by C.R. Jane
First published 2022
Dahlia Butcher knows monsters. She grew up inside a family that earned its name. So when she gets sold to the Rossi crime family, the most powerful players in New York City's Cosa Nostra, she does not fall apart. Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi believe they have purchased something they can break. They are wrong. Dahlia has been surviving men like this since she was eight years old, and the Rossis, for all their power, may not be the worst thing she has ever faced. She moves through their world, watches how it works, and refuses to shrink. The three brothers want to own her completely. What none of them expect is that she wants something too. The tension between Dahlia and the Rossi men twists in directions she did not plan for. She came in ready to fight. She stays because the fight starts to feel like something else. Ruining Dahlia is a standalone reverse harem novel set in the dark Mafia Wars world, recommended for readers 18 and older.
Genres: romance, crime, adult, adult-fiction, dark-romance
Vibes: dark, gritty, intense, steamy, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-romance, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, reverse-harem
Setting: New York City
Period: Contemporary
534 pages · Paperback · Fated Wings Publishing
Content warnings: abuse, explicit-sexual-content, violence