I read Navessa Allen’s Caught Up so you might not have to.
It’s a dark, mafia-adjacent romance between Nico “Junior” Trocci—the heir to a violent crime family—and Lauren Marchetti, the sweet girl from his past who’s not so sweet anymore.
After years of humiliation, Lauren has rebuilt herself, curating an online persona and finding belonging in a secretive play club.
When she and Junior reconnect, his criminal legacy, obsessive tendencies, and their tangled history make their relationship less about happily-ever-after and more about surviving the weight of desire, trauma, and revenge.
If you like your romance morally gray, laced with blood and lust, and set in the shadows of family crime and betrayal, then this one might grab you.
