From USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Xavier Neal comes a dark, gripping romantic suspense standalone that you can devour in one sitting!The prince isn’t charming…he’s savage.Once upon a time, she was asked to put on a slipper.Little did this princess know, the arrangement she agreed to was going to get a bit more savage than the original fairytale...*This is a STANDALONE dark retelling, reinvention of the Cinderella fairy tale intended for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. This was originally featured in the Savage Bloodline Anthology but now includes a BONUS EPILOGUE!TROPE CHECK:Fairytale RetellingMafia RomanceDark RomancePossessive AlphaMarriage of Convenience

"In my darkness there she was—divine light."KirillI ruled the underworld. I wasn’t just Pakhan, I was The Tsar of the Bratva. Untouchable. Feared. Wealthier than I ever imagined. I had it all.Almost.Nine years. It took nine years to get to her. I tore through blood, lies, and bodies to get to the top and it was finally time to take what was mine. I wanted Mia, whether she felt the same way eventually or not. I would claim her. She would be my prize, my possession. My forever obsession.But in my chase to have it all…I just might lose everything.MiaThe question tormented me day and night. Who was Kirill? His green eyes screamed at me to remember, to realize that I was falling into a deep and dark world, and I should run away before it was too late.But behind his mischievous smirk was a whole world of trouble that I wanted to get tangled up in. I wanted to be bound by my wrists and ankles - drown in it. I wanted to descend into the deepest level of hell - right by his side.And when I fell in love with the devil…I should have known I would get burned.The Tsar's Obsession is the first standalone in the addicting and dark interconnected Bratva Sinners Series. Morally gray, possessive and obsessed alpha heroes of the Russian Bratva meet their perfect match—the good girl who will bring them down to their knees. These men fall first and hard. These men burn the world for her, embodying the true touch her and die energy. These men are ruthless and brutal to everyone else but for the love of their life…they are big teddy bears. The Bratva Sinners Series is filled with twists, mafia world, and pure and passionate love, guaranteed to leave you blushing and craving more.The Tsar's Obsession is:Bad boy x good girlObsessed and possessiveTouch her and dieOpposites attractHe falls first and hardRide or die FMCPierced MMCPlot with spiceRomantic suspense

Dillan—I have my family’s reputation to rebuild. I don’t have time for love when I run New York’s Irish mob. I definitely don’t expect to find the woman of my dreams working as a waitress at one of our clubs. But she intrigues me. It’s not just her curves that draw me. It’s her everything. But she’s keeping a secret from me. She thinks I won’t find out, but I’ll discover who she really is. When I do, the pleasure I’ll bring her is unlike anything she’s ever known.Greta—Dillan O’Rourke doesn’t need to know why I work at his club. I need to know his secrets. His family owes me. But my boss isn’t the man I expected. He’s not the brutal mobster when he’s with me. When someone tries to take me from him, his darkness will show the world no one touches what’s his and survives.Mob Boss is an interconnecting, standalone Dark Mafia Romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains EXTRA-STEAMY scenes that will make your toes curl and your granny blush. The O'Rourke Brotherhood is a six-book series that’ll keep you warm at night.Discover the four NYC rival families that make up The Syndicate Wars world. Each family has their turn to be heroes in their own series. When it’s not their family’s turn for love, discover whether they’re the villain. You’ll meet all 24 men of the Four Families throughout the interconnected series, each taking their turn to fall in love. By the end, you’ll have a love/hate relationship with them all.The Ivankov BrotherhoodThe Mancinelli BrotherhoodThe O’Rourke BrotherhoodThe Cartel Brotherhood

Banished gangster Benito Martell is living on the edge. An explosive hook-up in a club gifts him the relief he craves, but nothing about his life is ever so simple. Complications abound, and before long, he’s falling for the only man who can save his family from eviction.Recovering addict Mickey Larwood has worked hard to leave his past behind. He can’t look back, not even for beautiful Benito, the last soul on earth he expected to steal his heart...A soul knee-deep in the underworld Mickey has run hundreds of miles to escape. Benito can deny it all he wants, but Mickey can smell trouble a mile off.And Benito is trouble with a capital T. As his desperate lies unravel, so does the fledgling love growing between them. If Benito wants deliverance from his old life and a future with Mickey, old ghosts need to die.If they don’t kill him first.Deliverance is an angsty standalone MM romance novel, with second chances, found family, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness. Trigger warnings for addiction and childhood trauma.

A buried secret. A mafia heir. When past love becomes a lethal threat...Kieran CallahanIn the ruthless world of Boston's Irish mafia, I shield the Callahan legacy, no matter the cost.Now my brother has tasked me with ruining Ruby Marquez, the prosecutor running for District Attorney.She’s clean, untouchable, and a threat we can’t afford. But Ruby isn’t just any enemy.She’s the one I can’t forget—I shouldn't have touched her years ago. If Tristan uncovers my past with her, I'm as good as dead.I know she's hiding something, though.Something that could destroy everything. And God help me, I might torch everything for her—and torch us both in the process.Ruby MarquezRunning for District Attorney is my chance to fight for justice, but Kieran Callahan is back, and he's threatening everything I've fought to build.He's here to destroy me, but the way he watches me feels like something else.He doesn't know the secret I’ve been keeping—the truth I’ve protected for years. The girl calling me “Mami” is his daughter.What happens when the man sent to hurt me finds out the truth?Fans of Zoe Blake, Navessa Allen and Sam Mariano will love this second chance, surprise pregnancy, morally grey mmc, stalker romance book!Buy Velvet Corruption to start this spicy mafia prince series today!

KadenMy initiation was determined on the day I was born. I would pledge my allegiance to the Family, but I didn’t know it would cost me my soul. Family should come before anything else, but my loyalty will always be to the woman I love and lost. Now Celine is back and set to destroy me. She thinks we’re done. We will never be done. I’d rather end the corrupt legacy I was born into than lose her a second time.CelineI made the biggest mistake of my life by trusting Kaden. He cast me away as if I was nothing to him. Now, I am back and I’m determined to make him pay for betraying me. I buried my love for him, but focusing on revenge was harder than expected. His presence stirs a longing in me nothing could extinguish. I can’t afford to lose focus and let him back in. But it feels like that’s a battle I am destined to lose.