Everyone in the underworld knows Ramsi.She’s the ghost you hire when a job cannot fail.An orphan raised in shadows, trained to kill before she learned how to trust, Ramsi works alone — unseen, untouched, untraceable. The people who hire her know only the name and the results. No face. No past. No mercy.Until now.When Chicago mafia boss Dominic Moretti realizes someone is systematically dismantling his empire from the inside, he turns to the one weapon he’s used for years — Ramsi. This time, he doesn’t want blood. He wants answers.Someone is hunting him.And he needs Ramsi to find out who.Unaware that his most trusted weapon is closer than he thinks, Dominic crosses paths with a woman in a quiet café — calm, observant, unreadable. She doesn’t flirt. She doesn’t tremble. She doesn’t look at him like he’s untouchable power.She simply watches.She catches his attention because she isn’t afraid of him — and because, for the first time in years, someone looks at Dominic like she could end him if she chose to.What he doesn’t know?She already has.Ramsi never planned to get close.Never planned to let him see her smile, hear her laugh, or feel the pull of something dangerously human.As threats close in and secrets unravel, Dominic begins to realize the woman he’s drawn to may be the very ghost he’s been hunting — and the only one who can either save him… or destroy him completely.

They meet when they are fifteen. Kaci already knows about the Mafia world, thanks to her father, and understands the danger it carries. Klaus doesn’t—he’s shielded her from the truth, protecting her from the knowledge of what he will eventually inherit. To Kaci, he becomes her protector, stepping in when her mother’s drunken outbursts turn dangerous, shielding her from threats both real and imagined, and standing between her and anyone who thinks she’s an easy target. What begins as an unlikely friendship grows into something deeper, shaped by shared secrets, silent longing, and the unspoken awareness of the lives they are surrounded by. On graduation night, after too many drinks and years of restrained emotion, the line between best friends finally shatters. In the aftermath, Kaci uncovers the truth Klaus has kept buried: he isn’t just a bad boy—he’s preparing to take over as the head of his family’s criminal empire. And when Klaus, clouded by alcohol and memory, mistakes her identity during the night they share, the betrayal cuts too deep to survive. By morning, Kaci is gone. No goodbye. No explanation. Six years later, Klaus has become exactly what he was destined to be—a powerful, ruthless Mafia boss whose control never slips…except when it comes to her. A business deal brings him face-to-face with the one ghost he never stopped searching for. Finding Kaci again means reopening old wounds, confronting unforgivable mistakes, and discovering whether the girl he protected is willing to face the man he’s become. Some loves are born in survival. Some mistakes echo forever. And some reunions are more dangerous than the first goodbye.

When Salem Boudreaux, the no-nonsense owner of IronWard Security, is summoned to New Orleans, she expects a simple system upgrade — not a collision with two Alphas who see everything she’s worked to hide.The Fontenot twins, River and Miles, run the Crescent Moon Pack and its outlaw biker club with ruthless precision and dangerous charm. They’re identical in power but opposite in temperament — River, calculated and composed; Miles, wild and unrestrained. Both, however, share one unsettling gift: they can see straight through the armor Salem wears — the sarcasm, the confidence, and the carefully controlled distance that keeps everyone out.When unexplained breaches begin threatening the pack’s stronghold, Salem finds herself drawn deeper into their world — and their secrets. The twins believe the attacks are coming from within, and Salem’s expertise makes her their only hope. But the longer she stays, the harder it becomes to deny the magnetic pull that ties the three of them together… a connection as dangerous as it is fated.Caught between her instinct to run and the bond that calls her back, Salem must face the truth she’s buried for years — because in New Orleans, under the watch of the Fontenot brothers, there’s no such thing as hiding who you are.

In the sun-bleached industrial strip of Naples, Lennox O’Mallory runs O’Mallory Customs with grease under her nails and defiance in her spine. The struggling body shop has been in her family for two generations, and despite mounting debt, delayed shipments, and mysteriously failed inspections, Lennox refuses to let it die.Everyone knows who’s circling her property.Massimo Salvatore.The Italian don who quietly owns half the coastline doesn’t step foot in places like Lennox’s garage—until he does. Dressed in tailored black, polished shoes crunching over gravel and broken glass, Massimo arrives at her shop with an offer to “solve her problems.” He doesn’t threaten. He doesn’t raise his voice. He simply lays out the buyout contract on the hood of a half-restored Camaro and tells her the land would be better used for something… profitable.Lennox wipes her hands on a rag, looks him dead in the eye, and tells him exactly where he can shove it.The mechanics freeze. His men stiffen. No one talks to Massimo Salvatore like that—especially not in public.He should shut her down by morning.Instead, he’s captivated.Lennox doesn’t want his money, his protection, or his name attached to her business. She refuses to be intimidated by his reputation or charmed by his quiet intensity. And the more she pushes back, the more determined Massimo becomes—not to own her land, but to understand the woman bold enough to defy him on her own turf.Their standoff sparks into something neither expected. But fascination in Massimo’s world is dangerous. Rivals within the Salvatore syndicate see weakness in his hesitation and decide to send a message the only way they know how—through the woman who dared to challenge their don.As sabotage turns violent and Lennox’s shop becomes a target, the line between protection and possession begins to blur. To survive, Lennox may have to trust the very man who tried to take everything from her.And Massimo will have to decide whether Lennox O’Mallory is a liability to eliminate—or the only thing worth risking his empire for.

A Boston mafia boss only hires the best — and he needs someone he can trust to handle his operations flawlessly. When a highly skilled Cajun-French woman walks into his office, he knows she’s perfect for the job. She doesn’t expect danger, power plays… or to need a job that could pay for her insulin.

When trauma surgeon Remington Hayes returns to the Bayou after nine years away, she expects a temporary job—not a collision course with the man she once vowed to avoid forever. Raised as the only human in a dominant werewolf pack, Remi learned early how to survive sharp claws and sharper tempers… especially those belonging to William Carter, the future Alpha who made her feel like both an outsider and a challenge he couldn’t resist. Now Will is the powerful Alpha of the Bayou’s strongest pack, and he’s every bit as commanding—and infuriating—as Remi remembers. But the territory she once called home is changing: threats are rising from the shadows, trust within the pack is thinning, and Remi’s unexpected return forces buried history back to the surface. Joined by her fiercely loyal best friends, Rae and Delaney, and Will’s inner circle—Alphas Trey and Elijah —Remi is pulled into a world she thought she left behind. As danger closes in and old tensions ignite into something far hotter, Remi and Will must decide whether their fractured past will destroy them… or lead to a future powerful enough to save the pack. Love, loyalty, and legacy collide in a battle where hearts are as vulnerable as the pack they’re fighting to protect.

Remington Hayes was the only human born into a powerful werewolf pack in the Bayou. Tough, intelligent, and endlessly determined, she never let being different hold her back—except when it came to William Carter, the brooding eldest of the three Alpha brothers who always seemed to push her buttons. After leaving at twenty to pursue her dream of becoming a trauma surgeon, Remi built a new life in Chicago alongside her two best friends, Raelyn and Delaney, both survivors in their own right. The trio formed an unbreakable bond through shared traumas, sharp tongues, and fierce loyalty.Nine years later, Remi returns home to take a job she never expected to accept—and brings Rae and Del with her to help her settle back in. But Bayou Falls has changed. The pack is now led by Will, with his younger brothers Trey and Elijah at his side—three Alphas whose unity makes them a force few dare to challenge. It doesn’t take long for Rae and Del to realize their own fates are bound to the pack in ways none of them saw coming… and for Will to finally admit to Remi what he’s kept buried for years.Surrounded by this fierce and complicated family, Remi must navigate not only the pack’s rising tensions but the dangerous pull of a bond she never thought she’d share. Loyalties will be tested, destinies revealed, and love might just be the most dangerous battle of all.