His to Ruin: A Dark Mafia Romance

by Cece Maphumulo-Wise

Genres: Dark

688 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2026

About the author

I’ve always believed books are the best escape — and I got hooked on that feeling long before I ever thought about writing one.

There’s something magical about falling completely in love with a character someone else dreamed up, and one day I realized I wanted to give readers that same feeling with characters who had been living in my head for years.

Life as a stay-at-home mom gave me the space to finally let them out.

Now I get to do what I love most — build worlds, create people you’ll root for, cry over, and never forget, and share them with you.

P.S. If you read my book between April 10th–May 11th, you had my beta version. As a first-time author, I didn't know how to fully refine it until I heard from real readers. Your feedback helped me make it what it was always meant to be. Thank you — you were part of the process.


The new refined version has roughly 900 ebook pages. Now features a prologue and no longer has a bonus scene so if you're still seeing that, you have the old version. Check your email for the update sent out May 11th 2026. And the paperback still comes in a 2 part edition.

If you were part of the few people who ordered my paperbacks during April 10th - May 3rd, please reach out to me so I can send you an authors copy on me!

I promise it'll be a good journey as you discover Kiana and Dimitri and their little dangerous world. Full of secrets, and surprises.


Thank you for giving me a chance to express that creativity!

Reviews

[Pamella Sibaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly! Great read. The spice is unlocked in the first chapter, and then chapter 3/4 has you gasping and it’s only up from there. A little long, however the payoff was worth it. And so are the spicy scenes 🌶️🌶️ 😏 Totally did not expect her to treat her like that at the end iykyk…and the bonus scene??👀 I hope there will be more 🤞🏽

[Trinity Goodman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ate it up. Sam is my favorite. Alexander count your days! Dimitri 🥹🥵. Papa Morelli you sly dog you. Staaaaaaaccceeeeyyyyyy…..that’s all imma say. I enjoyed the book. The more I read the more it kept getting better. Definitely worth my weekend. Yall should check it out.

[Jordan Rainey · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book fell so short of what it could have been. The details were so messy. In the beginning it was small details, like the placement of a specific tattoo changed. As the book progressed the details became less and less where they should have been and far too detailed where it didn’t matter. There was a lot of repetition. As an individual who works in the holistic world, I never imagined a day would come that I would tire of the word grounding. It was used in all its forms so many times that I feel like I read it on every single page. I’m going to assume it was self published as I didn’t see anything else indicating otherwise because I cannot imagine a book actually getting pushed through with that many hiccups. If this book was written for the purpose of just pushing out content to skim/speed read. This will be perfect for that. If you actually like to consume the materials you read. This absolutely is not it.

[Georja · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't finish, story made no sense

The first bit of the book was great but the characters kept getting different back stories and there were new antagonists every time you turned around. The MFC was all over the place with making decisions or having conversations and then repeating conversations like it didn't even happen the first time. She "chose" the MMC in a deep soul finding moment probably 5 times. So sad the whole book didn't match the first couple chapters.

[Devon Salazar · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not finish this. I tried so hard, as the story has so much potential, but the writing itself was butchered. Completely chopped, missing entire explanations, things being said in the first part, just for it to be completely different or rewritten later in the story.