Winter Heat: A Gay Mafia Christmas Rescue MM Romance (Mafia+ Book 2)

Violence made us a couple. Christmas might be the thing that breaks us.Adrian is the gun in Nikki Rivera’s hand—the ex-Army sniper who turned his dishonorable discharge into a full-time job keeping our queer empire alive. I’m the ghost in her machines—the hacker she dragged out of a torture chair and turned into a weapon with a laptop instead of a rifle.Together, we keep the worst monsters away from Liquid, the nightclub that doubles as sanctuary for every queer kid New York chews up.This winter, the monsters change shape.A rescued teen whispers about a “Christmas run.” My code digs deeper and finds Snowfall Logistics: refrigerated trucks moving “party stock” across state lines like we’re meat on a manifest. The more I trace their routes, the more bodies I see in the gaps where data should be. Adrian wants to burn it all down yesterday. Nikki wants proof before she risks open war with the Bratva.I tell myself I can handle the intel—the photos, the manifests, the encrypted client lists. Then we crack open a hijacked truck on a dark winter highway and a half-frozen boy with a Ukrainian accent wraps his arms around my neck and won’t let go.Noel’s trauma is a live grenade in the middle of our life. Adrian sees how the kid looks at me and hates himself for being jealous. I see the way Adrian flinches at every Christmas song and hate that I can’t hack his nightmares the way I hack security feeds.When Snowfall hits back, we run out of time to argue ethics. Adrian gears up for a Christmas Eve assault on a “seafood” warehouse that smells like blood and freezer burn. I lock myself into a command van, juggling hacked cameras, power grids, and a sadistic lieutenant who thinks he can bargain with lives.The plan: crack the warehouse, track Noel’s kidnapper to an abandoned Queens rail yard, and bring everyone home.The reality: blackout streets, cages full of shaking men, gunfire echoing off shipping containers, and a choice between the kind of justice you put in a courtroom and the kind you bury in the snow.If we do this Nikki’s way, half the city’s corrupt elite will choke on their own secrets. If we pull back, Snowfall keeps running and kids like Noel disappear into the cold forever.Either way, Adrian and I have to live with the bodies we leave behind—and the ones we can’t save.WINTER HEAT is a high-heat M/M dark mafia Christmas romance and Book 2 in the Mafia+ series, following Adrian and Mateo from Liquid Heat as they go to war against a queer trafficking ring. Expect dual first-person POV, explicit on-page spice, rough edges with tender aftercare, found-family bunker life, and a hard-won HEA that leaves them with plans for a future that looks suspiciously like hope. Can be read as a standalone, but hits harder after Book 1.Perfect for readers who love:🎄 Dark Christmas romances with guns, snow & glittering city lights🧷 Queer found family running clinics, safe houses & a deadly nightclub💪🏼 Ex-military bodyguard x brilliant hacker boyfriends (established couple)🚚 Human-cargo truck rescues, bunker war rooms & tactical raids💔 PTSD, jealousy, guilt & messy moral grey zones handled with care🔥 High-heat M/M with explicit sex, power play, and intense aftercare🏙️ Gritty New York mafia politics, Bratva enemies & a ruthless queer queen Read more