The five crime families of Chicago rule with quick trigger fingers and don't hesitate to spill rivers of blood to maintain their stranglehold on the city. But what they have is never enough. No sin is off the table if it means ultimate power and control. The only question is, who will survive the deadliest sin? The Deadliest Sin Series Complete Collection contains all 22 books in the Deadliest Sin Series about the Albanian, Irish, Russian, Italian, and Colombian organized crime families in Chicago battling for control of the city.
I thought we had escaped my life in the mob. I was wrong. All I see is red. Blood. Pain. Rage. It consumes me. The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul. I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin. Dive into the world of the Albanian mob and what men are willing to do for the women they love... ***Wrath is the first book in The Deadliest Sin Series about organized crime in Philly and Chicago. This series is best read in order, as the stories are chronological and each sin builds on the events of the previous one.*** *** Previously appeared as book 4 in The 7 Collection about the deadly sins. Wrath is now book one of the Deadliest Sin Series***
In the spring of 1348, tales begin arriving in England of poisonous clouds fast approaching, which have overwhelmed whole cities and even countries, with scarcely a human being left. While some pray more earnestly and live yet more devoutly, others vow to enjoy themselves and blot out their remaining days on earth by drinking and gambling. And then there are those who hope that God's wrath might be averted by going on a pilgrimage. But if God was permitting his people to be punished by this plague, then it surely could only be because they had committed terrible sins? So when a group of pilgrims are forced to seek shelter at an inn, their host suggests that the guests should tell their tales. He dares them to tell their stories of sin, so that it might emerge which one is the best.That is, the worst ...
Can you survive envy? They say envy is green. Not in my experience. It’s blood fucking red. Envy brought me here, to the head of the family in Chicago. But now that I finally have the power, my sins will come back to haunt me. This three-book collection includes Envy, Bleeding Envy, and Enduring Envy, books 4-6 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of the Albanian mob in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series does need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author introduces readers to “a great detective, a detective’s detective,” New York cop Edward X. Delaney (Kirkus Reviews). New York Police Department Captain Edward Delaney is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A Brooklyn councilman was struck from behind, the back of his skull punctured and crushed with an unknown weapon. The victim wasn’t robbed, and there’s no known motive. The commissioner appoints Delaney to head up a clandestine task force, but soon this effort ignites an internecine war of departmental backstabbing. Distracted by the serious illness of his wife, Barbara, Delaney begins his secret investigation. Then the killer claims another victim—slain in the exact same way, leaving the strange puncture wound. As more young men are found murdered, Delaney starts putting the pieces together. Soon, he’s faced with a cop’s dilemma: He knows who the killer is, but the man is untouchable. That’s when Delaney lays a trap to bring a monster to justice . . .
Can you survive wrath? His first mistake is taking her. His second mistake is thinking I won’t come for her. Mine is letting wrath consume me and believing I won’t have to pay for my sins. This three-book collection includes Wrath, After Wrath, and Surviving Wrath. Dive into the world of the Albanian mob in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. "I am done [with the series] and I have to tell you that after reading Surviving Wrath: it's like I was sucker-punched, left raw and bewildered. However, the ending put me back together. One of the best stories that I have read!!!” - 5-star review
Can you survive lust? Lust opened the door for me. Now, I’ll build my empire on its back. Because one thing I can always rely on is the weaknesses of my enemies. Weakness of the flesh. Of the soul. Of the mind. All I have to do is be the strongest…and I’ll come out on top. This three-book collection includes Lust, Embracing Lust, and Seizing Lust, books 7-9 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of the Albanian mob in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series does need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
Can you survive sloth? I’ve been hiding for decades. Watching and waiting. Veiled by the church and faith. This collar gives me the perfect cover. No one has ever suspected the truth. Of who and what I really am. But it’s time to step from behind the cloth and into the light. Because Chicago is ripe for the taking. This three-book collection includes Sloth, Accepting Sloth, and Abiding Sloth, books 13-15 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of organized crime in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series DOES need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
Can you survive pride? They say pride comes before a fall... Only this time, it won't be me suffering the consequences. I’ve been living a lie for so long… I don’t even recognize the truth anymore. It’s been twenty years of blood and deception. Decades of pain and living under a veil of darkness. It blinded me from the truth. What was right in front of me. The thing I tried to forget and keep buried. But now, it’s rising to the surface. It threatens to destroy more than just my plans for Chicago. This three-book collection includes Pride, Defending Pride, and Commanding Pride, books 10-12 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of organized crime in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series DOES need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends in shriveling the heart. Of the seven deadly sins, he concludes, only envy is no fun at all.Writing in a conversational, erudite, self-deprecating style that wears its learning lightly, Epstein takes us on a stimulating tour of the many faces of envy. He considers what great thinkers--such as John Rawls, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche--have written about envy; distinguishes between envy, yearning, jealousy, resentment, and schadenfreude ("a hardy perennial in the weedy garden of sour emotions"); and catalogs the many things that are enviable, including wealth, beauty, power, talent, knowledge and wisdom, extraordinary good luck, and youth (or as the title of Epstein's chapter on youth has it, "The Young, God Damn Them"). He looks at resentment in academia, where envy is mixed with snobbery, stirred by impotence, and played out against a background of cosmic injustice; and he offers a brilliant reading of Othello as a play more driven by Iago's envy than Othello's jealousy. He reveals that envy has a strong touch of malice behind it--the envious want to destroy the happiness of others. He suggests that envy of the astonishing success of Jews in Germany and Austria may have lurked behind the virulent anti-Semitism of the Nazis.As he proved in his best-selling Snobbery, Joseph Epstein has an unmatched ability to highlight our failings in a way that is thoughtful, provocative, and entertaining. If envy is no fun, Epstein's Envy is truly a joy to read.
