There’s the story where the newly returned princess is cursed to sleep until given true love’s kiss, and then there’s the actual one. The one in which Aurora Corsetti, mafia princess, returns after being sent away as a child, to endure a new life of buried secrets, an arranged marriage, and a compassionless family.
Rosen Carrigan, head soldier of the Corsetti family, is tasked with protecting the bratty, mafia princess, who insists on taunting him at every turn. Forbidden gets dangerous when a devious plot nearly takes her away from him, and like that silly fairy tale, Rosen won’t let Aurora go. In the end, not all stories end with a kiss, but rather, in war.
The Craving in Slumber is a forbidden mafia romance between the mafia princess and her bodyguard. Expect a spicy slow burn Sleeping Beauty inspired romance packed full of tension and push and pull amidst the Montreal mafia. The Craving in Slumber has content some readers may find triggering. It is the second book in Fractured Ever Afters, a series of interconnected standalones that are best read in order.
USA Today Bestselling author M.L. Philpitt writes both dark romance and paranormal romance. When she’s not writing made-up realities, she’s reading them. She lives in Canada with her four pets and survives life with coffee and an obsession with fictional characters, especially the morally grey kind. By day, she masks as a therapist, and is still waiting for her Hogwarts letter so she can be sorted into her Ravenclaw house.