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The Bellandi Crime Syndicate series by Adelaide Forrest features a set of full-length standalone novels each with its own HEA, but the 6 book series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order. This series contains dark elements, including an over-the-top antihero who does as he pleases. Please read at your own discretion.

Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book Series Reading Order

Bellandi Crime Syndicate Volume One

The Bellandi Crime Syndicate Box Set Volume One includes the first three full-length standalone romance books in the series: Bloodied Hands, Forgivable Sins, and Grieved Loss from writer Adelaide Forrest. These alpha men are dangerous mafia criminals at the core and boundaries do not exist in the Bellandi world.

Bloodied Hands: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 1)

She’s an innocent woman.
Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
My Angel is the one who got away—the only person in the world I love. When she is caught in an unsanctioned bank robbery in my territory, only my reputation protects her.
She should have stayed away.

Instead, she charges back into my life like a shining beacon in my otherwise bleak existence. She has no place in my world where hardened criminals toy with the lives of the innocent.
A better man would let her go — again.
There’s no white picket fence in life with Matteo Bellandi, and she deserves so much more. I pushed her away once, but now that she’s back I won’t let anything else come between us.

Not even Ivory herself.

“If you think the cops are dumb enough to get between me and my woman, think again. There isn’t anybody in this world who will save you from me.”

Forgivable Sins: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 2)

No one knows me like she does.
She’s the only one who has power over me.
I’ve loved Samara since I was a boy, since the moment I heard her sing and told her she would be my wife. I sacrificed that dream to keep her safe.
Our love is a secret, hanging unspoken between us.

Everything changes the night I find her beaten and broken by the man who should have protected her. What I have longed to do more than anything.
After all this time, the safest place for her is in my arms.
I’ve tried to be patient, to let her come to terms with the shift in our relationship, but soon I will make her mine. Time is running out for my Little Dove.

I won’t stop until she’s my wife.

“I promise, Samara. I will love you until the day I die, and then I’ll love you from Hell.”

Grieved Loss: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 3)

This shadow always follows his Sunshine.
Her life is a carefully crafted lie.
For years, I only watch my Sunshine from the shadows; my loyalty to the Bellandi world demands nothing less. When her husband is killed, the path is clear for me to step in and claim her for myself.I’ll give her a glimpse into the truth.

I give Calla and her kids one year to grieve their loss. When the year is over, I pluck them from the grey world she clings to and insert them into the vivid color of my Bellandi life.
Even when it hurts, and she rails against me.
Rising tensions in my world threaten to steal her away from me, but I won’t let anyone take what is mine. Instead, I’ll demand every piece of her: Her heart, her body. Her soul.

And I won’t stop until I’ve taken everything.

“I didn’t see it when he was alive, but I see the way you look at Mommy. It’s different. He treated her like a problem. You treat her like she’s the answer. No matter what the question is.”

Shielded Wrongs: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 4)

Every killer has a weakness.
She’s the one woman I can’t have.
She’s forbidden to the Bellandi men. Yet after one look in her honey eyes, I need to carve myself into her soul so deeply, Sadie will never forget she’s mine.
Nobody else sees through her facade.

She’s a mess of contradictions. Full of jagged edges that threaten to pull me apart at the seams and unleash the beast who lurks beneath my skin.
I’ll be her shelter through the storm.
I can’t resist her fire and rebellion. But when she’s threatened by my enemies, I’ll risk everything to keep her safe from the man who seeks to use her as a weapon against me.

Even if it costs me my humanity.

Scarred Regrets: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 5)

Broken men don’t fall in love.
We linger in the darkness, consumed by the sins that define us.
Irina is the sole reason my heart beats. She’s everything that matters in a world filled with evil that a woman so good and pure should never have to see.
She’ll add another scar to my collection — this one engraved on my heart.

When she’s taken by our enemy to use for his vengeance. Even knowing she can never be mine, I’ll stop at nothing to see her safe.
The Irina I rescue isn’t the same feisty woman they stole.
Her soul is broken. Her heart is hollow like mine, because of the things she’s seen. She needs me in a way I’ve never known.

And I will destroy the man who shattered what’s mine.

“But I was already your butterfly, Scar. Butterflies don’t change again,” I murmured, letting my arm drop back to my side. “They die.”

Totally Booked UK Review: Tissues at the ready for a heartbreaking and at times harrowing tale of finding a reason to live even after so much trauma.

From a young age, Paolo (Scar) was introduced to the harsh realities of the world he lived in. With drug addict parents who would do anything for their next fix, including selling his young body to their ‘friends’. Doing anything to keep his younger sister safe he attempts to put up with the torture as best he can. Finding his parents dead in the living room, he knows he has to get Cesca away from the house and find a way to keep her safe and fed. Until he finds her overdosed in the woods, his world collapsing around him and needing a way to avenge her death.

Fresh Start is the centre of Irina’s life, providing a safe haven for foster children and those looking to be adopted. Looking to blow off steam after a bad day, she attends a club and meets Scar. Attracted to him they char but when she kisses him he freaks out and pushed her away. Their paths cross several times across the following months and begin to understand his aversion to being touched by anyone. Saddened that he does not want to pursue a relationship with her as he blows hot and cold.

Finding out Irina has been taken by Murphy’s men, Scar is on the rampage to find her. Suffering a fate worse than death to their hands Irina isn’t sure she wants to get over the trauma she has endured. But Scar isn’t letting her go anywhere and will do anything to prove to her that they can do this together.

Settled Scores: A Dark Mafia Romance (Bellandi Crime Syndicate Book 6)

I was never meant to lead.
She was never meant to be mine, betrothed to a man born from nightmares.
Just one moment, a single glance into Aoife’s fierce gaze, and I am lost in a way I never want to be found. I’ll do whatever it takes to have her—even accept a seat I never wanted at the head of the Irish family.
She wasn’t meant to marry either man her father chose for her.

Aoife guards her heart with a sharp tongue and defiance that should turn me away. Somehow, she only ensnares me further, her moments of vulnerability awakening something inside me I didn’t know existed.
Our worlds crash together, our common enemy uniting us.
The man who intended to be her husband has waged war in our city, selling and killing the innocent alongside those we’ve both grown to care for. He won’t forget the strike against him, the knowledge that the girl he meant to be his is now my wife.

I’ll burn the world before I let him touch her.

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• Of Flesh & Bone Series
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