Short Reads

"Three nights ago, I was locked inside my own family’s underground wine cellar.When my congenital heart condition hit, I called my husband, Zane Cor..."

"Pia Bellucci descends from the slums in Hughlin.Orphans like her are supposed to spend their lives struggling in the bottom rung of society. They a..."

"I was a violin prodigy. But to pay my mother’s debts, I was forced to give up everything.That’s when I met the man who would own me: Dante Moretti...."

"The night before I was supposed to marry the heir to the Moretti family, I found a string of ninety-nine filthy texts on my fiancé Leo’s phone. A w..."

"When I was ten, my mother married into the Corleone family, and I followed her into that house.Before Vincent Corleone learned to hate me, he had o..."

"A kidnapper's gun was pressed to Lena's temple and mine, the whole scene streaming live online."Nolan," the kidnapper said, "your wi..."

"At the afterparty, my daughter, Mia Volpe, suffers from a sudden asthma attack. She collapses to the carpeted floor and goes through a seizure on t..."

"Every Christmas Eve, the heir of the Marco mafia family—Adrian Marco, must follow the family tradition:Draw a name to decide whether he’s allowed t..."

"My wedding to Don Lorenzo Corsica was always 'almost.'Five years engaged. Thirty-two weddings. Every single one crashed and burned.Then came number..."

"My boyfriend, Jules Gray, was the most ruthless young Don of his family, while I was the best mercenary who had once struck fear into the hearts of..."

"My father was critically ill. I begged my fiancé to keep his post-wedding promise—to withdraw emergency funds from the medical trust fund he had sw..."

"The day I died, the baby in my womb was only five months old.In that final phone call, my father, John Harlow, the godfather of the Harlow family, ..."

"I tried to die a hundred times to make him notice me.For two years, I was Shawn Scott’s wife in name only—an unwanted bride bound by a scandal, lef..."

"My sister wanted to make a quick buck selling herself on a cruise ship.I tried desperately to stop her, but my entire family held me down and drown..."

"On the day of the ambush, my stepsister, Vivian Giordano, once shoved me into a dead-end alley to save herself.This time, she did not. Instead, she..."

"People used to say Pierce Voss, my husband, also the boss of the largest mafia in Kingsburg, and I were the kind of couple others envied.He once li..."

"After my parents were killed in a territory war, I was taken in by Don Moretti, head of New York's most powerful crime family. I was the only civil..."

"My marriage to Dante, the Moretti heir, was meant to be a union of power, an alliance of empires. But for me, it was also the real deal.Then his ad..."

"Three days before my wedding with Luca D'Angelo, I accidentally stumble upon him having an affair with my best friend, Delila Rusconi.Delila can be..."

"A week before Easter, Adrian gave me seven days off and had a ticket to Stockholm slipped into my bag.I thought he was finally learning how to care..."

"I've been overlooked by the Lawson family a hundred times over.On birthdays, they only ever get a cake for my sister, Jocelyn Lawson. When I'm sick..."

"My husband, Luca, had a childhood sweetheart named Sophia. Years ago, during a brutal gang shootout, Sophia shielded him from the worst of the bloo..."

"Two years ago, I was the Donna of the Costa family.When I was on my way to attend the family meeting, I was killed by my husband's childhood sweeth..."

"In my previous life, I married the Underboss of the Marino family to forge an alliance between our mafia families.However, he treated me with nothi..."