The New American Mafia Series in Order

He never looked at me in high school. Not once.

I was the secret—hidden after my mother's murder, the only daughter of New York's most feared mafia boss. I was told to be quiet and obedient. I'm neither.

Matteo De Salvo was the only boy who ever rattled me. The boxer with a future. The one who got someone else pregnant and kept walking. Six years later, he's a single dad and a champion; I run my father's "legitimate" businesses and don't hide anymore.

I told myself I was over him—until the night I stormed a dive bar to save a friend's life…and saved Matteo instead.

Now the city is whispering threats. Someone wants him controlled and me erased. My father has his own plan to keep Matteo off-limits—one that might bind us together for all the wrong reasons. And the only thing more dangerous than the men circling us is the way he looks at me like I've been his from the beginning.

To protect a child and survive a war I didn't start, Matteo and I will have to break the rules—and maybe each other.

I used her rebellion against her.

She wanted out from under a ruthless father. The ink on her snow-pale skin, the way she stared me down—I took it all and turned it into leverage. I promised hate. I promised blood.

Instead, I gave her a ring.

Sasha Nikolayev was never meant to be mine. Wrong family, wrong culture, wrong war. But the first time I tasted her defiance, I knew I'd chain her to me with vows if I had to.

Now our marriage is the most dangerous lie we tell. Enemies circle. Fathers scheme. And the only thing more lethal than the truth is how I look at her—like I'd raze the city to keep her.

I don't save people. I claim them. And I'm never letting Sasha go.

How does a man get over the first woman he ever loved?

I didn't get to say goodbye to my mother. When I watched her coffin lower into the ground, I swore I'd never love another that deeply again. I didn't have to. I found solace in the opposite.

Krishna is hard like me. I keep him at arm's length no matter how much I prefer him in my bed. Together, we can be whatever we want. The monsters we keep at bay to avoid someone getting hurt can come out to play with each other. My life was stable, controllable. Then my father issued an order I wasn't expecting—a bride.

Ciera is soft, but her eyes are constantly challenging my authority. She has a backbone that only shows when her smart mouth is telling me off. I've never wanted a woman aside from the physical release they provide, but the moment my dark gaze fell on her emerald stare, I wanted to wrap my hand around her pretty little throat and claim her as mine.

I can't let her be my downfall. I can't allow them to be my undoing. I won't make my father's past mistakes. I won't lose those I vowed to protect.