Shadows in Blue Eyes
Dr. Elena Rivera is everything you'd expect from a brilliant NYU chemistry professor: respected, admired, even rumored to be more than friends with her closest colleague, the enigmatic philosophy professor Belle Dubois. She's also a devoted single mother to her two-year-old daughter, Emilia.
But when the lectures end and the lab lights dim, Elena's other life begins-the one no one at the university knows about. The one where she is the daughter of Carlos Rivera, a powerful Mafia boss. The one where she still carries out the family's work: fighting, killing, surviving.
Elena has spent years balancing her masks, keeping her sister Olivia and her daughter far from the shadows she still walks in. But everything shifts the morning she meets Benjamin Brown-handsome, charming, and just a little too perfect. A new hire at NYU who just happens to cross her path and who just might not be who he says he is.
As Elena's heart wrestles with hidden feelings for Belle, dangerous suspicion of Benjamin, and the unshakable need to protect her daughter, the walls she's built between her two lives begin to crack.
Because love is the most complicated equation of all. And for Elena Rivera, the wrong solution could cost her everything.
A story of secrets, forbidden love, and the thin line between devotion and betrayal.
Sixteen-year-old Olive Monroe has never known freedom.
Trapped in a dimly lit corner of a crumbling Arizona house, she's kept under the watch of her cruel stepfather, Rex. She dreams of sunlight, open skies, and a life beyond the shadows-but dreaming is the closest she's ever come to escaping.
When Rex is arrested, Olive learns a shocking truth: she has five older brothers. Men who command respect with the click of a heel. Men who have spent fifteen years searching for the sister stolen from them.
For Matteo Conti, the night the phone call comes is the first time he's been able to breathe since that day. Now, his baby sister is finally coming home. But the girl he finds is not the one he remembers-she's quiet, skittish, and flinches at the smallest sound.
As Olive navigates a new world of power, protection, and overwhelming family love, she faces a choice: keep her past locked away, or trust her brothers with the truth. And for the Conti brothers, the question becomes-can the most influential men in the world learn how to be gentle for the one person they'd burn it all down to protect?