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Callous Love: A Dark Mafia Romance (New York Underworld)

Charmaine Pauls

Book 5 in the New York Underworld series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A New York underworld mafia romance where callous love is the only kind two dangerous souls know how to give. Ruthless power plays meet real vulnerability underneath.

At a glance

Callous Love is book 5 in Charmaine Pauls’s New York Underworld series; to read in order, start with Coerced Kiss. Spice 3/5, darkness 4/5 — mid-range for mafia romance. Among 931 rated mafia romance books, 32% are less dark and almost none less spicy. Tagged tropes include forbidden romance, morally grey MC and possessive-obsessive MC. It is about as dark as Charmaine Pauls’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.0/5). It runs to 442 pages. 1 content warning is listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Pages
442
Published
April 2026

Callous Love spice level

Callous Love is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate

Callous Love content warnings

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  • Graphic Violence

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