Four Tierney brothers.
One ruthless Irish mafia empire.
No one leaves untouched.
No one falls in love unscathed.
And every story ends with blood on the floor… or a crown in hand.
Dark. Addictive. Violent. Irresistible Irish mafia romance.
The most dangerous man in Dublin has one weakness. Her.
She saw too much. He should have killed her.
Instead, Cormac Tierney did something far more dangerous—he kept her.
Alice Novachek witnessed the wrong murder at the wrong time. Now the most dangerous man in Dublin has made her his prisoner, his obsession, and the one weakness he swore he'd never have.
Cormac doesn't feel. Doesn't want. Doesn't let anyone close. Eighteen years of ice—and she's burning through every frozen wall with her sharp tongue, her reckless defiance, and secrets even she doesn't know she's carrying.
Then a message arrives in blood-red ink.
She was mine first.
Someone left Alice broken in an alley ten years ago. Stole her memories. Marked her with a lullaby she can't forget.
Someone from his family.
Now the man who was supposed to kill her will burn his empire to the ground to keep her alive. But the monster hunting Alice has been waiting a decade for this moment.
And he's done waiting.
A dark mafia romance with an obsessive hero, scorching heat, and a cliffhanger that will destroy you.
Tropes: Captive romance • forced proximity • possessive/obsessive hero • hidden identity • touch her and die
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Lauren Kennedy writes dark romance born from trauma, truth, and dangerous tenderness. Her heroes are morally black, her heroines carry quiet wars under their skin, and together they collide in stories where devotion becomes a weapon and love is the most destructive force in the room.
Expect mafia legacies, family secrets, violent protectiveness, and slow-burn tension that snaps like a tripwire. Every book is a study in what breaks us… and what’s worth surviving for.
Off the page, Lauren hoards espresso cups, unfinished playlists, and theories about why villains make the best love stories.
I remember everything now.
The alley. The rain. The lullaby he hummed while he broke me. And the tattoo on his wrist—the Tierney family crest.
The monster who destroyed me was one of them.
When I told Cormac, something behind his eyes went dark. Not angry. Lethal.
"Which one?" His hand wrapped around my throat—not to hurt. To anchor. To claim. "Tell me which of my brothers touched you, Alice. Tell me who I have to kill."
But it wasn't any of his brothers. It was worse. A fifth son. Hidden. Denied. A ghost with Tierney blood and twenty years of rage who murdered my parents and left me bleeding in an alley because I was a loose end.
Now he's coming to finish what he started. And Cormac's father—the man who hid this monster for decades—just gave him permission.
Finish it.
I should run. Should disappear. Should put as much distance as possible between myself and the man whose family destroyed mine.
Instead, I'm in his bed. In his arms. In so deep I can't tell where the danger ends and the desire begins.
Cormac kills without hesitation. Protects without mercy. Touches me like I'm the first thing he's wanted in eighteen years of ice.
"You're mine," he says, and it sounds like a threat. Like a promise. Like the last words I'll ever need to hear.
There's a traitor in the Brotherhood. A monster in the shadows. And a man who will burn his entire empire to keep me breathing.
I survived one devil at sixteen.
I'm about to find out if I can survive falling in love with another.
A dark mafia romance with an obsessive hero, scorching tension, and an ending that will leave you wrecked.
Tropes: Protector romance • obsessive/possessive hero • revenge • touch her and die • who did this to you • interconnected series
She's been hiding his family's secrets for years. Now she's found one that could bury them all.
Keira Ward has spent three years keeping her father's job—and her family—from falling apart. Declan Ward has been a Brotherhood accountant for thirty years. He's also losing his mind, one memory at a time.
So Keira does what daughters do. She helps. Covers for him. Learns to navigate numbers that don't add up and payments that shouldn't exist. She tells herself it's temporary. Tells herself she doesn't see what she sees.
Then she finds his hidden ledger. A page covered in her father's handwriting from years ago—before the Alzheimer's stole his sharpness. Notes about accounts that vanished. Payments to someone who doesn't exist. And a symbol he drew over and over in the margins: a circle with a flame inside.
When she asks him what it means, he looks at her with frightened eyes and says: "Don't let them know you found it."
But someone already knows.
"You've been asking questions." Eamon Tierney's voice was ice and control. The heir. The one who signs every check and approves every account. The man who should have noticed what her father found—unless he already knew. "Dangerous questions, Miss Ward."
"My father worked for you for thirty years."
"And he was very good at keeping secrets." Eamon stepped closer. "The question is whether you're smart enough to do the same."
She should stop digging. Should protect her father, pay her mother's medical bills, keep her head down like a good little accountant's daughter.
Instead, she's about to uncover the one secret the Brotherhood has killed to keep buried.
And Eamon Tierney is about to discover that the woman threatening his empire is the only one worth saving it for.
Some secrets are worth dying for. She's about to find out which ones.
Tropes: Enemies to lovers • forced proximity • protector romance • he falls first • "who did this to you" • interconnected series
Book 4 coming summer 2026!