*Reader Choice award winner One woman, two men: a single summer to choose between them. Sacrificing a summer to fix her relationship with her mother and find out what's troubling her father isn't so bad...right? Wrong. Or so Samantha learns upon her return to Portland. As if family drama wasn't bad enough, first comes Noah. Then comes Jesse. Samantha is torn between the way her heart skips a beat each time Noah looks at her, and the way Jesse's touch make her yearn for more.

Sometimes heroes are taught to do really bad things... Mikolas Russo is one hit away from becoming part of the Medini crime family. But is this what he really wants? Killing people for money is what he has been trained to do even though he'd give anything to trade the nightmares for sweet dreams of the forbidden Gabrielle. Thinking he has the chance to reveal his feelings to her, he arrives at her house to find her brandishing a loaded gun, ready to take control. During Gabrielle's teen years, she attended a private school in Italy. This is where she learns the meaning of Mafia but believed crime families no longer existed. Now back in Las Vegas and demanding answers to the hard questions, she quickly learns that the Mafia still has a hand in controlling society and her father is the Don of the largest mob in the area. The Mafia doesn't seem so glamorous any more after a hit is taken out on her father, especially when Gabrielle has reason to believe that her secret love's safety is in jeopardy too. Will the truth fulfill her desires, or will Mikolas be the one to shatter everything?