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His Pretty Little Secret: Dark Mafia Romance
I STOLE HER TO BREAK HER FATHER, BUT SHE MIGHT BREAK ME FIRST
My name is Anton Karolyi. In the underworld, I am the silence after the scream, the fixer who cleans up the messes of the elite. I don't deal in emotions; I deal in leverage. And the ultimate leverage is Zelda Montgomery.
Snatching her from that gala was executed with clinical precision. I didn't take her for money; I took her to dismantle her father's empire piece by piece. Locking her in my soundproof basement was supposed to be strictly business. She is an asset, a pawn in a game she doesn't understand.
But she was supposed to be fragile, not a storm wrapped in silk. Instead of cowering, she fights. Her defiance triggers a darkness I usually keep chained, and suddenly, breaking her spirit becomes more important than the mission.
I am becoming addicted to the very thing I should destroy.
Every touch is a battle, every look a challenge. The danger isn't the police or her father's mercenaries anymore-it's what I might do to keep her.
★★★★★ "I was hooked from the first page. Anton is terrifyingly cold, but seeing him lose control over Zelda was exactly what I needed. The basement scenes are intense and psychological. Dark romance perfection." - Amazon Customer
Book 1 of 3 in The Little Vices Series - A dark mafia kidnapping romance where the villain gets the girl, but first, he has to break her.
My name is Anton Karolyi. In the underworld, I am the silence after the scream, the fixer who cleans up the messes of the elite. I don't deal in emotions; I deal in leverage. And the ultimate leverage is Zelda Montgomery.
Snatching her from that gala was executed with clinical precision. I didn't take her for money; I took her to dismantle her father's empire piece by piece. Locking her in my soundproof basement was supposed to be strictly business. She is an asset, a pawn in a game she doesn't understand.
But she was supposed to be fragile, not a storm wrapped in silk. Instead of cowering, she fights. Her defiance triggers a darkness I usually keep chained, and suddenly, breaking her spirit becomes more important than the mission.
I am becoming addicted to the very thing I should destroy.
Every touch is a battle, every look a challenge. The danger isn't the police or her father's mercenaries anymore-it's what I might do to keep her.
★★★★★ "I was hooked from the first page. Anton is terrifyingly cold, but seeing him lose control over Zelda was exactly what I needed. The basement scenes are intense and psychological. Dark romance perfection." - Amazon Customer
Book 1 of 3 in The Little Vices Series - A dark mafia kidnapping romance where the villain gets the girl, but first, he has to break her.
206 pages, Paperback
Published February 17, 2026
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August 28, 2026
I originally started this due to the massive reading slump that I was in and I could have read it for free online. I was looking for something that was entertaining, and I definitely wasn’t expecting an amazing novel that I would remember forever but I was sincerely disappointed.
I read more than half of this book and I couldn’t stand it any longer. I am over 98% sure that this was written almost entirely by AI. With the dual-POV’s that are shown between the two main characters, completely different things occur in the chapters between the two of them.
Different things are said, different things happen even when it is explicitly said (and shown) that it is the exact same moment from one chapter to the next. This includes increasing plot holes to occur, and to cause a lot of confusion whilst trying to string together moments and grasp at parts of a story that doesn’t even exist.
I also found absolutely no conviction in any of the characters motives. Why did they want or ‘need’ to kidnap Zelda other than to take what her father had hidden? Why does Anton hate Dominic Montgomery and why is he his enemy? What was so important that they needed to kidnap Zelda? Why did they grow closer? Why does she submit to him other than his ‘assertiveness’ or ‘dominance’ over everyone.
Everything I’ve explained, think of it as worse than it is.
I can’t even explain its horrible existence to justice.
This was a pitiful excuse of my time.
I read more than half of this book and I couldn’t stand it any longer. I am over 98% sure that this was written almost entirely by AI. With the dual-POV’s that are shown between the two main characters, completely different things occur in the chapters between the two of them.
Different things are said, different things happen even when it is explicitly said (and shown) that it is the exact same moment from one chapter to the next. This includes increasing plot holes to occur, and to cause a lot of confusion whilst trying to string together moments and grasp at parts of a story that doesn’t even exist.
I also found absolutely no conviction in any of the characters motives. Why did they want or ‘need’ to kidnap Zelda other than to take what her father had hidden? Why does Anton hate Dominic Montgomery and why is he his enemy? What was so important that they needed to kidnap Zelda? Why did they grow closer? Why does she submit to him other than his ‘assertiveness’ or ‘dominance’ over everyone.
Everything I’ve explained, think of it as worse than it is.
I can’t even explain its horrible existence to justice.
This was a pitiful excuse of my time.
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