Bellandi Crime Syndicate

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

She’s an innocent.
Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
My Angel is the one who got away—the only person in the world I love. When she is caught in an unsanctioned bank robbery in my territory, only my reputation protects her.
She should have stayed away.
Instead, she charges back into my life like a shining beacon in my otherwise bleak existence. She has no place in my world where hardened criminals toy with the lives of the innocent.
A better man would let her go — again.
There’s no white picket fence in life with a Bellandi, and she deserves so much more. I pushed her away once, but now that she’s back I won’t let anything else come between us.
Not even Ivory 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 - Forced Proximity, dubious consent, forced pregnancy, explicit sexual content, graphic violence
Forgivable Sins (Bellandi Crime Syndicate #2) By Adelaide Forrest

No one knows me like she does.
She’s the only one who has power over me.
I’ve loved Samara since I was a boy, since the moment I heard her sing and told her she would be my wife. I sacrificed that dream to keep her safe.
Our love is a secret, hanging unspoken between us.
Everything changes the night I find her beaten and broken by the man who should have protected her. What I have longed to do more than anything.
After all this time, the safest place for her is in my arms.
I’ve tried to be patient, to let her come to terms with the shift in our relationship, but soon I will make her mine. Time is running out for my Little Dove.
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

This shadow always follows his Sunshine.
Her life is a carefully crafted lie.
For years, I only watch my Sunshine from the shadows; my loyalty to the Bellandis demands nothing less. When her husband is killed, the path is clear for me to step in and claim her for myself.
I’ll give her a glimpse into the truth.
I give Calla and her kids one year to grieve their loss. When the year is over, I pluck them from the grey world she clings to and insert them into the vivid color of my Bellandi life.
Even when it hurts, and she rails against me.
Rising tensions in my world threaten to steal her away from me, but I won’t let anyone take what is mine. Instead, I’ll demand every piece of her: Her heart, her body. Her soul.
And I won’t stop until I’ve taken everything.
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

Every killer has a weakness.
She’s the one woman I can’t have.
She’s forbidden to the Bellandi men. Yet after one look in her honey eyes, I need to carve myself into her soul so deeply, Sadie will never forget she’s mine.
Nobody else sees through her facade.
She’s a mess of contradictions. Full of jagged edges that threaten to pull me apart at the seams and unleash the beast who lurks beneath my skin.
I’ll be her shelter through the storm.
I can’t resist her fire and rebellion. But when she’s threatened by my enemies, I’ll risk everything to keep her safe from the man who seeks to use her as a weapon against me.
Even if it costs me my humanity.
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.
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