A Rival’s Mercy

Cover reveal and preorder announcement. 

Author: International best selling author- Via Mari

Photography/Image: Golden Czermak/FuriousFotog

Model: Tony Brettman

Cover Designer:  Suzannah Sanfi

Release Date: May 7, 2026, with a preorder option of .99 cents for a limited time.  

Vicenzo DeLuca

I play by my own rules, no relationships, no messy involvements, and no heart ache. Just casual hook ups at the club and always with me in control. 

It’s been my motto for years and I’m not about to change. 

I didn’t get to be head of the DeLuca crime family by owing favors, but when my little brother messes up, we all have to deal.

When another family needs our help, they call in the mark and we find ourselves neck deep in a mafia turf war of the worst kind. 

The beautiful blonde beauty who ends up in my arms shouldn’t weigh so heavily on my mind. She doesn’t belong to me, instead promised to another. 

Fortunately for me, I don’t play by the rules, because Anna Cassone, is going to be mine. 

A Rival’s Mercy is the explosive first book in the Atlantic City Kings series by international bestselling author, Via Mari. It is a deliciously dark, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, arranged marriage, mafia romance. It includes an over-the-top possessive billionaire mafia king, and sassy heroine.

You will love this trilogy where the passion is fiery, the loyalty is fierce, and the stakes are high. Each novel in this collection builds to the next and they are most enjoyably read from beginning to end with a guaranteed HEA in the final book. 18 +

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Tropes:

• Enemies to lovers
• Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance
• Over the top possessive
• Touch her and X
• Forbidden Love
• Forced Proximity
• Arranged Marriage
• Kidnapping 
• Spanking
• Light Bondage

“Fast paced, raw, real, and beautifully written!” —Goodreads Review

“A sexy, page turner that I could not put down!” —ARC Reader

“A scorching tryst of a romance with amazing attention to detail and the perfect amount of noir decadence!” —Early Reader

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She was born into scandal.

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When Sera Calhoun falls for Julian Everhart—the man who helped destroy her father’s legacy—she knows it’s reckless, dangerous, and irrevocable.

But some truths are written in fire.

And some hearts aren’t meant to survive the burn.

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🔥Standalone Dark Biker Romance🔥
☆Title: Property of Oaks
☆Series: Kings of Anarchy MC: Kentucky
☆Author: Morgan Jane Mitchell
☆Cover Design: Morgan Jane Mitchell
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🔥Age Gap
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Love Triangle
🔥OW Drama
🔥Dark Biker Romance
🔥Found Family
🔥Morally Gray Antiheros
🔥Supernatural Suspense
🔥Open Door Biker Romance

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Morgan Jane Mitchell comes the third installment of her brand new series in the Kings of Anarchy MC shared world, Property of Oaks.

🔥BRITTANY

I made one mistake.
I danced with a married biker. VP of Kings of Anarchy MC.
That was all it took for Hell, Kentucky to turn on me.
Now the town whispers when I walk in, biker women call me trash to my face, and his wife wants me humiliated.
I didn’t sleep with Oaks.
I barely remember that night at the Lockup. But everybody saw him watching me, and in this town, being seen is enough to ruin a girl.
I should stay away from him. I should choose the safer man, Elijah Notes, the clean-cut church boy who offers me a way out before the whole county swallows me alive.
Instead, I keep ending up in Oaks’ shadow.

🔥OAKS

I don’t cheat with my heart.
My wife knows it. My club knows it. Hell knows it.
I should’ve left Brittany alone after that night, but somebody starts watching her, warning her, trying to take her. Pearly Gates is circling, my wife is playing mean, and the whole damn town is turning Brittany into a target.
So I do the worst thing I can do.
I take her.
I haul her out to a remote lake camp where the rumors run wild, the nights get too hot, and something in the dark water has the whole county telling monster stories. She thinks I kidnapped her. But I’m protecting her from the man who aims to.
If they want to touch what I’m protecting, they’ll have to come through me first.
In Hell, Kentucky, a married biker’s obsession can get you ruined.
Or it can get you claimed.

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Empire of Sinners Series
By Faith Summers

We were off-limits to each other right from the start…

Ruthless Sinner Book 1
A Dark Mafia Forbidden Romance

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Sometimes it’s better to trust the devil you don’t know than to trust yourself…
I don’t remember who I am or where I came from.

Merciless Sinner Book 2
A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance

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I need the money to save my mother.
The mafia boss needs a temporary wife.

Fearless Sinner Book 3
A Dark Mafia Marriage of Convenience Romance

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My father forced me to marry the most notorious man in the city. A man people call the beast.

Relentless Sinner Book 4
A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance

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The first time I met Micah Delarosa, I ended up in bed with him.

Heartless Sinner Book 5
A Dark Mafia Marriage of Convenience Romance

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Sins of Rage, a dark mafia academy romance, arrives March 20th.

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Mafia heir MMC

Forbidden enemies to lovers

Dark academy setting

Touch her and die energy

High stakes

Morally grey leads

Violence, obsession, betrayal

Love versus loyalty

BLURB

Blackstone Academy trains heirs, killers, and monsters.

Aoife O’Brien is supposed to marry for power and die quietly after. She wasn’t meant to fall in love. She wasn’t meant to fight back. And she definitely wasn’t meant to survive long enough to choose.

Matteo Messina is the future of a mafia dynasty. Ruthless. Controlled. Untouchable. He knows better than to want an O’Brien. He knows better than to protect the enemy. But when Aoife stands on the edge, broken, hunted, and ready to disappear. Matteo makes a choice that changes everything. Now there are knives in the dark. Poison in the blood.

And a war coming that will tear Blackstone apart. Because loving her means betraying his world. And letting her go means watching her die.

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Life in a small town has many advantages, such as friendly neighbours and quiet streets. However, there are downsides. In Hinton Grove, everyone knows everything about you, including all the dirty details of the break-up that destroyed you.

Holly co-owns the town’s only bakery, and was content to live out her life with her childhood sweetheart. That was, until he left her behind for bigger and better things.

Learning to piece herself back together again, she struggles through, writing off men for good. Her resolve is almost immediately tested when three handsome city folk move into the shop beside hers.

What starts as rivalry between businesses soon becomes something different, something more, and not just with Bear, the new owner, but all three of the men who have come barrelling into her life.

Can Holly allow her heart to heal? Will she turn away the advances of the newcomers, or will she truly be whisked off her feet?

She doesn’t belong in his world, and he knows better than to want her.

ℂ𝕆𝕍𝔼ℝ ℝ𝔼𝕍𝔼𝔸𝕃! Tempest’s Torment, a Dark MC Romance by Author Brooke Summers, releasing September 16th!

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Touch Her and D!e

Protective Enforcer MMC

He Falls First (and Harder)

F0rced Proximity

Only Soft for Her

Found Family

Ride-or-D!e Love

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He wasn’t supposed to want her.

She wasn’t supposed to belong in his world.

That didn’t stop either of them.

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Stupid Cupid by Darlene Tallman

Cover by Clarise Tan of CT Designs

Cover Model Jose Barreiro with unnamed baby girl

Photographer Jean Maureen Woodfin

Blurb:

Prophet

Ever since my most recent breakup with my long-time on and off girlfriend, I’ve been surly and grumpy. Even the prospect of opening up a tattoo parlor and getting to lay ink again doesn’t hold the allure it once did, although the three little girls who are now club princesses do have me smiling a bit more. Still, my heart is encased in ice now after Rosa, and I wonder if I’ll ever have what my brothers have started to find—a woman who loves all of them, not just certain aspects.

When Phoebe walks in and drops the bombshell of a lifetime in my lap, I realize that my life has irrevocably changed for the better and I vow to be the best father possible to my daughter. The biggest question I have, however, is will Phoebe join me for the ride of our lives?

Phoebe

As a nurse, I’ve dealt with life and death situations on a pretty consistent basis, but I’ve never had to perform CPR on a family member while her infant daughter was nearby. Quite honestly, I never want to do it again, so there’s that to consider. Even knowing what the outcome was going to be, I’m still sad that a little girl will grow up without her mother. But now, her father can meet the daughter he never knew he had, and all I can do is hope he’ll still let me see her from time to time.

Walking into the Steel Raiders MC clubhouse was harder than I anticipated. I know I’m doing the right thing by informing Cami’s father of her existence, but I’ve helped raise her and I’m going to miss her terribly. So, instead of waiting around, I basically drop her off and run, only I don’t get very far as my emotions take over once I’m through the clubhouse gates.

Two souls looking for love—will they find it with each other and raise the little girl they both love to pieces?

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It’s us against the world…

ALLISON

I rebuilt my life in Laurel Springs after my divorce. Teaching high school, playing it safe, staying away from dangerous men like the one I married the first time. Then Dime walked into my world. He was everything I shouldn’t want. With leather, muscle, and all kinds of secrets wrapped in a Saint’s Outlaws MC cut. It’s everything I can’t seem to resist.

When my best friend tells me the truth about who Dime really is, I should walk away. But some danger is worth the risk. Or so I think, until one of my students decides that if he can’t have me, no one can.

Logan Matthews has apparently been stalking me for months. He knows where I live. He knows about Dime. And now he’s in my classroom convinced he can make me choose him. As sirens wail and his finger tightens on the trigger, my life flashes before my eyes.

Over the next few months, I realize this isn’t just an obsession. It’s connected to the marijuana operation killing kids in our town. The same operation Dime has been investigating.

In the aftermath, I make a choice. There are no more secrets. If we’re going to survive this, I need to know who Dime really is. Even if the truth might destroy us.

DIME

Three years undercover, living as an outlaw, investigating what we think is the criminal empire infiltrating the town. I’ve kept my distance from anything that could blow my cover. Then Allison looked at me, and my carefully constructed life started crumbling.

When that kid pointed a gun at her, every instinct screamed to blow my cover and save her. Now Logan’s been bailed out by the very family that’s blowing up on our radar, and Allison wants the truth. All of it.

She deserves to know I’m a cop. That the brotherhood I’ve built with the Saint’s Outlaws is real, even if my identity isn’t. That I’ll choose her over my badge, my mission, everything single thing, if it means keeping her alive.

Because in Laurel Springs, secrets surface. And some truths are worth killing for.

TROPES: Small Town Romance • Motorcycle Club Romance • Second Chance at Love • Undercover Cop • He Has Dangerous Secrets • Protective Alpha Hero • Stalker Suspense • Forced Proximity