Micala McCrayer – författare

Giulia Moretti never wanted anything to do with Matteo Bianchi's world. A respected businessman to the public and a ruthless force behind closed doors, Matteo lives by rules forged in power, loyalty, and control. Giulia should have walked away the moment their paths crossed. Instead, she stepped closer. As their connection deepens, Giulia finds herself caught between the life she knows and the dangerous man she cannot seem to escape. But Matteo isn't the only one watching. Marco Bellandi has spent years waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike, and Giulia is quickly becoming the weakest point in Matteo's armor. Threats become warnings. Warnings become attacks. And when Bellandi's obsession turns toward Giulia, the line between protection and possession begins to blur. Because in a world built on power, everyone becomes leverage eventually. And when war finally comes, Matteo may discover that some losses cannot be undone. Submissive is a dark mafia romance filled with danger, obsession, power, and a cliffhanger that will leave readers desperate for more.

Captivity is a weapon. Desire is the trap. Giulia Moretti's world shatters the night Marco Bellandi drags her into captivity. Trapped inside a fortress built on cruelty and obsession, she becomes the centerpiece of a war between rival empires and the prize Bellandi refuses to surrender. Matteo Bianchi will burn cities, spill blood, and break every rule ever written to bring her home. But rescue is only the beginning. As old enemies fall and new ones rise from the ashes, Giulia must navigate the scars Bellandi left behind, the dangerous devotion of the man who saved her, and a future threatened by enemies who know exactly where to strike. In a world where love and possession wear the same face, survival means learning which bonds can save you and which ones will destroy you. In a world built on blood and obsession, surrender is never simple.

Beneath the Ink (The Prequel to The Ashen Ink Chronicles) Before he was the Don of Blackwood, before the North End feared his name, Saint was a man learning how to survive becoming a monster. Fresh out of prison and thrown back into the brutal machinery of the Syndicate, he must prove prison did not break him. It made him sharper. Under Roman Drakov's rule, Saint rises through blood, violence, and impossible choices, becoming the enforcer trusted to handle the work no one else can stomach. As power shifts inside Blackwood, rivalries are born, loyalty becomes a weapon, and every decision pulls him further from the man he could have been. The streets know him as violence. The Syndicate knows him as necessity. But beneath the blood and brutality, Saint is still an artist. Inside the walls of The Altar on Iron and Ink, he tries to build something of his own. A place where pain becomes permanence, where chaos is controlled with steady hands and black ink instead of bullets. A place that will one day become the sanctuary readers first step into in Ashes and Ink. But Blackwood does not let monsters become men. This is the story of Saint before the throne. The prison years, the rise of the enforcer, the making of the Don, and the war that forged the man readers first meet in Ashes and Ink.

Ashes and Ink Vivienne has spent the last year running and the last three learning how to survive the kind of love that leaves scars. After escaping a toxic relationship that left more scars than anyone can see, she rebuilds her life in the North End quietly, carefully, and always looking over her shoulder. She tells herself she's safe now. That if she keeps her head down, if she stays small enough, the past won't find her.She's wrong.When her ex begins circling again, turning fear into a slow, suffocating game of control, Vivienne finds herself trapped between the ghost of the man who broke her and the dangerous pull of the man determined to protect her. Saint is not a hero. He is a tattoo artist with blood on his hands, a man feared in the streets and respected in the shadows of Blackwood. Cold, possessive, and impossible to escape, he sees straight through her walls and once he does, he has no intention of letting her go. What begins as protection becomes obsession. What starts as survival becomes surrender. As old monsters return and new ones rise, Vivienne must decide if freedom is really what she wants, or if some cages feel more like home. In a city built on violence, love is never soft. It is possession. It is power. It is choosing the monster who would burn the world just to keep you safe. Ashes and Ink is a dark romance about trauma, obsession, survival, and the dangerous beauty of being loved by the right monster.