Ruining a custom Brioni suit usually guaranteed a one-way trip to the bottom of the East River. Today, it merely meant Dante Moretti’s new secretary had tripped over her own...
She was just trying to sneak out of the worst blind date of her life. But when Clara pushed through the wrong exit door, she didn’t find the alleyway. She...
Dominic Russo had a multi-million dollar empire at his feet and fresh violence staining his knuckles. Yet his only desire was the one woman who dared to reject him. When...
A clinking cocktail glass can mask the sound of a loaded gun. In the city’s most exclusive restaurant, a betrayal was perfectly orchestrated to end an empire. But the assassins...
The glass shattered. Vincent Romano’s fist came down on his mahogany desk, and the crystal whiskey tumbler exploded into a thousand glittering shards. Blood threaded between his knuckles, but he...
The night was not fit for a confession, but he made one anyway. Rain drove hard against the tall windows of Caendrew Hall, and the candles guttered in their sconces,...
On my wedding day, I wore a dress I didn’t choose, carried flowers I didn’t want, and married a man I’d never spoken to. I was nineteen years old. The...
The cold was a physical thing, a blade against her cheek. Naomi pulled the collar of her thin gray coat tighter, the image of a warm bed pulling her forward...
A little girl walked up to the most feared man in the city and told him he was going to get finished. Everyone in that hallway laughed. Victor Moretti did...
“Don’t sign that, Mr. Moretti. The woman in this recorder said you would kill the wrong man.” The private room behind Belladonna went so still the ice stopped clicking in...
The night Vanessa Moretti walked into the Grand Ashford, every man in that room looked at her and saw the same thing. A beautiful woman who had no idea how...
The woman’s face had gone slack on the left side. Her champagne flute tilting in fingers that no longer obeyed her brain’s commands. And Maya Chen knew she had ninety...
The hallway floor still held the faint drag of wax when Mara stepped back into it. Not clean in the way guests noticed—clean in the way staff measured. Her cloth...
“Go ahead, Lily. Choose one.” Adrien Vance kept his voice low and even, the way he spoke when a decision had already been made in his mind, and he simply...
Renna Tilford had $10. The cashier said $14.60. So she put back the bread. Then the eggs. Her seven-year-old son watched her do it, but the peppermint tea stayed on...
“May I please eat your leftovers, ma’am? I have not had a single bite of food in over three days.” The desperate words fell over the elegant dining room of...
The coffee machine sputtered its last drops into the ceramic mug as twenty-six-year-old Caroline Meyer stood in the executive kitchen of Sterling Enterprises, her fingers trembling slightly as she checked...
The stainless steel table was slick with arterial blood. Dr. Abigail Miller didn’t hesitate. She plunged her bare, gloved hands into the chest of Chicago’s most feared man to stop...
Vivian Cross had spent six years building RideLoop into one of the most downloaded rideshare apps in America. But on a rainy Thursday night in Chicago, she discovered she did...
The corpse slumped over the mahogany table in the middle of a billion-dollar cartel negotiation. That was an absolute death sentence for business. With only seconds to salvage his crumbling...