Bellandi Crime Syndicate

Bloodied Hands (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #1) by Adelaide Forrest

Ivory 
Caught in a bank robbery and staring down the barrel of a gun was not the way I intended to start my day. When the masked man takes one look at my face and mutters my name in shock, my world stops. 
And then he follows it with a plea for forgiveness from the devil himself. 
Matteo uses the opportunity to invade my life, reclaiming me as if the past twelve years never happened. The boy I loved is gone, replaced by hardened cruelty and a dangerous reputation. But
Matteo isn’t the only one who wants to make me a pawn in a game I never agreed to play, and freedom comes at a cost.

​Matteo 
Ivory comes strutting back into my life and making demands like she’s in charge. She doesn’t understand the games I played to keep her safe during our time apart. The sacrifice I made for her. 
She’s an innocent, caught up in the games of men and unprepared to deal with the consequences of her actions. She should have stayed away, but fate brings her back to me. I won’t let her go again. After suffering in the cruelty of my world for too long, I’m ready to feel the light of my Angel in my life once more. 
No matter what she has to say about it.
The Bellandi Crime Syndicate is a series of full-length standalone novels with HEAs, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheros who do as they please. Please read at your own discretion.
Warnings - Forced Proximity, dubious consent, forced pregnancy, explicit sexual content, graphic violence
Forgivable Sins (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #2) By Adelaide Forrest

Samara
I burn for him, but Lino will never be mine. Faced with the reality that I could never have the man I loved, I made the wrong choice and settled for the worst kind of man. When his gambling problem puts me at risk, Lino steps in to protect me. 
There’s just one problem. 
Lino has a darkness inside him. One that could unravel everything he’s built and drag him down to the pits of Hell. I won’t risk him in that way, especially not when everything I thought I knew about us changes. 
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​Lino
I’ve loved Samara since I was a boy, since the very moment when I first heard her sing. But my father’s cruelty knows no bounds, and I made the biggest sacrifice of my life to protect my Little Dove. 
Everything changes when her ex-husband shatters the safety I worked so desperately to build for her. Suddenly the safest place for her is right in my arms where she always belonged. 
And I won’t stop until she’s my wife
The Bellandi Crime Syndicate is a series of full-length standalone novels with HEAs, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheros who do as they please. Please read at your own discretion.
Warnings - abusive ex-husband and physical abuse (sexual abuse but not on the page), forced proximity, forced marriage, explicit sexual content, graphic violence​
Grieved Loss (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #3) By Adelaide Forrest

Calla
I’ve never known pain like when I lost my husband, never known the fear that came with wondering how I would suddenly support my two kids. So when an anonymous benefactor stepped forward on my husband’s behalf, I never questioned it.
And then Ryker comes from the shadows to show me the truth, determined to show me what his brand of love can be. He demands everything from me, my heart, my soul, my body. 
And he won’t stop until he’s taken everything.
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Ryker
For years, I watched my Sunshine from the shadows, letting her live out her simple life with the man who didn’t deserve her. My loyalty to the Bellandis demanded nothing less, but when her husband is shot down in a drug deal gone bad, there’s nothing that will stop me from stepping in and claiming Calla and the kids.
I give her one year to grieve, to adjust to life without him. But when the year is up, rising tensions in my world threaten to steal her away from me. I won’t let anything come between us.
​Not even Calla herself.
The Bellandi Crime Syndicate is a series of full-length standalone novels with HEAs, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheros who do as they please. Please read at your own discretion.
Warnings -  kidnapping, stalking, forced marriage, breeding, somnophilia, explicit sexual content, graphic violence, dubious consent​
Shielded Wrongs (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #4) By Adelaide Forrest

Sadie
When a man determined to make me the first casualty in a territory war breaks into my home, he never expects me to fight back. I never thought the next day would end with my own personal babysitter assigned to me. 
A devastating, sinful man with a motorcycle and my life’s mantra tattooed on his skin, Enzo makes me go up in flames from the first time we meet. 
But the secret we keep from our family has a cost, and we’ll be lucky if we don’t pay it with our lives.
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Enzo
When I first watch Sadie lay out her opponent in the ring, it’s like a jab to the heart. Nothing could ever prepare me for the way she consumes me from that moment on. 
Tasked with keeping her safe, I can’t afford the distraction of the beautiful little spitfire who can’t hold still. I wouldn’t want her any other way, but her ‘ride or die’ attitude makes her impossible to control and futile to resist. With war erupting all around us, I’ll risk everything to make her mine. 
Even my life.
The Bellandi Crime Syndicate is a series of full-length standalone novels with HEAs, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheros who do as they please. Please read at your own discretion.
​Warnings - forced proximity, explicit sexual content, graphic violence, assault
​Scarred Regrets (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #5)  By Adelaide Forrest

Broken men don’t fall in love.
We linger in the darkness, consumed by the sins that define us.
Irina is the sole reason my heart beats. She’s everything that matters in a world filled with evil that a woman so good and pure should never have to see.
She’ll add another scar to my collection — this one engraved on my heart.
When she’s taken by our enemy to use for his vengeance. Even knowing she can never be mine, I’ll stop at nothing to see her safe.
The Irina I rescue isn’t the same feisty woman they stole.

Her soul is broken. Her heart is hollow like mine, because of the things she’s seen. She needs me in a way I’ve never known.

And I will destroy the man who shattered what’s mine.

Scarred Regrets is a full-length standalone romance, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order.
The Bellandi Crime Syndicate is a series of full-length standalone novels with HEAs, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheros who do as they please. Please read at your own discretion.
​Warnings - ​Self harming behavior, Drug use, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt, Rape/Sexual Assault, Depression, Child abuse, Human Trafficking, Descriptive Violence against women, and Stalking