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Talia have been living with her mother, stepsister and Stepfather for years. One day she finally get away from them. Suddenly she learn she have more family out there and she have many people that actually love her, something she have never felt before! At least not as she can remember. She have to learn to trust others, get her new brothers to accept her for who she is!

When Alcee Mariani turns twenty-one, she knows her time is up. Her family has arranged her marriage from the time she was twelve to the future Don of the Lozano family, Torquato "The Grizzly" Lozano. He's rumored to be cold, cruel and heartless and he's a full ten years older than she is.
Selling her virginity online is a surefire way to make sure The Grizzly cancels the agreement and when she lets her father know she's sold it to the highest bidder and never got his real name, the contract is ended but so is her association with her own family.
Six years later she is no longer the treasured principessa of the Mariani family, but the single-mother to a five-year old boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to the man to whom she sold her innocence.
Torquato Lozano has searched for the woman who left him high and dry after an incredible night of passion nearly six years ago. When he stumbles across her in a newly purchased company working as an IT tech, he's stunned to find out she's the woman his family arranged him to marry so many years before. A perusal of her file tells him she didn't leave their rendezvous all those nights ago empty handed. Her little boy is the spitting image of him, right down to his massive size.
When Alcee's family realize they are losing out on a lucrative financial alliance they should have been part of, it starts a war. With enemies appearing at every corner, Alcee and Torquato will need to let the past go and work together to keep their son alive. Their passion will reignite as they strive to keep their family safe and forge a new power to take over the New York criminal underworld.

Fuck off? I lent over to her side of the car, grabbed her hips and ripped her over to straddle my lap. This girl was something else, I knew it from the start. Now I needed her to know just who I am and what I am capable of. I held one hand firmly on her waist and the other to her throat. It wasn’t tight enough to hurt her, but it would keep her in place for now.
“Angel, you have a filthy fucking mouth”, I whispered low into her ear.
“Luciano…” Finally, an expression on her face. A real one she wasn’t hiding from me. It wasn’t fear though. It was lust. My girl likes this. I pulled her down further so she could feel just how much I was liking it too and the most enchanting gasp came from her mouth while her eyes rolled back for a moment.
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Do you enjoy a damsel in distress and a knight in shining armour? If so, then this book is not for you. This five foot nothing, FMC, Ariana Salvatore is a ruthless assassin, trained and tortured to be the most deadly weapon. She's got a heart of gold, a filthy mouth and a will to survive. She's on the run from her father's heavy hand and deadly demands. What happens when not one but three powerful mafia men pine for her? Will they be able to share? Will her past catch up to her? And what about her ex fiance? The ruthless, beast of a man her father had arranged for her to marry? This book is a whirlwind of events, violent, spicy and not for the faint hearted.

“Who the hell are you and why are you tied to my bed?”

Lola Marlowe’s morning-after is a disaster. She’s got a killer hangover, zero memory of Burning Man, and a half-naked, sculpted stranger tied to her bed with her own lavender silk ropes. To make matters infinitely worse, the furious (and frustratingly handsome) “accidental hostage” is Enzo Marchesi, Vegas’s most notorious mafia Don.

For Enzo, this is the ultimate security breach. But the fiery, unpredictable tattoo artist is the most intriguing thing to happen to him in years. To stop his crew from “neutralizing” the threat, he makes an impulsive claim: she’s his fiancée.

Thrust into a world of high-stakes lies and feral attraction, they must navigate rival families and their own explosive chemistry.

One wrong move sparked it. Now neither of them wants out.

Betty have been living a lie for as long as she can remember. She have been abused by her parents her whole life, even though she is a broken and abused girl in her own home. Outside of those four walls she is a force to be reckoned with! She is not afraid to do what she need to stay alive!

I will keep fucking you until you are pregnant with my child.
He tied my hands and legs apart and tied them to the four corners of the bed, and slowly rolled up his shirt sleeves.
His horsewhip slid across my pussy.
I felt my pussy getting wet, and water was dripping down my thighs.
He whipped me lightly with the riding whip and ordered me: "Tell me. What do you want?"


When I discovered that the man I had a one-night stand with—the same man who fired me—was Damian Cavalieri, a terrifying mafia boss, it was already too late.
I lost my job, was betrayed by my boyfriend, and lost the money for my sister's treatment.
Just when I had nowhere to turn, Damian offered me a deal: become his surrogate bride. He would pay off all my debts.
I didn't know why he chose me, but I understood that as long as I gave him an heir, I could save my sister's life.
I agreed.
The contract was simple—no sex, no feelings, just business. But Damian broke his own rules with his own hands.

It's a 18+ Dark romance which contains forbidden explicit sexual content. So, please read it at your own risk.

My father forcibly imprisoned me in Italy and sold me as a wife to the sole heir of a Mafia king. He turned out to be a freak who only liked men, not women. I thought my life had become hell until my husband's father—the Mafia king himself, known as "Il Diavolo" (The Devil)—took me from his son and forced me to be his lover.

He was evil, handsome, and captivating, drawing me in ways I had never dreamed possible. His power was addictive, like a drug. When the devil decided to take me, I was powerless to resist, even if it meant giving him my whole being...

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ~~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest

In a world of debt, desperation, and dangerous desires, Hannah never imagined her survival would lead her into the arms of a powerful and mysterious man.

Struggling to save her ailing mother and escape crushing financial ruin, Hannah enters a high-stakes arrangement that promises to solve her problems—but at what cost? Leonardo, a man with shadows darker than night and power beyond imagination, offers her everything she needs. Luxury. Security. Protection.

But in the treacherous landscape of wealth and power, nothing is as simple as it seems.

As Hannah navigates a complex web of sugar dating, corporate warfare, and unexpected emotions, she discovers that some bargains come with strings that can either save you or destroy you completely.

When lines between transaction and passion blur, and enemies circle like sharks, Hannah must decide: Is survival worth the price of her soul?

“Take off your clothes slowly, put on a little show for us.” One of the three brothers ordered.

“Lay on the bed and spread your needy pussy wide open for our view.” I obeyed instantly, spreading my legs and showing them my glistening drenched pussy.

“Fuck, you are already dripping for us. Do you want us to give your little hole what it craves.” His deep voice whispered into my ear, causing my whole body to vibrate with needs and I nodded.

“Words, little one.” Another voice whispered.

“Y..yes, D..daddy.”


Jasmine became homeless when she was thrown out of the house by the people she called parents at the age of thirteen. She couldn't afford to rent a house, so she made the street her home and lived under the bridge.

But her life changed when she was saved from a rape incident by three dangerous mafia brothers. The three of them take a liking to her and will do anything to keep her safe.

They want to share her but is she willing to submit to them freely and become their little submissive?

Lucky isn't ready to be married nor is she interested in the arranged marriage with Mafia Don, Nico Santangelo. But he has a contract out on her father for the marriage or he will have Lucky's father killed. He is a man who always gets what he wants and nothing will stand in his way. He is richer than any man and more powerful than any other Don has ever been.
He rules the underworld of the New York Crime Scene and this alliance between his family and Lucky's mafia family would mean he becomes the King of New York.
He doesn't care for a wife especially not Lucky but he needs her and it eats him alive that this is the only way he can be King of New York and he will do whatever it takes in his power to make that happen even if it means being with the enemy and a woman who is not one of them.
Lucky is strong willed, she is fierce and not a docile dove he can easily manipulate but Nico Santangelo is not scared of a challenge, he will have her eating out of his hand and tamed if it is the last thing he does. Besides, when he is the King of New York and her father dies eventually, he will no longer need this woman.
Or will his heart fall for this determined, strong and independent woman?

He lowered his lips to her ear. “It’ll come at a cost,” he whispered before tugging her earlobe with his teeth.
Her knees wobbled and if it were not for his grip on her hip she would have fallen. He shoved his knee between her thighs as a secondary support in case he decided he needed his hands elsewhere.
“What do you want?” she asked.
His lips grazed her neck and she whimpered as the pleasure his lips brought sank between her legs.
“Your name,” he breathed. “Your real name.”
“Why is it important?” she asked, revealing for the first time that his hunch was correct.
He chuckled against her collarbone. “So I know what name to call out when I come inside you again.”


Genevieve loses a bet she can’t afford to pay. In a compromise, she agrees to convince any man her opponent chooses to go home with her that night. What she doesn’t realize when her sister’s friend points out the brooding man sitting alone at the bar, is that man won’t be okay with just one night with her. No, Matteo Accardi, Don of one of the largest gangs in New York City doesn’t do one night stands. Not with her anyway.

“I shouldn’t touch you,” he murmured, his hand sliding up my neck like a predator testing its prey.

“I… I want you to,” I confessed, breathless.

His grip tightened, a dangerous smile curling at his lips. “My son’s in love with you.”

“I don’t want him,” I whispered.

“You should,” he said darkly. “Because I already have a wife.”

After a night of blood and fire that stole her parents’ lives, Evelyn Miller runs for her life—until Mario Morelli appears from the shadows, saves her, and drags her into the glittering yet deadly world of the Morelli crime dynasty.

But Evelyn’s heart chooses the worst possible man: Don Adrian Morelli, Mario’s ruthless and magnetic father.
Torn between revenge, survival, and an attraction that could destroy them all, Evelyn steps into a tangled web of secrets, power, and forbidden love—where every kiss could be her last.

He kills without mercy. She loves without reason. And nothing will stop her from having him.

For three years, Mafia leader Conner O’Neill has felt eyes on him. A phantom touch in the night. Perfume lingering on his pillows. Warm cookies in his oven. Enemies' heads delivered to his doorstep, gift-wrapped in bloodied silk. It isn’t fear that coils in his gut—it’s fascination. Someone is watching him. Someone who knows him. Someone who kills for him.

Her name is Sage—and she’s been his shadow since the night he unknowingly stole her heart with a bullet to another man’s brain. For her, it was love at first sight. Violent. Beautiful. Inevitable. Raised in darkness, owned by a monster, Sage was never meant to love. But Conner changed that. And she’s been his ever since, waiting for the day she can step out of the shadows and into his arms.

But the man who owns her doesn’t let go of his toys. And the man she loves doesn’t know she exists—yet.

She’s done watching. It’s time he learns the truth.

He belongs to her. And she’ll kill anyone who tries to take him away.

She hunts monsters at night. Too bad she fell for the most dangerous one of all.

WARNING: This novel contains graphic scenes of sex and violence

Bella Rossi, known in the underworld as Siren, is a seductress, a spy, and one of the most lethal assassins alive— by night, she becomes Nightclaw, a vigilante hunting down human traffickers, waging a personal war born from the torment of her chidhood when she was pimped out by her stepfather.
Once a pawn in the hands of monsters, Bella has spent her life ensuring no man will ever own her again. Her only loyalty is to survival and the man who made her. But when she’s sent to seduce, infiltrate, and eliminate the untouchable Alexandro D’Soto, her world begins to unravel.
Alexandro D’Soto, billionaire CEO by day, mafia king by blood
He’s everything she should avoid. And the only man who sees her... even behind the mask.
She thought she was the hunter, but he’s about to prove—she’s already his.
As their passion grows and power struggles spill blood, secrets begin to crack the foundation of everything they believe in. One thing becomes terrifyingly clear:
He may be the only man strong enough to destroy her… or save what’s left of her soul.

NOTE The BDSM in this book will grow as the characters' relationship and trust develop. Don't expect it to start from the on set. BDSM needs trust♡

“Spread your legs, let me taste you.” His eyes looked directly at my pussy, licking his lips before attacking my clit and my eyes rolled at the back of my head.

“Holy fuck, you are so tight.” He groaned in the hottest way, pushing the tip of his duck inside.

“Oh my goodness, Roy!” I moaned.


Alessia, invading her dark past, has no idea what her future entails when she comes across a dangerous and troublesome handsome man with bruised knuckles in a dark suit. Roy Vortex, from the Vortex crime family.

After being dumped by Brianna Fletcher, Roy was only looking for simple hookups. But when he crossed paths with Alessia, everything changed.

Will he see her as more than just a hookup or will they look past their broken hearts and have a beautiful relationship?

Read: Off Limits, Brother's Best Friend for best understanding of the characters

The two twins Elina and Ian disappeared from their family when they were four years old. After that their life have been filled with both abuse and misery. But when they one day get spotted on the streets of mexico at the age of 9 they get taken into a gang. One day they disappears again, and is hold captive for a year before they get rescued. During that year they are in captivity they are being abused in many ways.

After they get saved Elina's spirit have broken, she become a very scared girl, and when she get back to her family she is very shy and meek girl. But that will change overtime, her badass character will come out again. And then everyone will know that Elina is nobody to mess with.

Elina and Ian have been trained by the leader of the gang that took them in from the streets, and they are both highly skilled and deadly towards their enemies. The leader also made sure they were both highly educated, and both of them are extremely smart.

Elina and Ian can communicate with each other by just looking in each others eyes. They have a special bond and can feel each others pain. They are identical twins and often move as one unite. They have a deep understanding for each other.

Elina and Ian try their best to fit in with their family and their new life in Los Angeles, at school with their brothers and from all the attention then will follow them. They also have to deal with their past nightmares.

Will they be able to fine their happiness and love? Will they be able to accept themselves and see their own worth again? Their biggest wish is to live peaceful and happy.

"That's how you treat a bitch." Salvatore laughed.
In the hallway, I sat on the floor, looking up at my best friend Franco who betrayed me to impress the mob boss's son. On my first day of school, he pretended to confess his feelings, then pushed me down and poured ice water all over me before I could even respond.
"She actually thought Franco would date someone like her."
"Bullying turned her panties wet."
"I bet she loves riding dicks."
The students' laughter and mockery cut deep as I sat humiliated. I ran out of school with tears streaming down my face.
After Beatrice sobs out her story to her mother, her mother drove Beatrice to her new stepbrother's house, where she met her four handsome stepbrothers.
What changes await Beatrice's life? Why did her mother warn her to keep her distance from her stepbrothers?

（Do not open this novel lightly, or you will become so engrossed that you won't be able to stop reading for three days and nights...）
Alia never dreamed that she would have a flash marriage with a man she had only met twice!
On their wedding night, she was pinned down and dominated by him.
The next day, the man transformed into the CEO of the company where she was interning.
Not only that, but he was also the next heir to the Mafia... "The Black Prince"!

"What did you do to me?" he muttered, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.

"You're going to pay for making me so damn hard last night, and you're going to pay for making me have a wet dream about you last night... but not today," he said, leaving me so confused.

"Get ready, Bluey, because you're going to be seeing this face often, and I promise you our next encounter will be you lying on my bed with your legs wide apart as I ram my dick into your pussy."


The fun kicks off when Sasha drags Bluey to a club and dares her to kiss a random stranger. So, she goes for it. But what she doesn't expect is that the handsome guy she accidentally kissed turned out to be an infamous assassin.
Knight Dwayne, who is known across the country by the nickname The Terminator or Grim Reaper. After that kiss, he becomes totally obsessed with her, vowing to make her his at any cost.

"I stood at the edge of my heart and watched him choose her. In the end, I was not the one he needed. I was simply the one he settled for." - Noelle


I thought I was the one he loved. But a few days before our wedding, I saw him in a way I never had before. His eyes softened as he spoke to her. His first love, and the very woman who had left him in pieces.

Heartbreak was something I knew too well. And as I watched the love he still held for her in his eyes, I realized what I had to do. I couldn't marry a man who wasn't truly mine.

With no means to cancel the wedding and lacking the courage to confront him, I made a desperate choice to leave. I painfully gave his first love my treasured engagement ring thinking it was for the best and the only way to free myself.

But when he saw that ring on her finger, the fragile world I had tried to escape began to shatter. His obsession to find me and bring me back ignited a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

“Your pussy is dripping, begging for me to use it.” He whispered, his deep and sexy voice sending my whole body on fire. His fingers brushed over my clit, slowly down my entrance.

“Fuck, you are so damn tight.” He muttered, sliding two fingers in and began finger-fucking me.

“Please,” I breathed, needing more.


After being kicked out of the house by her parents and rejected by the man who got her pregnant. Abigail was left on the street which led to the loss of her baby.

But what she never expected was being kidnapped by the same man who killed her father. The ruthless and mafia Don, who the rumours has it that he doesn't have a heart. He radiates danger but couldn't bring herself to hate him.

Will she survive his obsession or will she be destroyed by it?

"Even if you're held captive by the devil himself, I'll break down the gates of hell to get to you"


"You taste so delicious, Printsessa," he groaned, before dipping back in between my legs, taking all of my cunt into his mouth.
My lips parted open in a moan of pleasure.
Who knew that sex could be so stimulating?


Carla is the daughter of the second most powerful Family but after the murder of her mother by the first one, she's been forced into hiding. Her only means of escape was Salsa which she sneaked out to a masked club with her best friend every Friday. She's also in an arranged bethroyal to Micah who doesn't know how to make her experience one inch of pleasure. If only she knew he's gay.
When she finally gets one chance to attend one of her father's parties, she's so nervous she wears her outfit wrongly and doesn't realize it until some mean girls point if out.
Ashamed, she runs out of the party, calling her driver on her way.
She runs into the elevator but is joined by a strange but extremely handsome man to which she develops a ridiculous attraction to immediately.
If only she knew who he was.

Alec Vlad de Russo is the heir to the Russo Empire and the hottest bachelor in Russia and New York. Although he is rich and influencetial, he still faced more demons than most people and has put love out of his mind.
Until he runs into the elevator and falls for the daughter of his enemy.
How does he convince her he's truly in love with her and not trying to take control of her inheritance?
Read to find out more in this Enemies to lovers Mafia romance novel.

Five years ago, she ran for her life. Now he wants his family back… at any cost.

Once trapped in a loveless marriage to Dario Moretti, Italy’s most feared mafia king. Elena Caruso barely escaped with her unborn twins and her life. Framed for betrayal by Dario’s cunning stepmother and humiliated by his affairs, Elena was cast aside like trash. When he tried to kill her and their child, she vanished into the shadows of New York, starting over with a new name and an iron heart.

Now a sought-after interior designer, Elena is confident, fearless, and thriving, until Dario crashes back into her world like a loaded gun, desperate to reclaim what he threw away.

But Elena isn't the same fragile woman he once controlled. And she won’t give up her freedom or her children without a fight.

He wants redemption and she wants revenge, while their twins? They want the truth…

In a world of blood ties and broken vows, love isn’t a fairytale, it’s a battlefield.

“What if I told you my family business was assassination… and I think you need our services?”

Brian Merrimack is everything a woman should run from: a ruthless alpha with a dark secret and a lethal family. To him, the world isn't black and white, but shades of gray where justice is delivered from the barrel of a gun. Faith is everything he shouldn't want: innocent, trapped, and desperately trying to shield her siblings from their abusive father.

Their chance meeting in a Florida elevator ignites an obsession. Brian sees a woman in need of his unique brand of protection; Faith sees a dangerous temptation that could shatter her fragile world. As she's drawn into his shadowy life, she's forced to question every moral line she's ever drawn.

But when her father's cruelty reaches unspeakable depths, Faith must make a choice: cling to the remains of her old life, or willingly embrace the darkness in the man she loves. Can Brian's dangerous love truly conquer all, or will the violence of his world destroy the very people he's sworn to protect?

"Three hundred thousand euros. That’s what her father owed. And now... she's the payment."

When sarah Alexander walks into billionaire mafia boss Michael Anderson’s office, she’s not there to plead for mercy, she’s there to offer herself.
Her father, a ruthless gambler and selfish man, has racked up a debt he can’t repay. With the Mafia king at the door and no options left, he offers his daughter as collateral. Disgusted by the man’s shamelessness, Michael is ready to kill him? until sarah appears. She's Beautiful and desperate to save her father. She offers her body, her time, her freedom… anything to save her father, Michael whispers to her ears
🔞 "Come tonight. Watch what I do to women like you. Then decide if you're truly willing to be mine."

Once the treasured daughter of a mafia kingpin, Isabella has now fallen to working as an ordinary employee at a community center, relying on medication to hold her shattered psyche together. Just when she thought life couldn't get any harder, devastating news arrives: her ex-boyfriend Anthony Russo has returned to Boston—no longer the poor kitchen boy from her past, but a powerful crime boss commanding his own territory.

Worse still, he's her new boss.

Tony has returned with five years of vengeance burning inside him, determined to make Isabella pay for her "betrayal." He's willing to exploit her deepest fears, unaware of the truth behind the scars marking her wrists. When a sudden kidnapping drags them both into a bloody gang war, how will the secrets hidden for years upend everything they thought they knew?

James Harristian, aka James Belgenza, is the mafia leader of Daga Nero, a splinter group of one of the oldest famous mafia families in Naples. Apart from his powerful ruler of the town who controlled the underground weapon industry in Europe, James was also a successful owner of a high-tech motor company.
One day, James was deceived into a scam dinner by his mistress. It strived to kill him, but somehow, he escaped. Being trapped in gunshots with his enemy, a flower girl saves James' life from his shameful, miserable death. Delilah is a flower girl who runs a small flower shop in an alley in Naples. She thought innocently helping James to get to the hospital without wondering who the man was.
When James has another chance to breathe, he does not feel grateful to his savior unless to kidnap her. Unfortunately, Delilah turns out to be a collateral of her father's debt, which ran off unable to pay. Therefore, he intentionally kept Delilah in his mansion and added more debts to confine her forever.
What will happen when the debt is only a scheme to kill James and Delilah is a pawn? Meanwhile, James falls for Delilah, who tries hard to pay her unpaid debt.

A business rivalry nearly brought Logan Hatcher to his grisly death. He was attacked by a group of gunmen in his own club while conducting business negotiations with a client. Logan almost died if he wasn't treated properly by his doctor. After the bloody incident, Logan was haunted by a fear he had never felt before. Dealing with death was not fun at all, and it made Logan realized that he needed an heir to inherit his entire business empire.
Riley Harlow—a young girl living in the slums of LA, was confused when she first opened her eyes and found a strange man sitting next to her gurney. She lost her orientation and she was frightened to see a strange man in her treatment room. The man then introduced himself as Logan Hatcher, the man who would become the father of her baby.
Panicked and scared, Riley tried to escape Logan's grip with the help of Doctor Wren. She would start a new life in another state, free from Logan's clutches. But Riley chose the wrong opponent. Logan was not an ordinary man. He was a billionaire and leader of a mafia gang. Riley had no idea why a mafia leader would want her to bear his offspring. What made her special in Logan's eyes?

Lucy was raised in foster care as her father Johnny Capone had to hide her due to a blood debt. If he didn't change her name and surname the Marchetti Mafia family would find her and kill her. To repay a blood debt for killing the Marchetti's youngest son. Although Johnny Lucy's father didn't physically pull the trigger it was still one of his men that did which made it his problem and his debt.

Over the past 20 years the Marchetti Mafia family was actively searching for her with no luck of finding her. The other Mafia families knows about this blood debt but felt so many years has past it's no use to go after the child now. What's the use she's a girl it's not like a girl will take over the Capone name she will marry and her surname will change.

But the new generation Mafia heirs wanted to find her. They felt a Capone will bring the Mafia families more wealth and take them to new heights. Just the name spoke fear into people and spoke of leadership. However for them to accomplish this they need to find her, protect her and most of all remind her who she really am. After 20 years they weren't so sure they will be able to remind her who she is. After a long search they believe they have found her.

Will the men be successful? Will all of them fall for her and how would that look for them? Will they be able to share this deep obsession they have with her.

But now the biggest question of all will she take her rightful place as the Mafia Queen or will she run away? Far away from the world her father hid her from.

She's fire; fierce, relentless, impossible to contain. He's ice; cold, hard, impossible to break. A collision of two opposite souls destined to remain worlds apart, but when fire meets ice, one of them will have to surrender.

Italian business mogul slash mafia don, Antonio Camillo Gray, is all shades of morally gray. With one foot in the corporate world and the other in the underworld, he is known for his ruthlessness, manipulation, and taking a life without as much as flinching. He’s foreign to weakness and doesn't form attachments.

Until her.

Celine De Luca is a fearless, hopelessly optimistic dreamer lost in a universe where peace was a luxury she couldn't afford. She never let herself hope. She never risked her heart.

Until him.

One fateful night in August, Antonio and Celine’s paths collide, and just when she’s in need of a saviour, he pulls her back from the edge, becoming her only lifeline. But little did she know she was digging her very own grave. She runs from monsters, only to collide with one she couldn't escape.

A contract is forged at gunpoint, and one signature becomes a lifetime sentence. With all the odds now stacked against her, she trades her freedom for his name, entering his dark world of danger, violence and bloodshed.

Although their marriage was just meant to be a name on paper, his motives might not be entirely pure, and she too might just be hiding a truth that could burn them both.

While true love was never meant to be part of the deal, what happens when they fall helplessly? And when secrets and enemies from the past come lurking, will their love be able to stand the test of time?