Download or read book The Recluse Heir A Forbidden Mafia Romance written by Monique Moreau and published by Monique Moreau. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this scorching hot and steamy Mafia series by International Best-Selling Contemporary Romance author, Monique Moreau. The woman I want happens to be my brother’s fiancée… Luca I am Luca, the black sheep of the Lupu clan. As the second son, I scoff at the antiquated rules and traditions of my clan. When my family needs to make an arranged marriage with a rival clan, the next in line to wed the spoiled princess is me. I’ll be damned if I’m led to slaughter like some sacrificial lamb. Let my younger brother, the family lapdog, do the deed. The man is a soulless bastard anyway. But the moment I set eyes on the precious princess at my brother’s engagement party, I regret my decision. My knees almost buckle. Holy hell, but she’s beautiful. Sultry and innocent. She’s a lethal combination the likes of which I’ve never seen. If only she wasn’t already pledged to my brother. Cat My family loves me, but I’m merely a pawn in the shifting chess game between the Lupu clan and mine. As the good, obedient daughter, I do what I am told. And that is to marry the youngest Lupu brother, a ruthless mafia prince with a reputation for cruelty. It’s the least I can do to make up for the grief I’ve caused my family over the years. At my engagement party, I’m introduced to my fiancé’s older brother, Luca. A man with cold, gray eyes that makes my skin sizzle with desire. The same man who already rejected me as his fiancée. I should hate him for it. Instead, the more time I’m forced to spend in his presence, the less I can remember that he is strictly off-limits. Content Notes: The Recluse Heir can be read as a standalone novel. It's the second installment in the Lupu Mafia Family Romance series – an age-gap, forbidden romance. Readers of Cora Reilly, Sam Mariano, and Maggie Cole will love this book! Luca is an over-the-top, possessive anti-hero. Please do not read if such material offends. Dark mafia arranged marriage; dark mafia romance arranged marriage; dark mafia romance; dark mafia romance forced sex; mafia arranged marriage romance; mafia romance series; mafia books; mafia love; mafia unrequited love romance; mafia forced marriage; mafia standalone; age gap romance; bratva romance; russian mafia romance; younger woman older man romance; younger woman older man romance; brother's fiancee romance; forbidden' forbidden love; forbidden mafia romance; forbidden romance

Download or read book The Recluse Heir written by Monique Moreau and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Luca, the black sheep of the Romanian mafie Lupu clan. Cat, the woman I want, happens to be my brother's fiancée.I will do anything to make her mine. Consequences bedamned.LucaAs the second son, I scoff at the antiquated rules and traditions of my clan. When my family needs to make an arranged marriage with a rival clan, the next in line to wed the spoiled mafie princess is me. I'll be damned if I'm led to the slaughter like some sacrificial lamb.Let my younger brother, the family lapdog, do the deed. The man is a soulless bastard, anyway. But the moment I set eyes on the precious princess at my brother's engagement party, I regret my decision. My knees almost buckle. Holy hell, but she's beautiful. Sultry and innocent, she's a lethal combination the likes of which I've never seen before. If only she wasn't already pledged to my brother.CatMy family loves me but I'm merely a pawn in the shifting chess game between the Lupu clan and mine. As the good, obedient daughter to the boss of the Popescu family, I do what I am told. And that is to marry the youngest brother, a ruthless mafie prince with a reputation for cruelty. It's the least I can do to make up for the grief I've caused my family over the years.At my engagement party, I'm introduced to my fiancé's older brother, Luca. A man with cold gray eyes that makes my skin sizzle with desire. The same man who already rejected me as his fiancée. I should hate him for it. Instead, the more time I'm forced to spend in his presence, the less I can remember that he is strictly off-limits.

Download or read book The Heirs of the Lupu Mafia Family A Steamy Mafia Romance Box Set I written by Monique Moreau and published by Monique Moreau. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 1543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this steamy Mafia series by International Best-Selling Contemporary Romance author, Monique Moreau. THREE scorching hot and possessive mafia bosses. THREE deliciously decadent mafia romances. THREE dark, dirty, and definitely OTT mob kingpins. The lives of the powerful men of the Lupu Mafia Clan revolve around three core elements: Duty, Sacrifice, and Family. There’s little time for women, and no time for love. Each one of them will be cut off at the knees, humbled by a woman. Oh, how far these mighty men will fall before they learn the age-old lesson that the only way out is through… Do you love Italian or Russian mafia romance? Welcome to a new blend of both in the new world of Romanian mafia, found in the heart of New York City. What are you waiting for? Get three of Monique Moreau’s bestselling books in one bundle! Content Notes: The Chosen Heir, The Recluse Heir, and The Savage Heir are the first three standalone novels of the Lupu Family Mafia Series. Fans of Nicole Fox, Zoe Blake, and Naomi West will love Alex, Luca, and Nicu, the three brothers that rule the Lupu Mafia Clan. They are over-the-top, possessive anti-heroes. Please do not read if such material offends.

Download or read book Kingdom s Reign A FREE Bad Boy Biker Romance written by Monique Moreau and published by Monique Moreau. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this FREE scorching hot and steamy Bad Boy Biker series starter by International Best-Selling Contemporary Romance author, Monique Moreau. A grieving biker. A jaded attorney. Can they heal each other's wounds? Kingdom Since the death of his patch brother, Kingdom has felt nothing but rage and loss. Then he meets Sage during a trip to a tattoo shop to get fresh ink for his fallen brother. She’s sexy. Brilliant. And exactly the kind of challenge that makes him ache. If asked whether he deserves her, Kingdom's straight-up answer would be, hell no. But nothing will stop him from taking what’s his. Not even her. Sage Being a no-nonsense defense attorney, the second Sage caught her fiancé cheating, she swore off men. While breaking that rule for a tatted up member of an MC seems like a monumentally bad idea, she can’t fight her attraction to Kingdom. When he invites her on a ride, she finds herself wanting so much more. Sage yearns to indulge in the sexiest and most dangerous man she's met, but fears risking her battered heart. Can the unlikely pair help each other move on from the wounds of the past? Or will club tensions with a rival MC find a way to use their weaknesses against them? Kingdom’s Reign is a steamy, standalone bad boy biker romance with plenty of heat. Looking to ride in the fast lane? Rev it up with one click. Content Notes: Kingdom’s Reign can be read as a standalone novel. It's the first book in my Steamy Biker Romance series. Fans of Jean St. James, Lily Atlas, and Daphne Loving will love Kingdom, an over-the-top, possessive anti-hero. Please do not read if such material offends. Bad boy biker romance, MC romance, Possessive Alpha Romance; Bad boy biker club; bad boys alpha; bad boys; bad boys alpha; bad boys mc; bad boy alpha romance; bad boy mc romance; dirty biker; romance alpha male; romance bad boy; biker romance books; dominant alpha male; romance dominant alpha; alpha male dominant romance; dominant alpha male romance possessive

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Download or read book The History of Terrorism written by Gérard Chaliand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.

Download or read book The Utopia of Rules written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

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Download or read book Watchers written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...

Download or read book The Devil I Don t Know An Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance written by LK Shaw and published by LK Shaw. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob My father is dying, and I’ve been called back to Brooklyn to take my place as the head of the Italian syndicate. After a seven year absence, my first test of loyalty is to marry the granddaughter of the Irish mob’s leader. I may not want a wife, but I’ll kill anyone who tries to harm her. I only hope she doesn’t expect love in our marriage. I can’t—won’t—love her. Not ever. I don’t have it in me. Brenna My life has always been about duty. When my grandfather signs a marriage contract, I become a pawn in an alliance between the Irish and the Italians. Once again, I’m bound by duty. I’ve always been invisible—the person who fades into the background—except soon my new husband begins to see me. He’s a Brooklyn king, but will our enemies destroy my chance to become his queen?

Download or read book A Thesaurus of English Word Roots written by Horace Gerald Danner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

Download or read book The Girls of Murder City written by Douglas Perry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Maurine Watkins turned the beautiful, media-savvy suspects-"Stylish Belva" and "Beautiful Beulah"-into the talk of the town. Fueled by rich period detail and a cast of characters who seemed destined for the stage, The Girls of Murder City is a crackling tale that simultaneously presents the freewheeling spirit of the Jazz Age and its sober repercussions.

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Download or read book Mafia Heir written by L Steele and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine to protect. Mine to take. She is MINE! Five brothers One broken family A past that will haunt them forever "If you dare leave me for another if you ever look at another man if you ever let anyone else touch you... I'll not let him live, Beauty. I won't stop until I've ground his face into the dirt, until I've pulled out his eyes for looking at you, broken his mouth for daring to speak to you, until I've pulled out his guts, and," I glare at her, "smeared his blood on the ground." Her breath hitches and her pupils dilate. My thirst for violence seems to fulfill a need deep inside of her-one she doesn't bother to hide from me either. "You're not disgusted by my cruelty?" I tilt my head, "My penchant for brutality seems to appeal to you, Bellezza?" "And what if it does?" She purses her lips, "What if I it is the savagery at your core that attracts me...?" This is the prequel to Mafia King - Dark Mafia Billionaire Arranged Marriage Romance Series