She’s always dreamed of living her life in the spotlight. But for now, she’s just another college student working at Spotlight Video. The year is 1994 and Naomi Parker has always dreamed of being in the movies. She’s hoping to make that dream a reality by enrolling in the best performing arts program the Midwest has to offer. But respected programs cost money…lots of it…and her scholarship will only go so far. To make ends meet, Naomi gets a job at the most popular video store on campus, Spotlight Video, and she quickly becomes part of its unique culture. There’s only one ...

❖ I was the girl he broke. Now I’m the woman he can’t escape. ❖ Seven years ago, I vanished beneath blood and secrets. Left behind the curvy, naive girl who thought monsters only lived in nightmares. But monsters wear suits in this world. And one of them wore my name like a curse. Now he’s back—Gaspare Colosimo. Don of the Colosimo Syndicate. The same man who humiliated me, then watched my world burn. The same man whose son I raised in silence. He wants protection? He wants power? He wants me—in a fake marriage inked in blood and unfinished vengeance. But I’m not the broken ...

❖ He watched me like a secret. Now I carry the one thing he never meant to leave behind. ❖ I thought he was just another cold customer. Sharp suit. Sharper tongue. The kind of man who thinks a coffee order is a battlefield. I didn’t know his name. Didn’t know he ruled Chicago’s underworld with a whisper. Didn’t know Dario Ventresca was the most dangerous man I’d ever meet. And I definitely didn’t mean to fall for him. But obsession doesn't ask for permission. Not when he’s already watching you behind tinted glass. Not when his touch leaves marks you never want to erase. ...

Clara: Therapist by day, and exotic dancer by night, I keep my heart closely guarded for good reason. When I meet Lucas Evans at my night job, he screams untrustworthy. With his oozing confidence and sex appeal, I bet he leaves women scattered in his wake. I have every intention of resisting him. Intimacy is not my greatest strength, and I have secrets to keep, but after one gut-melting kiss, my resolve falters. Lucas: Reeling after the death of my brother, I find myself looking for answers at a gentleman’s club. When I meet the sexy Clara Evans there, she seems fun and care free, but ...

She thought she could bury her past and start over. But when a mysterious woman offers her money she desperately needs, the perfect life Claire Morgan built begins to unravel, revealing dark secrets that could destroy everything. Former high-powered attorney Claire Morgan has spent three years hiding in the small coastal town of Saint Novak, running a struggling café and trying to forget the husband who destroyed her career. When the enigmatic Erica Hayes walks into her life with an offer to investigate suspicious property deals, Claire's carefully constructed new world starts to crack. As...

🔥 Sinful Desires: A Dark Syndicate Love Story 🔥 I never should have let him touch me. Never should have met his gaze across that crowded ballroom. Never should have let the night swallow our names. But for one evening, I was just a woman. And he was just a man. Until the illusion shattered. Azrael Varela isn’t just anyone. Heir to Sicily’s most feared cartel. A man born in blood, raised in war. A man I should despise. Because I am Isolde D’Angelo. A daughter of his family’s greatest enemy. A woman raised to destroy the very man who now haunts my every thought. The war between ...

From the USA Today & International Bestselling Author Diana Nixon comes a brand new, dark romantic mystery about giving a second chance to feelings that should never be forgotten.Not all fairytales are bathed in magic. Some are dipped in tears, grief, and blood. And mine? It was submerged in all of the above. Three years ago, leaving San Fernando felt like the best way out of the mess I was neck-deep in. An addict to all things forbidden, I betrayed everyone I loved and watched my little sister pay for my sins with her life. An escape felt like a blessing, so I ran away and left the ashes ...

These violent delights have violent ends... unless it comes to Aria King & Torrin Walker... ARIA KING I’m hitting the peak of my modeling career, but all I want to do is run. All I’ve ever wanted is to get out of this life of crime and away from the Moretti family. Escaping my ex-boyfriend, Carmine, and his merry band of criminals was always the plan. Meeting Torrin Walker and falling head over heels in love with the leader of a notorious Irish crime family? So not in the plan… Carmine is pure evil… Torrin is even worse…. But… His eyes. His lips. His kiss. His body. It’s hard ...

Never fall for the salt and pepper hunk, especially when he's your bestie’s older brother and your new boss. That was the rule I always followed, until the calendar photoshoot for the fire department turned everything upside down. As soon as Kyle Davis walked in with his chiseled abs and grumpy attitude, I knew I was in trouble. But what I didn't expect was being stuck in close quarters with him during a sudden city-wide lockdown. Confined together, sparks fly as we constantly bicker and argue. He calls me a spoiled brat while I can't resist teasing him, and our forbidden chemistry only ...

Remy Collins always played it safe. Known as the strait-laced, sweet southern girl, Remy is desperate not to fall into the troubled footsteps of her parents. So, she became the good girl. When she sets off to college to start a new life for herself with her cousin, June, she quickly realizes she’s about to walk into an entirely new dark world Bryson ‘Blaze’ Raven only loved two things: his motorcycle and his family bar. Spending his nights partying at his family's bar with his equally wild and reckless brothers, this tattoo-covered playboy enjoyed a life of booze, loose women, and his...

🔥 Vengeful Desires: A Dark Syndicate Love Story 🔥 Betrayal wasn’t the wound that almost killed me. It was trust. I was raised to rule. Born to inherit the Costa Syndicate. But the night of a peace negotiation, I was gutted from the inside out—Shot down. Left to bleed. Marked for death. And the man who did it? Diego Morales. My brother in everything but blood. The one I would have died for. Now, I’m nothing but a ghost clawing my way back from the grave. I should be dead. Instead, I wake in the cabin of a woman who doesn’t belong in my world. Emilia Valdez. A quiet artist with ...

When the only person I can trust is a man who thrives in darkness, what chance do I stand? Running from my powerful family, I crash—quite literally—into Jaxon. A tattoo artist. A walking danger zone. And a member of the Dark Dogs, the most feared motorcycle gang in the city. He’s everything I was raised to fear—ruthless, untouchable, and hardened by a life I could never understand. But when my past comes hunting me down, he’s my only chance at survival. I don’t belong in his world, and he sure as hell doesn’t belong in mine. Yet, with every stolen glance, every hushed moment ...

🔥 Claimed Desires: A Dark Syndicate Love Story 🔥 I was never supposed to survive. A name erased from history. A life stolen before it began. For years, I believed I was Elena Moretti, the cherished daughter of Milan’s most powerful crime boss. But when gunmen storm my bakery, calling me Romano, the truth unravels like a noose around my throat. Now, I’m a pawn in a war I never saw coming. And my fate lies in the hands of Dante Russo—my father’s most feared enforcer. Ruthless. Unyielding. Deadly. He says he’s here to protect me. But the way he watches me? The way his hands ...

❖ You can’t cage what refuses to be tamed. ❖ I lost my voice the night my world burned. Since then, silence has been my refuge, my armor. A quiet prisoner in a life not my own, I’ve learned that words mean nothing in a world ruled by power and blood. But now, I’m being forced into the arms of a man more feared than the devil himself. Lucian Moretti. The cold and ruthless king of Milan’s underworld. To him, I am nothing more than a pawn, a silent bride to seal a fragile truce. A woman forced to make a deal with a devil in the hopes of surviving a world that seeks to destroy me. ...

❖ I was never supposed to belong to a man like him. Now, I have no choice. ❖ I’ve spent my life in a cage without knowing it—protected, sheltered, blind to the monsters lurking in the dark. Then one night, everything shatters. Now, I’m a pawn in a war I don’t understand, trapped under the watch of a man who doesn’t know the meaning of mercy. Nico Antolleni. He is cold, cruel, and carved from violence. He calls it protection, but I know the truth—he doesn’t keep things safe. He keeps them caged. I should be terrified of him. I should hate him. But the longer I stand in his ...