Royal Syndicate

Tito Mangione rules the city with a bloody fist. Few dare to cross him, and fewer still survive to become examples for the rest. Weakness? Obliterated. Kindness? Ha! There’s no place for kindness in Tito Mangione’s world. No place for gentleness, no place for compassion. There’s definitely no place for a gay son. So what am I to do? I can’t let the Don of Downtown know my true desires. I stand to inherit everything someday, but I don’t want any of it. Not the money, not the family business, not the power. What I want is Aron. He’s been my companion since I was a kid.

My father’s gone, my lover is missing, and war looms ahead. A new Empire threatens everything my father fought to build, everything I’ve struggled to maintain in his absence. I flounder and stumble, drifting without the one person who keeps me steady, who anchors me. The one person who loves me. Lies and secrets surround, slowly engulfing my world and everyone in it. There’s no one to trust, no one I can rely on. If I’m going to survive this battle, I have to change my ways. Harden myself, deny my emotions, steel myself against the pain. I have to become the man my father wanted me to be.