BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Ransomed and Ravished by Sologne Schumacher

We have a spicy spotlight today with the newly released Ransomed and Ravished by Sologne Schumacher! Perfect for mafia romance lovers. Schumacher got you!

Ransomed and Ravished: A Forbidden Love Mafia

Release Date: July 10, 2025

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Features
💋 Steamy mafia romance
🖤 Morally gray characters
🔥 Raw, forbidden, and intoxicating passion
🗡️ Ruthless, slow-burning tension that cuts deep

Agustín “The Enforcer” Guzman is ruthless and loyal. For years, he’s been the blade the O’Cleary Clan drives into the backs of their enemies. But now, he’s been given a different kind of order: protect, not destroy. Guard, not break. And the girl he’s meant to protect? A mafia princess with fire in her eyes and rebellion on her tongue.
He should be indifferent.
But Serafina De Luca is temptation wrapped in chaos. The way she looks at him, defiant and hungry, shakes the foundation of everything he’s built to keep the monster inside contained. She’s forbidden. Untouchable. And far too dangerous to want.
Serafina has spent her life behind gilded bars, watched, polished, and paraded like a prize. As her father’s only child, she was never meant to inherit the throne. She was meant to sing sweetly and smile while men carved up her future.
Until she ran into the arms of a devil with blood on his hands and demons in his eyes.
Now the Irish mob has her. But it isn’t her captors that haunt her dreams. It’s the enforcer who watches her with quiet violence and barely restrained need. The man who touches her like she’s something rare. The man who might ruin her completely... and leave her craving every broken piece of him.


Content Warning 18+

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sologne Schumacher is an author, teacher, playwright, and screenwriter. When she is not spending time with her husband and their twins, you can find her decolonizing Shakespeare or writing sexy romance novels. Sologne creates the worlds she would like to live in, filled with people of color finding love.

Follow Sologne on Instagram @sologneschumacher

Book Feature Friday: Vengeful Dreams by Alexa Michaels

Take Hades and Persephone’s story, but turn it into a dark mafia romance. You got it!

BEHOLD!

Vengeful Dreams is the first book of the Vlasov Bratva series, set in the more extensive Midwest Underworld series. It’s a stand-alone darker mafia romance with no cheating, a guaranteed HEA, and no cliffhangers. A morally grey romance, this book may not be suitable for everyone.

Vengeful Dreams: A Dark Mafia, Forced Proximity Romance (The Vlasov Bratva)

Publication Date: April 17, 2024

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Features

⦁ Obsessive hero
⦁ Slow burn until it’s not
⦁ Mistrust to lust
⦁ Bratva & civilian
⦁ Forced proximity
⦁ Grump & sunshine
⦁ Mafia Romance
⦁ He will burn the world for her, and does
⦁ A bit of groveling
⦁ “Who did this to you?”
⦁ Touch her & 💀

Daniella

Revenge,I crave it, But can’t get it on my own.
I ventured into the underworld and broke into the house of a monster.
And now, I have to pay the price for his help.

Work for the cold, ruthless Bratva prince,
The one whose name is whispered throughout the underworld,
And earn his trust.

But before I collect my part of the bargain,
I accidentally start an underworld war.


Kazimir

The Bratva hardened me, forged me into the perfect soldier.
Nothing surprises me.
Until I discover a little thief in my home.

The audacity of this woman,
A clever girl, aware of our world, but always keeping away,
Until now. Until she needs help when the more legal channels fail her.

I’m captivated by her graceful presence.
I can’t stay away. She calls to a part of me I thought was long burned away.
She came to the underworld looking for a dark knight,
Now I’m not letting her go. I want her—all of her.
And I will do anything to keep her in my dark kingdom.
Forever mine.
Even if it means breaking the rules and starting a war on her behalf.

Available on Amazon

About The Author

When Alexa isn’t writing, she can be found with a book in her lap and a mug of coffee or glass of red wine within reach. A native of the North Woods, Alexa is an avid lake-jumper, beach lounger, and sunshine lover.

Alexa is living a happily ever after with her own steamy hero. Together they have an English Springer fur-baby and would love a few more!

Alexa loves any type of love story. So you can find her writing both contemporary romance and fantasy novels. Instead of making a separate pen name, Alexa just adds her middle initial to her fantasy genre books!

Learn more about Alexa and her books at alexamichaels.com