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Books like Painted Scars
You want a Bratva boss, a marriage she didn't choose and a hero whose scars go deeper than his face. These nine get closest: possessive mafia men, forced marriages that turn real and a couple that are much softer. The spice and warnings are listed for each.
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1. The Professional
Kresley Cole · 2014
ScorchingAdultNatalie is a grad student who finds out her father is a Russian billionaire, and the enforcer he sends to protect her decides she belongs to him. He whisks her off to Russia and makes all the rules. Filthy, possessive, very explicit, happy ending.
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Ruthless CreaturesJ. T. Geissinger
2. Ruthless Creatures
J. T. Geissinger · 2021
ScorchingAdultFive years after her fiancé vanished the week of their wedding, Natalie is still in Lake Tahoe, still waiting. Then Kage buys the house next door with cash: a Bratva enforcer whose business in town has everything to do with her. Mafia romance with a hero who's gone from the first look, very high spice, happy ending.
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3. Bound by Honor
Cora Reilly · 2014
SteamyAdultAria Scuderi was promised at fifteen to Luca Vitiello, heir to the New York mafia, to keep the peace between two families, and at eighteen she has to marry him. He's famous for his brutality, and she's terrified of the wedding night. Arranged marriage, slow burn, steamy, happy ending.
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4. Brutal Prince
Sophie Lark · 2020
ExplicitAdultAida Gallo sets a very small fire in the Griffin family's house, and to stop a war between the Italian and Irish mafias in Chicago she's married off to Callum Griffin, the heir who'd rather see her dead. Arranged marriage and enemies to lovers, dark, high spice, happy ending.
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5. The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori · 2019
ExplicitAdultElena is the good daughter of a mafia family, and Nicolas Russo, the man engaged to her sister, can't stop looking at her. Then the engagement changes. Forbidden, slow, high spice, happy ending, and much softer than most mafia romance.
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6. My Dark Romeo
Parker S. Huntington & L. J. Shen · 2023
ExplicitAdultOne kiss at a debutante ball, and Dallas's father insists she marry Romeo Costa, a cold heir ten years older who wants a wife on paper and nothing more. Dallas wants a real family, and she sets out to break every rule he has. Enemies to lovers in a marriage neither planned, high spice, happy ending.
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7. Ruthless People
J. J. McAvoy · 2014
SteamyAdultMelody Giovanni marries Liam Callahan to unite the Italian and Irish mafia in Chicago, and she is every bit as ruthless as he is. A couple who are equals in violence, with a romance that grows inside the arrangement. Medium spice; check the warnings for the drug and torture content.
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8. Wretched
Emily McIntire · 2022
ExplicitAdultEvelina runs her family's drug empire with a gun and a greenhouse, and the man from last night's one-night stand just started working for her father under another name. He's undercover, and he's there to bring her down. The Wizard of Oz with a villain heroine, high spice, happy ending.
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9. King of Wrath
Ana Huang · 2022
ExplicitAdultVivian is an heiress, Dante is a billionaire, and their families have arranged their marriage. He is cold, she won't be ignored, and the ice cracks slowly. High spice, a grumpy hero who protects her from everyone, happy ending.