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The Loan Shark Duet, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Lee Turner Smith
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Adara Stevens
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By:
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Charmaine Pauls
About this listen
A dark mafia romance
I'm a loan shark. Breaking people is in my blood. The Haynes were supposed to be a straightforward job. Go in and pull the trigger twice. One bullet for Charlie, one for his sister. But when I saw Valentina, I wanted her. Only, in our world, those who owe us don't get second chances. No way in hell will my mother let her live. So I devised a plan to keep her.
It's depraved.
It's immoral.
It's dubious.
It's perfect.
Just like her.
Contains mature themes.
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I stumbled across something I wasn’t supposed to discover. I saw something I wasn’t meant to see, and now I’m an alibi for a killer. He’s the most feared and powerful man in the New York underworld. I don’t have a choice but to do as he says. But he commands so much more than just my testimony.
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✨ THE HOURS FLEW BY ✨
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 02-08-25
By: Charmaine Pauls
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Carnal Desire
- A Dark Mafia Standalone Romance
- By: M. James
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A romance with a mafia boss has no place in my life. But he doesn’t care–not once he’s decided he wants me anyway. Six months after my father’s untimely death, I’m drowning in debt. Even working for one of the most respected celebrity tattoo artists in Los Angeles hasn’t been enough to fix that. I don’t have time to fall in love–or even to think about dating. Even a one-night-stand has become a distant possibility. Then my boss asks me to fill in for him while he’s sick–and I end up in a west LA penthouse, about to tattoo the most well-known mafia boss on this side of ...
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Loved it
- By Stacie on 04-15-25
By: M. James
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Ruthless Rival
- Cruel Castaways
- By: L.J. Shen
- Narrated by: Stella Bloom, Joe Arden
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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When she was young, Arya Roth became best friends with her housekeeper’s son. Soon, friendship turned to young love, and when Arya dared him to kiss her, a chain reaction of disastrous events led to the boy being sent away and out of Arya’s life. Now, two decades later, Arya is an on-the-rise publicist with her beloved father as one of her biggest clients. So when her father is sued by a former employee, Arya sets out to prove that her father is not the monster he is accused of being. The only problem is the attorney who is determined to destroy her father’s good name.
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Meh
- By Runningag on 06-13-22
By: L.J. Shen
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Little Dove
- Black Resorts, Book 1
- By: Layla Frost
- Narrated by: Lexi Maynard, Joe Arden
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Maximo and I, we were definitely a fairy tale. Not the cleaned-up, sanitized ones where life’s problems are solved with a smile and a song. We were the old-school kind. A twisted tales packed with murder, violence, and tragic beginnings. Okay, so maybe we weren’t a traditional fairy tale. After all, Maximo was more villain than prince. He was scarily sexy. Devilishly charming. Controlling, possessive, and dangerous. Especially when it came to me. His little dove. And heaven help anyone who tried to free me from my gilded cage.
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SORRY, BUT IT'S A NO FROM ME
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 03-04-21
By: Layla Frost
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Terrible Beauty
- Molotov Betrothal, Book 1
- By: Anna Zaires
- Narrated by: C. J. Bloom
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Eleven years ago, I met him. A year later, I was betrothed to him. Now he’s come to claim me, slaughtering anyone standing in his way. My husband-to-be is a monster from a family as ruthless and powerful as mine, a man who deals in violence and destruction...a man terrifyingly like my father. For more than a decade, he’s stalked me, shadowing my life. I fear him. I hate him. Worst of all, I want him. My name is Alina Molotova, and Alexei Leonov is a fate I can’t escape.
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A DUET, A CLIFFHANGER & A DISAPPOINTING NOPE
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 09-22-22
By: Anna Zaires
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Bait
- By: Jade West
- Narrated by: Evan Garrett, Posey Clifford
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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A stranger online. Dark hair and even darker eyes that knew my dirty desires before I did. A fantasy that should never be spoken. But he pulled the confession from me. And now he's coming for me. Rough. Dirty. Dangerous. It's supposed to be one night to get me off and make me forget. He'll make me his and I'll pretend I don't want him to. I'll run and he'll chase. Because I asked him for this. I begged him for this. Tonight, in the darkness, he's the hunter. And I'm the bait.
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Trigger Warning
- By Nicole B. on 01-11-18
By: Jade West
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Burning Ivy
- The KORT Series, Book 1
- By: Brandy Hynes
- Narrated by: Mollie Stark, Sean Masters
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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She’s my mission. My prize. My obsession. Ivy Kingston is the most wanted woman in the world for reasons she is completely oblivious to, reasons I intend to capitalize on. She needs a husband to receive her inheritance, so I’m on the hunt for a wife. As long as it’s her. I’m not who she thinks I am. But she has no idea who she really is either. I’ll be her groom. Her keeper. Her lover. And quite possibly her demise.
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THIS AWESOME LISTEN NEEDS MORE ⭐️STARS⭐️
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 01-01-25
By: Brandy Hynes
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Corrupted Pleasure
- Age-Gap Mafia Romance (Kingpins of the Syndicate)
- By: Eva Winners
- Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Angelina Rocca
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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The first time I saw him, I knew I'd never want another man the way I wanted him. The second time, I drank a bottle of his most expensive cognac, which I'd never be able to afford on my own. And the third time… well, he caught me stealing from him. Stealing from the head of the Irish Mafia wasn't smart. But then I never claimed to be. Now I owed him a debt… a big one. And it couldn't be settled with money, or favors.
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Only read this if you like totally ridiculous stories
- By Leigh M. Hanisee on 04-07-25
By: Eva Winners
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Bratva Lullaby
- Zarkov Bratva, Book 1
- By: Penny Dee
- Narrated by: Laura Horowitz, Walker Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Lev Zarkov is a real-life monster. No, correction, he's actually the devil. Except, when I first meet him, he's simply the mysterious, handsome man traveling next to me on a first-class flight to New York. And after being dumped at the altar by my loser fiancé who vanished into thin air the morning of our wedding, when things get flirty between me and the mysterious stranger, I think, why not? Surely, I deserve one night to forget. I mean, where's the harm in a little indulgence, right?
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Brooke and Lev
- By Vicki on 01-26-25
By: Penny Dee
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The Death King
- Death, Book 1
- By: Penelope Barsetti
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo, Ramona Master
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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I was fifteen when the Death King came for us. With a mighty black dragon and the ability to command the dead, he raised an army of our fallen soldiers to fight for him—and conquered us in the night. My father, King Laurier of Scorpion Valley, couldn’t stop him. I tried to flee but came face to face with the man in black armor, the man who looked more like a god than a human. Instead of killing me, he chose to show me mercy… but it didn’t feel like mercy. Not when the next ten years of my life are spent as a slave in the Arid Sands, digging for Black Diamonds from sunrise to sunset.
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DNF: Terrible writing quality, made worse by overly dramatic female narration.
- By Pierced🦋Papilio on 12-26-24
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Little Bird
- A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance (Twisted City Duet, Book 1)
- By: Ria Wilde
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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I always knew darkness crept through this city; like a shadow, it never really goes away, always watching, always waiting. People sin and people kill; it's a way of life. I just never expected to be thrown into the middle of a war I had no hope of surviving. Alexander Silver is as brutal as he is beautiful. A devil in disguise. The man destined to end me. I didn't go looking for trouble, and yet it found me, nonetheless. I could either join it or let it crush me.
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A WELL-BALANCED DEBUT DUET THAT TRULY DELIVERS BIG
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 02-20-23
By: Ria Wilde
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His Tesoro
- Empire of Royals, Book 1
- By: Emilia Rossi
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Lee Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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I've spent years hidden away to protect my father from the shame of having a defective daughter. The head of the Bratva can't be associated with weakness—and to him, that's all I am. That is until a marriage alliance gives him the opportunity to finally be rid of me. As I head down the aisle towards my mysterious husband, I hope I'm moving towards love and freedom. But Matteo makes it clear he wants nothing to do with me. I wish I could return his coldness, but the dangerous Don sets my body ablaze whenever he's near.
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Great Start to a Series
- By Lata (rainynightbookworm) on 02-28-25
By: Emilia Rossi
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Painted Scars
- Perfectly Imperfect, Book 1
- By: Neva Altaj
- Narrated by: Gregory Salinas, Allyson Voller
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Charming, captivating, seductive—and a cold-blooded killer. I married the Pakhan of the Russian Bratva anyway. I had to, it was part of the deal. Now, I’m faking marital bliss as I tremble with fear, and I cannot wait to be out of the clutches of this ruthless man.
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Loved it 🥰
- By Kir on 06-25-23
By: Neva Altaj
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- Lily McCurry
- 09-22-19
I want more Valentina and Gabriel!!!!
This is my third time reading/listening to this book, I fall in love with them each time, and I never wanted their story to end. I absolutely loved both narrators' voices, they were the perfect Gabriel and Valentina for me.
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- mindiegoblue
- 07-15-21
Great story - a little lacking in narration
Dubious is a great mafia romance jaunt. It’s interesting and the storyline is compelling. If you enjoy books in this genre, read this one.
Two things that impact my rating:
1. The male narrator is quite flat, with little change in his tone or emotionality, regardless of the urgency or craziness of the situation (and there are a LOT of these throughout the book).
2. I would prefer a lot more mob action. The book covers the goings on in the mansion like episodes of Downton Abbey, but we don’t get to travel with the male MC to understand much of what it’s like to be an enforcer for a loan sharking operation. We also don’t get a look inside the other “businesses” the family runs. The lack of action is a miss for me, because it’s really an essential element in a mafia drama.
Last, this does not detract from the book at all; it’s just an observation that some other reviewers have also noted. If the book’s description is accurate, Johannesburg, South Africa sounds like a hellish place to live!
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- V from Kansas
- 10-21-19
I’m sure glad I live in the USA!
First, let me start by admitting that, if this an accurate description of South Africa, I admit I have been ignorant. South Africa sounds like Hell on earth. I’m not ashamed to admit that I am blissfully happy to be a blissfully ignorant American.
Part one of this book is very good. Yes, it is very Dark but, you can see the goodness, beneath the surface, of the Hero. The poor Heroine can’t catch a break. This book is suspenseful and touching. I admit I shed tears more than once. Unfortunately, book two was a let down, after experiencing book one. Book two just didn’t touch me like book one and it let me down. With that being said, you have to buy book two to learn the answers to the questions that arise in book one. Book one is included in the Escape Package but, book two is not. Therefore, one credit for a story this long, isn’t a bad buy!
-V from Kansas
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- leah
- 07-15-19
WORTH THE CREDIT
I am only upset it's a cliff hanger... which means I will forget how good it was by the time the second half comes around. So toss the hands in the air and forget about it and make you your own happy ever after.
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- LoAnn
- 12-27-19
ORIGINALLY CAPTIVE-ATING!!!!
Holy. Forking. Shirt!!!!
This is such a captivating Mafia story!
I'm so entraweld in their individual dilemmas and drama!
Everything about this story is original.
LOVING IT!!!
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- sherri hein
- 02-11-20
A dark romance.
you have to ok with spankings and rough sex. Submissive and dominant relationship. It was a bit hard for me to take at times. But somehow it just kept me hooked. Not my normal read at all. BUUTTT......All in all it was a very good book
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- 🎧Romance Junkie🎧
- 07-16-20
⭐️ Stellar Dark Romance ⭐️
It’s been a while since I’ve listened to a dark romance and this book reminds me of why I love them so much. Although Gabriel is a loan shark it’s very mafia style. You really fall in love with the MFC and root for her. The H is deliciously dark and broken in his own way and the more you understand him the more you want him to succeed as well. This ends in a bit of a cliffhanger and geese I have no idea what she’s doing but thinking clearly is not it.
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- Notabaker
- 03-31-24
Great Narrators
This was an interesting story. Very well written. Magda has issues and definitely needs an attitude asjustment. The narratoes are excellent.
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- CAlex
- 07-31-19
Dark and Delisious!
Not a book to listen to in the car on the way to work, best to stay home....This book is dark, steamy, and has all the good stuff. Ready for book 2.
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- Chelsea
- 11-07-19
I am torn, but I loved this book!
I was poisoned against Gabriel toward the end of this book, and part of me hopes things go in a direction that will cause a lot of pain for Valentina in the next book. Gabriel is a complex character that I instantly warmed up to in the beginning; his unwavering possessiveness and constant need to own and have all parts of Valentina, even the ones she didn't want to give, struck a chord with me for some reason. The way he took such pleasure in her touching his things, wearing his shirt, watching her when she was sleeping to have her so completely it's past the point of obsession is something I think a lot of women wish to find in a man. It could easily be said that he worshipped the ground she walked on without her knowing it in this book, and how she didn't see beyond his contradicting words and actions boggles the mind. Valentina is a character I love as well. Her strength is unbelievable. I thought to myself many times that I would've likely just broken down if I were in her shoes; heck a particularly hard day at work makes me feel like I'm going to lose my mind if I don't get a day off soon and Valentina never has a complaint. A life of horrible misfortunes and mistrust has led us to this moment at the end of the book and wondering what in the world could ever make this okay. I for one would not have the strength to forgive such atrocities that have been committed against this woman and her determination to stay positive is a lesson learned for us all. The power dynamic and hot love scenes are excellent and Gabriel's dominating side is the perfect ying to Valentina's submissive yang. I enjoyed the fact that the sex in this book explored so much, the murky waters of consent, different types of kink you don't always see in romances, and a unique plot to tie it all together with a nice pretty bow put this book on the top 10 list of favorite romance novels I've ever read. This book brought me to many places in my head; I felt real sadness, happiness, compassion, frustration and hope. I listened to this whole book in one night and I'm hooked. On to the next one now because I cannot wait a second more to see what will happen next! If you're on the fence, do it. you won't regret the way this story wraps itself around you the whole way through and will not let you go, just like Gabriel doesn't.
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