Aniyah Ramirez, 23 years old, and works at a high end restaurant. She has been working since she was 15 years old and has saved up a lot of her own money. When her dad passed away when she was 9 years old, she got a inheritance from him, which she would get at the age of 20 since then she hasn't spent much of it. When she was 22 he mother passed away from breast cancer and the last thing she got from her mother was a rose pendant, that night she passed away. Since then she works hard and makes sure to do good for herself but to also have some.. fun.
Casteel Montreal, 25 years old, and he is the gang leader to the King Lords in Chicago. He never had a loving family growing up. His father would verbally abuse him, at 9 years old his father started to physically abuse him. His mother never stopped it, she was just worried about herself. When he was 13 his mother left them and never looked back. For five years his father abused him even more and his friends did too but when he turned 18 he left and like his mom, never looked back. Now 25 he is the leader to the King Lords, has a mansion, and he parties all he wants when he's not dealing with business.
One night Aniyah goes to The Underground, a nightclub in Chicago, parties with her friends, and meets Casteel. They start to party together and go back to his hotel room. The next morning she leaves without telling him and that night she realizes that she left her pendant in the hotel room with him. Panicking she goes back only to find out he's gone. Casteel wakes up to find Aniyah gone but a rose pendant in her place and wonders if she forgot it in her hurry to leave. Wondering what to do to get it back to her, he devised a plan. For three months she will live with him and on the last day he will return it to her but the catch is that she must do whatever he tells her to do, to get her out of his system.
Will Aniyah be able to not fall for the King Lords leader? Or will she make it, get her pendant back, and leave?
Deadly assassins Allegra and Ace have been trying in vain to kill each other for years. With a mutual enemy threatening their mafias, they find themselves in an unexpected alliance, and soon discover killing each other isn't the only temptation they need to resist...
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Allegra Grey is poised to be the next great American mafia leader, and she's more than living up to the name. A skilled assassin, there's only one target who's ever gotten away from her-suave, sinfully handsome Ace De Luca, heir to the Italian mafia and the Greys' biggest rival. When both mafias are faced with a dangerous threat, they're forced to work together to protect their families, and unexpected sparks fly. Allegra definitely isn't one to sleep with the enemy, especially an arrogant womanizer like Ace. But there's an undeniable electricity between them and Allegra's not sure it's all hatred. Ace may be bad news, but Allegra's never been afraid of a little danger. As the fire they're playing with grows to a scorching blaze, one thing is clear: trying to kill each other may have been difficult, but resisting this intense chemistry will be impossible.
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Cover designed by Regina Dionela
Content/trigger warning: Contains mature themes, violence and gore