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Zakończone, Pierwotnie opublikowano sty 16, 2021
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A love found in the most unusual of places - between a mafia Don and his one-time therapist.

*****

Emerald Maree Pearce is a 25 year old woman with the body of a siren but a painful past that still haunts her. Influenced by a situation in her past that had left her broken, she becomes a psychologist to help people avoid what she had become.

Jordan Calix Kale, a 34 year old man, is a thousand times more powerful than the average man. Achieving his goal of being the Don of the most indomitable mafia clan of all time, of having his revenge, was supposed to sate him, it was supposed to curb his darkness. But what happens when the darkness continues to spread, seemingly seeking something else?

What happens when these two broken souls meet?

*****

A/N: Not your typical mafia novel.


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STARTED: 12|2020
PUBLISHED: 01|2021
COMPLETED: 07|2022
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