Standalone Romances

She fell in love with the man watching her in the dark. She just married the monster who took her. Nobody's told her they're the same person.

Brooklyn De Salvo is done being the girl behind the glass. For eighteen months she's been falling for the man who stalks her. A masked stranger who has never shown her his face, who knows her allergies, her nightmares, and how lonely she is inside a family that adores her. She's decided he gets her firsts. She's never even heard his voice.

Lorik Kovaçi came looking for a weakness in the Caputo empire. What he found instead was an eighteen-year-old in a Queens gym who put a woman twice her size on the mat, then crouched down to comfort the kid who'd just lost his match. He promised himself he'd wait until she turned twenty-one. He promised himself a lot of things.

So she dangles another man in front of her stalker to make him break—and he breaks.

Brooklyn wakes up drugged, ringed, and married to the most feared man on the eastern seaboard, with a priest in the corner and a gun on the table. Now she's sharpening a blade for her husband while she grieves the stalker who abandoned her. And every time Lorik says her name, she hears someone else. She just won't let herself finish the thought.

And when she finally does, the truth is going to cost them both everything they have left…

Eighteen years ago, my high-school sweetheart vanished after the last bell. No goodbye. No note. Just gone.

So I did the stupidest thing an eighteen-year-old could do: I let her best friend into my bed to dull the ache. Months later, the girl I loved came home with a story I was too heartbroken to believe—and by then, I was already someone else's husband. Father to a child that wasn't hers.

Fast-forward eighteen years. My band made it big. My marriage is finally over. And the one girl I never got over is suddenly back in my orbit.

One fight becomes a kiss I swore I'd never take. One touch proves eighteen years erased nothing. And she swears there's been no one else—not once, not ever—since me.

Then I meet her son.

He's seventeen. He looks just like me. And he's my boy's best friend.

Some secrets don't stay buried. Neither does a love like ours.

This time, I'm not walking away—not without the truth, and not without the only woman I never stopped loving.

She wears the badge. He wears every sin she's sworn to punish.

It started with a routine interview. I walked out as a foster mom to a precious baby boy—and with direct orders from my boss to bury Drago Acerbi so deep he'd never see daylight again.

As a detective for LAPD, I believed I couldn't be touched by the corruption around me.

Drago is danger wrapped in a tailored suit—ruthless charm, piercing eyes that strip away every wall I've built, and a fiercely protective heart that makes me question everything I stand for. Our connection is electric, forbidden, and impossible to deny. In stolen nights and hidden moments, I broke every rule I swore to uphold. He became my secret… my weakness… and the only man who's ever truly seen me.

But Drago doesn't know the truth I'm guarding with my life: the innocent baby I've grown to love with every beat of my heart—the child who's completely turned my world upside down—is his son.

When our forbidden relationship explodes into the open, I lose everything: my career, the man I was never supposed to love, and the baby who healed parts of me I didn't know were broken. In the devastating aftermath, shocking secrets come to light. Drago isn't the monster they claimed he was. And I'm not the only one hiding deadly truths.

Now, with the baby kidnapped and caught in the deadly crosshairs of a ruthless war, there's only one man who can save him—the man I was ordered to destroy for life. The fiercely protective father whose touch still lingers on my skin. The only person I trust to burn the world down for our child.