Filthy Lies: A Mafia Romance That Breaks the Rules and Your Heart

What if the truth could destroy you—but the lies already did?

In Filthy Lies, Serena Akeroyd peels back the layers of the Five Points’ Mob world to deliver one of the most emotionally raw and intimately charged love stories in the series. This is more than a dark mafia romance—it’s a reckoning between two people whose bond was forged in pain, broken by betrayal, and haunted by everything left unsaid.

Conor and Star are no strangers to this world of violence, loyalty, and unspoken codes. But their story isn’t just about navigating the brutality of the mob—it’s about surviving the aftermath of secrets too deep to ignore and a love too fierce to kill. Filthy Lies is the kind of book that doesn’t just entertain—it hurts. In the best, most addictive way possible.

A second-chance romance with scars that still bleed

This isn’t a love-at-first-sight tale. This love was once fierce and forbidden, then shattered by betrayal. Filthy Lies picks up with the emotional wreckage left behind and asks a dangerous question: Can love survive when everything it was built on turned out to be a lie?

Conor is no stranger to darkness. As a soldier of the Five Points, his life has always belonged to the mob first. But Star? She’s the one thing he never could have. And now, after all the lies and silence, she’s back in his world—and nothing is the same.

What Serena Akeroyd does so well here is capture the ache of unfinished love. That tension between two people who were everything to each other once, and still are, even if they can’t admit it. Watching Conor and Star try to navigate the wreckage of their past while confronting their present’s emotional minefield is heartbreaking and cathartic.

A love story that refuses to die—no matter the damage

Emotional tension that simmers

This is a romance built on unspoken pain. Conor and Star’s chemistry is intense not because they’re learning each other, but because they already know. Every glance, every argument, every near-touch carries years of memory, regret, and longing.

Mafia stakes, personal consequences

Being part of the Five Points means nothing comes without a price. But in Filthy Lies’s real battle isn’t with enemies—it’s internal. Conor has to choose between his past loyalty and his future with Star. And Star? She has to decide if she can ever trust the man who once broke her heart for the sake of the mob.

A heroine who refuses to stay broken

Star isn’t just a woman with a tragic past. She’s powerful in her pain. She demands honesty, not protection. And she forces Conor—and readers—to reckon with what love means when forgiveness feels impossible.

Tropes and themes that hit hard

• Second-chance romance: This isn’t a clean reunion—it’s messy, passionate, and achingly real.
• Mafia family dynamics: Loyalty, betrayal, and secrets run deep in the Five Points world.
• Broken hero, unbreakable heroine: Conor may be trained to kill, but Star is the one who knows how to destroy him—him-with the truth.
• Love vs. duty: At what point does protecting someone mean hurting them?
• Slow-burn intensity: Every scene is a build-up of emotional tension—when it finally breaks, you feel it.

This one’s for readers who…

• You are already deep into the Five Points series and need Conor and Star’s full story after Filthy Truth
• Crave angst-heavy romance that punches you in the heart
• Love second-chance stories with a strong emotional payoff
• Want heroines who fight back, and heroes who have to earn their redemption
• Enjoy morally complex relationships in a dark, high-stakes world

Final Thoughts

Filthy Lies is everything dark romance should be—intense, painful, passionate, and unforgettable. Serena Akeroyd doesn’t just write love stories. She writes about survival, scars, and what happens when two people are brave enough to face the truth, even if it destroys them.

Filthy Lies is that book if you’ve been waiting for the kind of mafia romance that grips your chest and doesn’t let go.

Read it. Feel it. Let it wreck you. And then beg for more.