Zoe Blake

The more she fights me, the more I want her. That beautiful, sassy mouth of hers makes me want to push her to her knees and dominate her. I'm a Russian arms dealer and she's an innocent college student who doesn't even know she belongs to me yet, but that will change when I spank her red....

Sweet Severity continues the steamy, enemies-to-lovers drama featuring the domineering Russian Mafia men of Zoe Blake's Ruthless Obsession series. This is the seventh novel and part of a new trilogy in the Ruthless Obsession series. It is a standalone intended for mature listeners.

We were not meant to be together…then a dark twist of fate stepped in, and we're the ones who will pay for it....

My bodyguard is supposed to keep me safe, not control me.

She couldn't have known the danger she faced when she dared to steal from me. She was too young for a man my age, barely in her twenties. Far too pure and untouched. Unfortunately for her, that wasn't going to stop me....

She was forced into his mafia war. Now she fights it beside him. The sins of the House of Diamanti have finally come due. And Rome is burning. Sabrina Badalamenti survived Sebastian's deceptions, his enemies, and the weight of his ring on her finger. She is no longer leverage. No longer a pawn...

I never asked for an assistant, and if I had, I sure as hell wouldn't have chosen her. With her sharp tongue and lack of discipline, what she needs is a firm hand, not a job. The more she tests my limits, the more tempted I am to bend her over my knee.

He's a fallen priest with dark secrets, and I'm the key to his revenge. I never thought a simple walk in New York City would lead me into the shadows of a sinister game. One moment, I'm fighting off attackers in a dark alley, and the next, I'm saved by a mysterious stranger. He drags me into a...

He didn't come to Paris to fall for her. He came to claim her. She was never supposed to matter. She was supposed to break. Sabrina Badalamenti was a means to an end, the unknown daughter of the man threatening to destroy everything Sebastian Diamanti had spent his life building.

She thinks this is a cage. She doesn't yet understand it's a crown. He offered her a job in Rome, and gave her no choice but to take it. She stayed because Sebastian Diamanti made it impossible to leave. Sabrina Badalamenti is leverage. A carefully chosen pawn in a game of blood and revenge she...

With a single gunshot, she brings the violent secrets of my buried past into the present. She may not have pulled the trigger, but she still has blood on her hands. And I know some very creative ways to make her pay for it.

His family dared to challenge mine, so I am going to ruin them... starting with stealing his bride.

She's finally under my complete control, yet it's not enough....

She's hated me for years…now it's past time to give her a reason to. When you are a son and one of the heirs to the legacy of the Cavalieri name, you need to be more vicious than your enemies. Sometimes, the lines get blurred. Years ago, they tried to use her as a pawn in a revenge scheme...

Being attracted to her isn't wrong…but acting on it would be. As the patriarch of the powerful and wealthy Cavalieri family, my choices come with consequences for everyone around me. The roots of my ancestral, billionaire-dollar winery stretch deep into the rich Italian soil, as does our...

I'm not interested in love. It's the chase that intrigues me....

She broke the rules of our game—she ran. Now she will pay....

She's trapped inside my twisted game...and I am never letting her go....

Her innocence was going to get her killed. That was if I didn't get to her first. She's the protected little sister of the powerful Ivanov Russian mafia family–the very definition of forbidden. It's always been my job, as their Head of Security, to watch over her but never to touch. That ends...

When I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed. She's too smart for her own good, and it's going to get her killed. Against my better judgement, I put her under the protection of my powerful Russian mafia family....