The Valentini Family Series (6 Books) by Serena Akeroyd
The Valentini Family series is made up of three interconnected duets, each one focusing on a different Valentini sibling and the intense, emotional journey that shapes their happily‑ever‑after. While each duet stands firmly on its own, the siblings weave in and out of one another’s stories, creating a rich, layered family arc that’s best enjoyed in order.
The Valentini Family Series Reading Order
The Valentini Family series opens with The Oath Duet, which follows Luciu Valentini and Jennifer MacNeill as loyalty, danger, and devotion collide. It then moves into The Revelation Duet, spotlighting Aurora Valentini and Hunter Lachlan, whose story uncovers deeper family secrets and high‑stakes romance. The final duet brings everything full circle, featuring Stan Valentini and Kitty Frasier and delivering a powerful conclusion to the family’s overarching journey.
Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 338
The Don: Part One of The Oath Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 1
Blood stains my hands, my soul, my heart, yet I’ll shed more to keep her safe.
A chance meeting brings Jen MacNeill into my life—the woman born to reign at my side.
She just doesn’t know it yet.
How could my Lady be anything other than a silken promise taunting me with every breath she takes?
A new Don reigns over Manhattan.
But though I won the war, peace isn’t easily brokered.
Over a decade of avenging my father’s death, I made many enemies.
To each and every one, Jen’s a target.
But I’ll paint NYC red before I let them harm her.
I just never imagined I’d be in the line of fire first…
A heart broken by grief can feel no guilt or shame with the brutality in which vengeance is delivered.
Things to know about THE DON:
Mafia Romance
V Heroine
Stalker Hero
Family Saga
He Falls First
Instalust
No Third Act Break-Up
Rags To Riches
“A queen in the dirt, begging for food, desperate for a warm bed at night, is still a queen.”
Totally Booked UK Review
With a war raging between the different New York mafia families, Lucui drops into The 68 for an unannounced chat with Aidan O’Donnelly Jr (Five Points’ Mob), hoping for his approval to take over the fallen Fieri Italian mafia. Whilst Luciu may be Sicilian, he wants to take over the territory as a snub to the fallen family who had betrayed his family in the past. As well as help him get his hands on some stolen heirlooms. Although he was not expecting to meet Jen, a family friend of the O’Donnelly wives/girlfriends, he was immediately drawn to her.
Dinner with Savannah and Aidan O’Donnelly to meet with her ex, whose car she keyed, didn’t go to plan as he bailed, leaving her still facing a court case. Although meeting handsome Luciu helps cheer up her day. Heading to his club, Russu, to drink and dance, she is told that he is married and needs to back off. Ghosting him she continues her usual routine until New Year’s when Savannah drops two bombshells on her, running from her problems she heads to see Luc and hooks up with him despite the question mark of whether he has a wife or not.
Gold-digger Jen has done many things in the past for new shoes, handbags and more. Although she is still fiercely guarding her virginity, a part of her isn’t ready to give it to anyone. Luc can’t help but feel a connection between them, wanting to protect her and keep her safe. However, life doesn’t always pan out that way; luckily, he is there to pick up the pieces when her past comes calling.
A cliffhanger ending leads into The Lady, the second book in The Oath duet.
Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 356
The Lady: Part Two of The Oath Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 2
I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding the various factions of the mafia in NYC, yet somehow I’m in it up to my eyeballs.
I should be scared.
I should want to run.
Yet the city quivers in fear with every designer-clad footstep I take, because the Valentinis have ascended, and I’m the Don’s Lady.
It’s intoxicating.
However, Luciu comes with vendettas and a craving for vengeance that could get him killed.
With my allegiance tied to the Irish, can I say yes when he wants me to take an oath to the Sicilians?
Is a happily-ever-after on the cards when the ‘after’ isn’t even promised?
Things to know about THE LADY:
Mafia Romance
V Heroine
Stalker Hero
Family Saga
He Falls First
Instalust
No Third Act Break-Up
Rags To Riches
“We were always going to be like us. And that is perfectly imperfect. How it was always supposed to be.”
Totally Booked UK Review
Separated from Luc and dumped back at her old apartment, Jen is frantic with worry for him. Trying every way she can to find out what is happening, but she is turned away every time. Heading to see Aoife, she confesses her love for Luc; however, Aoife collapses and suffers a miscarriage, sending Jen into a spin trying to get hold of Finn, reaching out to Savannah as a last resort for help. Whilst at the hospital, she steps away for some space away from the O’Donnelly clan when she sees Luc.
Time in jail, a broken wrist, and a chance to see his great-uncle weren’t quite the homecoming he had planned, but when the DA is after you, Luc has to roll with the punches. Although finding out that Jen had been mistreated after his arrest has him putting people in their place. Finally reconnecting with Jen before having an impromptu family breakfast, which has him introducing Jen to his mother and twin sister. His siblings are not happy with the relationship, but Luc isn’t prepared to give Jen up.
On a mission to gain families’ royal jewels back, Luc ends up owing a number of favours. But if it means he gets them all back, he’ll do it. Having attempted to put her past behind her and look to the future with Luc, Jen agrees to meet with her mom one last time with almost dire consequences, revelations, revenge and greed all twisted within the concluding tale of The Oath Duet.
Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 388
The Consigliere: Part One of The Revelation Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 3
I inherited Las Vegas.
It’s mine even if I never wanted it.
I may be the Don of the Camorra, but every leader needs a Consigliere, and the only one I want belongs to the New York Sicilian Mafia.
Aurora Valentini hasn’t spoken to me in a decade, and I’m tired of waiting.
It’s time to claim what’s mine.
Whether she’s ready or not.
Things to know about THE CONSIGLIERE:
Mafia Romance
Best Friends to Lovers
Friends to Enemies to Lovers
Hacker Hero
Touch Her and Die
Powerful Heroine
Pierced MMC
Pierced FMC
D/s relationship
“You can’t run away from me forever, Sunny. This once… I’ll allow it. This once. But there are consequences for everything. As you well know.”
Totally Booked UK Review
Attending her brother’s wedding is one of the last things Aurora wants to do, not least because she doesn’t like his bride or because she is wearing a dress two sizes too small for her. This would be bad enough if it weren’t for her lifelong best friend, Hunter, making an appearance.
Although they are friends, they haven’t seen each other or spoken in person for 15 years. Conversing only via email and text after an incident that forced Rory to push him away and build walls between them. As he makes his way over, she notices a ring on his hand, one that she recognises from a different persona… D aka DDoSunlight, her online Dom!
Rewinding the years, you track their friendship, Hunter’s love for Rory and how he has been there for her through some rough times. Determined to move out of the friend zone, he seeks out information on pain kinks and trains to be a dom. Finding a sub to train with he is upfront with Sunny that he is in love with someone else, but they continue their partnership with boundaries (masks etc) before he calls time on things to pursue Rory.
Worlds collide, and Rory feels humiliated that D is, in fact, Hunter. But he soon shows her that they can be one and the same person. Whilst they attempt to discover whether this works off-screen and in real life, a territorial war breaks out in Las Vegas. His grandfather recently made requests to meet with Rory, but what does he want?
Publication Date: 21st September 2022
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 428
The Oracle: Part Two of The Revelation Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 4
I friend-zoned Hunter Lachlan because I thought he could never give me what I needed.
After a decade of pushing him away, I don’t recognise Las Vegas’s new Don.
Maybe my childhood best friend knew me better than I ever realised…
And maybe, just maybe, he’s the one man for whom I’ll kneel.
Things to know about THE ORACLE:
Mafia Romance
Best Friends to Lovers
Friends to Enemies to Lovers
Hacker Hero
Touch Her and Die
Powerful Heroine
Pierced MMC
Pierced FMC
D/s relationship
“You won’t. I’ve waited years to be the one you feel safe with, Aurora. I can take you at your best, your worst, and anything in between.”
Totally Booked UK Review
Leaving the prison, Aurora is keen to get back to see Hunter after she suspects that it was his grandfather who was the prisoner down. Those thoughts are confirmed as she has a gun pressed to her back whilst looking at a video of her brother, Stan, that has been sent across. Managing to get away, she finds her guards and heads to see Hunter and give him the sad news. Torn between Hunter’s grief and the need to find her brother, whose plan was hijacked at the airport, Rory needs to stay strong and find a solution.
Hunter can’t believe his grandfather is dead, and he is now, certainly, the head of the Camorra. Needing to compartmentalise everything happening, he arranges to marry Aurora in secret, just as his grandfather wanted, and will wait to tell the Camorra and her family that she is his wife, and he will also be acting as his consigliere. Coordinating an attack takes the help of an unlikely friend to bring Stan back relatively unharmed and to see Aurora come into her own when giving orders to the guards.
When they attend functions together, it is obvious to the outside world that something is going on between them, but they refuse to acknowledge the rumours. Aurora fails to find a way to be friendly with Luciu’s wife, Jennifer, but she is now family and needs to set aside any disdain for her. Feeling as though they can never catch a break, there is one problem after another, but as long as they are together, they can face anything, right?
Publication Date: 27th February 2026
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 442
The Capo: Part One of The Salvation Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 5
Kitty Frasier has no idea I’ll be sitting next to her on the plane when she comes onto me in the first-class lounge…
…our engagement ring burning a hole in my pocket.
In her opinion, spring break with her sisters in Mexico sounds like a good time.
But because I was too late to kidnap them from the airport, we’re flying into the epicenter of an underworld war.
No matter what she thinks, her ties to the Irish Mob put her in danger.
With only my alliances to keep us safe, Kitty’s about to learn what it means to be with the Capo of the Sicilian mafia.
And by the end of spring break, my ring will be on her finger.
Things to know about THE CAPO:
Sicilian Mafia x Irish Mob Romance
Bad Boy/ Good Girl
Broken Hero
Forced Proximity
She Falls Hard/ He Falls Harder
Age Gap
Touch Her and Die
Heroine in Danger
BAMF Heroine
Obsessive Hero
Instalust
Stalker Hero
Opposites Attract
Totally Booked UK Review
Nurse Kitty Fraser lives and breathes her job in the A&E dept and her family. She rarely thinks about her mafia-adjacent life, as her father worked for the Five Points, and now two of her brothers are part of the crew. Instead, she is dealing with drug overdoses, putting her in contact with Stan Valentini, whom she has to tell to stop swinging his dick around! Sharing CSI episodes, chocolate pudding and secret conversations with his great uncle in what started as an escape from her supervisor.
Fast-forward two years, and Kitty learns that Stan is back in the hospital, all alone. Breaking the rules by calling her brother to let his family know, as she doesn’t believe he should be alone at a time like this. Thankfully, his family were grateful to learn of his self-induced overdose, subsequent heart attack and that he’d called the ambulance himself!
Their paths cross again as she takes her sisters on a girls’ trip to Cancun, Mexico, but things go awry as mafia politics put them in the firing line. Stan comes to their rescue, and he helps navigate things in Mexico for her and her sisters, but when they attempt to relocate to Las Vegas, their plans are thwarted once again.
But as Kitty and Stan navigate a blossoming relationship, they have baggage to deal with, both personal issues and those from the mafia. But just as they begin to think of what their future could hold, they have bigger problems to face. Kitty has gone missing!
Publication Date: 10th April 2026
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Page Count: 518
The Angel: Part Two of The Salvation Duet (The Valentini Family)
Author: Serena Akeroyd
Book Series: The Valentini Family Book 6
Within hours of meeting him, I learned what it meant to be with the Sicilian Capo.
I’m a nurse. A nobody. And yet, because of him, I woke up in hell.
Somehow, I commanded Custanzu Valentini’s attention, and that put me in a set of crosshairs I wasn’t meant to survive.
He called me “his kitten.” Promised me rubies and a life of ease.
But the inferno his enemies threw me in forged a lioness.
The prince of the Sicilian mafia has met his match.
Long live the House of Valentini.
The final book in THE SALVATION DUET and the final book in THE VALENTINI FAMILY series!
Things to know about THE ANGEL:
Sicilian Mafia x Irish Mob Romance
Bad Boy/ Good Girl
Broken Hero
Forced Proximity
She Falls Hard/ He Falls Harder
Age Gap
Touch Her and Die
Heroine in Danger
BAMF Heroine
Obsessive Hero
Instalust
Stalker Hero
Opposites Attract
Totally Booked UK Review
Despite being mob-adjacent all her life, Kitty has, for the most part, never found herself in harm’s way. But her trip to Cancun and subsequent relationship with the Valentini’s Capo has had her see her fair share of horrors. This all pales in comparison to the hell she is currently facing after being taken from Stan’s home and badly beaten. Knowing that Stan will come from her is one thing, but this girl is not going down without a fight!
Heartbroken to discover that his world has put Kitty in danger, Stan is ready to take on the world to get her back. Relieved when he has his angel back in his arms, he knows that it is going to take time for her to heal from the ordeal she has just endured. Kitty is thrust into his family as she attempts to hide the kidnapping from her Irish family. Stan’s working hard to discover how and why it happened.
As the pair go on the hunt for some of the precious rubies, they meet up with Storm down in Ohio. Leading to an unexpected reunion that has Kitty taking a step away from her nursing background and into the mafia world. Is she able to bridge different factions together for the greater good?
The final book in the Valentini family series from Serena Akeroyd, which closes off some storylines whilst paving the way for new ones. After looking forward to the blossoming and breeding romance between Kitty and Stan, the last book didn’t feel like their love story – more of a conclusion to a series, with their HEA relegated to the very end and the epilogue.
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