Lisa Austin

Exhilarated (iɡˈziləˌrādəd): very happy, animated, or elated. Aphrodite Greer is finally starting to see better days. She's slowly accepting that she can have a beautiful life despite her daughter being dead without feeling guilty. That beautiful life has a name and it's Goal Navarro—the...

Five years. Half a decade. One Thousand eight hundred twenty-five days. Forty-three thousand eight hundred hours. Two million six hundred twenty-eight thousand minutes. Measuring the time, a lot can happen in five years. Aphrodite Greer was born and raised in the bricks—projects in Jagoda Bay...

Memory: the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. The crazy thing about memories, though, is that they can be good or bad. In Ezio's case, they're the f--king nightmares that have him popping pills to suppress them. His memories hang on to him like a loose thread, and no...

Everyone in the Rinaldi Mob has a job to do—a role to play—and newly appointed Mafian, Jisei Harper, is no exception. Jisei is used to slumming it out on her own. From birth, she was dealt a bad hand, but instead of dwelling on it, she smiled, rolled her shoulders back, and played her cards...

The house, the cars, the lovemaking, the Princess treatment, the loyalty, the beautiful child, the commitment: all of those make up Aphrodite's dream life.

With the Cuppacio family now settled into Jagoda Bay, the past of Chicago can no longer haunt them from the graves holding the men who made their childhoods hell. Now, it's all about moving forward, elevating, and marriage. Choosing to unite with the Rinaldi Mafia brought fortune...