"Mom I have told you so many times I don't want to get married," I said to my dear mother, who has not stopped ranting at me. "How long do you want to be an unmarried man? Look at all your friends. Skyler, Zanvil, and now even Skyler have girlfriends, and here you are solving criminal cases. When will you solve your life's case?" My mother taunted me sternly. I pressed my lips in a thin line. "I want to see you happy." She was pissed because I didn't go on a blind date on a Friday. "Mom, I'm happy. I don't want to do blind dates, and I don't ever want to get married. It's not for me," I said sternly, not wanting to take this topic any further. "Then when will I get to see my grandchild?" she said, sounding agitated. If she wanted a grandchild this desperately, then she should not have stopped me from having a surrogate. Only because of her I even gave it a try for surrogacy. "Probably never," I said, cutting the call before she started to do waterworks. "Mom, give me a break," I said in annoyance, and I grabbed my cell phone. I slid up the green button to tell her for the final time. "Hello, am I speaking to Mr. Michele Roberts?" a famine voice said from the other side. I composed myself before opening my mouth. "Yes, you are," I said in a firm tone while still massaging my forehead. I need to take medicine for it. "Sir, I have called you to invite you to the anniversary ceremony of Happy Life Fertility Hospital," she said in her receptionist tone. My brows furrowed when she said that. mouth was sealed when she continued. "We tried to call your wife, but we couldn't reach her. Please bring your four-year-old son too. We are going to do a small celebration because he is our thousandth successful IVF child," she said, sounding happy before cutting the call. The ground beneath my legs was snatched away. I just couldn't believe my ears. What the fuck? I have a wife and a four-year-old son.

Pain and horror is a normalcy in the mafia world. Many children born into this world have seen dead bodies before they get their license. It's one of the many rules of being a mafia heir, as is never letting the darkness of the underworld touch their women. Wives, sisters, daughters, are all off limits. Until Aurora Salvatore gets dragged to hell and back by her own husband, Nico Russo, once her family secret gets out. She is missing for over a month before she is found, although she feels as though she died in that dark basement. Instead of being consumed by the darkness, her familia initiates her into their mafia business and she makes it her life's purpose to hunt her husband down and make him pay for the torture and brutality she faced at his hands. When the deadliest familia member Dominico Vitale comes home from Italy to avenge his sister's death, he suspects Aurora of betraying the familia. He sends his men to watch her, keeps close tabs on her, yet cannot figure out how she is always 2 steps ahead of him. The deadly duo quickly learn that they have much more in common than they thought, and work together to find the Russo's before the Russo's find them.

Thornwick Starfall is not a school you choose. It is a threshold that chooses you back. When Asher Graves steps into its dark, breathing halls, the stone remembers him. The blood remembers him. Tied by lineage older than the towers themselves, he is dragged into the abyssal chamber where roots coil like veins around a single chair... an ancient seat meant to read a soul's past, present, and unspoken future. Few are ever placed there. Fewer survive it unchanged. No one in his bloodline had ever been titled. Until Asher. What the roots see brands him with a name Thornwick has not spoken in generations... The Villain. Not born of cruelty, but of prophecy. And then there is... The Witch. Silent. Watchful. Always in the corner of the room. Her eyes find Asher the moment he crosses the threshold, as if she has been waiting through lifetimes for his shadow to touch the floor. In Thornwick, where every magical order is bound to its Opposing Order, she is everything he must never touch. Because the Academy survives on rules carved into law and bone: Opposites must remain apart. Distance is safety. Connection is catastrophe. Interaction is forbidden... unless destiny intervenes, unless faculty permits fate to breathe for a moment. But destiny does not ask permission. Between villainy written in roots and a witch born to oppose him, Thornwick Starfall trembles. Because when rules are broken not by rebellion, but by inevitability, magic does not punish. It remembers. And it collects.

Indila must play a dangerous game to conceal her identity from a callous alpha named Cyrus or risk losing her sight and freedom forever. But as Cyrus draws closer, challenging her every move, the game of deception becomes perilously harder, and the stakes deadlier. Secrets can only stay buried for so long. And when the truth finally unravels, Cyrus will have to choose between destroying an abnormality or accepting Indila for who she is. *** Join a crazy adventure packed with omegaverse themes, steamy scenes, humour, romance, action, enemies to lovers, found family, likeable and unlikeable side characters, pack dynamics, hierarchy, and a twisted villain. ---- Copyright 2025 Belinda Rose.

They're the golden pair everyone swears should be together-he's the football captain, she's the cheer captain. On paper, Theodore Grayson and Olivia Thompson are the picture of campus royalty. In reality? They can't stand each other. Theo is cocky, reckless, and infuriatingly charming, the kind of guy who never hears the word no. Olivia is sharp, unshakable, and has zero patience for his smug grin or his legendary reputation. He thrives on provoking her. She swears he's the last person she'd ever fall for. But when their worlds keep colliding-on the field, at parties, through friends they have in common-lines begin to blur. Hate turns into something hotter, sharper, and far more dangerous than either of them expected. Because the only thing worse than despising Theodore Grayson... might be wanting him.

One moment, I'm tracing my bleeding hand over vivid, newly unearthed frescoes of three striking men in a Late Republican villa, their features eerily reminiscent of the fresco I've studied since I was ten: Roman Senator Marcus Valerius, whose family vanished from history in 50 BC. The next, I'm sprawled across a marble floor in ancient Rome, pinned beneath the hard, commanding body of Marcus himself-flesh and blood, pulsing with raw power. And good grief, nothing captured the fire in his piercing stare or the way his touch ignites my traitorous body. But the history books lied. Marcus isn't the last Valerius. He has three brothers, each more dangerously captivating than the last-men I now know match those cryptic frescoes. Lucius, the battle-scarred warrior, whose heated grappling in the training yard leaves me breathless. Flavius, the silver-tongued diplomat, whose calculated caresses in shadowed corridors unravel my resolve. And Rufus, the freedman with knowing eyes, whose gentle touch conceals a hunger that sets my heart racing. Trapped in ancient Rome with no way home, I'm ensnared in a web of desire and deceit. The Valerii brothers want me-each in their own intoxicating way-and resistance feels like a losing battle. Worse, there is a fifth fresco, and it hides a chilling secret that threatens to upend everything I know. Am I a stranger in Rome, or the key to the Valerii family's mysterious erasure from history? With enemies closing in and time itself against me, I must choose: fight for a way back to my world or surrender to a fate that could rewrite the past.

As war erupts between the Greek and Sicilian mafias, the powerful Accardi family must fight to protect their empire. Accardi Obsession unravels a dark, multi-POV mafia story charged with forbidden chemistry, explosive family tensions, and an arranged-marriage pact that turns sworn enemies into something far more dangerous. *** The Sicilians trusted them. The Greeks tried to take their empire. Now, the balance of power hangs by a thread. In the third season, the Accardi family faces their greatest war yet - one that will test loyalty, love, and blood itself. Costa and Millie are fighting to protect the family they built together, even as war threatens to tear them apart. Rocco and Alessia are learning what it means to be married in a world that can take everything from you in seconds. And when a new marriage alliance is proposed, one Accardi makes the ultimate sacrifice, and enemies become lovers... or whatever you call it when hate gets complicated. There's a war brewing, a wedding on the calendar, and at least four people pretending they're not in love. The Accardis are back. Pray for whoever stands in their way.

MATURE CONTENT / MAFIA ROMANCE 18+ He's everything she never wanted, and the one man she needs. She's a stubborn thorn in his side, and the one woman he can't stop thinking about. When mafia princess Sofia Vitale is arranged to marry a Memphis gang lord rather than the mob boss she'd been expecting, she knows she has no choice but to escape--or die trying. "Malik Jones is a shameless flirt, genius investor, and self-made billionaire. As the leader of the most successful gang in Memphis, he has enough on his plate as-is. But when a lucrative business opportunity presents itself, he knows he'd be stupid not to accept. Even if the deal comes with a few strings attached. Strings like an arranged marriage to his new business partner's daughter, for example. ~ Sofia Vitale knows exactly what's expected of her as the daughter of a Mafia Don: stay quiet, be obedient, and marry the man of her father's choosing. But when her future husband turns out to be a total stranger from a far-away city, she panics. All her life she's been locked in a cage. This time, she has no intention of going quietly." The Spare Engagement is a Dark Mafia Romance story featuring Enemies to Lovers and Arranged Marriage ♡ It is Book 3 of my mafia romance series, but it can be read as a standalone too :) Duel POV, guaranteed HEA, and lots of spice! BOOK ONE: THE BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT - Maya x Henry - #FriendsWithBenefits and #FakeDating BOOK TWO: THE HOOKUP PROTOCOL - Charlotte x Noah - #SecondChanceRomance and #ForbiddenLove BOOK THREE: THE SPARE ENGAGEMENT - Sofia x Malik - #EnemiesToLovers and #ArrangedMarriage BOOK FOUR: THE ENEMY PACT - Gertrude x Aleksander - #AgeGap and #OppositesAttract Link in bio to get updated when my next book drops ♡ - Kate

The young royals' best friend is hiding something-even if he can't lie. Thirtyx Venmagalion was sent to the elite Wydewood Academy to betray the prince and princess. But when his people-the shifty, anarchist Veriths with a physical inability to lie-abandoned him, he befriended the monarchs instead. Now on the verge of graduation, the teens face a threat to the unprecedented peace they've enjoyed under King Grimmary. And despite Thirtyx's best efforts to defend the prince and princess, his heritage makes him a prime suspect. Thirtyx quickly learns that keeping a low profile won't get him through senior year, especially with his fiery new friend Seerla urging him to speak out. But when he's juggling so many dangerous secrets, keeping the target off his back is easier said than done. In spite of his best efforts, could he be the one to bring the delicate peace crashing down?

The first time she saw him, he was surrounded by flames. She couldn't clearly see his eyes, but his gaze burned every part of her skin it lingered on. Surely if the legendary beasts ever had existed, he would be one of them-one of the dragons. Kel has spent her life as a palace guard, hiding her mysterious ability. When sent in the princess's place to form a marriage alliance with a neighboring kingdom, she is captured by enemy soldiers and taken to the Serin Empire. The ruler of Serin is a terrifying and coldhearted man, but he seems to have taken an unusual interest in Kel. How long will she be able to keep her identity and abilities a secret under the constant gaze of the Dragon Emperor?