Recommendations based on "Damaged (Necessary Evils)"

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Giana Darling comes an enemies to lovers, forbidden romance between an ice cold lawyer and her infamous mafioso client who is on trial for murder...I am the villain of my own story...Jilted by my fiancé.A disappointment to my family.Haunted by my childhood traumas.I felt so much all my life that I resolved to feeling nothing at all.Until I met my match.As the most infamous mafioso of the 21st century, Dante Salvatore was madly passionate, unequivocally bad, and entirely too dangerous to know. He was everything I abhorred, yet I found myself representing him in the biggest criminal trial of the decade.I was so focused on winning and achieving the success I deserved that I didn't notice the gorgeous black-eyed man's effect on me until it was too late. My icy heart had been held too close to his flame and now I wouldn't let Dante go down without fighting with everything I had in me. Even if the cost of a new life with him meant the loss of my old life and everything I thought I held dear.*Book One in the Anti-Heroes in Love Duet.*

When opposing sides of the law collide, it isn't just the rules being broken.Justine Walsh dreamed about being an architect when she was a child. However, when her brother was served a life sentence for murder, her plans altered. Now she's a first-year intern at the number one defense firm in the country. She's seeking help from the right side of the law, so the last place she expects to find it is in a man who's far from lawful.Nikolai Popov was raised in a criminal entity that's as bigoted as it is violent. He's lived a hard and fast life that often sees him facing a line-up, yet he's not spent one night behind bars.After a mix-up with Nikolai's home arrest documentation, Justine is thrust into the dark and dangerous world of the Bratva mafia. Will she survive a second tightrope walk with a mafia prince, or is this one adventure no amount of smarts will see her win?Nikolai: The Complete Collection is books one to three in the Russian Mob Chronicles.Books included:Nikolai: Representing the BratvaNikolai: Resurrecting the BratvaNikolai: Ruling the Bratva*For TWs please visit the author's website.Please note in this book Nikolai refers to Justine as Ahren, which to him means Angel in Russian. He pronounces Ahren as Aaron. This is not the correct pronunciation, but in I Married A Mob Boss (Rico’s story), it states that Nikolai couldn’t speak Russian as well as his siblings and out of all the sayings he got wrong, this one stuck.

A brand-new interconnected stand-alone dark mafia romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis.The moment I lay eyes on Valentina Ferraro, I know I have to have her.There's just one teeny problem-her husband.So, I do what any red-blooded, possessed made man would do and I proposition him.Five million dollars for one weekend with his beautiful young wife.He agrees, like I knew he would, because he needs the money and he wants his secrets kept hidden from Don D'Onofrio. Valentina is livid, but I like my women stubborn and fiery and the more she resists, the more I crave her.One taste of those lush lips is all it takes to seal my fate.I'm not giving her back.I don't care about the existing bad blood between New York and Florida or how this will start a war.Men have gone into battle for less.Valentina is the first woman I have wanted to keep, and no other man is ever touching her again.She is going nowhere, consequences be damned.I am taking what's mine.This is a dark romance and some scenes may be triggering. A full content warning list is available on the author's website.

"Alessio, a ruthless killer seeking to wipe out the Abandonato mafia to avenge his mother's death, finds a strange girl hiding, beaten, under his bed. Ayla thinks Alessio is just one more man who wants to use her and throw her away, but he seems to have found her heart. Though if he discovers how dangerous she is to him, she might lose her life."--Publisher's description.

"I should never have asked for a night with you. This would never have happened if I'd had more willpower." Once upon a time, I was a mute captive who wished for death. Now, I'm stowed away on a yacht. Saved and taken, the thief who stole me demands my voice, my past, my everything. I won't give in. But Elder refuses to take no for an answer. He pushes and cajoles, slowly discovering who I am. Until I find out he plays the cello to escape his demons, all while his music conjures mine. He's rich, I'm bankrupt. I'm mute by choice, he's curious by nature. So many reasons why we can never work. But that doesn't stop our connection, our passion. Until one night, he ruins everything. And our relationship becomes twisted and full of sin.

SantoCold. A deep, bone-chilling cold. I’ve felt it since the night I clutched my pregnant fiancée to my chest and had a pair of cold, lifeless eyes stare back at me.My family wants me to move on. To start living again. But it’s not so easy to do when your heart and soul are still six feet under.A second chance at love isn’t in the cards for me.A second chance at love isn’t in the cards for me. Which is why when I meet Aria Swan in a bar one night and she offers up a solution to both of our problems, I actually consider her proposal.I mean, where’s the harm in playing house for a bit? It’s not like I’m going to fall in love with her.A fact that will make terminating this little arrangement at the end of the year easy.Even if her touch has this way of melting the icy coldness surrounding my heart…AriaEver had the answers to all your problems just fall into your lap? Or, in my case, have you stumbling into the solution?I have no idea what comes over me when I bump into Santo De Bellis. Call it desperation. A last-ditch effort to pull myself out of the hole my last name has created. But all I can think is how this arrangement can be mutually beneficial.I need a husband. Because if I’m already taken, my father can’t marry me off to the highest bidder. And if that same husband happens to be a De Bellis, well, no one is going to be stupid enough to question it.I don’t expect him to actually agree. So when he does, I jump at the chance for freedom.What could possibly go wrong? All we have to do is stay married for a year. It can’t be that hard. Can it?

History doesn’t always stay buried.And loyalty isn’t always given freely.It’s the winter of 1986, and Holly Wade is a blushing bride on the cusp of the perfect life with the perfect man.I do’s are spoken. Promises are exchanged. And lifetimes are planned.It all seems so picturesque on the outside. But just three weeks after that day, Holly’s car ends up beneath a semi truck, and her body, soon transported to the George Stanley medical examiner’s office.Thirty-six years later, Holly’s file is dropped onto Detective Archer Malone’s desk, and her bones: on my table inside Autopsy Room One.My husband is a homicide detective. And I, the chief medical examiner lucky enough to work by his side as we bring killers to justice and peace to victims who’ve been wronged.But with family pulling us one way, and our careers demanding more than ever, we soon realize, something has to give.Danger is close, and bullet wounds bring us both pain.Can a couple newlyweds weather this kind of storm and come out stronger on the other side?Sinful Deceit is the fifth book in a fresh new suspense series written by Emilia Finn. This book is intended for an 18+ audience and contains graphic scenes that may be disturbing to some readers.

The first time they met was all about pleasure. Then she betrayed him. So, now he’s back…to punish. And he plans to play dirty. Filthy, even.Meet Damien Skolov: ex-cage fighter, current family enforcer, hot-headed royal warlord. Sure, she broke his heart, but he’s over it now. This time, his return is all about the mission—and revenge.Then there’s Scarlett: ex-dancer, current liar, protector of those she loves. Until Damien explodes back into her life, bringing chaos, vengeance, and the same forbidden need she’s tried to suppress since he left.Keeping her secrets from him is essential.Except Damien Skolov never fights fair.Filthy Royal: A Dark Fated-Mates Romance is the fourth book in the Ruthless Warlords series. It is a scorching HOT standalone, though it is recommended to read the series in order for greatest enjoyment.Like all the books in the series, it includes:A ruthless alien mafia bossAn innocent heroine growing into her powerA fated bondBetrayal, murder, and revengeSerious plot twistsAnd an epic romance that proves love will always triumph over hate.Added bonus: Filthy Royal includes the Filthy Beginnings prequel so you can experience all the feels as these two fated-mates spiral from lovers to enemies to a connection so intense it defies death itself.

Viparious: life renewing or life producingThis is a continuation of Vlad and Inessa's story. Book one, Viripotent, must be read first.Inessa learns that Vlad may be just when it comes to his opponents, however, he will never allow the same integrity in their marriage.She’s fighting for more than herself and refuses to accept less than what they both deserve.—After a lifetime of being the holder of secrets, Vlad finds himself in the dark surrounded by the monsters of his past. His burdens multiply each day and his spiral into vengeance might cost him more than his sanity.He’s forced to decide between the promises he once made and the ones being asked of him.But some skeletons refuse to remain buried.A marriage built on a mutually beneficial agreement is now surrounded by a series of cataclysmic events with one question ⎯ what will he lose to get her to stay?

In the mafia world, I've been underestimated my entire life. Men are elite. The cream of the crop, and well, women simply aren't. That was until the boss gave me a chance, now I'm invaluable and as deadly as any man. So why do I let a man I had a one-night stand with play with my emotions? He keeps on sliding his way into my heart, even though I keep trying to kick him right back out. He knows my world, and he also knows my body. But what he doesn't know¿ Is me. And I'm not sure how much longer I can keep fighting him until he wins.