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Keira Hawkins thought that the new library patron, Nate, was disgusted by the birthmark decorating her face. But then, he asked to go on a date with her during their next meeting. 

The innocence of love at the first sight turned dangerously annoying when Nate refused to leave her side.

Thankfully, with a mean slap to the face, done rightly in public by her mighty right hand, had rendered Nate to cease his nonsensical doings. 

And yet...

One unsuspecting morning, she woke up on the most comfortable bed, in an unfamiliar room, cradled in the arms of a gorgeous man she crowned as the most annoying patron of the week.

"You're the one who came to me," whispered Nathaniel Wolfe – the mafia lord who reigns over the east side of the country.

It wouldn't be easy to shake him off. 

Moreover when she found a locked door in the library basement - the entrance to where some lost treasures were hidden in the maze, or so Nate said. 

Intrigued, Keira joined Nate on his quest to find the lost treasures before another mafia family find it first.

Mafia Lord's Librarian: A Satire of Love at First Sight

Now, safely settled in the fancy Presidential Suit she could never afford by herself - and even if she could, she would never spend the money she saved for months in exchange for a night feeling like a queen – Keira stared at the pretty diamond-like lamps above her.

With hair freshly shampooed and dried, she tried to close her eyes and let sleep claim her.

Alas, it was not as easy as she thought.

Flashes of the grotesque ghosts and their knives and claws came back in vivid details behind her closed eyes. Keira gasped, sitting up with chest heaving.

"They're not real," she whispered, convincing herself. Though not successfully, it seemed.

Because the next time she fell asleep, her fatigued mind supplied another stark image of her would-be killers. She woke up with a start – her phone chimed a moment later.

A Mom's Wildest Fantasy