What kind of happily-ever-after do you get when you're forced to marry a monster? A monstrous Bratva leader who bounds your wrists and promises to break you. Mikhail Dmitriyev is a beautiful devil with a villainous heart and a thirst for revenge. The choices he gave me when he stole me away from my home with an army of men were very clear—marry me or die. I chose to marry him and live. But there's one small problem with his grand plan to reign Armageddon on the Mexican Cartel. I'm not the woman he thinks I am. I'm not the cartel princess he thinks he took to make his enemies bow to him. When my captor finds out my secret and realizes he married the wrong woman, love won't be enough to save me. And neither will his obsession. Deceptive Vows is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance. It is a complete standalone.

Deceptive Vows is a Powerful and thought-provoking fictional novel that addresses the issue of domestic violence. It is based on the play entitled, "Until Death Do Us Part," written, Directed and Produced by Gary G. Tavares. The play version was performed on stage in Oakland, CA. in 2000 and brought back for an encore presentation in 2001. Gary G. Tavares is also the Screenwriter for the Screenplay version, also entitled, Deceptive Vows.

My husband. My Tormentor.The most notorious man in the city offers me a job.Act as his dead wife.Adrian Volkov isn't the type of person who takes no for an answer.He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met.When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options.Go to prison or put myself under his wrath.I choose to have a roof over my head. What's so hard about acting, right?Wrong.The moment I step into his wife's shoes, everything spirals out of control.My only way of survival is through Adrian.Or is it?This book is part of a trilogy and is not standalone.

When I was sixteen, a gypsy fortune-teller told me my future held darkness and death. She was right. But what she didn’t tell me was I’d lose all my memories and I wouldn’t recognize the devil when he came to steal my life. Lucca Dyshekov—the Bratva assassin they call Merciless—rose from hell and turned my world upside down. On our wedding day, he taught me real monsters aren’t the ones who hide in the dark. They’re the ones who stare you in the face and steal your soul. On a quest for revenge, he takes me and unearths secrets from the past that will cause a war. When death lies on the horizon, the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend. In this instance, he’s my husband. The real question is when he finishes uncovering the truth, will he keep me or kill me. Merciless Vows is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering. This book is part of a duet and is not a standalone.

Olivia will do anything for her family, especially her husband Jake. The more and more she moves around, she finds clues that Jake is cheating and has caught him in a lot of mischievous acts. The one thing she tells him not to do that could end their marriage he does. He tells lie after lie to get him out of one thing and then he gets into something else. Will Olivia stay and forgive Jake or has she had enough?

Skeletons fall out of the closet as I get my memories back. Everything changed overnight. Truth became my enemy, and the sting of betrayal dragged me into a web of lies. I'm damned if I fight to live and damned if I die. The dark secrets I remember might tear my marriage apart. Love is a myth we shouldn't have explored. My husband was always my enemy. Love just made me forget and blinded me. The cruel hand of death is the only answer when doom takes over. I don't know if I'll survive. Or if death will bury me along with the sins of my father. Merciless Union is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance. This is the last part of a duet and is not standalone.

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