Two Miami crime families. Three couples used as pieces in a game they didn’t know they were playing. And one puppetmaster who designed all of it—right up until the weapons turned on him.
The Vece and Marzio families have been enemies, rivals, and reluctant allies—and Alessandro Torrino has been pulling the strings of both for longer than either of them knows. The RUBIKS series follows three couples across the fault lines of that war: a forced marriage that becomes something neither captor nor captive planned for, a trauma bond forged in a seventy-two-hour siege that was designed to kill them both, and a fourteen-year revenge plot derailed by the one man who already knows everything.
Each book is a power play. Each one ends with the wrong person winning. And in all three, the thing Torrino never built into his design is the only thing that matters: a choice.
Book One
NOT SO SWEET
Bianca & Dante
He kidnapped her to win a war. She rewrote the contract and took his empire instead.
Dante Vece built his Miami empire on three unbreakable rules: never negotiate, never show weakness, never feel. When his rival Vito Marzio refuses a territorial merger, Dante’s response is surgical—take Vito’s daughter, apply pressure, close the deal.
Bianca Marzio has survived being taken before. She survived it by becoming something harder than fear. She’ll survive this the same way—except this time, the cage comes with a marriage contract, and Bianca has forty-seven pages of ideas about how to rewrite it in her favour.
What begins as political leverage becomes something neither of them planned for: a forced proximity that turns tactical, then intimate, then essential. As Torrino’s forces breach the compound and surveillance cameras are exposed as enemy-controlled, Dante has to decide what he is actually willing to burn down to get her back.
His empire. His composure. The walls he built so nothing could ever matter this much again.
Alternating First Person (Bianca & Dante) • HEA
Book Two
TOO NUMB TO LOVE
Lucia & Luca
He was ready to die. She was trained not to feel. Neither of them expected the other.
Luca Vece counts bullet wounds like other men count days. He came back from his last mission with seventeen new scars and a death wish too professional to act on directly. He doesn’t want saving. He doesn’t want anything.
Lucia Marzio is a weapon in designer clothes. Her father spent years conditioning the feeling out of her—no attachment, no sentiment, no reaction that can be leveraged. She is perfectly functional and perfectly alone, and she has made peace with both.
When the two families broker an alliance through marriage, Luca and Lucia are the sensible choice: capable enough to survive the transition, expendable enough to risk. They are not supposed to matter to each other. But in a seventy-two-hour safe-house lockdown after the wedding siege, something shifts. Two people who have spent years refusing to be known—suddenly known.
The conspiracy that manufactured their proximity has been watching every moment. The Mateo betrayal, the Rodriguez files, the surveillance devices planted in rooms they thought were private—all of it points to a plan that uses their bond as the mechanism for a simultaneous kill. What was designed to destroy them becomes the only thing that saves them. But only if both of them choose to survive.
Alternating First Person (Lucia & Luca) • HEA
Book Three — Series Finale
GHOST INNOCENCE
Sofia & Nico
She came to burn his world down. He offered her a throne inside it instead.
Sofia Marzio has been planning this for fourteen years. She has the explosives, the access codes, and the exit route. What she doesn’t have is the two minutes she needs before Nico Vece steps out of the shadows and tells her he has been watching her for weeks. He knows about the foundation charges. He knows about the revenge plan. He knows about her mother.
His offer: marry him or be arrested. His evidence: the same explosive signature that killed her mother also killed his—and the man responsible has been using both their families as pieces in a game neither of them knew they were playing.
Alessandro Torrino designed Sofia’s entire life as a weapon. He engineered her grief, shaped her skills, and pointed her at a target that would serve his own ends. Now she has the intelligence, the partnership, and the one thing Torrino never built into his design—a choice.
The weapon is going to turn on him. He just doesn’t know it yet.
Alternating First Person (Sofia & Nico) • Full Series HEA
Series Tropes
Book 1 — Not So Sweet
Book 2 — Too Numb to Love
Book 3 — Ghost Innocence
Throughout All Three Books
Series Details
Series: RUBIKS Series — 3 Books
Book 1: Not So Sweet — Bianca & Dante — HEA
Book 2: Too Numb to Love — Lucia & Luca — HEA
Book 3: Ghost Innocence — Sofia & Nico — Full Series HEA
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance / Crime Thriller
Heat Level: Explicit, Open-Door
POV: Alternating First Person — all three books
Setting: Miami — Vece and Marzio crime families
Format: Connected trilogy — Torrino threat escalates across all three; each romance standalone readable
Ending: HEA in every book; full series resolution in Book 3
The Complete RUBIKS Series
Three guaranteed HEAs. Six people designed to be weapons. And one puppetmaster who forgot that weapons have a direction of their own.
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