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Dangerous Hearts (BWWM)

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He was danger. 

She was innocence. 

He was fire and she was the water that 
wanted to put him out. 

But what happens when his fire spreads and she ends up getting burned?

__

Nadiyah Valentino was everything anyone could ever want to be. Independent, successful, and shockingly beautiful. Her do-gooder attitude and confidence is what scares most men away from the African-American - Italian beauty .. every man except Giovanni. 

When mafia leader Giovanni meets Nadiyah at a club, from the moment she slapped him across the face he knew one thing and one thing only - she had to be his. He was willing to do anything and everything to claim her as his own.

Will Nadiyah fall for his bad boy approach or will Giovanni have to force her to be his, find out in Dangerous Hearts!All Rights Reserved

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