Luca

You will instantly get sucked into the world of Ruin and Revenge when you read the second series, Luca, one of the mafia bad boys. The author spares no details with the grittiness of her stories. These are not your fluffly mafia guys that you know are bad but never see their sides. Oh no. You see it, feel it, and downright taste it in these books. As the senior capo for the Toscani crime family, Luca may take his fashion seriously with his three piece suits, but he's certainly not afraid to get his hands dirty. When he takes a bullet for his boss, Nico, a visit to the hospital changes everything for the man that never thought he'd find himself in love. *JK*

Wreaking Revenge

Mark Suter is a handsome English Lit professor at Tarble, an all-girl college in Wisconsin. But he has managed to have a string of affairs with some of his students. In fact, he is the reason that Ruby Rousseau has never graduated. When Ruby left Tarble she was at an all-time low, questioning her sanity and nursing a shattered heart. She is slowly putting pieces of her life back together when a piece of luggage belonging to Beth, a classmate from college is delivered to her door. Ruby does not want to return to Tarble and re-open old wounds, but she senses Beth needs her help.  The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen is a mystery that interweaves literature, love, betrayal and revenge. DB   

A Stolen Identity

At first glance, Alexandra “Zan” Moreland seems to have everything going for her. She is a beautiful interior designer with a promising career in NYC. In reality she is an orphaned divorcee who has been the victim of a heinous crime. Her adorable toddler son Matthew has been kidnapped and the police have no leads after two long years. Now, as she competes with her former boss for an exclusive decorating job, she finds out someone is using her credit cards. Furthermore, on the anniversary of her son’s disappearance, new information surfaces and Zan becomes a suspect.  I’ll Walk Alone is a classic Mary Higgins Clark novel. It’s an intriguing story of child abduction, identity theft and revenge. DB

Family Secrets

In Erin Kelly's new book, Burning Air, the McBride family, who have a upper-class privileged life, gather at their country home the first time since the death of their mother Lydia. There, secrets emerge, most shockingly a stranger in their midst who is plotting revenge on every member of the family for an imagined bad deed by their mother from years before. We gradually learn, as the tension mounts, just what happened so many years ago and how one lie created so much misery. Well written and compelling, this novel will hold your attention.