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We made a deal with the devil many years ago and sentenced ourselves to a life of hookups and casual sex. It's not safe for us to bring a woman into our lives, and until recently, it was enough. But then we met her. Our Angel. On the outside, Leighton's a good girl forced to live a life as a pawn in a game she didn't choose to play. But on the inside? On the inside, she's the missing piece of our puzzle. There are a million reasons we shouldn't want her. We're eighteen years her senior. She's the police commissioner's daughter. We work with the most infamous criminals in the city.

In the United States, members of a Louisiana VFW fight back, and an Illinois gun shop employee overcomes personal loss to find a purpose. In the hollers of West Virginia, a cagey man holds a secret to an upstate New York nuclear facility, while a hunter becomes the hunted in Washington state. Disabled veterans spring a surprise in South Carolina, and in the mountains of Wyoming, a rustic cabin holds more than it seems.

Micah Malone is the son of a notoriously cruel—and thankfully dead—mafia boss. Now, he's the organization's enforcer and right hand to his brother's reign. He's the broadest of five boys. The quietest. And the deadliest. Yet, even with his blade pressed to my throat, he's still the only man who makes me feel alive. It's toxic and dangerous to pursue a relationship with him. I know better. But Micah is like a flame, burning bright in the night. And I'm more scared of the dark than of the monsters who hide amongst the shadows.

Castor DeMatteo has been off-limits since I was a teenager. He used to be a nice jock who'd rustle my hair like I was his kid sister. Now? He's a capo of the Valentino crime family, lathered in ink and covered in gold rings… everywhere. How do I know? Because one night, at the restaurant where I work, he rented the back room and asked me to work it. There's only one problem… He's my brother's best friend.

Joey Lucrazi ratted on his entire family, and now because of it, I'm forced to live in fear of retaliation. I count down the days in witness protection until I'm caught, but it turns out reality is worse than imagination when Leandro Rigiano—the most ruthless hitman in the five families—comes knocking. Six feet of tattooed muscle stomps into our quiet house and takes his revenge, revealing that the rat I married also took the life of Leandro's wife. Now I'm his prisoner, and he's not at all what I expect.

This was supposed to be my last hush money payment to a dirty cop for a crime I didn't commit. I've been tethered to danger since I was a little girl because of my last name. Of course, when I see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's stripped from me… by him, a ruthless up-and-coming mob boss with no business being this hot. Donny's the guy they call to kill the hitmen. And now he's trapped me for the rest of my days. I scheme and plan and try to escape, but he's always one step ahead of me. He's been hunting prey since I've been hiding from mobsters.

When the Russian Army invading northern Poland threatens to quickly overwhelm Warsaw, a lone Company of American Abrams tanks and a unit of Irish infantry are sent forward to the small village of Stare Lubiejewo and given an impossible mission: hold back the advancing Russian Army at all costs.

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