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Books by Alisson Bento

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18 complete mafia romance novellas, free to read online. Bratva bosses and their enforcers, a consigliere who has never broken an order, a Tokyo oyabun’s sister and her new bodyguard, debts that come due at the worst possible moment: these are stories about dangerous men who decide one woman is worth breaking the rules for.

The heroines hold their ground. A woman who beats the Bratva heir at his own table, a potter with four nights to disprove a debt, a spy paid to listen to the Bratva in their own language. Every story ends happily.

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Where to start

If you want a heroine who wins on her own terms, start with Winner Takes Her. Nadia Volkova beats the Bratva heir at his own private game, and his rematch stakes are three nights in which she sets every rule. Its tropes include card game seduction, her rules and a debt bargain.
If you want forbidden romance with an age gap, start with Sworn to the Consigliere. Dante Ferraro has never broken the Don’s orders, including the newest one: hide the Don’s goddaughter at her late father’s shuttered Napa vineyard and never lay a hand on her. Four days alone put that order to the test.
If you want a bodyguard romance with an off-limits heroine, start with The Oyabun’s Sister. Architect Yumi Tatsuya has always refused to be guarded. Then a stranger photographs her window, and her brother, the most feared oyabun in Tokyo, sends silent, scarred Hiro. He has one rule about her.
If you want to try why-choose mafia romance, start with Open All Night. Lena Kowalski keeps her late grandmother’s laundromat open all night, and her regulars are three quiet, dangerous men. When a mob collector asks about the girl across the street, Lena lies, and all three choose her.
If you want the shortest read in the collection, start with The Bratva Doctor: 14,705 words, about 64 minutes. Trauma doctor Clara Whitfield saves a Bratva soldier’s life in a back room, and the Pakhan says she now owes his family thirty nights. Its tropes include doctor romance and he falls first.
If you want a craft heroine and a protector with a conflict of interest, start with The Kiln House Bargain. A potter has four nights to disprove a debt, and the man protecting her stands to profit from her ruin. Its tropes include compromised protector, earned trust and costly redemption.

What is mafia romance?

Mafia romance is a love story set inside organized crime. The hero holds a place in a criminal family: a boss, an heir, an enforcer, a driver, a collector. The heroine usually stands outside that world, or gets pulled to its edge by a debt, a secret or something she saw. The romance grows from the pressure between the two: his loyalty to the family, and what she starts to mean to him.

The genre has its own vocabulary, and the hooks in this collection use it freely. Bratva is the usual word for a Russian crime brotherhood, and the pakhan is the boss at the top. A Don leads an Italian-style family, and the consigliere is his trusted adviser. In Japan, an oyabun heads a yakuza group. Knowing those few words makes free mafia romance stories much easier to sort at a glance.

Mafia romance often borrows from suspense: a forged document, a witness who knows too much, a stranger who wants the same dock. In Alisson Bento’s free mafia romance stories, that danger sets the stakes, and the love story stays at the center all the way to a happy ending.

Which crime families are in these mafia romance stories?

Bratva stories make up the largest group. Winner Takes Her opens at a Brighton Beach card table, where Nadia Volkova is working off her dead father’s debt and beats Lev Sokolov, heir to the Bratva that holds it. In The Pakhan’s Voice, Vera Lane is hired to write down what the Russians whisper. In The Bratva Doctor, trauma doctor Clara Whitfield follows a trail of perfect stitches to a back room on Rainier Avenue.

Italian-style families appear too. In Sworn to the Consigliere, Dante Ferraro has kept every order the Don ever gave him, including the order to hide the Don’s goddaughter, Sera Lucchese, at her late father’s shuttered Napa vineyard while Chicago burns. Other stories start from a single order: Blood Oath at Midnight begins with a man ordered to silence a witness, who makes her his wife instead.

The collection also reaches past both. The Oyabun’s Sister is set in Tokyo, where architect Yumi Tatsuya’s brother is the most feared oyabun in the city. Kept by the River Kings trades crime families for three outlaws who move mountain whiskey by night. Other stories travel to a Miami repair shop, Piraeus, a hiding place deep in the bayou and a one-room studio on Calle Ocho.

What these free mafia romance stories have in common

Debts and paper drive many of them. A potter has four nights to disprove a debt in The Kiln House Bargain. A forged debt threatens a repair shop in Before the Tide Turns. In The Price of the Tide, a torn receipt threatens Marta’s workshop, and the man sent to collect it has his own signature on the paper. In A Seam for the Wolf, a curvy mender finds her aunt’s name on a bloodstained receipt.

The heroines have work they are good at, and that skill often puts them in the path of trouble. Nadia counts every card. Clara is a trauma doctor, Delphine Marchand in The Girl Who Wouldn’t Tell is a private investigator, and Paloma Quintana in Guarded by the Bratva cleans old paintings. Several story pages list tropes such as craft heroine, competent heroine or professional competence.

The heroes are protectors with complicated loyalties. Story pages describe them as a compromised protector, a morally compromised protector, a wounded protector or a possessive enforcer. Forced proximity appears on more story pages here than any other trope, so most couples spend the story in close quarters, from a shuttered vineyard to a one-room studio with one bed.

How to choose your next mafia romance story online

By trope: for why-choose romance, where one heroine has more than one partner, try The Girl Who Wouldn’t Tell, Open All Night, Kept by the River Kings or Guarded by the Bratva, each with three men. For a single protector, The Oyabun’s Sister and The Enforcer Who Stayed list bodyguard tropes. Curvy heroines lead A Seam for the Wolf, The Enforcer Who Stayed and Guarded by the Bratva.

By series: The Laws of the Bratva includes The Winter Claim, The Bratva Doctor and The Pakhan’s Voice. Curvy Queens of the Bratva includes A Seam for the Wolf, The Enforcer Who Stayed and Guarded by the Bratva. The Syndicate’s Price pairs The Kiln House Bargain with The Oyabun’s Sister, and Bloodline Obsession pairs The Girl Who Wouldn’t Tell with Open All Night.

By length: the shortest is The Bratva Doctor at 14,705 words, about 64 minutes. Many stories sit near 15,000 words (64 to 67 minutes), a second group sits near 20,000 words (85 to 88 minutes), and the longest are Winner Takes Her at 25,485 words (111 minutes) and Sworn to the Consigliere at 29,289 words (127 minutes). The opening chapters read free in any browser, phone included, and the rest unlocks after you confirm your email.

Every story in this collection

The Witness at Table Nine

4,636 words · about 20 min read

Restaurant accountant Eva Serrano knows the difference between a receipt and a confession. When a handoff at table nine brings a threat to her door, criminal logistics manager Matteo Vitale offers a temporary engagement as cover. She accepts one evening, not his control. Together they must place what they know in independent hands—and decide whether love can survive the honest price of his departure.

Tropes: Fake Engagement, Criminal Redemption, Forced Proximity, earned trust
Winner Takes Her

25,485 words · about 111 min read

Nadia Volkova is working off her dead father's debt behind a Brighton Beach card table, counting every card and never allowed to win. Then Lev Sokolov, heir to the Bratva that owns her paper, sits down at his own private game and loses to her. His rematch offer is simple: if she wins, the debt is gone; if he wins, she gives him three nights, and she sets every rule. She knows exactly what she is betting, and exactly how much she wants to lose.

Tropes: bratva heir, card game seduction, strip poker, her rules, Debt Bargain
Sworn to the Consigliere

29,289 words · about 127 min read

Dante Ferraro has kept every order the Don ever gave him, including the newest: hide the Don's goddaughter at her late father's shuttered Napa vineyard while Chicago burns, and never lay a hand on her. Sera Lucchese has hated his calm for ten years, and four days alone in her father's house turn a blindfolded wine tasting into a confession neither of them can take back. Touching her could cost him his life; not touching her is killing him.

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Forbidden Romance, age gap, possessive protector, Grumpy/Sunshine
The Winter Claim

The Laws of the Bratva · 20,171 words · about 88 min read

Mara Keller knows the violin returned by a dangerous broker is a fake. Ilya Orlov knows what happens to people who question his employer. When a winter delivery turns violent, his protection brings her behind a locked door—and forces them both to decide what choosing each other will cost.

Tropes: captive protection, possessive enforcer, Forced Proximity, hostile bargain, earned trust, original adult M/F couple, hopeful romantic ending
The Kiln House Bargain

The Syndicate’s Price · 20,346 words · about 88 min read

Mara Vella knows her father paid. The men at her ceramic shop say otherwise. Dario Serra offers a locked room, a key she can keep, and help finding the receipt. But his connection to her threatened lease turns shelter into another dangerous bargain. Before Mara can choose him, he must give up the power to keep her.

Tropes: criminal debt bargain, Forced Proximity, bodyguard, craft heroine, compromised protector, earned trust, costly redemption
Before the Tide Turns

The Sangre Dynasty Series · 20,274 words · about 88 min read

Mara Vidal knows how to repair a broken chair. A forged guarantee and a collector at her door are another matter. When an old seat reveals a document somebody wants buried, the driver who delivered it becomes the last man she should trust—and the first to let her decide. In an earlier Miami, Mara and Dario must protect the truth without turning their growing desire into another debt.

Tropes: reluctant-allies, criminal driver and civilian, earned trust, protective devotion, redemption
The Price of the Tide

Dons & Czares · 19,452 words · about 85 min read

Marta Leal restores books, not reputations. But a suspicious demand for payment brings her close to Anton Orlov, a man connected to harbor security who must choose what he is willing to lose. Amid documents, threats, and a desire that refuses to become debt, five days may change what they both call trust.

Tropes: M/F Romance, Chosen Forced Proximity, Morally Compromised Protector, Earned Trust, Harbor Suspense, Professional Competence
A Seam for the Wolf

Curvy Queens of the Bratva · 20,055 words · about 87 min read

Mara Vale knows how to mend a coat, not how to untangle a collection racket. When one hidden receipt threatens her aunt's livelihood, Ilya Sokol becomes the last man she should trust and the first willing to ask what she wants. Over eight dangerous days in Chicago, protection must become partnership before either can choose a different future.

Tropes: Curvy Heroine, protective Bratva courier, Forced Proximity, chosen-trust, fresh-start
The Harbor Before Dawn

City of Wolves · 20,179 words · about 88 min read

In Piraeus, paper conservator Mara Vrettou finds her name attached to an inspection she never performed. Independent cargo surveyor Andreas Rallis knows the man behind the lie—and what refusing him can cost. A damaged panel, a frightened electrician, and a private launch force them into an alliance neither planned.

Tropes: reluctant-allies, wounded protector, competent-heroine, criminal debt, earned trust
The Girl Who Wouldn’t Tell

Bloodline Obsession · 15,492 words · about 67 min read

Private investigator Delphine Marchand was paid to find a dead woman’s daughter. She found her in two days. Then her office burned, and three of Malachi Vane’s most dangerous men hid her deep in the bayou. They won’t tell her why the girl matters. She won’t tell anyone her name.

Tropes: Why Choose, Captor Romance, Morally Gray Heroes, Forced Proximity, Protector Heroes
The Bratva Doctor

The Laws of the Bratva · 14,705 words · about 64 min read

Trauma doctor Clara Whitfield followed a trail of perfect stitches into a back room on Rainier Avenue and saved a Bratva soldier’s life. Now the Pakhan says she owes his family thirty nights at his doctor’s side. Matvei Zakharov must keep her silent. Keeping his hands off her is harder.

Tropes: Bratva Romance, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray Hero, Doctor Romance, He Falls First
The Pakhan’s Voice

The Laws of the Bratva · 14,921 words · about 65 min read

Vera Lane was hired to sit in a room full of mobsters and write down what the Russians whispered. Then she caught the Pakhan’s right hand lying for his boss, and the boss understanding a joke he shouldn’t. Now Yuri Orlov must decide what she heard. And what she is to him.

Tropes: Bratva Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Secret, Protector Hero, He Falls First
The Oyabun’s Sister

The Syndicate’s Price · 15,156 words · about 66 min read

Architect Yumi Tatsuya has spent her life refusing to be guarded. Then a stranger starts photographing her window, and her brother sends Hiro: silent, scarred, and loyal to the oyabun above everything. He has one rule about her. She is about to make him break it.

Tropes: Bodyguard Romance, Off-Limits Sister, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forbidden Love, Protective Hero
The Enforcer Who Stayed

Curvy Queens of the Bratva · 14,820 words · about 64 min read

The night the Bratva King takes her best friend, Ellen Reed kicks the wrong giant on the wrong staircase. Now Lev Sorokin is ordered to keep her away from the police, and she is very bad at being kept.

Tropes: Grumpy Bodyguard, Forced Proximity, Curvy Heroine, Opposites Attract, He Falls First
Open All Night

Bloodline Obsession · 15,048 words · about 65 min read

Lena Kowalski keeps her late grandmother’s laundromat open all night, and her night regulars are three quiet, dangerous men. When a mob collector asks about the girl across the street, Lena lies. Now all three men have chosen her, and they don’t share her with anyone but each other.

Tropes: Why Choose, Mafia Protectors, Obsessive Watchers, Forced Proximity, Debt Collector Threat
Kept by the River Kings

Wild Hearts Outlaws · 15,494 words · about 67 min read

Shiloh Mercer inherited a riverside bar, a drowned father, and a debt to three dangerous men who move mountain whiskey by night. They want her dock. A smooth stranger from the city wants it more. And the closer her outlaws stand guard, the harder it gets to remember who owns whom.

Tropes: Why Choose, Debt Bargain, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray Heroes, Secret Protector
Guarded by the Bratva

Curvy Queens of the Bratva · 15,125 words · about 66 min read

Paloma Quintana cleans old paintings in a one-room studio on Calle Ocho. Then three of the Varela family’s men carry the pakhan’s mother up her stairs and refuse to leave until the job is done. One bed. Three guards. And a landlord with a key.

Tropes: Why Choose, Bodyguard Romance, Forced Proximity, Curvy Heroine, Protective Mafia Men
Blood Oath at Midnight

15,170 words · about 66 min read

Lena Moss saw a murder from her ladder at midnight, and now the most feared man in South Philadelphia is in her kitchen, sent to make her disappear. His only way to save her is his name, sworn in blood. But the killer is sitting at the family table.

Tropes: Mafia, Forced Marriage, Possessive Hero, Protector, Enemies to Lovers

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Are these mafia romance stories really free?

Yes. The opening chapters are on the page, and the rest of each story unlocks for free once you confirm your email. No payment, no card, no subscription.

Are they dark romance?

They are dangerous-world romances: crime families, debts, threats and protective heroes. Each story page lists its tropes, so you can choose before you start. For the darkest stories, see the free dark romance collection.

Do I need to read them in order?

No. Each novella is a complete story with its own couple. Some are companions to a paid series; the story page names the series if it belongs to one.

How long are these mafia romance stories?

They are novellas, from 14,705 words (The Bratva Doctor, about 64 minutes) to 29,289 words (Sworn to the Consigliere, about 127 minutes). Most fall into two groups: close to 15,000 words, a little over an hour of reading, or close to 20,000 words, closer to an hour and a half. Each story page shows its exact word count and reading time.

Is there why-choose mafia romance in this collection?

Yes. The Girl Who Wouldn’t Tell, Open All Night, Kept by the River Kings and Guarded by the Bratva each pair one heroine with three men. Delphine is hidden in the bayou by three of Malachi Vane’s men, Lena’s laundromat regulars choose her, Shiloh inherits a debt to three outlaws, and Paloma gets three guards and one bed.

Is there a forced marriage or enemies-to-lovers mafia romance?

Yes. Blood Oath at Midnight lists both. Its hook: he was ordered to silence the witness, and instead he made her his wife. Its tropes also include possessive hero and protector. The Pakhan’s Voice lists enemies to lovers as well: Vera Lane was hired to write down what the Russians whispered, and she heard the one secret that could start a war.