The Badge: A Mafia cowboy romance (Redemption Ranch Book 1)

Name: The Badge: A Mafia cowboy romance (Redemption Ranch Book 1)
Author: Lena Hendrix

Lena Hendrix

Book 1 in the Redemption Ranch series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A mafia cowboy with a badge anchors this redemption-tinged romance where law and crime blur. It is for readers who love a morally grey alpha torn between duty and desire, plus the dusty heat of a ranch-set crime world. Expect possessive devotion, forbidden tension, and a hero whose protective streak runs as dangerous as the secrets he keeps. Gritty, steamy, and full of high-stakes longing.

At a glance

The Badge is a mafia romance by Lena Hendrix. It rates 4/5 for spice and 3/5 for darkness, on the lighter side for mafia romance: of the 1,110 mafia romance books we rate, almost none score lower for darkness and 17% lower for spice. Tropes: standalone-in-series, stalker and alpha hero. Standalone-in-series is one of the less common tropes in our catalogue. 1 content warning is listed below, hidden until you tap.

Tropes

Alpha Hero Forbidden Romance Morally Grey MC Possessive-Obsessive MC Stalker Standalone-in-Series

Book details

Published: March 2022

The Badge spice level

The Badge is rated 4/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: explicit and frequent, meaning multiple detailed scenes, with heat central to the story. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate