She was the daughter they lost. She became the woman they never saw coming. Six-year-old Ava Elwood vanished during a glittering summer fair, leaving behind a shattered family and a legacy of grief. Years later, she returns-not as the fragile girl they remember, but as Aria: a self-made billionaire, fierce, untouchable, and hiding the truth behind a crescent-shaped birthmark. The Elwoods had moved on. They adopted Elise, a perfect replacement, a princess in pearls. But when Aria reclaims her place, Elise begins to unravel everything with lies, manipulation, and a dangerous game of victimhood. Punished by the very family that once mourned her, Aria walks away-with her CEO boyfriend Ryan, her beloved grandmother Margaret, and an empire she built from ashes. But when the truth explodes and Elise's mask falls, the Elwoods want her back. Too late. Because this heiress isn't just lost. She's reborn.

Once upon a time I was seven years old, also seven was my lucky number. I gradpuated seventh in my class fell off my bike when I was seventeen and had to get seven stitches in my head. I also fell in love with Seven during the summer of '07. Seven Lambardi. Yes that name still sends a longing through my bones. He was my Italian bad boy whom my father despised and did everything to split us up. Seven was poor and that's what my rich father had against him. I never completely forgot about Seven and in my early twenties the fates tossed us together once more and oh how the tables had turned. Join me through the seven deadly sins. I promise you want regret it.

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.

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.

Amara Volkov, the daughter of the Russian mafia leader, is one of their best assassins'. She has trained all her life in order to please her father and will do anything to make him happy. But things will change once a war breaks out, sending the Italian mafia and Russian mafia into war. The rivalry between the two families forbids each other from talking with the enemy. However, things change when a small war starts between Amara and Luca, the children of the enemies and it may lead to forbidden desires.

Delve into the enigmatic realms of love and danger, weaving a tale of intrigue and suspense. Bella, haunted by a turbulent past, finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Luca, whose own shadowy history adds layers of mystery to their connection. As Bella unravels the secrets of her past, she discovers dark forces at play, threatening to shatter the fragile peace she has found with Luca. With danger lurking around every corner, their journey becomes a thrilling adventure filled with twists, turns, and unexpected revelations. Will their love withstand the sinister forces conspiring against them, or will they be consumed by the shadows of their pasts?

In this Series, Billionaire Bachelors meet their match in a wicked plan of their own. 1. The Summer Bride ****** It all started with a red-haired little girl. Compassionate. Claire Bishop has always been a compassionate woman. When losing her one and only job shatters her completely, Claire thought all was lost. With moral rules and warm heart, she accepts a offer she can't refuse, even if at the end she might just lose her heart in it. Perfectionist. Tyler Sanders has always been a perfectionist, let it be in business or in family. People admired him for his way in business, people feared him for he knows everything about everyone. He took pride of his calculated life but soon, it started to crumble because a little girl couldn't stay without a mommy anymore. He knew money could buy anything, hence he used that to his advantage but in the process, he didn't expect himself to lose what he thought was, a broken heart. But with a bit of help from a little girl, will they join their heart? If so, then how? Well, read to find out. ****** Tighten your seat belts for a ride into the life of Claire and Tyler. Started - 05/04/2015. Finished - 14/05/2016. #31 in Romance - 19/09/2016. 1M Reads - 25/03/2018. #9 in General Fiction - 14/08/18. 2M Reads - 06/07/2021 2015 © SADIA KARIM

In this Series, Billionaire Bachelors meet their match in a wicked plan of their own. 2. The Winter Bride ****** It all started with a bitter need for revenge. Tabloids Good Girl. Ashley Davis has always been the good girl. The magazines even named her the good girl as she was completely ready to settle with her life but then a mysterious billionaire stormed into her life and changed everything. Mysterious Billionaire. Everyone knew him but no one knew what goes in his head. He was as cold as ice. Revenge was everything for him. When a year ago his parents were killed at a hit and run, Neil Harris vowed to find out who did it and take revenge at any cost, anyhow possible even if he had to marry the said killer's daughter to destroy the family. But what happens when a cold revenge was all it took to bring them together? Read to find out. ****** Tighten your seat belts for a ride into the life of Ashley and Neil. Started - 17/03/2015 A Long Hiatus. Finished - 01/05/2021 2016 © SADIA KARIM

Billionaire's series ~ 4 Angela Alfonsi is the last born of the Alfonsi family, a family of businessmen and women involved in the Italian chain of market. When she is arranged to marry the business mogul Eros Del Peiro, she has complicated feelings about it. Coupled with this fact, is the painful realization that Angela has fallen in-love with her next door neighbor, Donovan. As the neighbors get to know each other, Angela realizes there is more to family, love, hurt, deceit, betrayal and friendship. When she gets entangled with one of the notorious mafia Lords in Italy, the journey won't be easy for both Angela and Eros Del Peiro, the man she has been arranged to marry as their love is tempted in ways they never believed was possible. * Copyright 2019, Hephzilolami

I stitched him up. One bleeding stranger in my bookstore. One act of mercy I can't take back. Now he's decided I belong to him. Lucifer de Rivel doesn't ask permission. He doesn't negotiate. He watches through hidden cameras, sends armed men to drag me off the street, locks me in a penthouse prison twenty floors above Paris. He calls it protection. His eyes promise something darker. "You weren't afraid when I was bleeding on your floor, Angel. You should be terrified now." I'm nineteen. A virgin. An orphan with nothing but books and borrowed time. He's twenty-one. A monster. The most dangerous man in Paris with emerald eyes and hands that have buried enemies alive. He says the Russian mafia wants to use me against him. But the cage he's built isn't about safety. It's about possession. And the worst part? I'm starting to forget why I wanted to escape. ___ A glimpse "Oui. Again. And again. Until you can't walk without feeling me inside you." I pinned her beneath me, grinding hard against her slick entrance. "I want to fuck you while you're still swollen from me. Want to make you scream." "Lucifer-" I bit her neck, marking her. "Say you're mine." She tensed, defiant. "No." My cock throbbed at her fire. I pressed just the tip inside, then pulled back. "Then you don't get this." She squirmed, frustrated, wet, needy. "You're an asshole." "I'm honest." I rocked against her clit, teasing. "You came to my bed. Let me inside you. Chose this. Now say it-because it's true." Silence. Trembling. Her pride cracking. Then, a broken whisper: "Yours. God, I'm yours.Happy,now?" Triumph surged. "Ecstatic," I growled-and slammed deep in one brutal thrust. __________ A dark mafia romance with a possessive antihero, "touch her and die". "His to Break : Lucifer's Reign | 18+" is a standalone dark romance novel. It is the 2nd book of the "The Hawthorne Legacy " series.