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Demyan and Ana (The Russian Guns #4)
513·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Demyan and Ana have lived in privilege and protection as the children of Anton and Viviana Avdonin. With a Russian mob boss for a father and a mafia queen for a mother, they’ve got big shoes to fill. Love and life are messy games to play, especially when you’re new at it. An attack on one Avdonin will leave the family stunned and hurting. Their retribution is brutal, but the repercussions for their revenge will be even more devastating. Because when blood is spilled in their world, more must fall, too. No one is safe. They have always been formidable—unstoppable. But they are not bulletproof. Giving all of your heart to one person means running the risk of losing it when life comes crashing down. A happily ever after is just beyond their grasps. One will get theirs. And the other won’t. *The Russian Guns, Book 4
Shattered (The Russian Guns #5)
3.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】“Don’t fall in love with me. I ruin beautiful things.”Love made him this way, but life makes him stay.Life doesn’t give a redo. There’s no rewind or pause button to take you back or stop time. Once something happens, it happened. The most tragic of those times in his life, the ones he wouldn’t get back and the moments he could never fix, reminded Demyan Avdonin of a bullet meeting glass.The impact of the bullet doesn't break the glass into pieces, but instead, leaves behind a single hole surrounded by a spider web of cracks. Fragile cracks that, when handled with the utmost care, would splinter into shards of what used to be.Demyan thought he had been broken beyond repair once, four long years ago.He was wrong.She touched the glass, unknowing of the cracks holding him together. These are the broken pieces of a shattered man and the woman who made him live.Life made him this way, but love makes him stay.*The Russian Guns, Book 5
Thin Lines (Donati Bloodlines #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Donati Bloodlines: Part TwoThey’re not star-crossed—they’re impossible. Calisto Donati is what every made man in the mafia should be, and then he broke his oath for a woman that wasn’t his. Their secrets and games are deadly, but as hard as he tries to stay away from his boss’s new bride, the universe seems determined to keep bringing them back together. Trapped in a marriage that leaves Emma heartbroken and lonely, he’s often the only one left to pick up the pieces of what remains of a once vibrant woman. Maybe his self-control would be better if he didn’t know the monster his uncle truly is—after all, Affonso Donati was the first hard lesson about life that Calisto had to learn. These are the secrets of the Donati Bloodlines—where everything, even love, is a lie. But how far will they go to keep it that way?*Donati Bloodlines, Book 2Note: TW for miscarriage, child loss, and DV.
Thin Lives (Donati Bloodlines #3)
2.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Donati Bloodlines: Part 3They’re not star-crossed—they’re impossible. Emma Donati wasn’t given a choice in the end, and the one she was forced to make saved more lives than just hers. If only knowing that was enough to get her through the hell she’s currently living. Instead, she’s paying the price for the lies they’ve told, and the cost is unbearably high. Some days, it feels like she imagined it all. Like everything with Calisto was a dream. But they were real once.Even if now, he doesn't remember any of it.And if protecting the only thing she has left of him means lying to the one man who might be able to save her—so be it. Except the truth still has consequences, and when Calisto finds out what she’s done … not even God will stop him. *Donati Bloodlines, Book 3Note: TW for miscarriage, child loss, and DV.
Vow (Andino and Haven #2)
3.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】They say it’s always the one you least expect … Andino Marcello made his choices—the right ones for duty and famiglia. But even the right choices have consequences. He’s never been more aware of that fact than he is now. The thing is, Andino isn’t the same man he once was. The mafia wants what it wants. He’ll push until they all break. Even her. They say love shouldn’t hurt … Haven Murphy needs to move on—from her pain and the man who caused it. But the faster she tries to run, the more things stay the same. She never thought it would end like this for them. The thing is, Haven isn’t the same woman she once was. The heart wants what it wants. She’ll fight until it all lets go. Even him. How far will he go for love?All the way to the very bitter end. That’s his vow.*Andino Haven, Book 2
Waste of Worth (DeLuca Duet #1)
523·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Ask anyone and they will all say the same thing about just who Dino DeLuca is. A criminal, the son of a traitor, and a mafia Capo who can’t be trusted. His past has shaped his life, creating demons he can’t escape from that live in his mind day and night. He is all too aware of just how people see him. Closed off. Cold. Different. He doesn’t care—keeping people out means no one can get close enough to hurt him again, and he already has one too many monsters with their claws stuck in his back that he’s still fighting off. His walls are so high, no one is climbing over them. Or so he thinks … Karen came into his life like a spring shower, her light shining through the darkness and making him see something other than the hell that surrounded him for so long. She doesn’t know who he is or what he has done to become the man he is today. If he can help it, she’ll never know, and his monsters will never hurt her. She sees his differences as beauty. She never asks for more. She is perfect. The problem with happiness for Dino DeLuca is that his monsters don’t mind taking away what makes him happy. After all, what isn’t given cannot be kept. These lessons will be the hardest he has ever learned. *DeLuca Duet, Book 1
Worth of Waste (DeLuca Duet #2)
545·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】The Chicago Mob is the same as it has always been—violent, greedy, and excessive. The Outfit families have turned their backs when they were needed the most one too many times, but Dino DeLuca didn’t expect anything different. His whole life has been lived for the Outfit—for his family. He has a whole new set of reasons to live and fight now. Karen Martin makes Dino change all the rules. He’s finally ready to show everyone just how much waste is truly worth in the mafia, and just how far one will go for freedom from it all. He’s learned these lessons well. Too well. *DeLuca Duet, Book 2
Corrado (The Guzzi Legacy #1)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】The son of a prominent Cosa Nostra Don, Corrado Guzzi’s life should have been all mapped out. He would be what every other Guzzi man was, too—made, mafia. It’s their way. But when given another choice, the chance to be something more, he takes it. Even if it comes with strings.It’s there that he might find where he belongs, and Alessio Sorrento. The man who could change his whole life.This love thing? It should have been easy, but they made it hard. Nothing about a relationship like theirs is simple. Dictated by rules, weighed down with things left unsaid, and already hanging by a frayed thread.This is what love looks like before, and after. Before she came along. And after she was there.It takes one woman to change everything.Ginevra Calabrese wasn’t ready for this—for them.So, what happens now?*The Guzzi Legacy, Book 1
Alessio (The Guzzi Legacy #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】The son of a prominent Cosa Nostra Don, Corrado Guzzi’s life should have been all mapped out. He would be what every other Guzzi man was, too—made, mafia. It’s their way. But when given another choice, the chance to be something more, he takes it. Even if it comes with strings.It’s there that he might find where he belongs, and Alessio Sorrento. The man who could change his whole life.This love thing? It should have been easy, but they made it hard. Nothing about a relationship like theirs is simple. Dictated by rules, weighed down with things left unsaid, and already hanging by a frayed thread.This is what love looks like before, and after. Before she came along. And after she was there.It takes one woman to change everything.Ginevra Calabrese wasn’t ready for this—for them.So, what happens now?*The Guzzi Legacy, Book 2
Chris (The Guzzi Legacy）
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】A made man versus the cartel …The job was simple—a contract from a powerful crime family to retrieve Valeria Lòpez. A woman believed to have been forcibly taken by one of the major cartels in Mexico. Easy enough, right?Christopher Guzzi thought so, but the details made it difficult. He didn’t expect to trick his way into the path of the cartel leader only to develop feelings for the woman he was meant to recover. That leader’s wife. Every step he takes is risky, and one wrong move could leave them both dead. Too bad that’s not enough to keep him away from Valeria as he tries to find a way to free her.Hope is a dangerous thing.Love is even worse.Here, everybody plays dirty.No one can be trusted.So, how do they get out alive?*The Guzzi Legacy, Book 3
Marcus (The Guzzi Legacy #6)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】When falling is easy, people often forget about the crash.The time has finally come for Marcus Guzzi to step into his birthright. He’s the firstborn—the next boss to take over his family’s mafia and he’s never been more ready. With an MC encroaching on Guzzi territory, family expectations following him, and more responsibility on his shoulders than ever, what’s one more thing added to his ever-growing list of duties when his father asks for a favor? He just didn’t expect that favor to bring with it a woman he can’t ignore.Cella Marcello is a lot of things. Single mother. Daughter of a former New York Underboss. A highly sought-after interior designer. Widow. The one thing she’s learned about life after all that’s happened in hers? It keeps moving on, and so does she. When a contract for a penthouse design takes her to Toronto, she isn’t ready for the gorgeously dangerous man waiting there to make sure she has everything she needs. Even if the thing she needs is him.Marcus is everything she never wanted before now. He wasn’t even looking for someone like her. When the traumas of the past take center stage, these two will need to decide if the chance at forever is worth the risk.*The Guzzi Legacy, Book 6
Loyalty (John and Siena #1)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Fresh out of prison after serving a three-year sentence, Johnathan Marcello wants to get back to normal business as a mafia capo. The rules set out for him are clear—keep out of trouble, maintain a low profile, and stay stable. But stability is a delicate balance for a man like John, and shaky ground is only a single step away. A chance encounter with a blue-eyed woman might just change his whole world.Siena Calabrese’s life revolves around cooking numbers, and scrubbing books clean. After all, a girl is only useful to men in the mafia, if she isn’t totally useless. As long as she does what they want, then she can maintain the illusion of freedom. But illusions are only delusions in the grand scheme of her life, and reality is far more dangerous. A man with secrets might just be the one thing she didn’t know she needed. In this life, family is everything. Or, that’s how it should be. Distrust. Love.Betrayal. Loyalty. Mix it all together, and it makes for a volatile city. A war is coming.*John Siena, Book 1
Disgrace (John and Siena #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Siena Calabrese is no longer the prized daughter of la famiglia. Her transgressions against her brothers and family have stained more than just her reputation. Her best chance at keeping breath in her lungs would be to sit down and shut up like she was taught to do. She definitely shouldn't be feeding information to her family's enemies. And yet, she is still willing to risk it all for a chance at forever with Johnathan Marcello. After everything, how could she not? The disgraced one … Johnathan Marcello’s life and secrets have now been put on display for everyone to see. There's no hiding the things he's tried to keep hidden, but maybe that's the best thing that could have happened. Now he's about to walk straight into a war between rival mafia families, and he's got choices to make. His love is on one side, he's on the other, and everybody is playing for keeps. He'll play the game just as dirty as anyone else to get what he wants, even to the detriment of himself. For her, how could he not?The shamed one … It's time that the forgotten king takes back his throne. It's already been too long since it was taken from him. But when has anything in this life been easy?*John Siena, Book 2
Privilege (Renzo and Lucia #1)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】They didn’t come from the same world … Born rich to a family of mafia royalty, Lucia Marcello was already destined to succeed. She wanted for absolutely nothing, until she met him. Born poor to parents who never cared, Renzo Zulla was already destined to fail. He has struggled for absolutely everything, but she’ll prove to be his biggest fight yet. She’s high society from the upscale suburbs. He’s a drug dealer from New York’s slums. They just weren’t meant to be … until they were. What would it take to change a life—an entire perspective? All the things you thought you knew and wanted? For them, it took thirty-six days. And the privilege of meeting each other. They shouldn’t be. They don’t fit. Love doesn’t care. *Renzo Lucia, Book 1
Harbor (Renzo and Lucia #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Ride or die … Lucia Marcello is the good girl—or she used to be. The youngest mafia principessa of her family, she's not the one who falls for the man from the wrong side of the tracks, and she certainly shouldn't have run across the country with him. She'll leave everything behind for him … Renzo Zulla is the bad guy—society and life labeled him that way. The only person left to take care of his siblings, he couldn't afford the distraction of falling in love with a rich girl far beyond his league, and he definitely shouldn't have her riding shotgun as he runs for his life. He doesn't want her anywhere else …Love keeps them together. Fear keeps them running. Chaos follows them everywhere they go. How long can they keep moving before someone finally catches up? The cost of love is always high. Never harbor it blindly. *Renzo Lucia, Book 2
Cusp of Forever (Renzo and Lucia #4)
500·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Five years after their wedding, and life is good for Renzo and Lucia. If not a little stressful. They’re always on the move—Lucia with her gallery, and Renzo being an assassin for The League. At the chance to slow life down with a week-long trip for just the two of them to Bali, they can’t pass it up. But even Bali will change things … It’s one more step toward forever. *Diego Zulla is all grown up. Or mostly. On the verge of adulthood, with the choices that come along with it staring him right in the face, Diego has a decision to make. Risk everything to chase a dream all the way across the country or take the safer route that everyone else would choose for him. He thinks he knows what he wants. But does he really? Life always has a lesson to teach. When balancing on the cusp of something great … jump. Headfirst. And unafraid. *Renzo Lucia, Books 4 and 5
Fractured Ties (Boykov Bratva #1)
4.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Everything comes with a price. Kolya Boykov isn’t afraid to die—he’s already been dead for a long time. All it takes is one look at her from across the bar, and Kolya comes to life again. She’s fragile and beautiful and caged. Taking her was the last thing he should have done, but he’s never wanted anything like he wants Maya. As the son of a Bratva boss, no one can stop him from having her. Maya Kozlov wishes she was invisible—mistreated and unloved, they never let her forget it. All it takes is a few words from him, and Maya’s life is turned upside down all over again. He’s cold and harsh and terrifying. She should have run the first chance she could, but that’s the thing about Kolya; he makes her want to stay. As the unwanted daughter of a dead man, she just wants to be happy. There’s only one problem. It’s more than just Kolya who wants to keep Maya forever. Family, legacy, and the mafia … nothing will stand in their way. The cost of this betrayal is high.What will be the price?*Boykov Bratva, Book 1
Essence of Fear (Boykov Bratva #2)
697·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】The allure of fear is learning to love it.Viktoria Boykov has heard it all—cold they call her. The spoiled bratva princess. She knows very well what people say when her back is turned. She doesn’t mind; let them talk. It’s better for people to assume what they want about her than for them to know the truth … until him.Pavel Kotov knows what people say—death they call him. The Boykov dog. He’s heard all the whispers locked away in the cells of the Compound. As the reaper for the bratva, his life owned by someone else, he knows what they say doesn’t matter. His life has never mattered … until her.He’s terrifying.She’s terrified.Viktoria only wants to keep running from her past. Pavel doesn’t have a life to run from. Freedom is the one thing they both crave—for entirely different reasons. But this life is vicious, and scars like the ones they wear will never fade.Together, they could have everything.Or are they just pawns to a bigger game?*Boykov Bratva, Book 2
Dishonored
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Sex is his weapon.Power is her drug.Caesar Accardo is gasoline. Mostly harmless while stable, but Aria holds the match to set the dishonored Cosa Nostra prince on fire in more ways than one. And if he burns down everything in his path because of it--so be it. The problem is ... she just wasn't prepared for all of him. Aria De Rose is a hurricane. Amazing from afar, but destructive up close. Caesar keeps getting pulled into the Camorra queen's plans in her effort to gain power, but he's a better player than she knows. The thing is ... women like her are the reason why rules are meant to be broken. Philadelphia isn't ready for game these two are playing--the sacrifices they make might not be worth it in the end, and someone will always lose in a war. They're broken, so very vicious, and they are not the good guys. But for every villain in the world, there's a monster at his back who made him that way. And monsters like those hide in plain sight.
Inflict
3.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】As the son of an Irish mobster, Connor O’Neil spent his boyhood hiding from the horrors of his own home. His one reprieve was a girl he knew only as Evelyn, but even she was taken away. As a man, Connor is determined to stay away from his father’s business. With Sean, participation is not a request, but a demand. The truth is, Connor might be more like the evil he’s trying to hide away from than he would like to admit.And he’s already spent years trying to cover the scars left over from the pain.A chance encounter puts the lost girl from his past back on his path, and he no longer has a choice but to face the darkness he’s been ignoring for years.Evelyn. Sasha. Slave. She doesn’t really know who she is anymore. Or maybe she does, and she doesn’t want to tell.She isn’t the same as she once was—now a thing to be kept and maintained, shuffled from owner to owner until it was her time to go. She only became Connor’s because he took her when he knew she wasn’t his to take.Except she isn’t Connor’s at all …And he can’t keep her hidden forever.
Dirty Pool
3.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】To get what he wants, he’ll have to play a game of dirty pool.Michel Marcello never wanted to be a mafioso like every other man in his family—he wanted to be more. That doesn’t mean he’s unfamiliar with the life, or that he can’t hold his own against other made men.They forgot where he came from …His chance encounter with the fiery and beautiful daughter of Detroit’s most notorious Irish mob boss stokes flames beyond the ones that ignite between Michel and Gabbie Casey. Rivals shouldn’t mix, but these opposites have never been more attracted, either.The lines between family loyalty, their duties, and responsibility begin to blur.Love ruins all.But these two aren’t the only ones playing this game, and it just became far more dangerous to get out alive.
Cozen
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】coz-en (kuz-uhn) verb1. trick or deceive.• obtain by deception.She was named most appropriately.Cozen Taylor has more than earned her place as one of North America’s most successful thieves. Her name is whispered amongst criminal elite as the go-to thief when someone needs a heist.She has never failed.A call from the Miami-based Astor family could change all that with a job that seems almost impossible to complete. The mark should be simple—a stolen family heirloom, the man who has kept it hidden for over twenty years, and six months to return the piece to its rightful owners.Nothing is ever that easy.Three-hundred million for a successful heist. No smart thief would turn the offer down. Cozen didn’t expect a complication like him to put a kink in her plans, though. Sargon Makri—tall, dark, gorgeous, and entirely dangerous. For her life, her heart, and for the success of the heist.The last thing Cozen needs to be thinking about is Sargon, and how she can get him into her bed … especially when he just happens to be her mark’s bodyguard. The thrill of the job has never been more addicting to Cozen, and she will risk everything to make the heist a success.But at what cost?***From author Bethany-Kris comes a whole new world. A North American network full of criminals battling to stay on top, and painting the streets red in war as they dabble in the game of betrayal. Malicious, cunning, forbidden, and violent—welcome to The Empires and Badlands.
Pink
2.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】He’s Pink, the personal enforcer for the boss of the New York mafia. She’s Gigi Rey, a supermodel known across the globe.They live two entirely different lives but before the mob and the fame, they were Lev Arsov and Gigi Parker. Two people struggling to make it—who met by chance—before life got in the way.Five years have passed since the nights they shared together, but Fashion Week brings Gigi back to New York and straight into Lev’s path once more, when her work obligations tangles with the mafia’s business. In this world, that’s never a good thing.They aren’t the same people now. He’s a single dad doing whatever he can for his daughter. Gigi can’t walk down the street without the world watching. A lot has changed. The one thing that didn’t? How they keep finding their way into each other’s heads … and beds.If only it was that simple.If only the tabloids didn’t back them into a wall.If only they saw it coming.If only they could go back to the time before he was … Pink.If only.
Always (Cross and Catherine #1)
2.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】A wild boy.A sly girl.Cross Donati defines trouble. He does what he wants because he’s never known anything different. He’s unapologetic, and he owns it.Catherine Marcello is every bit a good girl … on the outside. Her entire world is a legacy, and she lives it. She’s curious, and she’s exploring it.She chases bad things.He never learned to be good.They’re late nights, stolen cars, first times, fist fights, leather jackets, beaches, bloody smiles, and life.They’re vicious and precious, dangerous and harmless, innocence and sin. They are love. Love is killing for someone.Love is living for someone.Sometimes, you can’t keep saving your heart when it means sacrificing it, too.Sometimes, you have to learn to save yourself.Sometimes, love has to fall, crash, and burn.This is what love is like when you’re a principe and principessa della mafia.This is what love is like when you’re Cross Donati and Catherine Marcello.*Cross Catherine, Book 1
Revere (Cross and Catherine #2)
2.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】She was once his liar.He was once her savior. Cross Donati fills his days with the mafia, family, and responsibility. The wild boy is a distant memory. A waiting prince now sits in his place. An old debt puts the gunrunner right back into the path of his past, but he only sees his future. Every king needs a queen. Catherine Marcello learned how to stand on her own, and she no longer needs saving. The sly girl is far more dangerous now. A broken promise taught her how to live again. One conversation puts the hustler face to face with her first love, but she only sees heartache. Every God needs a prayer. The scars of their history runs deep. Every lie told, and each secret spilled hurts a little bit more. Love does not care. Love will not wait. So, why does life keep standing in the way? *Cross Catherine, Book 2
Unruly (Cross and Catherine #3)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】The crime boss.The hustling queen.Cross and Catherine Donati have been married five years, but the life they’ve chosen still has things to teach them yet. One can never become too comfortable in their business. Trouble soon follows. The principe and principessa are all grown up …It’s tough being at the top. When all Cross wants is to slow down the world, reality has a way of speeding it back up. Just when Catherine thinks she’s learned everything her mother has to teach, more lessons come her way. A king and queen must protect their thrones … This is their life. This is their love. Always. Revered. And unruly.*Cross Catherine, Book 3
The Score (The Russian Guns #3)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】 In the mess of love and life, nothing and no one is left untouched.After everything the Russian mob boss Anton Avdonin has done to keep his family safe from the dangers of the world surrounding them, he never thought it would come down to this. The officials are knocking, the charges are piling, his wife is hurting, and they’re facing a fate he never thought to consider. He didn’t just make one mistake … no, he made many. It’s time to answer for them all.Viviana “Vine” Avdonin is stuck watching the life she adores crumble around her. Bad decisions have led to terrible consequences in more ways than one. She doesn’t have time to recover from one devastating tragedy that leaves her shattered before the next one is crushing down, too. Saving her husband from a life sentence might be the easiest thing she has to do when her own misdeeds are staring her in the face.Together, Anton and Viviana have survived more than once, but this path will be by far, the hardest they’ve ever walked. Sometimes they have to walk it alone … because forgiveness isn’t always black and white and love can be blurred by pain. With the blissful ignorance gone and the blinders removed, how much of themselves will they have to sacrifice to come out on top one last time?When everyone has a score to settle, it’s hard to notice the person causing the most heartache is the one staring back in the mirror.*The Russian Guns, Book 3
The Life (The Russian Guns #2)
3.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】 The mafia life is a dangerous one revolving around honor, duty, and greed—a troublesome thing like love isn’t meant to play a part, but no one follows the rules.Surrounded by men waiting for the Russian mob boss to show weakness, Anton Avdonin should have known showering affection so openly on his new bride wasn’t a good idea. Of course, that didn’t stop him. When Anton’s wife begins attracting unwanted attention from an unknown source, he’s determined to find out just who is playing the risky game and put a stop to it by whatever means necessary.From a Cosa Nostra princess to a Bratva queen, Viviana “Vine” Avdonin was made for the life. Pregnant, safe, and loved, she’s more than happy to move on from the history that haunts her to start out fresh. Then again, someone else has other plans. Old rivals from the past and bad blood from the present have mixed in the worst way, threatening to take away the things Viviana loves the very most. No matter what, she can’t let that happen. Both Viviana and Anton know there’s only one way this can all end and it’s up to them to do it. But, who is behind the veiled threats and personal attacks, and how far are they willing to go to get what they want? When the truth finally surfaces, the consequences will be devastating and no one could have seen it coming. In a life where everybody plays for keeps and no one fights fair, one mistake might cost them everything. *The Russian Guns, Book 2
A Very Marcello Christmas (Filthy Marcellos #3.6)
404·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】 Join the Marcellos as they celebrate the holidays … Cecelia wants one thing for Christmas, and Antony thinks he can make the impossible happen for her. Never underestimate a man who loves his wife. Lucian and Jordyn struggle to make this Christmas perfect for their kids when life gets in the way. Someone waiting in the wings is willing to play Santa to make it all happen. Dante and Catrina battle the stress of managing work and family through the holidays. Sometimes it takes the right kind of reminder from those who matter most to make it all work. Giovanni and Kim have to keep everything together—from business to party planning. Not to mention, they still have to find something that will satisfy little Andino’s one Christmas wish. A little family spirit, and a bit of Christmas magic come together for all the Marcellos to make these holidays the best one yet. Merry Christmas from the Marcellos.It’s the only time of the year when they dust off the filth. ~ Broken into small novellas for each Marcello couple, take a trip through the holidays with everyone from the Filthy Marcellos series. This novella is meant to be read as an add-on to the Filthy Marcellos series, and is not standalone.
The Arrangement (The Russian Guns #1)
6.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】 Nothing will stop the Bratva mob boss from taking back what’s his and once he has her, he’ll do anything to keep her…Viviana “Vine” Carducci’s and Anton Avdonin’s marriage was decided over two decades ago. The deal between leading mafia families had more on the line than anyone knew, even if the Bratva and Cosa Nostra shouldn’t have mixed. When Vine’s family is murdered and she’s left with nothing more than her grief to survive the mob world alone, she believes the arrangement won’t see the light of day.Anton can’t allow the one woman he was supposed to love get away. At the possibility of her life ending, he steps in with guns blazing knowing exactly what it might cost him: everything. But it’s been nearly a decade since their last meeting, and he can’t help but wonder if the woman he took back is the same girl he fell for all those years before.Protected and loved, Vine is unable to forget their shared moments a lifetime ago, or the future she knows they’re owed. When an old flame of Anton’s shows up to rip the veil off the carefully constructed secrets he’d been hiding, past lies surface, and she might just learn that nothing about her life was as it seemed. But, that’s nothing compared to the bomb about to blow. Can Vine see beyond the pain and blood to take what she always wanted? And just how far will the mob prince go to keep her safe?In a world where violence, deceit, and greed reign, your life is not your own, and sometimes, love has to be arranged.*Book 1 of The Russian Guns
Antony (Filthy Marcellos #0.5)
549·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】 Antony Marcello didn’t break the rules. Not the ones that mattered, anyway. In the world of La Cosa Nostra, justice was served with a single word and a bullet, not a courthouse and a judge. When he was told to jump, there was only one appropriate response: How high, Boss? Some rules are worth bending. La famiglia has been Antony’s goal for longer than he cares to remember. Getting his button is everything alongside family, honor, God, and loyalty. Meeting Cecelia Catrolli puts what he thought he knew upside down as the mafia, friendship, secrets and love carry him through life. Nothing is ever easy. Some rules are worth the killing. When Cosa Nostra, the one thing he has always known and trusted, takes away his best friend, leaving Antony to pick up the pieces, he’ll have to decide if the rules are finally worth breaking. He didn’t start out as the boss, he began as just Antony. Sometimes, you have to learn how to be filthy. *Antony is a prequel to the Filthy Marcellos series. No reading order.
Captivated
5.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】A shadow meets the light …When someone needs to disappear, the Chicago mob calls on Joe Rossi. A man who can move without a sound, and kill without a word, they don’t call him the Shadow for nothing.This time, it’s a New York crime family in need of his skills, but it takes one glimpse of her to make him agree to the job.Liliana Marcello is every inch a principessa della mafia. Her life has taught her to be wary of strangers, yet her ballet career contradicts everything by putting her on display.It’s a man with a dark smile and a constantly changing demeanor that makes her feel safe again, but it’s the unknown that holds her back.It takes one look …One dance …One word …One smile to captivate a man.And one second to kill a woman because of it, too.Not all monsters hide in the shadows.How are you supposed to see them coming?
Entangled (Guzzi Duet #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Gian Guzzi has everything a mafia boss could want, but it comes with strings. He shouldn’t be wasting time on a redhead he can’t have, when men like him are not allowed to be affected by silly things like love. A boss’s job is never done, and Gian has far better things to worry about—what with someone wanting him dead, and someone else wanting him in prison for good. Yet, he keeps risking it all for one more taste of Cara Rossi.A man without love is no man at all.Cara Rossi is left devastated by the things Gian Guzzi didn’t say. She also can’t forget all the things he did say. She needs to focus on moving on from him, not falling right back into his bed once more. Then again, reality has a way of ruining those plans with far more beautiful, unexpected things. Even if it means Cara is forced to question everything, from her morals to her reputation. All to be one woman to one man.A woman without respect is a dirty word.Duty. Legacy. Love.Always in that order.Or … that’s how it should be.But life is messy, when entangled with love.Rules don’t apply.
Unraveled (Guzzi Duet #1)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Cara Rossi’s life has been a mess ever since her identical twin was killed. She blames the mafia, its ways, and the people within the caustic culture for a painful reality that turned her world on its side. In an attempt to momentarily pause her misery, a night out puts her on a path with a man she shouldn’t get involved with simply because of his last name—Gian Guzzi.He’s the kind of man that makes it hard to say no.Gian Guzzi’s problems are piling up fast. A murdered grandfather, an unpredictable mafia, and a new boss that threatens both his family’s legacy and his life. As a Cosa Nostra underboss, Gian has a duty. First to la famiglia, and only then to himself. In the midst of the violent uncertainty that has become unrelenting in his days, Cara Rossi should only be a distraction for him to enjoy.She’s a happiness that he was never allowed to choose before.His lies.This life.Their love.It all unravels eventually.
Scarless and Sacred (The Chicago War #3)
899·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Secrets and wars leave the deepest scars.Evelina Conti has always worn a mask. She is an Outfit principessa, respected and adored. She wasn’t allowed to be anything else. Her father went from a grieving husband to the Outfit boss, and now that Riley heads the family, Eve is more suffocated than ever. No matter how much she hates it, the Conti princess still has a role to play. A little attention from Theo DeLuca seems innocent enough, but nothing is when it comes to him. And certainly not when everyone believes that Theo is out to kill her.Theo DeLuca has a target on his back. His biggest problem is figuring out who put it there when everyone is aiming at him. He doesn’t need a woman causing him issues, but the Conti princess keeps showing up at the worst times, and he’s the one left saving her. Between the men surrounding him that Theo can’t trust, and the past he can’t outrun, Evelina might be the one thing he doesn’t have to question. But when Riley decides to use Eve as his next move, even Theo might not be able to save her.The war in Chicago is not even close to being over. This game is deadly. Each hand played cuts another mark into someone else. The Outfit boss is struggling while the men around him are rallying. As the body count continues to rise, the families keep losing.Sacrifices are a part of war. No one will walk away from this without scars.
Reckless and Ruined The Chicago War #2)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Play dirty. It’s the only way to win in a war.Alessa Trentini follows the rules, or so it seems on the outside. A certain Conti has always been able to sway her inner rebel and keep her out of trouble, but even Adriano won’t be able to get her out of her brother’s mess. In a war, no woman is safe if her hand in marriage can advance her family in the world of the mafia. But mistakes of the past have a way of slipping into the present and Alessa will soon learn that even the most shameful of secrets can get her everything she wants.Adriano Conti’s loyalties are torn as he’s forced to stand at his father’s side while Riley uses his wife’s murder as a way to get higher. Blood comes first and then the Outfit. The one thing he doesn’t question in the war between the families is Alessa Trentini and even that doesn’t seem possible when he’s forced to watch Alessa be used as another man’s pawn. Adriano has his own role to play to get what he wants.The families in the Outfit have never been more divided than they are now. Blood continues to spill as revenge takes center stage and more lives are lost. But every man in the family is fighting for something different and no one’s intentions can be trusted. Playing a dirty game might be the only way to stay alive.Even if that means ruining it all.
Deathless and Divided (The Chicago War #1)
1.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Lies and love. This is how a war starts.A life for a life. That’s the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He’s ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she’s his.Lily DeLuca isn’t being given a choice. Forced home to marry a man she doesn’t know and back into a life she’d rather forget, her world is full of half-truths, buried pain, and uncertainty. But Damian is nothing like she expects. His motives aren’t clear. Her beliefs are being tested.When it comes to this world, no man can be trusted. Someone is ready to flip the Chicago Outfit on its side all for the promise of something better. But no one runs a clean game and these men play for keeps. When blood begins to paint Chicago red, four families will be divided by loyalty, hatred, and revenge. There is no hiding. There is no safety.No one is deathless.No one.
Dante (Filthy Marcellos #3)
6.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Dante Marcello’s life has been a carefully planned event as an heir to a Cosa Nostra throne. For as long as he can remember, he’s had one goal in mind, and that’s becoming the Don. With his father ready to step down, it’s Dante’s turn to step up. But without a wife at his side, his seat as the boss is on shaky ground. Until she shows up with an offer he wants to refuse, but can’t.With her, he’s got everything to gain.Catrina Danzi is known for her angel face and a predator’s grace. For over a decade, she’s worked as a successful Queen Pin dealing with a repertoire of clientele who can’t afford a scandal. That’s why they ask for her and why they call her Queen. Marrying Dante Marcello means giving up the business and status she loves in order to gain protection she can’t provide on her own, but she no longer has a choice.Without him, she’s got everything to lose.The rules for their arrangement are simple: no intimacy, no emotions. Dante isn’t looking for love and Catrina doesn’t need attachments. In the end, life has a way of breaking down walls when you least expect it to, and once love gets in, there’s no bleeding it out. Together, they make a formidable team the Commission won’t be able to ignore. Catrina’s secret of what she’s kept safe will put the entire Marcello family in danger when it finally catches up with her. The Marcellos have yet to be beaten, and they’re not about to start bowing down now.Even the most beautiful things are a little filthy.
Giovanni (Filthy Marcellos, #2)
2.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Giovanni Marcello lives life by his own terms and has no intention of changing. As a Capo and the son of a mob boss, he knows what is and is not acceptable conduct. That doesn’t stop him from doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it. The one thing he would never do is disobey the principles of La Cosa Nostra. That is, until he spends a night with a beautiful stranger.He’ll break every rule for her.Kim Abella has made some mistakes—no doubt about it. She’s paying for them by a forced marriage she doesn’t want to a man who suffocates her with his demands and abuse. After everything, she knew better than to get mixed up with another family, especially their youngest son. Then again, when she’s with him, he reminds her of who she is beneath the control that’s slowly killing her.She just can’t leave him alone.Being spoken for by a made man means Kim is off-limits, but Giovanni doesn’t play nice when it comes to taking what should be his. The only thing that might save them both from a bullet and a makeshift grave for what they’ve done are the very same rules they already broke.Sometimes, love has to start out a little filthy.
Lucian (Filthy Marcellos #1)
8.0K·Bethany-Kris【Search Bathany Kris and enjoy her 40+ books】Lucian Marcello is aware of the expectations following him as the oldest son of one of North America’s most infamous Cosa Nostra Dons. Family in his world is more than blood and sharing a last name. It’s the honor, respect, business, and the life. Being a Capo is just a stepping stone until it’s time for him to take on the role of underboss but a chance meeting with her could be the one thing he’d risk it all for.She is exactly what he didn’t know he was looking for.Jordyn Reese spends her time trying to stay under the radar of a man who wouldn’t think twice about killing her. Unwillingly affiliated with a dangerous MC gang, her life is dominated by the men surrounding her and her future rests solely in how useful she can be for them. The last thing she needs is some Mafioso gaining her more unwanted attention from the club.He is everything she should stay away from but can’t.Notoriously violent when it comes to getting what he wants, Lucian will stop at nothing to make the target on Jordyn’s back disappear. But sometimes the worst threats are the ones you can’t see until it’s too late. The truth behind Lucian’s history is about to take center stage in more ways than one, and it’ll either save him … or kill him.This world leaves everyone a little filthy.****Filthy Marcellos: La Cosa Nostra is not just a choice of regime and routine, it’s a culture. Born as mafia royalty, the Marcello brothers were raised ingrained with the beliefs and rules of what it meant to be a Mafioso prince. It is for life. Their status is considered a given right. They will always be these people. They will always be Marcellos.