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Roman Melnikov is a deadly man in an expensive suit. I know what lies beneath the façade—the scars and tattoos that hint at the man he really is. He came here to find his sister, and his search led him to my dad and his friends. We both want to take them down, and the only way to do that is together. I had no idea how dangerous it would be, or that by the end of it, we'd all be covered in blood. Loving Roman is dangerous, but I can't let him go. His path is leading him straight to hell, and it looks like I'm coming along for the ride.

Kieran Murphy is an Irish mob boss and one of the most powerful men in Boston. When he walks me home, people step aside out of respect for him. He could have any woman he wants. So why does he have eyes only for me? Is it how he has to lift my chin with his fingers to keep my eyes level with his when he scolds me and how I cover my bottom instinctively when he tells me that I've earned a spanking? Or is it how I quiver at the thought of everything I'm too ashamed to beg him to do to me? Maybe it's all of those, but I'm pretty sure there's something else too.

The public labels me a Mafia monster, a man without a soul, and one hated by many. They're not wrong, and I'm not sorry for it. When my father orders me to marry a longtime enemy's daughter to settle a score between our families, she did what any smart woman with a beating heart would do. She ran. So, I hunted her down. She tries to negotiate for her freedom, but despite being inexplicably drawn to the deviant woman, I refuse her pitiful bribes with pleasure. I'll promise her freedom to get the answers I need, but I'll burn this city to the ground before I let her go.

Meet Preach, Digit, and Maria, three lost and damaged souls trying to make it on the streets of New York City, running petty scams to stay alive. A twist of events changes their lives forever when they accidently kill a man connected to the mob and find a small fortune. Now on the run, the trio tries to escape a notorious hit man called B-Boy. Along the way, they run into more shady characters and more trouble. Seduced by the siren call of the money and struggling with their own demons, Preach, Digit, and Maria will soon discover even the closest bonds can't overcome their past traumas.

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year “A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years.”—Harlan Coben From New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an...

Jules "Boko" Boudreaux is the younger brother of the newest leader of the Boudreaux family. After locating the missing best friend of his sister-in-law, Bridgette, the two quickly form a bond and become a staple in each other's lives, and he vows to find everyone who hurt her and ensure their undoing.

Unhinged. Charming. Dangerous. The brother of the man I’m prosecuting and now my stalker. I didn’t know Eoghan O’Rourke was a lawyer for the Irish Mob when I tried to put his brother in jail. And I shouldn’t have gotten drunk and yelled at him. I certainly shouldn’t have gone home with him. But I needed to get rid of my V-Card and a gorgeous mafia man who would never fall for a curvy womanlike me is the perfect one and done. Boy, was I wrong. Eoghan turns obsessed, jealous, and unhinged. I’m a prosecutor. He’s a criminal. We have nothing in common.

A work of power, intimacy and magic' Anees Salim, authorWhen Maneka Pataudi is arrested as the prime suspect for the murder of her ex-husband, she reveals a chilling tale of marital abuse and neglect.But is her confession the truth or a lie? Is she telling the story as a victim or a perpetrator?...

في صباح أحد الأيام، رجلٌ يرتدي بدلة داكنة كان على وشك صعود حافلة، تدق رأسه طلقتان ناريتان وينهار غارقًا في دمائه. وعلى الرغم من وجود الكثير من الناس حوله، لم ير أحد...

Affiliato quasi per caso a una potente cosca palermitana, Timothy Casanova è quanto di più lontano si possa immaginare da un mafioso: un dongiovanni fashion, di nobili origini, amante dei bei vestiti e del lusso sfrenato, mosso più dalla brama di divertimenti ed eccessi che non da quella di potere. Eppure, suo malgrado, si ritrova a rivestire i panni dell'uomo di fiducia del boss Vito Sapienza, dal quale è incaricato di svolgere un compito assai delicato: rintracciare nel capoluogo lombardo suo fratello Riccardo, rapito da un pericoloso cartello della droga colombiano.

The first book in a seductive new series from #1 Amazon bestselling author Scott Hildreth Tripp Once, I took down terrorists on the front lines as a marine. Now I'm in the business of bad. I've sold guns to people others might not approve of. I've eliminated the criminals, the lowlifes and the...

L'incredibile risveglio di Francesco, il protagonista del romanzo, pone dinanzi ai suoi sbigottiti occhi degli inquietanti interrogativi: chi sono diventato e chi sono quelli che mi circondano? Così, senza sapere perché, si ritrova a vivere la vita di un altro con il profondo e sentito rimpianto della propria passata esistenza che, invece, non gli appartiene più. Dovrà salvare la sua nuova vita per non morire un'altra volta.

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After 12 years, with 95 confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it's not to reunite with his family, it's to bury them - victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan's own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone.

I was born to be the queen of Sin City. I just have to prove it to my father, Italian mafia king Dante Salvato. He thinks that I'm a spoiled, weak little girl who could never be capable of taking over his empire. The only thing standing in the way of me proving myself is a cocky a-----e who doesn't know a thing about our world. For some reason, my father's preferred heir is Cole Brooks, which means he's now my competition.

My older sister ran away from home to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage with the mafia family blamed for her mother's death. Now, that burden has fallen to me. Eighteen and sheltered, my life has only ever revolved around the familiar comfort of the tennis court. I've always been shielded from the brutal realities of my father's world, protected from his enemies. Enemies like Lochlan Dunne, who my father now wants as an ally.

FBI Agent Jessie NuCalla barged into my establishment demanding I surrender. What this fierce female failed to realize is The Governor Hotel is my sovereign territory. Within these walls, I am the justice system. One of us has fallen into a trap, but I'm not sure if either of us wants to escape. Who will escape what's happening between us?

I should’ve trusted him, believed him when he told me he was only trying to keep my safe. I thought the worst was behind me. Little did I know the worst was yet to come. Kidnapped by a man capable of the worst kind of evil, I am thrust into a dark and dangerous world where blood and wealth are the only things that matter. I’m a pawn in the war for power. The man I was desperate to escape from is now the only one that can save me. I’ll do anything to be back in his arms. He saved me once; he’ll do it again.

Eine Wasserleiche und Familienbesuch aus Rom: Im italienischen Urlaubskrimi Azzurro mortale ermittelt Commissario Vito Grassi und sein Powerfrauen-Team zum 2. Mal im atemraubend schönen Ligurien. Raue Klippen, malerische Dörfer und das karibisch anmutende Blau des ligurischen Meeres: Commissario Vito Grassi hat sich in seinem idyllisch gelegenen Rustico in Levanto eingelebt und freut sich über den Besuch seiner Frau und seines Sohnes aus Rom. Seine resolute Mitbewohnerin Toni ist allerdings wenig begeistert darüber, dass sie deswegen vorübergehend zu ihrer Mutter ziehen soll.

Marlon ist eigentlich ein netter Kerl. Und noch dazu frisch verliebt. Doch er soll die Mafiageschäfte seines Großonkels in Köln-Ehrenfeld übernehmen, was die Sache mit dem nett sein schon mal erschwert. Ein bisschen Pech hat er obendrein: Die albanische Mafia droht das heilige Gleichgewicht von Clans und Klüngel in der Stadt ordentlich durcheinander zu bringen - denn die kennt keine Ehre, keine Gnade und erst recht nicht das "Kölsche Grundgesetz".