Author: elizabethknoxandirissweetwater
BiancaI’m the princess of the Romanian Clans, the woman who will one day inherit it all. The amount of pressure on my shoulders is terrifying. There was a time when I used to care about it all. It was when I was supposed to be the perfect daughter and friend. There came a time when I realized my parents would love me no matter what. It never meant they agreed with my choices, but alas, their love … but alas, their love would always be here for me. I’m not your typical mafia princess– I have tattoos, piercings, and my…
MikelI’m old enough to be her father, but it doesn’t matter — she’ll be mine. Melody is the newest member of The Clans charity program. She’s supposed to be my voice for certain issues I don’t feel comfortable speaking about. After all, she’s been doing this for years. Being a spokesperson is somewhat new to me, so I don’t mind having a professional alongside me. She doesn’t know anything about … doesn’t know anything about what we really do, and keeping it all a secret is becoming more difficult every day. She’s constantly around me, always listening, always needing to…
Blanka Throughout my entire life I’ve made choice after choice to land me where I am today. Nothing is perfect, and the same views can be said about life. We all struggle and wish things could be different but it simply isn’t the case. If you want anything, whether it be as simple as happiness, you must work for it. At the end of the day, that’s what landed me in this job, doing the things I … job, doing the things I do, one day hopeful it will bring me a better life. I can only hope that day…
ElenaI’ve learned many lessons throughout my life, but one is more important than the rest: my life is not my own.I understand this more every single day with the more actions my family commit.They’ve arranged for me to marry a clan leader. There’s only one problem, I won’t be marrying him. I’ll be murdering him.
IsabellaI’ve never been the type to get on the wrong side of the law until the day I did. I was given two options, to either go to jail for a very long time or become an agent for the CIA. I’m unlike any other agent, though. Most of my colleagues don’t have families like I do. You see, I’m Romanian and the purest of blood flows through my veins.Since time has passed I believe I was targeted … was targeted because of who I know. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been sent on this mission, to take down Franco Falcone…
Carla Throughout my entire life I’ve only wanted one thing — independence. It might seem easy, but it’s quite the contrary. It’s nothing but a myth in my family because my life is not my own. It never has been and it never will be.At least, not until now.I made a deal with my father to gain some aspect of freedom. I would marry a Romanian Clan leader to unite their vast mafia with our family … their vast mafia with our family hitman business. Two powerful families coming together, creating the most feared partnership in the world.I only wonder…
BethanyI changed every part of myself for him. At first, I thought it was because I loved him. Eventually, I realized that what he did to me was the most disgusting form of emotional abuse. He made me feel as if the authentic parts of me were wrong – that I was ugly.One night, after I had been through hell I ran to my best friend Natasha’s house. I wanted the comfort of my best friend, to hold me … friend, to hold me and tell me everything would be okay.What I got was something else entirely, and his name…
StefanMy father gave me an ultimatum. He should really know better than that. I was set to marry Isabella, the daughter of a prestigious accountant for one of the Clans. He’s been pressuring me for years to get married, to extend our lineage – basically to open up a baby making factory.I may be marrying a woman – but it sure as hell won’t be a boring little virgin girl.I want defiance in the … want defiance in the highest form, and how better to achieve that than marrying a slave?more
The pain that comes from a life in the mafia is anguish, but who knew the amount of triumph and love that could come through it. Anguish is a mafia romance box set containing the first five books in the romantic suspense series, The Clans.PromisedMariana has been a prisoner for years, but Ion is determined to find the queen of the clans and make her his forever. Only, Mariana is not so easily … not so easily tamed.The TradeNatasha thinks she has found a man to stimulate her mind and her body, but then she watches Anton kill her uncle.…
RhysI owed Mariana so much. I’d betrayed not only her, but The Clans—my country, my people; my own flesh and blood. With so much lost because of me, when Mariana gave me a chance at redemption I was quick to take it.I was needed in the Ukraine, and so I went.But now a vicious woman named Vera is throwing me off my game, and, despite all my preparations and all of my research, I knew nothing of … research, I knew nothing of this woman. She was a ghost—a nightmare—appearing from thin air to complicate things. Over time, however, I…