There's only one choice for this innocent bride. Marry me or die.I never wanted a wife.But when the Bratva tries to take what was promised to me, it's time to claim what's mine.I thought she would be...

She's beautiful. Broken. And she needs me to save her.Anastasia Ivanova is everything I shouldn't want. She's the damaged and disgraced daughter of a Bratva brigadier, a former ballerina and now the possession...

What if Giovanni Ferretti was never murdered? What if he never extracted that vicious promise from his best friend? What if Luca Romano wasn't kind to Franco Bianchi on that playground when they were...

I've never been anything but a means to an end. But now the most powerful man in Chicago wants to make me his…forever.All my life I knew one thing about my father–that he wanted to be more than he was....

My marriage will stop a war between our families. But it's a marriage begun on a lie… There's only one man in Chicago more powerful than my brother, the newly minted pakhan of the Vasilev Bratva–and that's...

With my father dead, I'm the only heiress to a mafia empire–and one man stands between me and those who want to claim it for their own. I haven't seen Alessio Moretti in years. But when my father is unexpectedly...

In my world, pleasure is currency and love doesn't exist. Until I meet him. After having been burned by love twice, I'm fine with being on my own. And after my last heartbreak–falling for the Bratva heir...

My husband isn't a man to steal from. But someone has decided to anyway.Someone wanted Viktor to pay. Enough to take his wife from his own home. Enough to risk his wrath.When I wake up in a cabin in the...

Is almost losing everything enough to change a man?My husband is about to lose everything he's worked so hard to keep.His empire.His daughter.Me.I can't love a man who does the things that Viktor does....

Marriage to Luca was supposed to be my salvation. Now it's just a prison I can't escape.Marry him or die.That was the choice.When the Bratva attack on our wedding forces my new husband into the position...

All's fair in love and war.The problem is, I want no part of either.I want peace with the Bratva. Safety for my wife. And love?That's never played a part in any of this.But the harder I fight against...

A man with no mercy wants my hand in marriage. But this princess won't be bartered away. My sister angered Diego Gonzalez, the most powerful cartel boss in Mexico, when she refused to bend to his will....

He promised to keep me safe. But I want so much more from him than that.One night with Levin changed everything for me. But for him, I quickly find, it was a night that only happened because he thought...

My job is death, danger, and intrigue. Never love. Since I was sixteen, the Syndicate has been my entire life. Now, on the brink of becoming one of their most trusted assassins, I've been given a job...

They say be careful what you wish for. I never understood that until now. I should be happy. I'm safely in Boston, reunited with my sister, and on the verge of a future I never dreamed was possible for...

He saved me. Again. The man I want.The man that I love.But it's never going to be that simple for either of us.He says what we did together was a mistake. That all I'll ever find with him is darkness...

He made the choice between the life he wanted and the woman he loves. Just not in the way I'd hoped. Now I might never see him again. In an instant, my life is turned upside down. I'm no longer who I...

All I want is my freedom. But the Bratva leader won't take no for an answer…My first husband is dead and buried.I'm left a widowed mafia princess—a dangerous title to hold, especially when one man already...

He's the only man I want. And the only man I can never have.A year ago, Maximilian Agosti was there for me through some of my darkest hours. From the violence I endured on the Manhattan docks, to the...

Cali McGraw is on the run after shooting a dangerous trafficker. She needs help and must find the Orb Lady—but will it be too late? Cali McGraw, on the verge of eighteen, is in a dead-end job as a waitress...

Jessie Rossen, a simplistic freelance photographer, is at a crossroads in life despite having a thriving career and a handsome fiancé, Walt Arbol Jr., who is heir to a publishing empire. The morning after...

With good reason, John Stuart Mill is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. In "Political Philosophy: A Practical Guide to the Select Works of John StuartMill",...

Henry of Ghent is commonly regarded as one the three most important scholastic philosophers of the latter part of the Middle Ages. Wedged neatly between the teachings of Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus,...

The following is one in a series of reviews that has been extracted in its entirety from M. James Ziccardi's "The Essence of Medieval Philosophy".It is intended to serve as a primer for students of medieval...

Aristotle's "Physics" remains one of the most influential works in all of Western Philosophy. For more than a thousand years it had stood as a pillar to all philosophical and scientific thought.In "Fundamental...

The following is one in a series of reviews that has been extracted in itsentirety from M. James Ziccardi's The Essence of Medieval Philosophy.It is intended to serve as a primer for students of medieval...

In "Fundamental Boethius: A Practical Guide to the Theological Tractates and Consolation of Philosophy", M. James Ziccardi presents the key passages and ideas from two of Boethius' two most influential...

Readers of this decorative and informative book will find a treasure-trove of valuable information about many of the greatest thinkers ever to have shaped the Western world. Beginning with the water as...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca is widely regarded as one of the most influential and inspirational moral writers within the Stoic tradition, or what many regard as the noble philosophy of pre-Christian Rome. Although...

In "Fundamental Descartes: A Practical Guide to the Method and Meditations", M. James Ziccardi presents the key passages of Rene Descartes' two most influential works, "Discourse on the Method" and "Meditations...