Ruthless Stranger: Strangers to Lovers One Night Dark Mafia Romance (Mafia Wars Book 1)

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Last update: 11-17-2024


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★★★★★ Maggie Cole is an absolute savage. Her new mafia series is phenomenal and extra spicy! -Sophie Lark, Bestselling Author of Mafia Series Brutal Birthright and Kingmakers

Recently divorced, hurting, but liberated Aspen gets pulled to Vegas with her girlfriends, where she gets dangerously and intimately involved with a ruthless stranger who knows no limits. Get lost in their world and be left sweating, panting, and craving more.

He’s a Ruthless Stranger. One I can’t see, only feel, thanks to my friends who make a deal with him on my behalf.

No names. No personal details. No face to etch into my mind.

Just him, me, and an expensive silk tie.

What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas.

He warns me he’s full of danger.

I never see that side of him. All I experience is his Russian accent, delicious scent, and touch that lights me on fire.

One incredible night turns into two. Then we go our separate ways.

But fate doesn't keep us apart. When I run into my stranger back in Chicago, I know it’s him, even if I’ve never seen his icy blue eyes before.

Our craving is hotter than Vegas. But he never lied.

He’s a ruthless man…

Ruthless Stranger is the jaw-dropping first installment of the Mafia Wars series. It’s an interconnecting, age gap, strangers to lovers, stand-alone Dark Mafia Romance, guaranteed to have an HEA.


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Top reviews from the United States

book crow
5.0 out of 5 stars Love a mafia romance
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024
This is the first book in the Mafia Wars series. It starts out fast paced and lots of spicy scenes. I love that you get pov from both main characters. The supporting characters are really interesting and help move the plot along.
Amanda Garcia
4.0 out of 5 stars This was book one in the series?!
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2024
3.5 ⭐️
I was surprised after having read this book that it was book one in the series. It was written like you should have some previous knowledge of the characters and who they are. The back and forth intense emotions was crazy. Immediate one extreme to the other.

I understand this is an interconnected standalone but it didn’t feel that way when reading to me. It felt like, to me, that the book needed to be wrapped up so a bunch of random and intense moments happened in the last 20% percent of the book that it was a little hard to figure out what was going on.

Overall the book was an interesting read and had an interesting story. I think it would have been better focusing more on their one night more, or having their one night having been a novella and this novel being about them finding each other again.

It just felt really incomplete to me. Either it needed to be longer to explain things more smoothly or broken up.

Overall good read, I don’t know if I’d continue the series at this time.
Donna feibusch
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Book!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
I absolutely loved reading Ruthless Stranger(Mafia Wars Book 1)!!! All about Aspen Albright who is thirty-eight years old and zoning planner for the city of Chicago and newly divorced & Maksim Ivanov is forty-six years old a member of the Russian mafia/crime family who owns numerous legit businesses throughout Chicago with his three brothers. They met in Vegas and he overheard her telling her girlfriends who she wants to hookup with. A stranger who is much older and very experienced, who will take charge and give her many o’s and I’ll be blindfolded the entire night. After contemplating and watching her for a night and a half, he decides to approach her girlfriends and sign up for being her stranger. Read about Aspen & Maksim and see how meeting a stranger can change your whole life! Lots of emotion and plenty of toe curling does occur. The author did an incredible job with characters that came alive on the pages!!! I loved reading this book and can’t wait to read book two!!!
PugMugLuv
3.0 out of 5 stars Irritated :-( 4 stars throughout then a 1 star ending!
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2024
What am I missing? Great intense mafia story with added romance between the fmc and mmc but they're in the middle of a war,bodies were found, Boris could go to prison, the bad guy hasn't been dealt with and the book ends.
Ok cliffhanger but this is one of 10 books and I checked all the other books are each male characters in the interconnected Russian and Irish mafia family. Book two is how Boris and his wife got together...why? We don't care in book one they're already together and she's pregnant.
We need Aspen and Maksim's story to continue at the cliffhanger, why in the world is book two going backwards?
Each book after appears to be another brother or cousin's love story.
What?????
I'm frustrated, if the second book continued the story it'd make sense
I don't want to go backwards and I don't want to jump into someone else's romance when we're left with Aspen and Maksim's story unresolved.
If you want to tell us about Boris dedicate a chapter to how they met then get back to our main characters.
So irritating I don't want to waste more time reading book two to be left going what the heck?
RhondaC
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2024
This is my first book by Maggie Cole. Wow!! It was phenomenal. I loved the characters. Aspen and Maksim are made for each other. They were meant to only have one night together. Never know each others name, never contact each other, never see each other again. Fate had different plans for them. They can't stay away from each other. She has an ex husband that she thinks she is done with and he is part of the Russian community that takes out bad people.
Suki
4.0 out of 5 stars Must Read.
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2024
I loved how her best friends took her to Vegas. It's a tale of one who feels unworthy to have someone good in their life to love them. And realize that the right person will love them no matter what the past looks like and only see what the future holds.
It did kind of irritate me that Aspen had to know EVERYTHING, but then I guess I would want to know the important things too.
Tara Barley
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2024
I’m so excited to continue this series, which is not something I find often. The story between Maksim and Aspen was beautiful and I loved how we got to know the other characters coming in the following books. While this is a standalone, I feel so drawn to the family and was left wanting to know more about them all. Great read overall!
Erika R. Bradley
5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. O-O-O
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
5.0 ⭐️
3.5 ????️

Whew ???????????? what a way to start a book! I couldn’t put it down.

First - they both deserved better because their exes were horrible humans. Second - thank goodness what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas!!!

Super spicy, good storyline, really good character development and introductions to all the “key” family members. I always start to get annoyed when the “innocent” female lead tries to talk the ruthless mafia male into changing their ways and go easy on someone deserving of their wrath, and I was really glad that didn’t happen too often here. I was getting worried when the meeting happened in Kora’s office that Aspen was going to pull that card - thankfully she did not.

But, Can we talk about how no one cared Hailee hit 20k in the slots?? Like please let this be me!!!

Definitely would recommend this one. Looking forward to continuing on in the series.

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