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Books like The Sweetest Oblivion
You want a mafia marriage, a cold man who melts slowly and more longing than violence. These eight get closest, from arranged marriages between crime families to billionaires who protect her from everyone. A few are much darker; the spice and warnings are listed for each.
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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.
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5. Twisted Love
Ana Huang · 2021
ExplicitAdultAva's brother asks his best friend Alex to look after her, and Alex is cold, brilliant and very much not supposed to touch her. Brother's best friend with a dark edge, high spice, happy ending. A good first step if you want darker heroes without darker books.
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Ruthless CreaturesJ. T. Geissinger
6. 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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7. 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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8. Painted Scars
Neva Altaj · 2022
ExplicitAdultNina's father stole three million dollars from the Bratva, and the price of his life is her: a fake marriage to Roman, the Pakhan, who needs a wife to show his enemies that the bomb that put him in a wheelchair didn't make him weak. She's an artist and a gifted liar, and he starts wanting the act to be real. Mafia marriage of convenience, lighter than most, high spice, happy ending.