♡| ONC 2020 Short Lister |♡ ♡| Now A Full-Length Novel |♡ Run with the big dogs, they said. It will be fun, they said. Let me tell you riding in the back of a cop car is not as sexy as it sounds. Handcuffs are a lot more entertaining when you're getting laid. I ran with the big dogs. Now I'm caged with them. A textbook drug deal gone bad. Case closed. I've given up fighting, even if my folks haven't. It's like learning to walk again. Lebanon Correctional carries its own codes and laws of violence, bureaucracy, and extortion. Ones I'm hell-bent on avoiding. Until my cellie teaches me to make a tattoo gun. Colt Cross. First degree murder; fifteen-to-life. Brilliant and broken. Fighting for me inside the fence while my family rallies on the outside; proving beyond a reasonable doubt that nothing is as it seems. Cover art by the lovely @AFleetingDream_91 Warning: Contains offensive language (racial slurs, sexual slurs) Contains sexual situations

Mandy is an intelligent, loving and caring 21 year old. She just landed her dream job. But the day before her first day at work, her parents drop a bomb on her. She has to marry a heartless mafia boss Ayanda to repay their loan. Ayanda is an abusive ruthless, heartless and dangerous 25 year old mafia leader. He doesn't care what people say about him. His mom left him when he was only 5 years old and he has anger issues towards women. But there's something about Mandy the girl who disturbed his peace from the first day he met her. No matter how much he pushes her away she just won't go away. Suddenly he feels something unfamiliar for this annoying, loud and opinionated woman "LOVE". Hey guys, some of the lines used here are from one of my favourite books by Wanitta Praks Maid to the Mafia. For more chapters please download Dreame.