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Gardenia Cafe

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Parts 54
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✨Book 3 in the DiSilva Series✨

Charlotte Carter is an ordinary girl who works at a small cafe. One day she meets a man who will change her life for good. A man she knows dangerously little about. 

Dante Rocco Salvino is the second in command for the DiSilva family mafia. For the first time in his life, he finds himself obsessing over a girl. He tries his best to keep her in the dark for secrecy bears the strongest protection. But she is dragged into his world of violence and death. 

They were made for each other. But will they last? Will they even live?

18+ Warning: violence, gore, language, smut 

Ratings
#1 Mafia Men 
#1 Dark Romance 
#1 Italian Men 
#2 Trilogy
#4 First Love
#8 Star-crossed 

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Under My Skin

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