The Mafia Boss Found Out His Former Lover Had Returned to Chicago With the Four-Year-Old Daughter He Never Knew Existed—Then She Refused His Demand to Stay, Revealing the Terrifying Reason She Had Disappeared Five Years Earlier
The photograph filled the screen as Caterina turned the phone toward him.
Sophia was barely a day old, asleep against Caterina’s chest in a small hospital room outside Florence.
Enzo took one step clo…
Her Rich Ex Mocked Her Pregnant Belly in a Grocery Store—Then the Mafia Boss Walked In and Kissed Her
Part 1
The man who had once promised to marry Claire Hayes was laughing at her unborn baby in the middle of a Manhattan grocery store.
Nathan Brooks stood beside a display of imported fruit, dressed i…
A Shy Brooklyn Bookstore Girl Went to Her Cousin’s Engagement Party and Witnessed the Mafia Boss’s Bloodstained Secret—He Warned Her to Forget What She Saw, but Her Quiet Defiance Made Him Risk Everything to Keep Her Alive
Lucien lowered his unaccepted hand and fell into step beside Elena as she headed down the sidewalk.
For a man accustomed to people obeying his smallest gesture, he seemed remarkably uncertain what to …
A Billionaire Returned to Sell His Abandoned Home—Then Heard His “Dead” Wife Singing Inside
Part 1
The first thing Ethan Cole noticed was the smoke rising from the chimney.
The second was the laundry hanging between two apple trees.
And the third was a woman’s voice coming through the open k…
An American Nurse Saved a Poisoned Mafia Boss in a Palermo Courtyard—Then He Ordered Her to Stay at His Estate, Never Expecting the Woman He Held Captive Would Become the One Person He Could Not Bear to Lose
Her fingers closed around the cold iron just as the guard stepped aside.
For one astonishing second, the passage to the street stood open.
Sofia could see the alley beyond.
The uneven cobblestones.
…
The Shy Waitress Spoke Perfect Sicilian to the Mafia Don—And His Billionaire Son Couldn’t Believe What Happened
Part 1
The first sign that Salvatore Gallow had arrived was the sudden absence of music.
Inside La Catedral, one of Chicago’s most exclusive Italian restaurants, the jazz pianist lifted his hands from…
“Don’t Wake Her,” the Guard Warned—Then the Ruthless Mafia Boss Found a Curvy Waitress Holding His Missing Niece
Part 1
“Don’t wake her, boss.”
Briggs had faced gunfire without blinking.
He had broken up riots, survived two wars, and worked for the Rossi family long enough to know that fear was a luxury men in …
“You Look Beautiful,” He Told His Secretary—“Thank You,” She Said. The Mafia Boss Heard Everything
## Part 2: The Dinner Invitation He Was Never Supposed to Hear
PART 2
“Have dinner with me.”
Marcus said it gently, as if he were offering me an option rather than expecting an answer.
I looked down a…
“I Need $40,000 Before Sunrise,” the Curvy Paramedic Cried—Unaware the Most Feared Mafia Boss in Chicago Was Listening, and His Marriage Proposal Would Change Everything
Part 1
“I need forty thousand dollars before sunrise, or my little girl loses the only home she has left.”
Elena Marlowe whispered those words into her phone at in the morning, standing beneath the fl…
The most feared man in the Continental laughed that nobody in the city could dance the waltz—so I dropped my serving tray and stepped onto his floor. Minutes later, his hand was locked around mine, the entire club was watching, and I told Vincent Graham something nobody at his table would have dared say: “You’re off time.”
PART 2
For three measures, the room disappeared.
There was only the polished floor beneath us, the orchestra straining toward the next phrase, and the exact pressure of Vincent Graham’s hand against m…