“[A] fascinating new book about mafia boss Alfonso D’Arco, who became the federal government’s most successful cooperator.” —The Village Voice Alfonso “Little Al” D’Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti’s top aide, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D’Arco’s life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D’Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D’Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years. After speaking with D’Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman’s son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father’s satirical novel. Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D’Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City.

EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… We were sure that coming back to the city would fix everything. But, if anything, it's only pulled us further apart. Charlotte is back in the clutches of her abusive fiancé, and her father is certain that I'm the one who's caused all this trouble - and has sequestered me away in one of his work camps to keep me busy. I need to get to her, need to get to Charlotte, and I'm willing to do anything that it takes to make that happen. Except, I'm not the only one looking for her. And even if we manage to get her fiancé out of the picture, there's no promise that he'll be willing to let those sleeping dogs lie... A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE SERIES Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking By The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, ageless romance, Scottish romance, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance

EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… I finally have Charlotte's family on my side. It's been me and her against the world. With her father finally accepting me, nothing stands in our way. Or does it? I can't get my brother out of my head—or the revenge that I know he's planning on me. And I'm not the only one with a nemesis right now. Charlotte's ex won't take no for an answer, and he's getting more and more dangerous with every rejection. There may be only one way to stop them… A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE SERIES Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking By The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, crime, crime thriller, heist, thriller, kidnapping, vigilante

EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… A kidnapping isn't how I expected to meet the woman of my dreams. But when my brother, intent on proving himself as the hardcore gangster he wants to be, comes up with the idea to kidnap the daughter of a powerful crime boss, I know I can't stop him. And that's how I meet Charlotte. Beautiful, intelligent, graceful – and hurting from the life she's been trapped into living. She wants to get out of this world just as much as I do, and it doesn't take long till we fall for each other, hard and fast. Except time is running out for both of us. If we're going to be together, we need to act fast – and do something that we can never renege on... A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE SERIES Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking By The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, ageless romance, Scottish romance, outlander, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Romance / New Adult FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy F, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, high schol bully romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance high school, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, stockholm syndrome

EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… Just when I thought I had everything under control - the stakes are suddenly even higher than they ever have been before. A baby. We're going to have a baby. Which means I need to do everything I can to protect Charlotte against the onslaught that her ex and my brother are going to rain down on top of us. With the risk of her family turning against us over this new baby, it's just us against the world, and I know she is relying on me to do what needs to be done to keep our new family safe... Whatever it takes. Whatever. It. Takes. A Dark Mafia Romance Series Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, crime, crime thriller, heist, thriller, kidnapping, vigilante

"Murdertown," "Bombtown," "Crimetown." Through decades, the City of Youngstown, Ohio, has been branded with such painful nicknames, due in large part to the rackets, violence and corruption of organized crime in the region. The streets of Youngstown and other communities in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys of northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania have been bloodied through numerous shootings and stabbings and, during an especially disturbing period, a series of gruesome car-bombings. In too many cases, public officials and officers of the law were complicit in the criminal activity, profiting through bribery and graft. Some authorities who resisted corruption and attempted to perform their public duties found themselves the targets of underworld violence. In this November 2022 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement, we tackle the history of organized crime in Youngstown region, from the earliest reports of the 1890s through the apparent dissolution of the Mob presence more than a century later. It is a complex subject, as elements of at least four regional Mafia organizations and a persistent non-Mafia Calabrian organization, in addition to other criminal elements, all collided, cooperated, combined and clashed with each other at different times. This resulted in a wealth of interesting but often uncoordinated stories and personalities. Our strategy for dealing with the subject is to present a number of individual standalone articles on the more interesting of these stories, bringing to light the significant personalities, groups, areas and eras. The effort might be compared to the photographic “stitching” of a collection of images into a panorama. Readers will discover the secret criminal organizations behind names like "Society of Honor," "Sacred Circle" and "Society of the Banana" and will encounter such characters as "Fats" Aiello, Ernie Biondillo, Frank Cammarata, "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro, Joe Cutrone, "Tony Dope" Delsanter, Vince DeNiro, "Wolf" DiCarlo, "Big Jim" Falcone, Mike Farah, "Red" Giordano, "Big Dom" Mallamo, Dominick Moio, "Two-Gun Jimmy" Prato, Rocco Racco, Rocco Strange, Lenny Strollo, "Zebo" Zottola, along with the Barber brothers, the Carabbia brothers, the Naples brothers, the Romeo brothers and many more. While it is our hope that a coherent image of the history of Youngstown-area organized crime (and its connections to criminal entities outside the region) will emerge, we are concerned by the fact that some of our individual historical “snapshots” do not overlap with or even touch each other while others may overlap quite a bit. We hope that the obvious voids and repetitions will not be a great distraction and that, with some patience, our readers will be able to “get the picture.” Contributors to this Informer issue: James Barber, Justin Cascio, Margaret Janco, Thom L. Jones, Michael A. Tona, Edmond Valin and Thomas Hunt

EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… One last showdown. One last fight. And one last chance to make sure that I keep the woman I love safe—along with the sweet baby she's carrying. My brother and her ex are out for blood, but I'm ready to fight for Charlotte and for our future together. When a betrayal happens from inside the family, I realize it's going to be harder than I thought. Can we fight the odds to stay alive—and stay together? A Dark Mafia Romance Series Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, crime, crime thriller, heist, thriller, kidnapping, vigilante

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. We have no choice but to run. There are so many people after Charlotte and I that I'm not sure how far we're going to get. My brother's men still want to get their hands on her. Then there's her family—and her evil fiancé—who are going to do anything they can to get her back. I'm going to do anything I can to keep her safe. Anything I can to make sure she doesn't fall back into their hands. And anything that it takes to ensure that I don't lose her. But, even as we flee the mainland to an old house of my father's, her history is right behind her. And little do I know that mine is right behind it... A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE SERIES Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking By The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, ageless romance, Scottish romance, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, high schol bully romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance high school, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance

Book 1 of The Five Kings series. (Can be read standalone) After witnessing the brutal murder of both her parents Nadia gets sent to live with a bodyguard after it becomes clear that Nadia could be next. This handsome bodyguard, sexy in every which way- Nadia can't help but develop feelings for him after living in such close quarters with him for her own safety. She can't help the thoughts that fill her mind, about those hands of his wrapped around her, those lips of his against hers, and that body of his... against hers. But what happens when Nadia learns her bodyguard is protecting her for the wrong reasons? What happens when she finds out her bodyguard is the leader of New York's Russian Mob? Should she have more fear in who she's sharing a house with?

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On September 21, 1991, FBI agent Robert Marston received a call at his house from an operator with the bureau’s New York switchboard. The caller was involved in an investigation into an illegal landfill. He wanted Marston to speak to someone named Al D’Arco. #2 The agent was eventually able to speak to Al D’Arco, and the two began talking about the landfill case. D’Arco said people had tried to kill him, and he wanted to retaliate. He said he had weapons at his disposal, and was prepared for anything that happened. #3 Marston spoke with D’Arco for several minutes, explaining that he was from upstate New York and that he worked for the FBI. He tried to keep his voice as normal as possible, as though he were talking to a neighbor at the church fair he would soon miss. #4 Marston called his partner, Jim O’Connor, and told him about the plan. You’re kidding, said O’Connor. I thought maybe someone was kidding me. Marston made a few more calls to agents he knew would be eager to interrupt their Saturday nights for a mission like this.