young age, Calliope has been promised to the boss of the Italian Mafia syndicate. Vincenzo Alessandro Siranni is a man who is used to getting what he wants. Whether it's women, money, cars, clubs, it doesn't matter, he wants what he wants, when he wants it. But when he meets a sassy and independent young woman, she turns his world upside down and he decides that he will spend every waking moment making her his wife. Will Calli fight him every step of the way or will she succumb easily to his charms? Enjoy watching the lives of Vincent and Calli as they collide and intersect, where their journey takes them from Vegas to Italy. The path will not be without obstacles as it would seem that fate tries to fight them every step of the way.

Sienna Antoinette Harper had spent twelve years running from her past; now 28 she'd built up walls around her heart trying to keep people out and keep her heart hidden deep within. She'd even gone to court and changed her name legally. Somehow she had managed to straighten up her life enough to attend college and graduate at the top of her class in Accounting. And when her sister, who was also her best friend and works for Addison Technologies in Las Vegas, reaches out to Sienna letting her know that she'd secured an interview that would most certainly end up as a full time job. Little did Sienna know that her past and present would collide and perhaps endanger her future. Roan Michael Addison was a billionaire CEO of his own company Addison Technologies and owned one club on the Strip in Las Vegas. He was a workaholic and didn't have time for relationships. He never saw the same woman twice, he never treated them badly but they understood once they were with him that was it. Much to the chagrin of Roan's twin brother, Cade, who was totally different. He encouraged Roan to settle down but he just wasn't feeling it until she walked into the elevator at his company and then again at his club Leviathan one night and his feelings started to change rapidly. He didn't understand these feelings and tried to fight them. The harder he fought them the more he was pulled in especially when he found out that she not only worked at his company but was the best friend of his brother's fiance, Lisbeth. Would he be able to uncover what it was about her that pulled him in like a moth to a flame? Could he help her break down the walls she'd worked so desperately to construct? The names of the characters are purely fictional. The name of the company and nightclub are fictional as well. EDITING HAS BEGUN ON THIS STORY! PLEASE BE PATIENT AND I AM AWARE WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE! THANK YOU!

Ainsley Caree Hudson didn't have a typical childhood; at eight years old she was the victim of abusive parents who didn't care about her, what happened to her or who did what to her. Until one night a man came in and rescued her. She asked his name and he told her it was "G" and then she asked him if he was an angel; he told her if that's what she needed he would be her angel. Her parents had tried to sell her to "G" to get out of debt and this angered the man so, that he took her away from there and had her parents killed. He placed her in a loving home with a forged birth certificate and told her to grow up and make something of herself. Twenty-two years later, she was an emergency room doctor at a hospital in Philadelphia and as fate would have it, her path would cross with her angel again but just not in the way you would think. Would this angel be able to help her deal with the night terrors, help her learn to love and in return find salvation in her arms? Would she be able to look past his dangerous lifestyle enough to let him in? Only time would tell. Join Ainsley as she inadvertently goes deep into the Mafia to discover it's nothing like the movies. MOST OF THE PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS ARE ALL FICTIONAL.