Short Reads

"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. I was going to surprise my husband, Vince, the Moretti family heir.Instead, the surprise was on me.A pair of bl..."

"On the night before the wedding, New York was washed in cold rain.The rehearsal at St. Patrick's Cathedral had been set for seven o'clock. Under th..."

"The Rossi family has a rule. If you want to be the next Donna, you have to prove yourself. Make three hundred million dollars, clean money, in a si..."

"I loved my stepbrother, Simon Rossi, the Don, for ten years.When he got poisoned one day, I offered myself to him and ended up pregnant.He smoked h..."

"I was supposed to marry Marco DeLuca, the man of my dreams, in just three days. He was the mafia don of the South—dangerous, ruthless, the kind of ..."

"At 4:00 a.m., my husband, Rocco, gently shook me awake. His voice was a low murmur, . "Alessia, my love, could you do something for me?"B..."

"Everyone said my good looks were what saved me from my family's downfall. It was how I managed to become a Donna.I was the only one who knew why he..."

"Overnight, my best friend became the long-lost principessa of the Toscano family.After returning to her family, she transferred all her villas and ..."

"For four years I was his secretary, and for four years I warmed his bed. I knew everything, from his family business to the secrets he whispered to..."

"My birthday present this year is a written contract titled 'Behavioral Reform Contract'.My fiance, who was the mafia head Matteo Giovanni, and my p..."

"My son, Jasper Cole, won the gold prize in an art competition. When I took off my apron and rushed to the award ceremony, I found that the painting..."

"In the tenth year of being the secret lover of Luca, a Mafia Don, I died.When the bullet tore through my chest, I used the last of my strength to d..."

"Since I was a kid, my parents drilled it in—you're gonna be a Corleone girl, Giovanni Corleone's property."This is just an alliance. Don't exp..."

"The day after I marry the powerful Don Lucio Ferrari, news breaks that his childhood love, Bella Bianchi, has died by suicide at home.When he hears..."

"My husband is the Don of the entire New York East Coast Mafia.For ten years, I dimmed my own light to be his perfect silent partner, the dutiful wi..."

"My sister, Bella, had a baby in a back-alley shithole. Then she disappeared.A midwife tracked me down using an address Bella left behind.She shoved..."

"When my husband, Matteo Romano, comes over to pick me up so that we can attend an auction on our wedding anniversary, I spot a woman sitting in the..."

"I was Don Alexander's most skilled assassin and Consigliere, and also his secret wife.But for five years of our secret marriage, he never allowed o..."

"I had fallen in love with my father’s friend—the man I was supposed to call “uncle,” Kael Viremont.For a while, I thought he loved me too.We even h..."

"I was chosen to be the fiancée of Lorenzo, the Mafia’s heir.But at a family gala, Lorenzo was openly pursued by Chiara, the daughter of an arms dea..."

"I thought I was the Conti family's "legitimate wife."Until the day I saw it with my own eyes, my husband, Christian, resting his hand on ..."

"I spent six months and a quarter million dollars to secure a week in Sicily. But when my husband’s childhood obsession, Chiara, cried nostalgia int..."

"Whispers in the underworld mentioned that Jason Marino, heir to the Family with its hands in the cross-continental arms trade, supposedly loved wom..."

"I saved my husband, Raffaello, the Don of the mafia, from the hands of a rival family. In return, he forced me to kneel before his childhood sweeth..."