and the drama, danger, sexual tension and suspense is both thrilling and climactic. because Valentina thinks she knows everything about her deceased husband and his big secrets. Dante fights the attraction, Valentina pushes it with sexy reveals and the push n pull tense refrain relationship will emotionally and sexually strain. but it’s a second marriage for both of them so there’s ghosts from his past marriage stopping Chicago’s Capo Dante from moving on and secrets from Valentina’s marriage that will eventually come out. And in this story Dante and Valentina from the Chicago Outfit are the next couple to enter into an arranged Mafia marriage. but the right woman will get inside their walls, make them human, make them fall in love and they will become more cherished than even their Oaths. Their Blood Oath forever binds them to the Mafia brotherhood above all else.

They are all layered dark love stories with emotional push n pulls, friction, fireworks, sexcapades and character growth as Capos and Made Men bend for the women they’ve each struggled and fought their attraction to. With their family dynamics, with the various threats, with their protective natures, loyalties and customs, with their arranged marriages and with the brutal challenges when the Chicago Outfit, the New York Famiglia and the Las Vegas Cammora simmer, spill blood, torture and go to war.

A NON-STOP LISTEN THAT HAD ME HOOKED & HAPPYįor over a week I’ve been totally immersed in, and absolutely obsessed with, this warring Mafia world of dangerous alphas and their layered lives.

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