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 Devil in Armani

Mafia Bound #6
K. M. Neuhold
Amazon
November 7, 2026


Declan Fitzpatrick is supposed to be dead. But that’s only one of the reasons I'm surprised to find him on my doorstep, bloody and broken in the middle of the night.

The head of the Irish mob has been a thorn in my side for years now. Sending me gifts, calling me Kitten, flirting with me just to get under my skin. And that's before we even get into my professional grievances with him encroaching on Moretti territory, costing me money, and putting my entire organization at risk.

I should kill him, but I think we both know I won't.

I've been in control for so long and his offer to give me a break, even for a few minutes at a time, is too good to pass up. If I want to be his kitten, can I still be the feared Devil in Armani the rest of the time?

Someone tried to kill him, and I have a feeling I know who…

None of this is my problem, but I'm going to take care of it anyway, because once I've decided that someone is mine, I don’t change my mind. I'll kill for Declan, I'll burn the rest of the Fitzpatrick’s too if I have to. Where that will leave us in the end, I don’t know, but my claws are already out.



It is finally Lorenzo Moretti's turn and even though he has been a bit exasperated and perhaps obsessed with his rival, he was not prepared for what was coming.

Declan Fitzpatrick is a charming rogue who has always flirted and teased Lorenzo and tried to push him out of his comfort zone. Lorenzo is a man who thrives on control and wearing a stoic mask for others. And Declan enjoys trying to rattle him. 

But when Declan is in trouble and needs someone he can trust, he surprisingly finds himself on Enzo's doorstep. There is a mix of confusion, adrenaline, surprise, and relief that heightens everything. And then forced proximity allows them to explore some things that they had avoided and Enzo never thought he would like.  But they find a balance where Declan helps give Enzo what he did not know he needed, and Declan finds someone who has his back. 

This is a dangerous and a bit kinky, rival family Mafia Bosses, forced proximity, could be life-or-death romance. I honestly really liked both of them and their banter, balance, and chemistry. They could understand each other and were protective and possessive. It also brings back many of the other guys from the series, and they are still as unhinged as ever. 



Deadly Little Sparrow 
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Is there such thing as love at first bar fight?

I may be small and pretty, but what I lack in intimidation factor, I make up for in violence.

I made a vow five years ago that the motorcycle club responsible for my brother’s death would pay the price, and I’m finally ready to collect. May God have mercy on the men who hurt my brother, because I don’t plan to.

Accidentally breaking the nose of the deadliest man in the city wasn’t my best move. Xaviaro Saviano, trigger man for the Moretti Crime Family... and now my own personal stalker. But if I have to go through him to deliver well-deserved justice, so be it.

As strange as it sounds, Xaviaro seems to want to help me more than he wants to hurt me. I can’t shake the man no matter what I do. Threatening him feels like foreplay, tying him up only turns him on… I could play nice, but that’s never been my strong suit.

I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t starting to grow on me, especially when he calls me his Deadly Little Sparrow from his knees. I’ve never met a man who could handle me, let alone one who can’t stop begging me for more.

Beautifully Savage Butterfly
(Mafia Bound #2)
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Being savage in the ring is one thing. The way Elio Moretti craves my violence outside the ring is another.

I feel like I’ve been fighting my whole life, and tapping out has never been an option.

I can live with owing money to the Morettis. I can even live with the constant guilt that my brother is the one paralyzed in a hospital bed while I live his dream. What I can’t live with is Elio Moretti, second in command to the infamous crime family, showing up to all my fights, sitting in the front row, watching me like he can’t look away, and barging into the locker room to patch up my wounds and invade my space.

The Morettis are monsters. Vicious, brutal sociopaths. So, why is Elio so eager to get on his knees for me?

He’s as desperate to give up control as I am to take it, but is giving in to these primal urges enough of a reason to sell my soul?

He claims there are worse people in this city than his family, and the deeper I get dragged into his world, the more true that’s starting to seem. Can I really fall in love with a Mafia underboss? Is it even possible to walk away?



Unhinged Little Angel
Mafia Bound #3
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Forcing Salvatore Moretti to marry me at gunpoint isn’t the craziest thing I've ever done...

I hate being desperate, being scared. It's a filthy, helpless feeling. I'd much rather be enraged, violent… unhinged.

Salvatore watches me dance and calls me Angioletto, his little angel. He doesn't know the demons that haunt me. He's too blinded by my beauty to see the blood on my hands. Then again, he's a mafia capo, so maybe the blood wouldn't bother him anyway.

My past is like fire licking at my heels, ready to consume me. But Sal won't let that happen, he’ll protect me. He has to.

I learned a long time ago not to trust anyone but myself. It's dangerous the way he manages to unravel all of my defenses and turn me from a guarded Dom into the submissive brat I've never felt safe enough to be. It's terrifying the way I'm starting to crave him.

I wasn't sure I would live long enough to worry about this marriage starting to feel real, but this well-dressed mafioso might just manage to save my life after all. We can argue about divorce once the threat is neutralized I suppose. And in the meantime, he is my husband, I might as well enjoy the perks…

 Desperately Delicate Viper
 Mafia Bound Book 4
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Kim's review

That Feeling when the man you just robbed and left tied up and blindfolded turns out to be in the mafia…

I'm not proud of the things I've had to do for money to pay off my dad's debts and put my younger brother through college. But I'll never regret it.

What I do regret is accidentally robbing a Moretti.

Having to look over my shoulder and ducking every time a car backfires is bad enough, but when the man in question starts costing me business? Yeah, I think we’re going to have a problem.

I never knew I could feel the way I do when Luca Moretti gets on his knees for me, but I don’t have time to be romanced by this obsessed, submissive, mafioso.

No one has ever made me feel as strong and capable as he does. Can I really be the viper he sees me as? If I learn how to bite, can I finally make my life my own with Luca Moretti at my side?


Relentlessly Vengeful Ghost
(Mafia Bound Book 5)
Amazon
Kim's 4 star review 

I didn’t know the house I broke into belonged to a mafioso, and now my revenge arc is a lot more complicated.

7 years ago, I died. Nameless, forgotten, left in a ditch after an overdose. I don’t know who saved me or why. God? Satan? A good Samaritan whose name I'll never know? It doesn't really matter.

I don’t know who I used to be. My name, my past, they were buried. But somehow, I'm still here.
I'm not the only one the Sleepless Reapers have used and abused, but I will be the last, if I have anything to say about it.

I don’t need the attention of a mafioso. Even if Alessio is fun to play with, and even more fun to make beg. But I don’t have time for his devotion or his pretty, breathless pleas.

I have a score to settle, and I can't rest until every last Sleepless Reaper is six feet under.

Alessio makes me feel something other than hatred for the first time that I can remember. He makes me hope one day I might be more than a ghost driven by vengeance. He can’t pull me out of the darkness, but maybe we can keep each other company in the shadows until all our demons are exorcized

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Author K.M.Neuhold is a complete romance junkie, a total sap in every way. She started her journey as an author in new adult, MF romance, but after a chance reading of an MM book she was completely hooked on everything about lovely- and sometimes damaged- men finding their Happily Ever After together. She has a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well. And she fully admits that her OCD tendencies of making sure every side character has a full backstory will likely always lead to every book having a spin-off or series. When she’s not writing she’s a lion tamer, an astronaut, and a superhero…just kidding, she’s likely watching Netflix and snuggling with her husky while her amazing husband brings her coffee.


 









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LYNX'S RUIN
Saxon James Series: The Wilde Men #3
Release Date: October 29, 2026 Genre: MM Small Town Standalone
Tropes: Protector/prey, forced proximity, Appalachian superstitions, Bob's a handsome kitty, hurt/comfort, Lynx gave him his knife?
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Sasha
I'm prey. Weak little helpless prey. At least, that's what I let the wild men in Wilde's End think. I haven't trusted them one bit since I've been stranded here, and after Lynx tries to kill me, I know my instincts were correct.

At least until I'm forced to spend more time with the machete-wielding animal. He's got a past he won't talk about, and a protective streak that anyone else would find suffocating.
Anyone but me.

And when he extends that protection to me, it feels better than I expect it to.

I still want out of The End, but maybe I can have a little fun first.

Lynx
I'm a predator. When I was young, I promised myself that no one would ever get past my defenses again. People call me scary and unhinged, but they can think what they like so long as my town is safe.
The influx of outsiders to Wilde's End already had me on edge, and then in stumbles Sasha. A small, weak, walking tragedy. I have no idea how he's survived this long, but something about him calls to me. Everything from his pretty eyes to the way he bites back at me and fights battles he has no chance of winning.

I'd assumed he was prey.

But the more I push, the more I feel like I'm the one being hunted.

CW: Past instance of dubious consent (not between the two MCs), self-harm (non-suicidal), references to a child's death

next. 

Lynx is the mysterious, dangerous, superstitious,  scary protector of Wilde's End. He takes protection of his pack very seriously and wants them to know how to defend themselves. He does not like outsiders and is untrusting. And when they find out an outsider, Sasha, has been hiding out and stealing from them to survive, he comes close to killing him.

Sasha seems like a lost, oblivious rabbit and prey. And he piques the interest of Lynx the predator. But Sasha is not as sweet or as innocent as he appears and has his own demons nipping at his heels. He is also smart, sneaky, can bite back, and is dangerous in his own way. He crashed into Wilde's End with the intention of it only being a temporary stopping point. 

They push and challenge each other and find unexpected common ground. Sasha likes to push Lynx to see more under his hard, psychotic, unemotional facade. And Lynx is intrigued by Sasha's bite and cunning. They are a perfectly matched prey who is also a survivor and a predator with protective instincts.

It's grumpy sunshine, hurt-comfort, forced proximity romance with danger, suspense, and some primal play in an isolated wild town full of quirky characters.   These two men are just trying to figure out if it is scarier to be with the person that they are obsessed with or without, and if being together makes them weaker or stronger.  We get more with Booker in this one, and I am interested in his book next. 
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Wilde's End The Wilde Men #1 GOODREADS
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Genre: M/M Bi Awakening Romance Standalone
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, small town, city boy x wild man, grumpy x snarky
Microtropes: I had no where else to go, scars reveal, bearded Cinderella moment, get out of my town

Hudson
Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision, and I’ll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea.
As builders, we plan to renovate and flip the town, maybe turn it into something worth seeing, but the longer we’re here, the more things feel … off.
It’s not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde’s End isn’t as abandoned as we were told.
But there’s nothing waiting for me in the life I left behind, and in making his demands, Wilde has accidentally tapped into my competitive side.
Terrible decisions? Me?
Wilde can bring it on.


Wilde
I escaped to Wilde’s End twenty years ago, and since then I’ve dedicated my life to the town and the people who live there. Because if I focus on others, I don't have the time or energy to face everything I’ve been running from.
The Bellamy brothers coming to town is like three horsemen of the goddamn apocalypse. They leave destruction in their wake, and when the eldest, Hudson, ignores my very kind request to leave, it’s time to take things into my own hands. Protecting this town is all I know how to do.
But I’ve never faced someone like Hudson.
His stubbornness matches mine, and his attitude has an irritating way of worming under my skin. The more I push him, the harder he pushes back, until we’re locked in a game neither of us will walk away from.
With his smart mouth, bullheaded recklessness and those damn eyelashes I’m starting to question whether I can win this one.
But if I lose, this town isn’t the only thing on the line.



Ziggy's Voice
The Wilde Men #2
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Kim's 4-4.5  starreview

Kennedy
I’ve always been the relationship guy.
I love big, hard and fast … but unfortunately for me, that’s the quickest way to make a new romance crash and burn.
Moving to Wilde’s End, our not-so-abandoned town, is exactly the fresh start I need. What’s better than a town in the middle of nowhere and long days of hard work to swear off relationships? At least that’s what I think, until I meet Ziggy.
He’s the town electrician who has a weird habit of making sparks fly whenever I’m around him. He’s cute, snarky, and his piercings are hot as hell.
Too bad I don’t trust myself not to make the same mistakes I always do.

Ziggy
I’ve always been the weird loner. The strange kid who doesn’t talk.
So when Kennedy shows up in my life, with his big energy and sunny personality, I don’t know how to take him. I’m used to being the invisible shadow that goes unnoticed in the Wilde.
Kennedy makes me feel seen.
He doesn’t expect me to talk when the voices in my head get too loud, he doesn’t expect me to be funny or witty or anything that I’m not.
He’s happy just to be around me, and that’s not something I’ve experienced before.
He’s sworn off dating. And I’ve never so much as been kissed.
But with the sunshine he brings to my life, it’s impossible to feel like a shadow anymore. I’m determined to win him over, no matter what it takes.



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Saxon James unapologetically writes happy endings for LGBT+ characters.

While not writing, SM is a readaholic and Netflix addict who regularly lives on a sustainable diet of chocolate and coffee.

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His Guilty Pleasure
Montgomery Ink Legacy #11
Carrie Ann Ryan

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There were two rules in our relationship:

We remain friends with the benefits.

And we don’t catch feelings.

Only I made a mistake. I started to fall for Dash Montgomery.

Now our secret physical-only time together is done, and we have to see if we can keep our promises.

He needs to move on. And I need to focus on my business and friends.

Yet when an attack happens close to home, Dash steps up and changes the game. I don’t want to fall for him and yet I know there’s no walking away from this. Not when he puts himself on the line and I finally can give in.

Everyone I’ve ever loved, save one, has walked away from me, leaving the shattered remnants of who I once was behind. If I don’t find a way to trust Dash—as well as my heart—the darkness stalking us both won’t be the only thing that breaks us.

His Guilty Pleasure is a friends with benefits, right person, wrong time contemporary suspense romance featuring Dash and Aly. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!

It is always fun to see the Montgomery family living their second generation life.

Dash and Aly have a secret arrangement that works for them and keeps them out of the typical Montgomery gossip fodder. Friends with benefits only, no feelings beyond friendship. But when Aly realizes she has started developing deeper feelings, she breaks off their arrangement, vowing to get over her feelings and put their friendship back to the way it was before. But when Aly faces a series of problems, Dash jumps in front of the rest of the family to help her back on her feet, and she has to decide if she is willing to trust that he isn’t going anyway either.

I loved these two and the friendship they based their physical relationship on. Aly has a hard time trusting, and had hangups about more serious relationships and being left behind that kept her at arms length.

This definitely felt lighter than some of Carrie Ann’s more recent books and I had a lot of fun with the back and forth between Dash and Aly. I found it humorous that they thought they were being so secret, but in true Montgomery fashion, the secrets don’t last long. The danger/threat aspect was on the predictable side, but it was nice that it didn't become the center of their relationship or the reason they came together again. And I loved the way Dash worked to gain Aly’s trust beyond the friendship they had. (And boy did he have to work for it!)

As I said in the beginning, I always love coming back to the Montgomery world. They are taking over the Front Range (and the world) one book at a time!

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NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan is the author of over 150 contemporary and paranormal romances where the characters yearn, break your hearts, and make you swoon. If there’s a family of six brothers who need HEAs, she’s your author.


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Under Water
Storm Season #2
E.M. Lindsey
Amazon
October 26, 2026

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🔥Rivals to Lovers
🔥Friends with Benefits
🔥Single Dad MC
🔥Fake Dating
🔥Workplace Romance
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Only One Bed
🔥MM Romance

That’s it. My co-worker has to die. There’s no other way around it. If I have to spend one more day cleaning up his mess—no matter how good he makes the mess look—I’m going to lose it.

My life is complicated enough with a soon-to-be ex-husband who won’t accept the marriage is over, a medically complex son, and a job I can’t seem to get away from. I really don’t need to keep nurturing this crush on the very obnoxious, very good looking, very straight firefighter.

It’s too bad Easton’s beloved around the station.
It’s too bad my kid also loves him.
It’s too bad he’s starting to make me feel like there’s hope for something more.

Especially when my life gets turned upside down after my ex starts stalking me, and my kid has a near-death experience. I’ve only ever relied on myself to get out of these messes, but now Easton’s making it seem like I can drop my guard.

But I know better than that. The moment I do, everything will go to hell.

So why does he keep showing up every time I need him? And why does he make me feel like, for the first time in my life, I can breathe under water?

Under Water is the second book in the Storm Season series. It’s a workplace rivals to lovers romance with a grumpy IT-guy single dad, a sunshine firefighter, a bi-awakening, baby ducks, a snarky pre-teen who sees way too much, and a steamy, swoony, happily ever after.



Easton has always claimed he was the straight guy at the fire station. He’s handsome, outgoing, sunshiny, and a bit clumsy. But the fact that he’s telling himself he just has a man crush on one of the tech guys who seems to openly hate him gets him thinking, especially when he starts thinking more impure thoughts about him.

Rune is an ex-firefighter, now a tech guru for the station. He’s got his hands full with a son with medical needs, a vengeful ex, and work. He is private, grumpy, overwhelmed, and resists help. He is also trying to manage his huge crush on the station's cutest "straight" guy, Easton. Rune's way of handling it is giving off dislike and irritation vibes since Easton's always messing up his computers.

But there seems to be a lot of unresolved sexual tension and what they assume are ill-advised crushes between them. Until a certain situation makes them actually talk and listen to each other and then realize that things weren’t always what they seemed with either of them. Both of them have a protective streak, but I love seeing Easton take up for Rune, who’s always had to be the protector of everyone else. And this is Easton's first experience with a man in any way, so I enjoyed seeing them explore his firsts and how patient Rune could be with him. 
I really loved these two together. Even though they were an unlikely pair just due to their history, personalities,  and circumstances, they really gave each other what they didn't expect but really needed. They balance, support, complement each other well, and help each other feel better about themselves and their self-worth. 

I really liked Rune’s snarky son,  Elio, and his relationship with his dad, and also how Easton bonded with him. He is such a special character, and he often had me smiling when there was not surrounding drama. This is an enemies,  coworkers, single dad, bi-awakening, first times, forced proximity, grumpy-sunshine love story set around a small town and firehouse. 
There are some threats, tension, and suspenseful situations woven throughout the story that keep it moving.

It brings back all the guys from the first book, and there really are a lot of interesting characters with some different challenges, so I have a feeling there’s going to be a few more books in the series, and I am here for it. This author always does a good job helping people with challenges and differing abilities find love and acceptance while making the medical issues realistic. 


Don't Fall
Storm Season #1
Amazon
Kim's 4.5 star review 

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🔥Enemies to Lovers

🔥Forced Proximity

🔥Only One Bed

🔥Praise Kink

🔥Grumpy/Sunshine

🔥Grumpy falls first

🔥Hate Sex

🔥Best Friend's Brother

🔥MM Romance


That’s it. My neighbor has to die. There’s no other way around it. The man must be killed—and I’ll even find a way to do it gently, but this cannot go on.


Okay, maybe I’m a bit dramatic, but living next to my brother’s best friend who decided to befriend the crows that spend all week spreading garbage across my lawn is not what I signed up for.

I wanted quiet.
I wanted peace.
I wanted to stop fantasizing about the gorgeous man I couldn’t stand.

Unfortunately for me, North is a big presence with an annoyingly sunny smile and a way of making life sound like it’s worth living. And as a widower who wants to spend the rest of my life wallowing, the last person I want around is one who makes me question my new life’s purpose.

But these feelings can’t be real, can they? I had my great love, and I lost him. So that’s supposed to be it for me.
Isn’t that the way things go?

I can’t seem to stay away from North, even when I know I should. And when he starts to make me feel like maybe there’s another happily ever after out there, I find that as cautious as I’ve taken each step, I’m on the verge of falling once more.

Don’t Fall is the first book in the small town, enemies to lovers, heavy yearning, MM romance series, Storm Season. It features a virgin EMT whose smile is hiding a lot of things, a disgruntled, grieving writer who just wants solid sleep and a good meal, neighborhood crows 

Meet E.M. Lindsey:

E.M. Lindsey is a Romance author, an ancient historian, and avid lover of nerdy things.  EM lives on the East Coast of the United States.  


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