Blood & Roses
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Last published Sun, Jun 29, 2025
A nurse with a haunted past. A mafia heir with blood on his hands. One bullet changes everything.
Emilia Hart has spent her life patching up broken bodies and hiding her own scars. After losing her brother to the opioid crisis, she's built walls around her heart and a life that runs on control. Her hospital shift is chaos enough until a mysterious, gunshot victim lands on her table and turns her world upside down.
Luca Moretti wasn't supposed to survive. As the heir to one of the world's most dangerous crime families, he knows loyalty can kill and love is a liability. But when a quiet, stubborn nurse saves his life, something inside him stirs something he thought he buried with his brother long ago.
She wants nothing to do with the darkness he brings.
He swore he'd never pull an innocent into his world.
But danger is closing in and neither of them can outrun fate.
As enemies circle and secrets unravel, Emilia and Luca must decide:
Can love bloom where blood has already spilled?
Or are some hearts too bruised to beat together?
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