Shadow Dance (Gangland Hearts Book 3)

Jaime

When you wear two faces for too long, it’s easy to forget which one is real.

I’ve worked for years to infiltrate the syndicates running the West Coast, dismantling their criminal empires from within. It’s a ruthless world, but nobody wears the mask better than I do. 

Until I’m handed my most challenging assignment yet: protect the boss’s girlfriend. 

Maeve, with her beauty and grace, is unlike anyone I’ve ever met. I’m supposed to keep things professional, but every time she looks at me with those pretty green eyes, every time she confides in me, the line between duty and desire blurs. 

Now I’m trapped in an impossible dance, forced to protect the woman I’m falling for from a world she wishes she could escape.

If she ever finds out who I really am, it won’t just shatter her trust … it will put both our lives on the line. 

Living a lie is easy—until you fall for the one person who deserves the truth.

Maeve

Sometimes loving yourself means choosing your own path.

All I’ve ever wanted is a life on stage, far from the shadows of the criminal underworld. Every pirouette feels like a step toward freedom—but it’s hard to dance when I’m being pulled back into a world I don’t want. 

It doesn’t help that the man I once loved has turned into someone I barely recognize. 

Then I’m given a new bodyguard. Jaime is inconveniently handsome and has beautiful, brown eyes that see way too much. And unlike the other guys in the crew, he makes me feel safe. Seen. Loved.

When the walls start closing in, I’m forced to rely on the man who makes my heart race while navigating the treacherous world I yearn to leave behind. But is he who he says he is?

Love can’t survive when deception is the only thing holding it together.

Shadow Dance is a suspenseful, steamy mob romance. M/f, forced proximity, forbidden, secret identity, bodyguard.

It's the third book of the Gangland Hearts trilogy, which should be read in order. Recommended for mature audiences.

Content Warning: Physical Abuse and Rape (not perpetrated by main character), Drug use, Violence.