Overview

He rides in like a hero, but he’s the Devil underneath.

Carver

When I came out, I lost everything, but I found Matteo, and together, we built a life, so how can it all disappear in a single night?

We had just adopted our son, two-year-old Dean. Matteo insisted I be the one who stayed home with him, and it made so much sense. I could work remotely, but my ‘perfect’ husband died, dropping a massive debt that he’d kept hidden. That would’ve been bad enough. Of course, Mateo was always an overachiever. He went out with his mistress by his side.

Now, loan sharks keep coming. They want everything, and as if I didn’t need enough guilt, the world won’t let me forget my philandering spouse’s mistress left her newborn daughter behind too. She left a husband too.

Wealthy and good looking enough for billboards, Dean Bruce certainly had the face of a guardian angel, but I didn’t think it would be mine. Nannying wasn’t my dream job, but Dean cleared my debts and promised to ensure nobody came looking to take my son away in the midst of this mess.

Sure, he’s more invested in his daughter, and even my son, than my dead husband. I just might be falling for him, but there’s a darkness to him, and I might just have made a deal with the Devil.

Dean

Nobody betrays me. Finding out my wife slept with a dirty accountant on my dime, I did what I always do. I made a plan. I cleaned up the mess. People ended up dead. Even better, in the aftermath, I met Carver Morelli.

He’s not what I expected. For someone practically collared by his husband, he has teeth, and my daughter needs that. She deserves someone who will kill before seeing anyone even look at her the wrong way.

I didn’t expect what seeing him in my home would do. I’ve never looked twice at a man. Maybe it’s just how well he takes care of the children that drives me wild. Wires get crossed. Our deal is for a year, but whatever set him in my sights, I’ve no intention of letting him walk away.

Dealing with the Devil is an intense straight-to-bisexual dark mafia romance stand-alone complete with a HEA and no cliffhangers.