Zoe Blake

It was an innocent mistake; she knocked on the wrong door. It was mine. If I were a better man, I would've just let her go. But I'm not. I'm a cruel bastard. I ruthlessly claimed her virtue for my own. It should've been enough but it wasn't. I needed more...I craved it. She became my obsession...

His family dared to challenge mine, so I am going to ruin them... starting with stealing his bride.

I took her innocence as payment. She was far too young and naïve to be betrothed to a monster like me. I would bring only pain and darkness into her sheltered world. That's why she ran. I should've just let her go. She never asked to marry into a powerful Russian mafia family....

Only a monster would kidnap a woman from her brother's wedding, but that's what I've become. Now this innocent girl is my captive. Mine to use and punish in the most shameful of ways.

Enter the world of the Dark Obsession series where power, control, and manipulation reign supreme. Contains books 1-5. Begin the sinister journey in Wicked Games where an unsuspecting woman is ensnared by a man who meticulously grooms her into his perfect pawn. Follow her through the escalating...

The moment she told me no, I knew she was mine. I didn't come to her apartment planning to tie her to her bed and ravage her. A Russian arms dealer has no need for an innocent schoolteacher. I would have done what I came to do and left, but when she opened those gorgeous red lips and threatened...

She was mine for the taking. So I did. When I walked in on my beautiful new assistant changing outfits in my executive office's personal bathroom, I did what any ruthless billionaire in my place would have done. I kissed her. Punishingly....

Sweet Severity continues the steamy, enemies-to-lovers drama featuring the domineering Russian Mafia men of Zoe Blake's Ruthless Obsession series. This is the seventh novel and part of a new trilogy in the Ruthless Obsession series. It is a standalone intended for mature listeners.

When I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed. She's too smart for her own good, and it's going to get her killed. Against my better judgement, I put her under the protection of my powerful Russian mafia family. So imagine my anger when the little minx ran. For three long years I've been on her...

For weeks, I've been watching her. Stalking her. Now, it's time to start playing with my beautiful little pawn. From the moment I first saw her from afar, I knew she would become my prized possession....

She was forced into his mafia war. Now she fights it beside him. The sins of the House of Diamanti have finally come due. And Rome is burning. Sabrina Badalamenti survived Sebastian's deceptions, his enemies, and the weight of his ring on her finger. She is no longer leverage. No longer a pawn...

He didn't come to Paris to fall for her. He came to claim her. She was never supposed to matter. She was supposed to break. Sabrina Badalamenti was a means to an end, the unknown daughter of the man threatening to destroy everything Sebastian Diamanti had spent his life building. Finding her was...

She thinks this is a cage. She doesn't yet understand it's a crown. He offered her a job in Rome, and gave her no choice but to take it. She stayed because Sebastian Diamanti made it impossible to leave. Sabrina Badalamenti is leverage. A carefully chosen pawn in a game of blood and revenge she...

The true legacy of the Cavalieri family, my birthright, ties me to a woman I despise: the daughter of the mafia boss who nearly ended my family. Making her both my enemy... and my future wife. The hatred is mutual; she has no desire for me to be her groom.

With a single gunshot, she brings the violent secrets of my buried past into the present. She may not have pulled the trigger, but she still has blood on her hands. And I know some very creative ways to make her pay for it. I am as ruthless as my Cavalieri ancestors, who forged our powerful...

She couldn't have known the danger she faced when she dared to steal from me. She was too young for a man my age, barely in her twenties. Far too pure and untouched. Unfortunately for her, that wasn't going to stop me....

She's finally under my complete control, yet it's not enough....

She's hated me for years…now it's past time to give her a reason to. When you are a son and one of the heirs to the legacy of the Cavalieri name, you need to be more vicious than your enemies. Sometimes, the lines get blurred. Years ago, they tried to use her as a pawn in a revenge scheme...

Being attracted to her isn't wrong…but acting on it would be. As the patriarch of the powerful and wealthy Cavalieri family, my choices come with consequences for everyone around me. The roots of my ancestral, billionaire-dollar winery stretch deep into the rich Italian soil, as does our...

We were not meant to be together…then a dark twist of fate stepped in, and we're the ones who will pay for it. As the eldest son and heir of the Cavalieri name, I will inherit a great deal more than a billion-dollar empire. I will receive a legacy of secrets, lies, and scandal. After enduring...