Welcome to The Dark
In The Dark, the old rules are gone. What replaced them is worse.
The Concept
In the real world, RICO broke the American mafia in the 1980s and 90s. It still exists, stripped of the reach and structure it once had.
The fiction of this series asks a different question.
What if those families hadn't shrunk—and hadn't stayed only what they were? What if they'd evolved instead, drawing in players from every corner of the underworld, going deeper, learning to live behind the regular world, building their own laws inside it?
That world is what the people inside it call The Dark.
The Series
The Dark Series is a collection of interconnected dark mafia romance duets and standalones. Each duet or standalone is a complete story with its own couple and can be read independently, but a larger narrative runs through all of them for readers who want to follow it.
The Dark Series I is the first arc in the larger Dark universe.
Step in wherever you like.
The Dark will be waiting.
Where to Start
The Once More Duet is where The Dark Series I begins.
Haya Yaisien has spent her whole life surviving the Naess compound by disappearing into the background.
Andreas Barros has spent the last six years in prison for a crime that wasn't his.
When he comes home, the rules she's lived by no longer apply and the only question left is whether she survives him, or becomes his.
dark mafia romance · morally dark hero · possessive love ·
slow burn to obsession
Once More is available now on Kindle Unlimited. With Teeth releases May 12, 2026.
The Dark Series I REAding Order
Each duet and standalone can be read at any point in the series. The order below is recommended, not required.
Exceptions will be noted.
The Once More Duet—Haya & Andreas’s Story
2. The Primal Neon Duet—Stay Tuned