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From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, writing as NATALIE KANE, comes a cat and mouse, dark Mafia novel in her Kings of Vegas series, Savage King. Violet My sister was stolen seven years ago. Gone without a trace. Five years later, I received a letter from her that led me to the...

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, writing as NATALIE KANE, comes an arranged marriage, age-gap, ex’s dad novel in her Kings of Vegas series, Blood King. Natasha Being a Bratva princess is not as glamorous as it sounds. Or glamorous at all. I’ve known since I was a child...

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good...

This is the fourth title in the Kings of Vegas series. A dark mafia romance...

From USA Today & Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Michelle Heard comes a new standalone, full-length mafia romance novel. I was born into the Cosa Nostra, so I should be used to the blood, violence, and constant threat of death, right? Wrong . Every time one of the men I love gets hurt...

For Steve Jenkins prison isn’t just a locked cell; it’s a death sentence. Somebody wants him gone. Not punished. Not locked-up. Dead. And it’s not only his life he’s scared for. It’s his girlfriend’s , too. With Steve completely powerless, behind bars, she’s out there raising his...

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard comes a new standalone, full-length mafia romance novel. My father orders me to seduce a man most people are too afraid to even look at. Georgi Torrisi. Head of the Torrisi family and a Cosa Nostra Capo. A brutal and...

'The action is explosive. Readers will barely have time to catch their breath' - People Split Second is the electrifying first thriller in the gripping King and Maxwell series from international no.1 bestselling author David Baldacci. * * * * * When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for...

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.

Kieran Murphy is an Irish mob boss and one of the most powerful men in Boston. When he walks me home, people step aside out of respect for him. He could have any woman he wants. So why does he have eyes only for me? Is it how he has to lift my chin with his fingers to keep my eyes level with his when he scolds me and how I cover my bottom instinctively when he tells me that I've earned a spanking? Or is it how I quiver at the thought of everything I'm too ashamed to beg him to do to me? Maybe it's all of those, but I'm pretty sure there's something else too.

'S. A. Cosby's novels always hit the grand slam of crime fiction' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Cosby sends a shiver down the spine' DAILY MAIL 'A pulsating saga of family secrets and double and triple-crossing' THE TIMES, THE BEST THRILLERS OF 2025 A son returning home. A dangerous debt. Secrets about to...

London, 1667. In the court of Charles II, it's a dangerous time to be alive. A wrong move could lead to disgrace, exile or death. The discovery of a murder at Clarendon House, the palatial home of one of the highest courtiers in the land, could have catastrophic consequences. James Marwood, a traitor's son, is ordered to cover up the murder. But the dead man is Edward Alderley, the cousin of one of Marwood's acquaintances. Cat Lovett had every reason to want her cousin dead. Since his murder, she has vanished, and all the evidence points to her as the killer.

"She's just watching, thinking about it again, when a big flash car pulls up outside. No one gets out. Then the doors of the bar open and people appear. Two men and a youngish woman, and one of the men has a hold on the woman's arm. It looks as if they're having words. Then this all happens...

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he...

Former Secret Service Agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, return in their most surprising, personal and dangerous case to date. King and Maxwell is the explosive finale to David Baldacci's phenomenal series. King and Maxwell encounter teenager Tyler Wingo when he...

'Heart-stopping and heart-rending, this is Liam McIlvanney's best novel yet' VAL MCDERMID WHAT COULD BE WORSE THAN YOUR CHILD DISAPPEARING? Gordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal, happy people with successful, fulfilling lives. They have a son they adore, a house on the beach and a safe...

It's not just a game when you're running for your life. Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to...

Step into the twisted universe of The King of the Peso, a pioneering Original series that blends intense storytelling with unparalleled immersion into a world of corruption on both sides of the border. Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare.

Nathan Cole has known the truth about his father since he was ten years old. Too terrified to go to the police, he ran away from home as soon as he was able, carrying the guilt of leaving his sister behind. But when Lucas is found dead in a dingy motel room, Nathan returns to his childhood home for the first time in seventeen years. It's there he finds The Midnight King, his father's final unpublished manuscript, a fictionalised account of his hideous crimes, hidden in a box of trinkets from his victims.

I didn't think I needed Dimitri Kristoff's protection, but it wasn't up to me. With a kingpin from a rival family coming after me, he took charge, took off his belt, and then took what he wanted. He knows I'm not used to doing as I'm told. He just doesn't care. The stripes seared across my bare bottom left me sore and sorry, but it was what came after that truly left me shaken. The princess of the king family shouldn't be on her knees for anyone, let alone this Bratva brute who has decided to claim for himself what he was meant to safeguard.