The Accidental Mafia Queen Series by Khardine Gray - Book Tour + Giveaway

Mafia Boss

The Accidental Mafia Queen Book 1

by Khardine Gray

Genre:
Contemporary Mafia Romance 

From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully
devilish, seductive Mafia Romance series. Enter the alluring world of
the ruthless and the dangerous with book one.

Luc

Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path…

When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to.

My enemies know I'm a bastard who shows no mercy—exactly the
cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we're not the
ones in charge. Yet…

The Boss wants me to take over his billion-dollar business, and the only way that's
happening is if I can win the heart of his cop daughter.

I planned to treat her just like all the other women who meant nothing
to me, until I met her and everything changed.

Money and Power. That was all this was supposed to be about… Falling in
love wasn't part of the plan.

Neither was finding out that her father has a hidden agenda, and I'm just a
pawn in his game.

Amelia

Running…

Running away again. That was me.

Always running from something. Running from my past and the terrible, dark,
family secrets.

Running away from myself, from the person I was and who I used to be.

Now I’m running from my heart. It betrayed me and fell for the devil.

Luc… A mobster, a criminal.

The type of man I never wanted to end up with.

The mobster, the criminal, who called me his goddess and worshiped the ground I
walked on.

I shouldn’t want him…because loving this man would be my worst nightmare.

Loving this man could destroy me.

But… I couldn’t resist him…

I wish I could…

MAFIA BOSS is The Godfather and The Sopranos with the sexy edge of a drool-worthy Alpha
male.

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Mafia Boss is the first book in The Accidental Mafia Queen trilogy. Lucian

and Amelia’s intriguing, sexy, story continues in Mafia Scars and

completes in Mafia Love.

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Forgiveness of sin...

My sins...

That was the part where I’d become stuck. The concept popped up several times as I’d read the Holy Bible.

Right from Genesis. Wow my parents, my mother in particular would have been proud.

The circumstances for which I’d read it however would have overshadowed the triumph. But still she would have been proud, both of them.

Even though I’d gotten nearly to the end and had now decided to park it. It wasn’t for me.

This... this me reading the bible was like a methaphor for my life. I was nearly at the end of it.

Nearly at the end and wondering what I could do to change things.

I still had the power, but with power came responsibility.

So, did I spend the rest of my days using what little time I had left to gain God’s forgiveness?

Is that what the Don of the Rossi family should do?

Forgiveness of sin... my sins.

Last night I think I’d hit a stumbling block when I realised that it was a little too late for me, and there was better use of my time.

Trying to get forgiveness was better reserved for those who had the standard normal family. Vanilla life.

I could imagine a man with a wife, two kids, a dog like the one from Peter Pan. They’d live in a neat little house that didn’t show indulgence. The garden would be immaculate because the wife would tend to it herself. The flowers and all that other shit. The husband would cut the lawn. They’d go to church on Sunday and be the goodly neighbours the Good Lord intended them to be.

Most of all they would be classed by all as good people.

I did not have that and sometimes it really was too late to change things.

The change had to start in the heart and mine had been filled with darkness years ago. Probably from birth.

I had a wife once. I think she loved me at some point before she died. And I had a kid. A daughter.

That child was the apple of my eye. She loved me at some point too, until the day when her eyes were opened to something else that was beyond my control. When truly loved someone you had to know when to let them go. To me though, you also had to know when it was time to bring them back to the fold.

Here lay the reason for my state of flux.

When a man was dying he had time to think about his life. Suddenly it was all he would think about. Did he change his ways so that he could go back to meet his maker with a clear conscience, so that his records would be white as snow? Like the bible put it. Or, would he do what he could to make sure his

family got taken care of?

That was the question on my mind last night as I closed my eyes and when I woke up this morning the answer came to me.

A knock sounded at the door.

I straightened up in my chair and rested back against the padded leather.

I couldn’t look as sick as felt in front of these people.

They’d known me forever but were like sharks and would turn on me at the first sign of weakness.

I was passing the torch but I still had to maintain the presence of power and control.

This was my choice, to take care of my family. To make sure the control and power passed in the way that I wanted it.

This was the only way that I knew she would be safe.

My daughter, my Amelia.

It was a nice thought to think I could change. But I had to sacrifice God’s grace for her.

It would be my last act as her father. A father that had to step outside of the relms of what was normal to do what he thought was best.

“Come in.” I called out, templing my fingers and holding my elbows at my side .

The door opened and Marcus came into my office with Lucian and Cladius, his two sons.

Marcus was my oldest friend, we went through life together and bore each other’s secrets. Too many secrets.

His sons were like my own. I’d known them from birth and they’d stepped in at a time when I needed to play father.

The brothers, however, could not have been more different if they tried. Both were leaders. That was a truth. They both had strong qualities. But there was only one that I had in mind for a number of reasons.

They sat in the three chairs before me.

Marcus smiled and nodded his head in reverence to me.

“This won’t take long.” I announced. “We don’t have time for any length of discussion.”

“As you wish Raphael,” Marcus replied.

Claudius straightened up with that smug attitude I’d grown used to for the last fifteen years. I liked the way he thought I was going to chose him, even though he’d given me no real reason to.

Lucian... Luc, as we called him, on the other hand sat in a similar fashion to me with his fingers templed and a contemplative look on his face.

He wanted this more than Claudius and so...

“Luc, I chose you.” I said that relly slow and purposefully.

While Marcus looked pleased, Claudius bolted up straight, anger filling his face and turning his pale skin red.

“Luc, how could you chose him?” Claudius challenged.

All I did was give him the look, and the man immeadiately knew his place. I watched the anger simmer as he tried to control himself in front of me. He knew that it didn’t matter who he was, but challenge me again and he’d end up with a limb missing, or dead.

I didn’t like those who had no respect, and I didn’t tolerate insolence either.

I focused my attention back to Luc who still had that contemplative look on his face.

“Luc, what say ye?” I asked.

“Thank you.” Came his simple reply. And that was the difference between Luc and Claudius. Luc could control himself for good or for bad.

I knew this choice would drive a wedge between them as brothers and they weren’t exactly close as it was.

They were like oil and water but did their best when Marcus was around.

Luc the oil and Claudius the water.

Oil stayed in control of itself and did not bend at the will of emotion. It only mixed itself out when the contions were right, and at the right moment. Water on the other hand flowed everywhere and tried to overpower everything in its wake. There was no control, just movemet.

I needed oil, not water. I needed Luc, not Claudius.

Because when it called for it he would only take care of himself. Jump ship and leave those who mattered to sink.

Luc on the other hand would be a true captain and go down with the ship if he needed to.

He knew how to handle a situation. He thought first before he acted. That was the person I needed here because this whole thing with me simply choosing who would take my place had become a lot bigger than me in the last twenty four hours.

I couldn’t even tell them that. Because I didn’t know the full extent of the situation at hand.

As leader of the most powerful family in Chicacgo I’d come to trust my instincts and feelings. That was how I still kept us going. That was how I kept us in power and out of the hands of those who would take it.

“Any questions before I continue?” I asked Luc.

In the corner of my eye I could see Claudius’ anger.

“No.” Luc shook his head.

I smiled. “Nothing whatsoever Lucian?”

Again he shook his head.

“I’m good. When do I start?”

At least that was one question.

“There are some terms I’d like you to meet, and you will only become leader once you’ve met them.” It was show time.

Marcus instantly looked thrown. He didn’t expect me to say that.

“What sort of terms?” Luc asked, his bright blue eyes staring into me with keen intrests.

“This has always been a family busoness. The Rossi’s go way back. I never had a son to carry on my name, and as you know my brother and his son died years ago. That left me in sole charge and I’m willing to pass the Rossi name, but not the tradition of keeping the business in the family.”

It was now that Luc looked unnerved. Marcus looked upset. I think he realised where I was going with this conversation.

“And how do you propose we do that?” Marcus asked.

It was a challenge but his tone was kept under control unlike when Claudius lost his temper.

“Amelia.”

“She wants nothing to do with us.” Marcus replied.

“She may have had a change of heart.” I nodded firmly knowing that my answer was bull shit.

Amelia wanted nothing to do with us indeed. Nothing to do with me.

But that didn’t change anything.

She needed to snap out of her hated, and disregard for our way of life.

“Amelia? What about her?” Luc asked.

Of course he would want to know that. I’d known Marcus for many years and his family but they were based in LA for a many years and came to Chicago a year after Amelia left. The need at the time called for it.

Luc was five years older than her and they’d never met.

They would have to get on though, or else I wasn’t passing anything.

I needed to make sure she would be safe. If what I thought was happening was indeed happening I needed to know that my girl was safe. I didn’t care by what means or that she hated me.

I needed to make sure that my last act in this world in my God given right as a father was making sure that my child was safe.

My girl was twenty eight years old now, not the little girl who used to run around in the garden with her mother, or see me as the best thing in the world. But, she was still my child.

Luc was the best man to take care of her and do what he saw fit with the business.

“Amelia, my daughter.”

“I thought she left years ago, never to return. What plans do you have Rapheal?” Luc said.

I really liked this guy and I wished this meeting was taking place under better circumstances.

I liked that he had the ability to adapt to my ever changing emotion and not piss me off like his brother always did.

“Luc, in order to be leader and take over our cherished family business, of which you have been a part of for the last fifteen years you will have to marry my daughter.”

That was the plan. My plan. My task.

Luc narrowed his eyes and pressed his thin lips togehther.

“I have to marry amelia in order to take over from you.”

I laughed and the winced at the same time as a bout of pain rushed through me making me double over. I opened my mouth to talk but started coughing.

Marcus moved over to the mini fridge and grabbed me a drink of water.

I sipped at it straight away and whipped my mouth with the back of my hand.

Something red dripped on the table.

Blood.

Shit.

That started yesterday. I thought I’d bit my tongue or the inside of my cheek but quickly realised that I hadn’t.

This was from the cancer and the weakness it was causing all over my body.

While Claudius watched me trying to find a piece of tissue, Luc got the box of tissues from the bookshelf and handed it to me.

He didn’t look like he relished in my demise. In fact he looked sad for me.

“I have to marry Amelia in order to take over from you?” It was a question this time.

“Yes, those are my terms. Do you accept?”

Luc held my gaze with those bright blue eyes and nodded. “I accept.”

Good.

It was time for action.

Mafia Scars

The Accidental Mafia Queen Book 2

From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully
devilish, seductive Mafia Romance series. Continue your journey in
the alluring world of the ruthless and the dangerous with book two.

I was the devil. The worst kind of man for her.

I knew the truth would make her hate me. But, I still wanted her to be mine.

My goddess.

Damn, I’d never wanted a woman the way I wanted her.

One simple kiss could scorch my mind clean of everything I knew. That was
what she did to me. She took me out of the real world, where I was a
mobster and she was a cop.

I was the imposter who lied to her…

Her father gave me a task: marry his daughter and get everything.

Marry the daughter of the mafia king and get everything. The whole billion-dollar fortune.

Greed made me say yes, and love blinded me to the danger we were in.

The web of lies I got myself tangled in was the least of my worries
because her life was in danger.

She had a target on her back.

Blood for blood, that’s the worst kind of mark you can get in my world.

It means death. Someone has to die…

I may be the devil and the worst kind of guy for this angel of a woman,
but I’ll die trying to save her.

I will be her savior, and God help those who come for her.

Mafia Scars is the second book in The Accidental Mafia Queen trilogy.
Lucian and Amelia’s intriguing, sexy, story continues in this book
and completes in Mafia Love.

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Mafia Love

The Accidental Mafia Queen Book 3

From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully
devilish, seductive Mafia Romance series. Immerse yourself in the
conclusion of the alluring world of the ruthless and the
dangerous.

Luc

The hour of reckoning was upon us…

Amelia’s life was in danger.

Amelia, my goddess.

The time to watch the situation had long passed.

Now, it was time to change things up.

Time for me to change.

Love made me go soft and allow the image and handle I had on things to
slip out of my grasp.

I needed to find myself. Now more than ever.

All the secrets were jumping straight out of the closet. Right into the
open for all to see.

We weren’t playing games anymore.

It was time for war. It was time to become the devil I was.

Amelia

No more games, no more lies.

No more running from the past.

No more running from who I used to be.

I knew I would lose my soul when I fell for Luc.

I was a cop, and he was a mobster. Love lured me to the dark side.

We could pretend to be whoever we wanted to be, but truth was truth.

The games were over and right now I couldn’t see past the darkness that
waited for me.

Mafia Love is the final book in The Accidental Mafia Queen trilogy. Scroll
up and one click to start this sizzling hot mafia romance today!

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Khardine Gray is a contemporary romance author who lives in England with her
husband, two kids, and three crazy ferrets.

She is well traveled, cultured, and a woman with a passion for dancing
and ice skating.

When not writing you can catch her shopping, indulging on pizza and hot
chocolate, or hanging out with her family and friends.

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