Deviant Hearts

Dark Hearts, Book 1

De: Jagger Cole

Narrado por: Ryan West, Sophie Daniels

To stop a mafia war, I'm being forced to marry my sworn enemy.

A brutal, domineering, and lethally beautiful monster with a body built for violence, Ares Drakos—new king of the Drakos Mafia family—is every inch the God of War he's named after.

And now, I belong to him.

Our unholy union is meant to end the bloodshed between the Irish and Greeks. A rising tide to lift all ships.

A match made in hell. And if we can't stop killing each other, "until death do us part" might happen before we can say "I do."

It's not supposed to be real. Until it becomes something else. Something dark, dangerous, and deliciously deviant.

The God of War might be invading my bed, my dreams, and my every sinful desire. But there's one thing he'll never conquer.

My heart.

Deviant Hearts is a standalone dark mafia, arranged marriage, enemies-to-lovers romance with a smart, untamable heroine and an ultra-possessive hero with "look at her and I'll unalive you" energy. This is the explosive start to the Dark Hearts mafia series. For mature listeners. No cliffhanger. HEA included.

©2022 Jagger Cole (P)2025 Podium Audio

He falls first for "his wife".

4⭐️ 4🌶 5🎙

Deviant Hearts by Jagger Cole was a delicious mafia romance, albeit mostly predictable. I devoured the audiobook.

New York was controlled by rival Drakos and Kildare families. But constant war between them is allowing other crime families to encroach and threaten to take over. In an attempt to unite the families and stop the feud, Ares Drakos and Neve Kildare are forced into an arranged marriage.

Despite their vast differences and hatred toward one another, their attraction and chemistry are palpable. Neve enjoys being contrary just to get a rise out of Ares in more than one way. 😉 Forced Proximity worked its magic to get them over their differences. Ares is an Alpha MMC and definitely fell first. Neve had moments depicting the Queen she is, but it wasn't consistent. I wanted more. I loved the Drakos-Kildare family and can't wait for the next audiobook!

The audiobook narrated by Ryan West and Sophie Daniels was oh so steamy. I ate it up! They were great at storytelling. I was immersed in all the intensity and intimacy.

Sooo good

Sexy, dominate, passion, love, s@x, what more could you want in a JC book!? My favorite of his so far in Audible.
Love the narrators too.

Strong Greek MMC, Fierce Irish FMC

Fmc is strong, competent, intelligent, brash, stubborn, a bit messy and spits fire. MMC is possessive, intense, stubborn, protective, cocky, and straight laced. Story-marriage of convenience between mafia families. FMC is completely blindsided. MMC put the deal together but doesnt really want this (outside of obvious attraction). FMC/MMC banter is great and engaging. Their growth together and getting to know one another is fun to read.

The MMC is a bit arrogant and stubborn but puts effort in and the fmc is a bit traumatized from her life being pulled out from under her and acts out. She doesn’t do anything too crazy but she isn’t as committed in the beginning for obvious reasons. I didn’t like the MMC ignoring her for a week the day after the wedding, FMC did too (and started it) but imo MMC had a lot more time to acclimate to the idea and should have extended more olive branches. She had literally found out like days before. She had also almost just died so there’s that too lol

I thought I was gonna hate her fam but I ended up really liking them outside of the whole blindsiding.. MMC fam was cool too, I’m excited to hear MMCs sisters story. I think FMC sister story will be a body guard/mafia princess age gap trope so that should be fun.

Fmc has trauma from her past and a man with a vendetta against her, and the MMC is mostly navigating his mafia and the new alliance. I like the characters, they all have their own little quirks and contribute to the story well. Spicy scenes were amazinggg! MMC is fantastic with the talking her thru it. Having both POVs thru out the book was also fun. No preg tropes, no cheating, no other m/w, HEA, found family, marriage of convenience, spice 4.5-5, violence 3-3.5, satisfying ending. She throws up on his shoes lol

Deviant Hearts

Jagger Cole is one of my favorite authors. I loved this book, it's an amazing start to a new series. Both narrators did an amazing job doing the couple.

Ares and Neve

This audiobook is incredible! Ares & Neve couldn’t have had better voices to bring them to life, Sophie Daniels & Ryan West did a fantastic job displaying the characters emotions and making this a fun experience.
Jagger Cole books are very easy to read to, and the audiobook is no exception, as I mentioned before, the audio takes the experience to a whole another level. Ares & Neve made me go through intrigue, passion, excitement, longing, etc so I was very happy for their well earned HEA (as always, the plot twists made me pause for a moment bc whaaat omg s good) and they are the perfect start of a series.