Beena Khan

I was a beauty who witnessed a murder and the beast took me as his hostage. Amazon Bestseller in Fairytales and Top 50 in Gothic Romance and Vigilante Justice. Once upon a time... A Don by the name of Vlad Vitalli ruled New York. He's a mafia man. The leader of one of the five ruling families, La Cosa Nostra. He's a monster. A trained killer and a cold-blooded murderer. He's tall, mysterious, with icy gray eyes, and he rarely smiles. He's a criminal. Ruthless, cold, dangerous, and he is going to kill me. I was the wrong person at the wrong time. An innocent at the masquerade ball but I witnessed a murder. I become a target to the mafia who have a rule of no witnesses left behind. To save my life, I made a deal with the ruthless beast. I handed myself to the cruelest man in the kingdom. Just as Don Vlad was about to order the hit, I threw off my masquerade mask, revealing my face, and offered myself to him. One look and I was doomed. He took me as his hostage. His captive. He didn't know that by taking me, Dahlia Hadid, he sealed his own fate. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the Beauty & the Beast fairytale. A Gothic Romance of an notorious gangster and the woman who will bring him to his knees. It is not a standalone and part of a duet.

A Dark Hostage Mafia Romance (Beauty and the Beast)

A Beauty So Cruel

On a hallowed night, the love of my life gambled me away to the Devil. Once upon a myth... A Devil with the face of an angel ruled New York. Salvi Moretti returns. A Don to one of the five families of the La Cosa Nostra. He's a notorious gangster wrapped in an Armani suit that reigns in hell. The villain of every love story. He is a powerful aristocrat, a savage, and a wicked man who likes a challenge. I'm his new challenge. His new obsession. I'm a wealthy and privileged Catholic girl who's returned from studying law abroad. It was a night out with my boyfriend, Adamo, when everything descended into chaos at the casino. He lost and gambled me away. Years ago, I took a vow of celibacy, but now a sadistic man tempts me with the dark side--the blond hair, blue-eyed older casino billionaire with tattoos on his hands, and his lips formed in a teasing smile. My name is Ehva, and I have a confession to make. I fell in love with the Devil... and now, no one can save me from this hell. His disturbing love is so powerful, it becomes dangerous. As his obsession metastasizes, he wants to marry me, and I say...I do. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the myth of Lucifer & Eve. From the bestselling Beauty & The Beast series author Beena Khan comes a tale of a self-destructive man and the woman who wants to tame him. This is not a standalone and part of a duet. For a greater experience of Salvi's past, check out the first two books of the Beauty & the Beast series.

A Modern Day Lucifer and Eve Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance

The Blue-Eyed Devil

The Fallen Angel

The moment the devil saw me at the auction, he purchased me.Once upon a time...A beast craved me, the beauty... I was his Doll, and he was my darkest fairytale.I ravaged the beast, and the rival Don, the blue-eyed devil took me.His angelic beauty is frightening, and I want no part of it. I'm trapped by him now in a dark place and I can't escape. I vowed to bring him down, and I won't rest until I do. Vlad made Dahlia his queen. The reason behind his smile. If he was ruthless before, now he's heartless. Nobody takes away what he wants. A beast is no man, and he's going to prove it by dragging her from hell. Vengeance is all Vlad seeks now, no matter what the cost. It's kill or be killed. Welcome to New York's Underworld.The dark and gothic sequel in the Beauty & the Beast mafia crime romance series. This concludes Dahlia and Vlad's story.

A Dark Revenge Mafia Captive Romance: A Modern Day Beauty & The Beast Billionaire Fairytale

A Beast So Cold

A comatose broken with a single, deadly kiss. Once upon a dream... Heavy were the eyelids of the woman who reigns alone. I've been in a coma for the past three years after an accident left me unconscious and widowed. I'm in a sleep so deep, it cannot be broken... until one day, I feel a brush of soft lips against mine. In my groggy state, I wake up to a pair of dark eyes and a sinister smile. Now, I've returned to my old life. I'm your neighborhood hot mess single mom who keeps her nose in everyone's business. My husband was the FBI director, and I was one of his agents. We were part of an operation, and now, caught in the crosshairs, I've returned to finish the case of the most dangerous man in New York City. My case is the Tyrant. Alexander Nikolaev, the Pakhan of the Russian Bratva. They say all great love stories have happy endings, but mine has already ended in a tragedy.... and yet he's awakening something in me that's dark. Kill him or kiss him, I can't decide. I'm getting ensnared in his trap. If I don't entangle myself from his wicked power-I, Ghislaine Khalil, just might end up losing my life. Then no one can sever those threads. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the fairytale Sleeping Beauty. From the author of the bestselling Beauty & The Beast series comes an enemies to lovers crime noir standalone romance carved in hate and lies.

A Dark Mafia Romance: A Sleeping Beauty Retelling

A Kiss Of Venom

A Lock Of Death

A Beautiful Liar

A bride is sacred whether given or...stolen. Once upon a time... With every end comes a new beginning. I'm an enigma of a man with two sides. The same violent blood that's in the Russian mafia, the Solntsevskaya Bratva lies in my veins. I'm told I could be the new Pakhan. There's a young scarred beauty in the kingdom, Lada Sokolova with bright eyes, a noble Mafia princess. The fairest in the kingdom. Her marks go deeper than the ones carved on her face. I see her, and the pain in her eyes mirrors my own. They say she was supposed to be betrothed to my family. She's too young for me. I'm twelve years her senior so I reject her. Now, she's getting married to a brutal Vor who's more than twice her age. It's been decided, and I can't interfere. I do the one thing I shouldn't have, putting my life on the line. I take her. I kidnap a bride in her wedding dress. I'm only doing what's right, protecting an innocent. ....even from the predator inside of me. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the fairytale. A standalone age-gap romance about how much you would risk for the one you love. For a greater reading experience, check out the first three books of the Beauty & The Beast series. Recommended for fans of forbidden love, age gap, and enemies to lovers. Includes Bonus scenes of the previous characters in the series.

A Stolen Bride Mafia Romance

A Beauty So Cursed

My father murdered his so the king took me prisoner as his wife. Once upon a time...A dark King named Enzo Vitalli ruled New York. I used to believe in fairy tales until a winter night, a rival mob set my world on fire. I'm Roza Inavov, the young prized Mafia Princess of the Russian Solntsevskaya Bratva, the Pakhan's daughter. My happily ever after never came.It wasn't prince charming that came for me but the Mad King himself. The brutal Italian's dark beauty is violent and wicked. This is my life sentence for my father's sins. I must atone for a debt claimed because he always collects. The monster claims I destroyed his reality, now he challenges my sanity. My outspoken mouth gets me in trouble, and the bruises he gives me have become too frequent on my fair flesh, leaving scars behind. The people around me look away as my innocence is shed until one stare lingers. Bodyguards are meant to be protectors, not lovers.One beauty. Two beasts. Three lives. One love. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the fairytale. A Gothic, standalone romance. Recommended for fans of the fairytale, mob marriages, bodyguard romance, revenge stories, Cora Reilly, Sophie Lark, and Willow Winters.

A Dark Mafia Marriage

A King of Beasts

A Web Of Lies

The Night Thief

The hottest summer brings the first flames of love. Love is dangerous. It collides with culture, and culture is defied with rebellion. She promised herself to me. Ryder is the small town's local college boy. It's summertime, and he's at the beach when he sees a young, college girl. Their eyes lock together. Intrigued by her, he wants to approach her but she quickly disappears. Disappointed he returns home, but he sees her the next day in his summer class. Good girls don't fall in love. They only obey. From a traditional Middle Eastern family, Cyrah is a young foreign-exchange student. She's studying abroad in a summer program of the small-town. Intimidated by her beauty, Ryder begins writing love letters to her. She is flattered but tries to steer clear from him. But then an incident happens that draws these two star-crossed lovers together. Slowly, she begins breaking all the rules and reciprocates the same feelings. But summer doesn't last forever though, and Cyrah has to leave. Recommended for fans of Misfit and Eleanor and Park. This is the story of Red's parents, her maman and baba. Two star-crossed lovers. This is a prequel, standalone book, the first part of the Forbidden series.

The Flame Must Burn

A Terrible Villain

Love can heal a person, but no one ever told me, it can destroy a person too.The coldest winter brings first loves.The winter that changed her forever. Let's start from the beginning.The past.Meet the man she couldn't forget and the man that broke her.Isaah and Saagh.The untouchable wealthy notorious bad boys of Emerson UniversityBefore she met Kabir, she was just a young, orphaned girl starved for attention. Red was always taught by her parents that she will meet 'the one'. A twenty-year-old Red was crossing the street when the college playboy Isaah Lone runs her over with his motorcycle. This begins a love-hate relationship between them. They only speak to quarrel with each other, bullying each other.One day, Red has car troubles and goes to the car shop that Isaah's family owns. Slowly, they realized that they have something in common that they both love: literature.Red meets a guy named Saagh who later becomes her best friend. The longer she is with him, the more she sees his dark and possessive side. A torn Red must choose between right and wrong before each man takes a piece of her and never returns it.This is Red's prequel. A literary new adult standalone college romance with no filters. This book has sensitive topics that can trigger someone. Recommended for fans of Jane Eyre, The Bronze Horseman and Bully. Don't forget to scroll up and purchase the book!

Enemies to Lovers Romantic Suspense (Red #3)

Color Me Red

A Literary Fiction, contemporary DEBUT novel. Amazon Top 30 Bestseller in Asian American Literature. Recommended for fans of Sense and Sensibility, The Forty Rules of Love, and A Walk To Remember. Two strangers on the same path. Survivors. Companions. They will be each other's salvation. On a rainy, winter night, a mysterious woman in a red dress seeking shelter comes inside the restaurant Kabir was busy working in --primarily the bar-- and night after night, drink after drink, she comes back to the same spot. That is where he sees her for the first time. Hundreds of patrons around her try to speak with her daily, but she dismisses them. It appears she wants to remain in a blissful peace alone with her booze and books. After seeing the mysterious woman reading a book, and because of his shy nature, Kabir gains entrance into her life by anonymously leaving books with notes for her. The Name of Red is the story of two strangers, two different personalities who meet on a winter, rainy night who challenge each other. They have a connection which blossoms into a friendship due to their fondness of books. But they both have secrets that can bind them together or threaten their newfound relationship forever. Don't forget to scroll up and purchase the book! This can be read as a standalone book.

The Name of Red

Yolanda Olson

Elizabeth Austin

Jen Stevens

Helena Novak

YD La Mar

Selena Michaels

L.L. Campbell

Valentina

Ruby Medjo

M. Jameson

C.E. Lashua

Roseyk Klayborn

AJ Wolf

and Salem Sinclair

After the rain, comes flowers.
A sweet hope blooming in the wake of the grey clouds.
These are tales for the survivors. Tales of sacrifice and healing. Romantic spells of tenderness and excitement, and learning how not just to love someone else, but also yourself.
15 authors have come together to bring you 14 complete stories of love, heartache, and inspiration. All featuring characters chasing their own happily-ever-afters.
AFTER THE RAIN is a collection of romantic short stories focused on hope. All proceeds will go toward the RAINN Organization. 
Featuring: Ruby Medjo, Roseyk Klayborn, Selena Michaels, M. Jameson, Beena Khan, Yolanda Olson, L.L. Campbell, AJ Wolf, Jen Stevens, Helena Novak, Elizabeth Austin, YD La Mar, Valentina, C.E. Lashua, and Salem Sinclair.

After the Rain: A Charity Anthology 

M.O.G

The Duet Novel to The Name of Red. Kabir's story continues in this dark, twisty, and steamy sequel. There's only so many times a heart can break. One day, it will be okay, but it'll heal all wrong. It'll heal with you outside of it.Eight months have gone, and Kabir still hasn't moved on from the woman he still loves today. Red. The name like a song on replay in his mind. He looks for her in other women but is left empty every time he wakes up in the morning. Gone is the good boy image he once had, instead it's replaced with a reckless playboy. He has the list of "Things To do" that Red left for him and placed it on his refrigerator, but he doesn't know how to complete the tasks. Because some secrets are too big to bury. Ghosts from his past come forward forcing him to confront himself and his lifestyle. His best friend Nadia left him and cut off all contact, but now, she returns in his life. He has to face these ghosts without losing himself completely.This novel has sensitive subjects in the book that can trigger someone. Don't forget to scroll up and purchase the book! The sequel can be read without reading the first book. A story of healing, love, and pure chemistry that will make you add Kabir to your list of book boyfriends.

Duet Novel to the Name of Red

The Weight on Skin

SINOPSE – Beleza Cruel, de Beena Khan (livro 1) Eu era a bela, uma órfã perdida que presenciou um assassinato, e a fera me fez refém. Vlad Vitalli governava Nova York como líder de uma das cinco famílias mais poderosas da máfia da região. Alto, misterioso, com olhos cinzentos e gélidos, sua fama de assassino sem piedade era lendária e temida. Eu era a pessoa errada no lugar errado. Acabei testemunhando um assassinato, e fui levada refém. A Fera me levou para os seus domínios. Eu não esperava sair com vida. Porém, a bela em mim manteve cativa a fera em mais de um sentido. O jogo agora tinha novas regras. Longe de ser um conto de fadas, ele e eu jogamos algo perigoso, mortal, viciante. Uma Rainha para um Rei, e quem de nós dará o xeque-mate? Nota: Ligeiramente baseado no conto de fadas A Bela e a Fera. Leitura indicada para 18+

Romance Dark Máfia

Beleza Cruel

A bride is sacred whether given or...stolen. Once upon a time... With every end comes a new beginning. I'm an enigma of a man with two sides. The same violent blood that's in the Russian mafia, the Solntsevskaya Bratva lies in my veins. I'm told I could be the new Pakhan. There's a young scarred beauty in the kingdom, Lada Sokolova with bright sightless eyes, a noble Mafia princess. The fairest in the kingdom. Her marks go deeper than the ones carved on her face. I see her, and the pain in her eyes mirrors my own. They say she was supposed to be betrothed to my family. She's too young for me. I'm twelve years her senior so I reject her. Now, she's getting married to a brutal Vor who's more than twice her age. It's been decided, and I can't interfere. I do the one thing I shouldn't have, putting my life on the line. I take her. I kidnap a bride in her wedding dress. I'm only doing what's right, protecting an innocent. ....even from the predator inside of me. Welcome to New York's Underworld. Loosely based on the fairytale. An age-gap romance about how much you would risk for the one you love. Author's Note: Reviews might have possible spoilers of the hidden identity of the MMC. Book includes extended epilogues of the previous characters. This can be read as an standalone, but it is recommended to start with book one (A Beauty So Cruel) to enhance your reading experience.

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