** Special Note ** This story will be edited at a later date to fit my current writing style, however, I am leaving this first very rough draft up until then. Highest Ranking -- # 1 in General Fiction - Feb 2015 to April 2015 Twenty-two year old Lea Mason didn't mind living a boring life far from the limelight that her parents enjoyed. In fact, she thrived in the solitude and mundane routines that she surrounded herself with. Carter Stephens, crime boss extraordinaire, enjoyed dishing out pain and punishment to those that dared to cross him. His only rules for life were simple: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer, know their every weakness and use that weakness to destroy them, never leave a witness alive, and never, under absolutely no circumstance, feel. **All rights reserved. No part of 'A Cartel Affair' may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher.** **Please note - All Photos and Media content are owned by their respective photographers and/or artist.

My daddy tells me I have to marry an important man, a man that will settle all the family debts and problems. I'm being forced to marry the son of the biggest Italian Mob around the entire world.... What she hadn't expected was the life she'd live, not before the wedding but after....

Laura Santos has always lived a sheltered life. Her father, Carlos Santos, is the typical overprotective Italian dad.....or is he? Growing up with nannies and bodyguards, Laura never really questioned their existence in her life, and always ignored the rumors of her father being into some illegal businesses. But when Laura finds herself being bossed around by her father and his new head of security, she'll have to find the balance between being smothered to death by her father, and dodging his enemies.

It started out as a simple dream that would get Kaitlyn out on her home and away from her parents. But what happens when something smashes that dream and slaps her furrowed into a reality that she must face and a past she must try to forget for the sake of the one she must now hold dear. They say time heals all wounds but will Kaitlyn be able to overlook her own rape or has her encounter with the head of the Italian Mafia left a permanent mark that she will be forced to remember?

For mature readers does have sex and violence. Pain, betrayal, loss, and love Melanie Renall's is thrown into a world she had never known from the lonely lost one she has lived with here parents for years. Moving around the US as her parents write there lives in different town were no one treats her like a living person but an outsider for being one of the poor. In hopes one night her parents move to a city she always dreamed of to find she is the one moving this time to a boarding school none the less. Only she never makes it to the airport and is taken for a more unexpected purpose that turns her life upside down for a man harder then stone. Will she run at any chance that appears or will she succumb to the devilishly handsome Prince. Is love in the cards for them or will she find herself with a broken heart from his arrogant's? Time will tell as events change there lives forever in a twist of fate. Will the deceit, cover up's, and scandals, they uncover throw them apart by other's or bring the two together in the web of liars that is the Mafia? Love or Death that is the question?

Crystal wants to be an ordinary girl again that has nothing to do with her Mafia related family. Especially her powerful mafia dad, Nick and her elder bro, Alexandre. But what happens when meets Caine Richand, the badass playboy Mafia rival leader that is Crystal's father's (Nick) worst enemy? What will happen the rivalry starts growing even more than before?Read on to find out...

Gabriela Romano, is the daughter of Salvador Romano, leader of The Gulf Cartel in Mexico. She's been living a normal life in the United States after her mother divorced her father to keep her away from the dangerous world she grew up in. Four years later, Gabby and her two best friends go on a vacation to Acapulco, Mexico where they meet four, very handsome and dangerous men. One of them is: Santiago Bustamante, new leader of the most powerful cartel in Mexico....The Sinaloa Cartel. Will Gabby let Santiago lure her back to the dangers of the mafia?

"Even if you run away, I would search to the end of this world until I found you. Because the only place you can stay is in these arms." ****** He was ruthless. He had no weakness. He was not afraid of death. Not until he met her... Who would have thought that saving a man's life one night could change her life forever. When Megan Rose had landed in Rome, she was thrilled to start over. New life, new identity, new her. When she saved Xavier Vellutini, the head of a powerful Italian mafia, he had since been obsessed with her and she found herself slowly falling into his trap, falling in love. Yet, by a twist of fate, Xavier broke her heart, and she walked out of his life. Two years later, Xavier finally found Megan but this time she held a secret that will turn their lives upside down... REWRITING

My eighteenth birthday... A day in which is suppose to be special, the day I become a young adult. The day in which I should never forget and boy will I never forget the events that took place that day. It was the day my parents told me I would be marrying the son of my parents rival company. Not only did this arrangement happen before I was even born, I have no say in what I want. I have to grin and bear having to be married to a complete jerk! So what if he is mouth wateringly hot?! He is an ass! Pervert! Womaniser! You name it, he is it! If this is not bad enough, I learnt that my whole life has been a lie. My parents do own a shipping company, but I never would of guessed they were involved in the mafia! Not only that, my supposed fiance is the King of all mafia in America. I wish my family and I never left France those 2 years ago!

When people see Alonzo Riccardi they only see the Italian Billionaire; who's the CEO of his family owned business. If there is one thing you should know about Alonzo, it's he knows what he wants and he goes and get it. One thing he never wanted was a wife and child, but on one fateful night when he finally decides to loosen up; he is guaranteed one and decides to have the other. Katrina Stewart never thought that she would become pregnant, on the only night she decides to have a one night stand. Now she is married to Alonzo Riccardi a tall, dark, and dangerous man and is expecting his baby. He has made it very clear that he doesn't want her in his life, but does he have his reasons? Katrina fears that she will always be his unwanted wife, but why won't he just let her go? What does she do about the sexual tension in the air? What do you do when you find out your married to a mafia boss? Edited by: Amy Perry/and Author