Beautiful Things Obey: A Dark Romance (Deluxe Edition) (Beautiful Things #1)

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She’s hired to bury Boston’s darkest secrets, but a mysterious death plunges her into the criminal underworld—and the arms of its dangerously sexy leader.

The dead have never bothered Leonore Graves much. As a mortician, she fixes what violence ruined, and her work has earned her quite the reputation among Boston’s rivaling mafia families. Under her steady hand, bullet wounds disappear with careful stitching, secrets are buried with the dead, evidence vanishes completely. To keep the crime lords happy and herself in business, neutrality is essential.

But when Silas Vescari—the ruthless leader of the one syndicate Leonore’s spent years avoiding—walks into her morgue, her carefully structured system is shattered. After his uncle winds up mysteriously dead, Silas seeks out Leonore to uncover some answers regarding his murder, and he’s not leaving until he gets them. So when he tells her she’ll be working for him from now on, it isn’t a request.

But Leonore’s never been one to stand down, and the more she resists their forced alliance, the more fascinated Silas becomes. Faced with the one woman who refuses to obey, he sees a weapon that’s been wasted on small men with smaller ambitions. Determined to make her submit to him, he thrusts them both deeper into Boston’s dark underbelly, igniting a game of cat and mouse that threatens to boil over into something neither can control . . .

Beautiful Things Obey is a dark touch-her-and-die mafia romance featuring he-falls-first, secret identity, and alpha male tropes. Written consecutively by three different authors—forcing each one deeper into the dark with every new twist, betrayal, or obsession—it contains morally gray characters, extreme violence, graphic sexual scenes, explicit language, and depictions of murder/death and sexual harassment and is intended for mature readers.