Just Call Me Angel Series

Angel Martin plans to marry Tony and live happily ever after, until Tony disappears. Nursing a broken heart, she takes a job at Tetterbaum’s Pub, unaware it is the most prestigious Mafia hangout in Chicago. She finds herself suddenly caught in the middle of a revengeful scheme from a past she’s never known and a blackmail scandal that has left several dead; and she’s next on the hit list. Racing to find answers, Angel’s life is left hanging in a twisted balance of deception and revenge, and the only way out is to expose the truth...Tetterbaum's Truth. This is the first book in the Just Call Me Angel suspense series by S.R.Claridge.

Angel tries to adjust to her new role as head of the Maratinzano Crime Family, soon realizing that Mafia life offers little down time. The sudden kidnapping of her mother leads Angel down a path to a past she’s never known and toward an adversary she cannot identify. When an FBI bust against her family is fueled by someone on the inside, Angel turns to the other Chicago Bosses for answers; but every lead ends up cold and stiff. Racing to save the people she loves most, Angel must learn to trust her instincts, even when she comes face-to-face with the scariest truth yet...there are Traitors Among Us. Traitors Among us is the second book in the Just Call Me Angel suspense series. The first book is Tetterbaum's Truth.

Angel knows the brutal attack on Tetterbaum’s Pub didn’t come from one of the Chicago Five, but convincing Giovanni is another story. When he orders a hit on her most trusted men, she must walk a fine line between compassion and rage to flush out the infiltrators before it’s too late. In a world where traitors are friends and friends become enemies, Angel’s only hope of stopping the Russian uprising is to turn against her own blood Russian Uprising is the third book in the Just Call Me Angel suspense series. Other books in the series are: Book one: Tetterbaum's Truth Book two: Traitors Among Us Book three: Russian Uprising Book four: Death Trap Book five: Loose Ends

It’s been a year since Angel discovered her true identity in the Mafia world and being the first female boss has had its challenges. She’s been kidnapped, shot at, Tasered, blown up and thrown out of a plane. Not many women can say that. Through it all she has learned that family loyalty means everything, traitors are not tolerated and love can be deadly. Tragedy strikes on the eve of a Maratinzano celebration when a nerve gas attack renders several Bosses dangerously exposed. Racing to secure her family before the assailant strikes again, Angel must ignore appearances, re-write the rules and erase everything she knew of good and bad. No one can be trusted and everyone is a mark. Unraveling the truth means tying up loose ends so they cannot ensnare the family again. The only problem is... some loose ends aren’t fit to be tied. Loose Ends is the fifth book in the Just Call Me Angel suspense series by S.R.Claridge.

When Giovanni’s private jet explodes with Angel presumably on board, the family is thrust into crisis, and Angel is forced into hiding. She watches in horror as her men are lured one by one into a trap of death, with their only chance for survival falling on the shoulders of a stranger with an unstable past. Tempers flare and bullets fly as the lines of family loyalty blur into a melting pot of Mafia destruction, where Angel must face the suffocating reality that her only hope of staying alive is in playing dead.

The seventh book in the Just Call Me Angel suspense series. Just when it appears that the sins of her family’s past have been forgiven and forgotten, a brutal attack against all five mafia families turns the city upside down and leaves the Maratinzanos exposed. Searching for answers, Angel discovers that the family bloodlines are not as they seem, forcing her to face the ruthless reality that devotion and deception are interwoven, loyalty surpasses love, and, in the end, its price can only be paid in blood. Navigating through honest lies and false truths, Angel realizes that her path has been pre-ordained and to gain it all she must lose everything.

Some might say Angel has it all. Power. Money. Love. But she’s lacking the one thing she needs now more than ever... Loyalty. When a simple favor to Olga lands Angel in the middle of a shootout which almost costs her, her life; there are questions. When the man who has always protected her now stands against her; there are doubts. And when a search for answers reveals the players involved in an assassination attempt against His Eminence; there is panic. Shot, kidnapped, drugged and betrayed, Angel must put her personal feelings aside to uncover the truth, reveal the lies and intervene before it is too late. The plot thickens when unlikely paths collide and lines of loyalty blur into a muddle of mafia mayhem; where being in the right place at the wrong time might just be an intervention of the Divine.