Gianna Cross — Dark Mafia Romance. Blood runs thicker in Brooklyn.
The World
Brutal Vows
Three families. Three generations of alliances, betrayals, and marriages that were never about love. Bensonhurst is where they all started — the same bakeries, the same churches, the same streets.
Corsetti
The largest operation in the five boroughs — run from a compound at the highest point on the eastern seaboard.
Sorrentino
The waterfront and the ports. Sons raised to be weapons, holding the channel by force.
Castellano
Mansions behind iron gates. Construction money, old alliances, and a guest list that doubles as an org chart.
And somewhere underneath all of it, a dead man's money is keeping everything running.
The Brutal Vows trilogy follows different couples across this world — each book a different corner of the machine, a different love story no one authorized, and another layer of the truth peeled back.
By the time it's over, nothing will be where you left it.
Back Room · Bath Avenue
A Sit-Down with Gianna
Sit down. The coffee's already poured — espresso, the way it's meant to be. We don't do to-go here.
I write about families that look like the one that raised me, in a neighborhood that doesn't forget — Bensonhurst, where everybody knows your name, your grandmother's recipe, and exactly how much you owe. I know which bakery, which church, which corner you don't stand on after dark. You can't fake this. I'm not.
My men are dangerous, and they won't apologize for it. My women are worse — they've spent their whole lives being underestimated, which is the last mistake anyone makes. Everyone in this world will tell you love is a transaction. My heroines believe it too… right up until the moment it gets them killed — or saves them. Sometimes both.
I'm not going to tell you how it ends. That's not how a sit-down works. You sit. You listen. You keep your mouth shut. And you learn what everyone learns eventually: every vow has a price — and some of them you pay in blood.
So. You in, or you out?
Gianna
Before You Knock
What to Expect
In this neighborhood? You never know what's coming. Except these.
- Real Brooklyn & Staten Island — Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Red Hook, Dyker Heights, Todt Hill. Streets the author grew up on.
- Heroes raised to be weapons — and only now discovering they might also be men.
- Heroines who remember everything — they survived by watching and listening, and they're done being underestimated.
- Heat 5, door off the hinges — explicit, raw, power that shifts between the sheets.
- Italian-American, from the inside — Sunday sauce, sfogliatelle from 18th Avenue, christenings where the guest list doubles as an org chart.
- Loyalty as armor and cage — the people who'd die for you are the ones you might have to destroy.
- Conspiracies & old debts — financial machines, buried secrets, and dead men who aren't actually dead.
- Dual POV — both sides of every lie.
- A trilogy that builds — different couples per book, one arc, the truth closer with every installment.
Every Ambrosia book is heat-rated. Gianna writes at the very top of the scale:
Her books run Scorching — the door isn't just open, it's off the hinges. Always explicit, always character-driven.
Word on the Street
What Readers Are Saying
I read Blood Debt in one sitting and then sat in the dark thinking about what Dominic Sorrentino has done to my standards.
★★★★★Gianna Cross writes Brooklyn like she grew up there. Because she did. You can smell the bakery and feel the concrete.
★★★★★The tension in these books is unbearable. Every chapter I thought someone was going to die and I couldn't stop turning pages.
★★★★★I came for the mafia romance and stayed for the heroines. These women are terrifying in the best possible way.
★★★★★This is not your cute mafia romance. This is sfogliatelle and a switchblade. I am ruined.
★★★★★Ebooks · Paperbacks · Audiobooks — Worldwide
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Buy wherever you please — but buy here, and you keep it in the family. — Gianna
The Author
About Gianna
Gianna Cross writes dark mafia romance set in the Italian-American neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Staten Island — the kind of streets where everyone knows your family name, your grandmother's recipe, and exactly how much trouble you're in.
Her heroes are enforcers, strategists, and sons of men who built empires on handshakes and violence. They don't apologize. They don't explain. They move through the world with the kind of quiet control that makes you wonder what happens when it breaks. And then it breaks — because of her.
Her heroines are not rescued. They are the daughters, the wives, the women who were supposed to stay invisible — who sat at kitchen tables memorizing every word, every number, every lie. They carry ceramic knives strapped to their thighs and go bags in Penn Station lockers. They learned long ago that love in this world is a transaction. They are about to be proven wrong in the most dangerous way possible.
Every book is first-person dual POV. His chapters are body-as-ledger — scars catalogued, debts measured, violence contained. Hers are memory-palace sharp — every detail filed, every exit mapped, every betrayal archived. Together, the story becomes a slow collision between two people who were never supposed to want each other.
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