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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old William "Shoe" Shumacher, a cub crime reporter at the Seattle Daily Star, has just arrived from Kansas City, Mo. After following a tip from Det. Ernie Blunt, Shoe hits it big with his first story: an account of former boxer Frankie Ray's murder at the Pom Pom Club, where members of Seattle's elite illegally drink and gamble. The Pom Pom's owner, well-connected gangster George Miller, is accused of shooting Frankie over a debt, but...
2) Heavy crown
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 6
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Gallo couldn't believe it when he saw her being stuffed into a trunk: Yelena Yenina, the only daughter of the most vicious Bratva boss in Chicago. The Bratva hate Sebastian's family-in fact, they burned his uncle alive. He should have just left Yelena to her fate. But she fought like a Valkyrie-gorgeous, ferocious, and unbreakable. Sebastian had to save her, and after feeling the electricity between them, he knows he has to make her his,...
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Griffins and the Gallos have been battling for control of Chicago's underworld for generations. Their rivalry has always been flammable, but it reignites with a fury when Aida, the youngest and wildest Gallo sibling, crashes a party at the Griffin mansion and accidentally sets fire to the library. To stave off all-out war, her father quickly arranges a marriage between her and Callum Griffin, eldest son and heir to the Irish mafia. Cold, ambitious,...
4) Dante
Author
Series
Chicago ruthless volume 1
Publisher
Red House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
I hate Dante Moretti. He is cold, calculating and vicious. It's no secret that he wiped out his former fiancée and her entire family on the eve of their wedding. He's the kind of evil that makes even devils cry. But that's not why I hate him. I hate him because he has taken the only thing I have left in this miserable world - my freedom. He has chained me to him because of a debt that I don't owe. I just have the misfortune to share the bloodline...
5) Stolen heir
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Too compassionate and gentle for the underworld business she grew up in, she fills no role in her family's mafia empire, struggling to prove herself both at home and in her highly competitive ballet corps. Mikolaj Wilk is the most vicious gangster in Chicago, and he's hellbent on revenge. His adoptive father saved him from the streets of Warsaw only to die at the hands of the Griffins. As part of his vengeance, Mikolaj...
6) Bloody heart
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Simone Solomon lives in a gilded cage. She's been raised to wealth, privilege, and above all, obedience. But one night, on her way to another tedious gala in the back of a limousine, Simone is abducted by a mafioso who intended to steal a car, not a girl...and everything changes. Dante Gallo looks like a beast and behaves like one, too-until he lays eyes on Simone in the rearview mirror and falls hard and fast for his accidental hostage. Their attraction...
7) Savage lover
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Camille Rivera is drowning. Her father's sick, her brother's in deep with a dirty cop, and her mechanic shop is failing. She's growing desperate, trying to keep her world a float in whatever way she can. Nero Gallo is the neighborhood hazard. A mess-maker. A walking disaster. Camille has watched him burn through every girl in a ten-mile radius, as vicious as he is gorgeous, breaking hearts and never, ever getting attached. Which is why she can't believe...
8) Broken vow
Author
Series
Brutal birthright volume 5
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Riona Griffin is gorgeous, intelligent, and iron-willed, determined to carve her name in the family ledger without a man at her side. But when she barely survives an unexpected attack on her life, her family hires Raylan Boone as her bodyguard--a rancher, a soldier, and a southern boy with plenty of charm to burn. And Riona hates his guts. She doesn't think she needs anybody, but Raylan is pretty sure she needs him. After all, she's being hunted by...
9) Joey
Author
Series
Chicago ruthless volume 2
Publisher
Red House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Notorious Mafia enforcer and right hand of the Cosa Nostra, Maximo DiMarco has always looked out for me. He's my protector. My brothers' best friend. My crush-with the body of a god and the mind of a devil. And I am just a spoiled Mafia princess. At least that's who most people think I am. They don't look at me long enough to see the real me. But he sees… He is dark and dangerous and lethal, but he's the only man who makes me feel like I'm alive....
Author
Series
Danny Ryan volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece...
11) Lorenzo
Author
Series
Chicago ruthless volume 3
Publisher
Red House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Grief is the price we pay for love. My name is Lorenzo Moretti. Born to be head of the Cosa Nostra, except that I chose love over my birthright. On our wedding day, my father cursed our union, swearing on his own blood that my wife and I would never live out our days in happiness. I guess he was right, because fate stole her from me and I'm left to live an empty life without her, with a shattered heart and only half a soul. On the day my wife died,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis actors and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. She's getting tired of chasing rumors about Rosie Riveters' safety on the job, or whether the Nazis have poisoned...
14) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. The Feds were mostly willing to look the other way while the family smuggled everything from liquor to cigarettes across the border, but...
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