MAURA-ANN CAIRNS BOOKS
THE BRIDE OF MARCHETTI
A Dark Romance Novel
They wanted collateral.
They chose his future wife.
Dakota Phillips never expected a business trip to Italy to end in a forced marriage to a man who despises her.
Lorenzo Marchetti is everything she should fear cold, powerful, and ruthless enough to inherit his father's criminal empire. To him, marriage is nothing more than leverage. Control. A solution to a problem.
But Dakota refuses to be obedient. And Lorenzo doesn't tolerate defiance.
Trapped inside Villa Marchetti, their marriage becomes a battlefield of power, resentment, and dangerous attraction. Every stolen glance is a challenge. Every touch a test of control. Because in Lorenzo's world, love is possession and monsters don't let go of what's theirs.
A dark mafia romance featuring forced proximity, power imbalance, enemies to lovers, and morally grey characters.
As a neurodivergent author, Maura-Ann Cairns delivers a gritty, emotional journey through the dark heart of the Marchetti empire.
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A HUNGER WRITTEN IN BLOOD (2025)
A Dark Fantasy Novel
She was a mystery he meant to ignore-until he touched her, and the carefully ordered world of Nikolas, the cursed protector, began to fracture.
Cora feels like a fraud in a world of magic, burdened by hidden scars and a volatile power she doesn't understand. All she wants is to disappear. Nikolas, bound by a bitter oath to protect the family who destroyed his own, is the last person she wants watching her. Yet he sees too much.
Enemies by circumstance, opposites by design, they're forced together as a rising war brews-fueled by ancient bloodlines and buried betrayals. And survival means trusting each other. A dangerous proposition when every glance burns, and every touch sparks something forbidden.
Hate is a shield. But love? Love shatters.
When Cora's devastating secret is unleashed-her cursed blood, her awakening magic-Nikolas must choose between the duty that defines him and the woman who's awakened a hunger he can no longer deny.
Desire is a dangerous path. But the hunger for truth-and for each other-might be even deadlier.
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A LOVE WRITTEN IN BLOOD (2025)
A dark fantasy novel
Her silence was her shield, her grace a carefully constructed lie. Princess Elora's marriage to a powerful prince was a brutal cage, until his plot to murder her and her unborn child unleashed a desperate cry answered by three shadowed wardens.
One will steal her heart.
Among them is Lucian, a man forged in secrets and etched with scars, a warden who vowed never to feel again. But Elora's quiet strength is a dangerous temptation. Their forbidden connection could be her salvation or the ultimate betrayal.
As the kingdom's dark truths unravel and enemies emerge from the shadows, Elora must risk everything for freedom, even her heart. But in a realm where blood paves the streets, can she trust the man she loves to be her light, or is he the darkness she should truly fear?
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HIS MASTERPIECE (coming September)
Dark academia romance novel
The art world is built on obsession. But his goes far beyond the canvas.
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Twenty-four-year-old Maisie Evans has her sights set on becoming an artist. As a second-year student at Aether University, she’s supposed to be focusing on her final exams and sharpening her brushwork. Instead, she’s completely distracted by her brilliant, freezing, and impossibly imposing art lecturer, Nathan Kim.
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Nathan is 6'5" of pure, protective command. He’s cold, arrogant, and the one man every student at Aether knows better than to cross. He also happens to be her best friend’s stepbrother, a man Maisie has known since childhood.
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Maisie thinks her intense infatuation is a one-way street until an accidental, un-deletable SMS message sends a private, explicit photo straight to her professor's phone.
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What Maisie doesn't know is that Nathan hasn't just been grading her art. He’s been watching her for months from the shadows. He knows her routines. He knows her secrets. And now that the boundary between professor and student has blurred, Nathan has no intention of letting her go.
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