Untouchable Book One: The Claiming

For ten years, Lira Hayes has loved her brother's best friend from afar. Connor Roarke is everything she shouldn't want: cold, untouchable, and tied to a dark, intimidating life she can't quite see. But when Connor buys an abandoned asylum on the edge of town and transforms it into an underground nightclub, the summer before her senior year of college turns into a game of high-stakes temptation.

Connor has spent a decade playing a dangerous game of self-control, telling himself he'd keep his hands off Nolan's baby sister. But when Lira walks into his club wearing a dress that drives him insane-and drawing the unwanted attention of other men-his legendary restraint snaps.

In a secluded storage room, the illusion breaks. Lines are crossed, skin is marked, and a silent, obsessive pact is sealed in the dark.

Now, they are caught in a breathless web of secret touches, stolen nights, and suffocating paranoia. With Nolan acting as an emotional landmine and Connor's brutal syndicate family looming in the background, every second they steal together carries a catastrophic consequence. And as the summer ticks down toward Lira's return to campus, Connor knows one thing for certain: he has tasted her, and he will burn the world down before he lets her go.

The first in a dual POV, Mafia dark romance trilogy.

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