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His Empire, Her Heart

A Dark Mafia Romance by MAUCMORAH

He built an empire from blood.
She came to destroy it.
Neither expected to fall in love.

Lorenzo De Luca is a man forged in power and shadow — the billionaire heir to Italy’s most feared crime dynasty. In Milan’s glittering skyline, he is untouchable: cold, calculating, and dangerously magnetic. Behind every whispered deal and ruthless co...

Gabriella is a no-nonsense kind of woman. She loves deeply and fights for what matters to her. Her life was going along just fine, that is until she catches her boyfriend cheating on her.

That should have been the worst of her issues, but soon a cheating boyfriend pales in comparison to being fated to a God, and a brooding one at that.

Quickly, Gabriella will be pulled into thousand-year-old dr...

One mistake centuries ago left Lemuel cursed by the Goddess Merlos and forced to wander the earth granting the wishes of those who touch him. Lemuel was looking at an eternity of loneliness until his unexpected soulmate plucked him right out of the sea.

Shocked to find he's been bound in more ways than one to Sebastian, the future King to the Kingdom of Atlesper, Lemuel resists Sebastian's advanc...

TRIGGER WARNING!!!
This story contains themes of obsession, possessiveness, stalking, emotional manipulation, and psychological control. It is unapologetically intense and unsettling in all the right (and wrong) ways.
Be guided.


Eight years ago, Shannon watched her stepbrother get handcuffed and taken to jail for a crime she committed.

He took the fall for it without hesitation. Not becau...

When I married, our mafia families were united. But love turned out to be a lie: my husband betrayed me, let himself be manipulated, and my death was inevitable, orchestrated by his mistress.

Now, reborn, I know exactly what to do: reclaim my mafia empire. But I can’t do it alone. I need to win back old allies… and the only person capable of helping me, the feared Don, Vincenzo Leone, owner of th...

WARNING!!!!!!!NOT SUITABLE FOR UNDER EIGHTEEN! EXPLICIT CONTENT********************************************He shoves two fingers in my mouth. "Suck. Make them nice and wet for me."

I don't know why I do what this man tells me when he tells me to do things, but I obey each and every time and suck those fingers like my life depends on it.

My thighs starts quaking when I hear that zipper going down...

“Keep looking at me like that, princess,” Knox murmurs, “and I’ll give you something real to blush about.”

Yael swore she’d keep her distance. Her brother’s rival is a walking problem—inked arms, reckless smirk, and a reputation that makes parents pray. But every accidental brush, every stolen look, pulls her closer to the boy she’s supposed to hate. Knox doesn’t play by rules, and Yael’s resolve...

On the day of my engagement, I died in the sea.
The last scene I witnessed before death was the silhouette of my fiancé protecting his first love as they walked away.
Perhaps it was resentment and unwillingness that allowed me to be reborn on the day of my engagement.
In this life, I will rewrite my destiny!

She spent her life saving hearts, until the man who ruled an empire of violence shattered hers.

Jenna Blake should have been finishing her final year of cardiology, standing at the edge of a future she had built with discipline, sacrifice, and quiet determination. She was gentle, obedient, a healer with steady hands and a soft heart, someone meant for hospitals, not the shadows of the mafia.

Eve...

My knees wobbled, panic consuming every inch of me as I forced myself to meet his gaze.
“What the hell do you want from me?”

He leaned closer, his breath grazing my ear.
“Your touch…. It stole my power. And I want you to undo whatever you did to me. Right here…right now!”

I flinched. “How…. how am I supposed to do that?” My voice cracked, fragile and trembling.

His lips curled into a snarl. I w...

They were the city’s perfect couple until the cameras caught their perfect breakup.

After three years of a loveless marriage to a billionaire CEO, George Robert, Lea finally files for divorce. The media named her “the woman who tamed the Ice King.”
They have no idea she’s the one who melted first and got burned.

The ink on their divorce papers is barely dry when fate brings them together again. ...

She was young and wolfless, but she had an inner strength which only the hot Alpha could awaken.
He was the Lycan Alpha, and nothing seemed to be able to intrigue him until he met the lowly wolf and saved her.
It was like a chess game, but there was no idea of who was the pawn.
They thought they hated each other, but it was just affection blooming.
Each had a reason to detest the other, but none...

She loved him enough to die for him.
A thousand years later, she’s back to make him pay.
Seraphina Vale was once a witch with a pure heart and a dangerous gift. When the vampire Caelum Draven was hunted and left to die, she broke every law of magic to save him, binding her life to his forever. But love became a curse. Betrayal followed, and she lost everything, even her soul.
Now, Seraphina liv...

Her first kiss... and it tasted of blood.

Frankie Donati is not a good man. He does not swoon. His heart does not skip. He does not fall. He uses, takes, conquers, and discards. Simple as that. Until it’s not. There’s a new girl at the club. She’s young, beautiful, and looks like she could use that scalpel to do far more than relieve a fighter’s swollen eyelids. And she thinks she can hide from...

Six years ago, I was forced to marry the Alpha prince to keep my pack from going to a war we’d never win. Torn from the arms of my mate—scratch that…

He knew I’d be tossed aside for the peace treaty, and he didn’t say a word. He sat at that dinner table and let me go. He betrayed me. Darius Sinclair, my fated mate, betrayed me and made a fool out of me at that dinner table.

Well, I married the h...

She wanted freedom...
They turned her into a weapon.

At the age of fifteen, Marina’s mother was murdered alongside the most powerful Don in the Sicilian mafia, before the wedding could even happen.
Now, almost six years later, just weeks before her 21st birthday, she’s ready to run.
From the rules.
From the blood.
From the Romano Famiglia—the only home she’s ever really known, and the cage she’s...

Get ready to dive headfirst into temptation so forbidden it sets your skin on fire. Meet men who take what they want with raw, possessive hunger and women who crave every bit of it, unafraid to scream their desire.

In this collection, every stolen touch, every secret glance, every whispered command pulls you deeper into a world where rules are shattered and pleasure rules. Expect domination, sur...

When Lennox accepts a contract marriage to billionaire Callum to escape prison, she thinks she can keep her secrets buried. But she's Cipher, the hacker who's been inside his company's servers for months, and he's the man she's investigating. As their fake marriage ignites into an all-consuming passion neither can control, someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes, orchestrating their downf...

A city-bred data analyst, Clara Vance, inherits a secluded cabin in the rugged Colorado Rockies from her eccentric Aunt Bea. Intent on disposing of the property so she can get back to her stable, calculated life in Denver, she finds it difficult to let it go when she uncovers a dangerous environmental conspiracy and a reclusive, protective wildlife photographer, Ethan Kincaid, haunted by an unspok...

After Beth, the love of Kingsley’s life, left him, his world fell apart. Drowning in heartbreak, he vanished into obscurity… until Katherine found him and helped him heal. Her familiar aqua-blue eyes brought him peace and, eventually, love but secrets, lies, and the return of his ex-fiancée, Beth, tear them apart.

Realizing too late that Katherine was his true love, Kingsley tries to win her back...

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TRIGGER WARNING:
This book contains steamy sex scenes. Dark dangerous obsession, violence, dark secrets, Cheating,suicide.

“You’re mine, Heaven. Every moan, every tear, every fucking inch of you.”
Her breath shook, her knees almost gave way .
The altar pressed into her spine, Boyle’s portrait loomed above. Guilt and want collided, her body heated up at his claim.
Maver...

Ninteen-year-old Lila never expected to find her fated mate at her sister's wedding.
She definitely never expected him to be Adrian Blackthorn, the ruthless Alpha King who just married her older sister, Queen Celeste.
The mate bond snaps into place during the ceremony, but Adrian feels it too and his eyes promise silence.

The problem?
Someone in the palace knows their secret and plans to use ...

Altezza Quirino, a young Italian-American billionaire, desired to have offspring. However, his girlfriend of the past six years consistently rejected his marriage proposals, providing various reasons that eventually led Altezza to give up and decide to part ways.

Adaline Scott, a young woman facing difficulties due to her mother's ailing health, sought a loan from the company to save her mother's...

In a world of forgotten gods and crumbling kingdoms, Serenity is offered as a maiden to the divine—a sacrifice meant to save her people. But the gods do not come. Instead, Lucian, a dragon lord in human form, claims her for himself.

Bound by a forced alliance under moonlit vows, Serenity must navigate a bond she never sought. The more she resists, the closer her heart draws to him. And yet, lovin...

Handsome, hot blooded, hardworking, wealthy, and hard to handle Chief Kaave fought on the city streets of DIRTY SOUTH, where he staked his guts and brains to build an empire. An empire his very own daughter, Coco Kaave, would do any and everything for.

But when Roy, the charming, dangerous hustler with a heart as cold as hers crashes into her world, Coco finds herself distracted…dangling between ...

I was once a brilliant researcher, but I gave up my career for my family. Everything changed during a camping trip—my husband abandoned me in the wilderness, and my son called another woman “Mom.” My husband openly favored his mistress, neglecting both me and our daughter. Heartbroken, I decided to divorce him and take my daughter with me, determined to reclaim my career and my life.

He thought I...

At twelve, I lost my parents and was taken in by the Brooks—our families had a marriage pact. For a decade, everyone expected me to marry their son Conner, a future I'd accepted as duty.
Then Conner's tabloid scandal with another woman destroyed the engagement. Chaos hit our family businesses—until Dylan, Conner's uncle who barely spoke to me, offered: Marry me instead.
It was the only way to save...

I was never meant to have a choice.
My father’s sins became my burden the day he sold me to clear his debt. One moment, I was free, the next, I stood on a stage, auctioned off like property in the black market, a million-dollar price tag hanging over my head.
And then he saw me through the tiny screen of his phone. He didn’t hesitate. Didn’t bat an eye to make a decision. With one simple bid, I be...

Anna Lancaster was never chosen.
When her sister dies on her wedding day, Anna is forced to become the bride instead.
Her husband is William Fairchild, a man of power and cold restraint, who treats their marriage as a sentence rather than a vow. Trapped inside a hostile family and a loveless union, Anna learns one truth quickly.
Obedience will not save her. Everyone sees her as the fragile replace...

“I would never choose you.”
He leaned closer, so close she could feel the warmth of his breath brushing her cheek, could feel the danger that lay beneath the calm.
“You already did, Haven,” he whispered, almost reverently, “The moment you looked at me… and lived. And I will do anything to keep you safe. Including burning down the entire continent.”
...
Haven was just an ordinary girl.
However, ru...

Gaia’s life was shattered when her father, a cop, was murdered in cold blood. Sworn to avenge his death, she was later taken in and raised by another cop in a different city, who became her father figure. Determined to follow in her late father’s footsteps while secretly pursuing her vow of justice, Gaia enrolls in an elite academy that trains future detectives and FBI agents.

During her traini...

“You can’t just walk away from me, Diane!” Mike’s grip on her wrist tightened. “I gave you everything!”

“You took everything,” Diane shot back, yanking herself free. “And now I’m taking it back.”

“Running to Lance Henderson?” Amanda sneered. “Wow. That’s low—even for you.”

For years Diane had stood by her husband and supported him as his perfect wife, only to be betrayed in the most gut-wrenchi...

What if your brother's best friend became your worst distraction?

Klaus, with his chiseled charm, piercing gaze, and reckless smile, was that distraction for Morticia.

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Morticia Addams had always noticed Klaus, her brother's best friend, since they were young. He was the ultimate forbidden fantasy. The man who could have anyone, and usually did. But she? She was an off-limits--an inn...

SYNOPSIS

“Remember,” he growled, his voice roughly caressing against the shell of my ear. His large and scarred hand splayed possessively on my stomach, pulling me back against the hard wall of his chest. We were a twisted parody of a loving couple, nestled in the bed we once shared.

I squeezed my eyes shut, trembling. “I—I can’t. I'm fucking trying.”

His lips brushed the sensitive skin of m...

She was his Luna. But never his love.
Now another man wants her, and fate refuses to be silent.

For five years, Arya wore the title of Luna like a chain. Married to Alpha Jaime, the man her pack worshipped but who never looked at her like she was his. Not once.

She thought the ache of being unwanted was the worst pain she’d ever feel.
Then came the rogue attack. The betrayal. The accusation. And...

He chuckled, low and dark, as my hands betrayed me, reaching out to trace the lines of his tattoos. The ink was warm beneath my fingertips, the patterns intricate-some sharp and angular, others flowing like water. I followed the path down his chest, my nails scraping lightly over his abs, feeling the way they tensed under my touch. My fingers fumbled with the button of his jeans, my movements clum...

"I need an heir, Aria. I can't just sit back and wait for you to be fruitful."

With those words, Alpha Kael severs the sacred mate bond with his Luna, Aria, casting her out for another. Betrayed and left to die, Aria makes a vow to the Moon Goddess: she will make them all pay.

An ancient ritual saves her, gifting her not just life, but a terrifying power born of shadows and a vengeful, ancient v...

"Sir... We can't do this, here." She managed to let the words out trying her best not to moan at the way his touch was igniting fire out of her body.

"It's Daddy for you, Tessa." He whispered to her ears as he pinned her more to the desk of his office. "Daddy will give you an exotic pleasure." His words made her wetter than she already was. She barely had the time to process his words when she f...

“We can do anything we want. You lost all your rights when you stepped into this house. You belong to us, Elsie. Every part of you.”

Trapped in the Lancaster mansion, maid Elsie’s plan for revenge is dangerously close to crumbling. The three ruthless heirs—Aiden, Jacob, and Caleb—see her not as a servant, but as a prize to be won in their dark games of power and desire.

The Lancaster heirs, han...

Lisa Marcus ran from the pack that branded her weak and unfit. Now, they are calling her back. Her dying Alpha father has named her successor, instantly putting a target on her back and resurrecting the painful connection with Ryan Blackstone, the Beta who was supposed to be hers.
But her sudden rise to power is threatened by two devastating secrets: the return of her brother, Daniel, who was sold...

He left Aurora Anderson with a ring that meant nothing and a promise that broke everything.
Four years later, Levi Kingston, the ruthless Alpha who traded his pack for power and built an empire in glass and gold, returns with a proposition that reopens every wound she buried.
A ninety-day marriage contract.
His terms: protect her twins from the enemies his rise created.
Her condition: never fall f...

Everything was thrown off course... Alexandra, the quintessential city girl, lived a meticulously planned life—until a wrong turn during a road trip to surprise her fiancé stranded her in the wilds of the Colorado mountains. There, she was rescued by Evan, a cowboy living in raw, intentional simplicity. Two worlds that should have passed like ships in the night instead sparked with dangerous elect...

Nineteen-year-old Iris Maxwell has always known exactly who she is: a scholarship student fighting her way through design school, devoted daughter to the adoptive parents who found her abandoned at a fire station, and fierce protector of her four younger brothers. With nothing but raw talent and relentless determination, she's determined to build a fashion empire from scratch, no connections, no t...

“I, Orion Henderson, reject you, Lyra Onyxvale, as my mate and the future Luna of the Crescent Pack. I also reject the bastard in your stomach you claim is my child. I wouldn’t touch you if you were the last woman on earth. And if I truly am the one who impregnated you, may the Moon Goddess strike me dead right here, right now.”

He announced it in front of the whole pack, holding the scarred cu...

At the funeral, Olivia Smith seduced her fiancé’s father, Christopher Taylor.
If the fiancé chose to cheat, then Olivia could make him call her “mother”!
It was rumored that Christopher never had any interest in women.
However, Olivia believed that the rumor was wrong after a night with him.
Christopher pushed her against the bedroom wall, kissing her and claiming her, “Sweetie, say it out loud. L...

Damian Cole lives in the shadows... a phantom, a name whispered in boardrooms and corners of the country as the Ghost CEO. No one knows his face, but every empire fears his name.

And there is one man he wants to destroy more than anyone else: Victor Lancaster, the ruthless tycoon responsible for shattering his family... Raped his sister, leading to her death, and killed his father in front of his...

This is the room.

The same room where Landon once stood, wide-eyed and silent, as I executed three men without hesitation. Where he watched me maim another—slowly, deliberately—because mercy wasn’t part of the equation, I remember the look on his face then: horror, disbelief, something fragile cracking behind his eyes.

And now he’s back.

Not as a witness.

But as the one in chains.

I follow th...

In a world ruled by ruthless Alphas, freedom is a luxury, and unmated she-wolves are nothing more than prizes to be sold at auction. Ember spent years running from that fate. She thought she had escaped, that she could carve out a life away from the cruelty of power hungry packs. But one night, her luck runs out. Chained, humiliated, and forced onto the auction block, she faces her worst nightmare...

I didn’t have the kind of body those women by the pool flaunted, but the way he looked at me, like I was the only thing he wanted, made me forget that.
“Exquisite,” he murmured, lowering his head, and before I could even draw breath, his mouth was on my nipple; hot, wet, consuming.
A louder moan escaped me....

Carrie Summers thought meeting Gavin Manning was just a typical bar encounter, and that...

The five-year marriage turned out to be just a joke. Isabella Taylor gave everything she had, but all she got was a divorce agreement.
Three years later, Isabella returned to her hometown.
Michael Johnson who said he would never look at her in his life chased her every day.
At work, in life, even when Isabella was hanging clothes on the balcony, she could see his face.
“Mr. Johnson, what exactly d...