Forged in Blood

Forged in Blood is a scorching, high-stakes dark mafia romance where loyalty is lethal, love is forbidden, and passion could cost your life. He was born into the shadows of the Russian Bratva. She was raised to be a queen of the Mafia. They were destined to be enemies—until fate chained them together. Ayke, the bastard son of the Russian Mafia boss, was cast out, betrayed, and marked for death by his own blood. Brutal, feared, and forged by pain, he built his own empire from nothing — until a dangerous pact pulls him back into the world that tried to destroy him. Thaís has buried her past as Tarsa Morello D'Aragon, the lost heiress of a deadly alliance between the Cosa Nostra and Los Muertos. She's content living in the light—until she's forced back into the dark… with the one man she swore to hate. When Ayke is assigned as her bodyguard in a deal born of blood and power, sparks ignite. Hate becomes heat. Heat becomes hunger. But their chemistry is a ticking bomb — and someone is ready to light the fuse. Now, they're thrust into a violent game of betrayals, bloodlines, and forbidden desire, where the only way out is to trust the one person they were never supposed to. Will they survive the war between duty and vengeance, or will love be the deadliest sin of all?