Criminal Hearts
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Last published Thu, May 1, 2025
She came to Italy for a work. She found the devil in a tailored suit.
Edith Tinaye Chawasema, a brilliant Black lawyer residing in Italy, only wanted peace during her three-month escape in Milan. But peace was never in the cards ,not after she defends the brother of Killian Ettore Abate , the cold and dangerously magnetic head of Italy's most feared mafia family.
When their worlds collide in court, sparks fly. But when they meet again at a shadowy club two weeks later, that spark ignites something darker. Passion. Power. Possession.
As Edith is pulled deeper into Killian's world ,one of secrets, violence, and whispered betrayals ,her morals blur, and the line between right and wrong burns away under his touch. All while a shadow from Killian's past stalks them both Redain Bianchi, his former right hand, turned enemy.
She wanted rest.
He wanted revenge.
Neither of them expected obsession.
A tale of slow-burn seduction, brutal loyalty, and the kind of love that might just ruin them both.
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