He was my best friend.
Until he became my enemy.
All within the span of one night.
Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang.
The rapid fire of gunshots became the soundtrack to my life.
This is the Mafia. Lines are blurred. Choices are never black and white. And the life you thought you knew is… one giant lie.
He was dead.
And I didn’t want his life to be in vain, so I tried to make something of myself. I tried and failed.
Now he’s back. Alive. And he wants something…
Me.
Nobody ever said the mafia played fair.
Welcome to The Family.

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This was narrated by Caitlin Davies and Rock Engle they did a great job. They kept my attention and drew me into the story and didn’t want to press pause.

This is Axton Abandonato and Amy De Lange story. Ax was Amy’s safe haven from her father when she was younger. Her world was turned up side down with a Bang Bang. Amy lost her best friend and safe haven forever. She was dumped into the foster care. She was trying to make ends meet complete college. When she came face to face with a ghost.

Ax has always loved Amy but was pulled away from her lies and deceit kept him from her. He was in hiding like his brother Sergio until his number came up with the bosses. Things were different within the families all being run by new bosses and running cohesively by all. Ax found himself on the way to get his Amy.

We get to see a little more of Nixon, Chase, Tex, Mo, Sergio, and Phoenix in this book. Oh what the bosses do for Amy at the wedding made me tear up. I enjoyed seeing them all again and learning more of Ax and Amy. The chemistry between Ax and Amy was great. There was enough sexual tension to heat up the room. This book is listed as a stand alone but it helps to know and understand who the bosses and Sergio are and why they are like they are. My suggestion is to read at least the first 4 books (Elite, Elect, Entice, ant Elicit) prior to this one.

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
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“An unexpected evil brings both the MC and Military world together in this brand new series by J.M. Walker”

His demons are loud.
Held captive within his mind, he does everything he can to forget his life before Vice-One.
As one of the newest recruits, his main goal is to have his “brothers” trust him and he’ll do just about anything to make that happen. Until one passionate night with Creena Chan, the military was all he had.

She’s hiding from her past.
A trained professional, she keeps that part of her life to herself. The darkness weighs heavily on her chest, mixing with the beats of her heart, caused by the one man she tries to ignore. Vincent Stone is nothing like she imagined. Months of flirting lead to an explosion she never saw coming.

Only when Creena and Stone’s limits are tested, do they realize exactly what they will do to find that peace their family and friends deserve.

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Stone and Creena have an explosive chemistry that they are incapable off avoiding. Other than their friends, these two would never have found each other. They are both closed off emotional due to their pasts and yet find ways to open up to each other. Whether they planned it or not they both weaseled into the others hearts until they were too deep to ever walk away. This series has continued to surprise me at every turn. I loved the series and all the characters that were involved.

J.M. Walker is an Amazon bestselling author who loves all things books, pigs and lip gloss. She is happily married to the man who inspires all of her Heroes and continues to make her weak in the knees every single day.

“Above all, be the HEROINE of your own life…” ~ Nora Ephron

Title: Shameless King

Author: Maya Hughes

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: June 28, 2018

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A deliciously steamy enemies with benefits romance.

Declan McAvoy. Voted Biggest Flirt. Highest goal scorer in Kings of Rittenhouse Prep history.

Everyone’s impressed, well except one person…

After a blow out in high school, Makenna Halstead and I were happy to never have to cross paths again. Except life has a way of knocking you straight in the teeth with a puck when you least expect it. She hasn’t just returned to my life, she crashed into it like a wrecking ball…into my college kingdom, into my class, and smack dab into the seat next to mine. My new lab partner to be exact.

For years we hated each other… I may be King on the ice, but she is the Ice Queen. She has no problem calling me out, doesn’t back down, and her piercing blue eyes have me picturing more than than just my arms wrapped around her.

Now we’re stuck with each other and there’s no getting around that fact that we have to work together. My hockey career hangs in the balance. Problem? Oh, yeah.

I can’t deny it. I want her. More than I ever thought I could want a woman. I’ve got one semester–only four months–to convince her everything she thought about me was wrong.

Will my queen let me prove to her I’m the King she can’t live without?

Only one way to find out…

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The epic conclusion to King’s story.

I was chasing pure darkness.
Succumbing to the needs I’d forced to the far edges of my soul.
Running like a madman towards evil.
Then I found her.
She breathed life into me when I hadn’t thought there was any life beyond what I knew.
She gave me hope after I’d forgotten what it was.
She helped quiet the demons raging deep inside me.
Now I will lay myself bare for her.
I will bleed for her.
I will love her madly, deeply, passionately, completely.

This is the conclusion to King’s story. All the ugly and all the beautiful, by the end of this duet you will come to understand the man behind the club.

King’s story is told over two books – King’s Wrath & King’s Reign.

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Omg Nina what have you done to me. I never thought I would love King as much as I do after this.

King is violent, ruthless and fierce when protecting his MC and ones he loves. Yes he has his alpha bad ass side but his overprotective loving side is amazing granted it doesn’t show often. King needs a strong woman who can hold her own and have his back when needed. Let me tell you King has met his match in this woman.  I fell in love with King and his woman. I did get frustrated with King and the whole she is mine, I gave her up she deserves better, and then nope she is mine.  I can understand her trying to keep him at arms lengths. These two had great chemistry when they did get together and to see King when the playful banter between these two came out was amazing.

I was thrilled to see King finally get his one and only. She is a spitfire that King needs but she balances him. Not only does she get him even all his crazy and she is cool with it. She truly gets him in every way and would not change him. I for one love her for that.

I love seeing the characters evolve in each book and fall in love with them a little more each time. I am excited to see what will come next from Nina.

Some of my favorites

“You can lie to me as much as you want, but the truth is plain to see in your eyes. I’m not going anywhere. You will be mine.” He then let me go, stepped away, and with one last look, he walked out of the kitchen and out of the house. He left me in a state of need like no other I’d ever been in. And I knew he would get what he wanted. Because if I stopped lying to myself for even a second, the truth was right there to see and feel. I wanted King just as much as he wanted me.

King didn’t say a lot and he certainly didn’t make apologies, but his actions meant more than words.

She placed her hand on my arm. “We might bitch and grumble at you, but deep down we don’t mean it. You have always been there for us, and the shit you’ve done to help won’t ever be forgotten. That’s family, right? We get each other through the crap, regardless of any bad decisions we might make along the way. God knows you’ve stood by me through all the bad choices I’ve ever made. I love you, big brother.”

My man wasn’t one for a lot of words, but the ones he did give were worth every breath he took to say them.

“My job is to take care of you, and I don’t give a flying fuck how long I’ve known you, you are mine now, and I will go to the fucking ends of the earth for you.”

“I will never be like other men. When I know what I want, I don’t fuck around. I make sure I get it. And while I may have fucked up with you once, that shit won’t happen again. You take whatever time you need to wrap your head around this relationship. I’m not going anywhere.”

She said she loved me more than she hated me, but I didn’t think she did. Love didn’t lead to actions like hers. It was a false love. It was the kind of love rooted in fear and doubt.

The emotions coursing through me were unlike any I had ever experienced. For the first time in my life, I had felt fear. It was a foreign feeling to me, and not one I ever fucking wanted to feel again.

USA Today Bestselling Author Nina Levine is an Aussie author who writes alphas with a side of dirty and sassy women who don’t hand their hearts over easily.

When she isn’t creating with words, she loves to create with paint and paper. Often though, she can be found curled up with a good book and some chocolate.

Cord’s Chance by Lindsay Cross

Cover Design: Kari March Designs

Release Date: June 12, 2018

He thought he was done. His career as a special forces sniper was over. He’d lost his leg and his dignity in that ambush. Now, after nearly a year of rehab, he was fighting the toughest battle in his life: prove he was still worthy to serve.

His chance:

Contract with a security firm to pull protection for a rancher by the name of Sam Bishop. If he succeeded in routing out the bad guy, Cord would be back on the team.

The bonus:

He’d be able to get the hell away from all the counselors and therapists trying to tell him how to come to grips with his PTSD and missing limb. There were no emotions and feelings in west Texas, just rough necks and grit. Exactly what he needed.

The catch:

Sam’s real name is Samantha and she’s not a codgy old man – she’s the one girl from Cord’s past he never got over. He thought he’d lost his chance with her, and now that he wasn’t a whole man, he didn’t deserve her.

Samantha is determined to show Cord he’s everything she ever wanted. Her biggest battle isn’t the stalker threatening her life: it’s making Cord see he’s worthy of her love and so much more.

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Lindsay Cross is the award-winning author of the Men of Mercy series. She is the fun loving mom of two beautiful daughters and one precocious Great Dane. Lindsay is happily married to the man of her dreams – a soldier and veteran. During one of her husband’s deployments from home, writing became her escape and motivation.

An avid reader since childhood, reading and writing is in her blood. After years of reading, she discovered her true passion – writing. Her alpha military men are damaged, drop-dead gorgeous and determined to win the heart of the woman of their dreams.

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Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted…my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him.
I crave war more than peace, and I’m about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra…that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself.

But the only person able to do that…is my best friends sister, Mo Abandonato, and she just ripped my heart out and asked me to hold it in my hands while she put bullets through it.

Im cursed so I did it.
I’m numb so I held it.
I’m wicked so I liked it.
I used the pain Mo caused as a catalyst to turn into my biggest nightmare–the five families greatest enemy. It’s my turn to take a stand, knowing full well I’m going to lose my mind to the madness that is the American Mafia. I’ve always been told Blood is thicker than life. I wish I would have listened. Because regardless of who you love? You will betray. You will kill.
Blood Always Wins.
The only way out is death…yours.

Welcome to the Dark Side of the Family.

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Happy dance it’s time for Tex and Mo’s book. Tex is the goof that gave us the comic relief that was needed. With this book we get to see a different side of Tex the mafia leader and a very intelligent one at that. I’m not sure who I like the dark alpha mafia Tex or the funny Tex. Maybe I like a little of both and that is why I think Tex and Mo make a great couple Mo helps balance him.
Like any of the Abandonato’s Mo is strong-willed and determined but with the plan Mo has hatched and has Tex help her could be detrimental to his health. When Nixon finds out the may have been some fists and bullets flying. What Tex was put through when agreeing to help Mo just showed the love he has for Mo and what all he would do for her.
Like the other books this one has its own set to twists and turns. I’m telling you Rachel knows how to keep you guessing and stunned when things start to unravel. I’m telling you the “plans”these guys come up with have you hanging on but when others hatch a side plan then the crazy really starts to happen and you wonder who will be standing in the end.

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
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From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the third book in the bestselling Eagle Elite Series…

“As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.”

Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandanato family. Now that he’s been given a second chance to right a wrong–he refuses to let his own selfishness stand in the way. The only problem? He’s not fully in possession of his heart, so when Mil De Lange, the girl who’s innocence he stole, and heir to the worst of the worst mafia families in the US, asks him for a favor. He actually says yes, not realizing that that one yes has the power to destroy them all.

Mil’s been in love with Chase as long as she can remember, but as the years went by, the love turned to hate, and now that he’s agreed to help her, she’s wondering if she made a fatal error. Because Chase isn’t a teenager anymore. He’s a hot blooded male, bent on owning every part of her body and soul, and willing to kill anyone in his path who dares stand in the way.
It’s time for secrets to finally be revealed…but make no mistake, it’s going to take a lot of bloodshed for those truths to be discovered.

You’ve never read a New Adult Mafia story like this before…loyalties will be tested, lovers reunited, and friendships obliterated. Welcome to the Family. Blood in–No out.

Entice (Eagle Elite Book 3) May 13, 2014….Are you in?

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It’s Chase’s turn after all he has been through believing he could have a chance to win trace only to have her choose Nixon. When Mil DeLange finds herself the head of the DeLange family she enlists the help of Chase in an effort to protect herself. Chase agrees to help Mil in the process realizes what he wants. Now he just need to break down Mil’s walls and make her see he is the right one.

I love that this is told in Chase, Mil and Nixon’s POV. We get to see how much Nixon has grown into his roll. We may not love what he does but know there is a reason which is usually to protect the family and those he loves. I have to say I like Chase but Mil is one bad ass chick and I love her for it but really if you’re the head of the family…a family that wants you out you have to be a bad ass.

This has so much packed into it has romance, suspense and a dab of humor but the curve balls Rachel Van Dyken toss in here is just crazy. As for Tex I want to know his story he is kind of the outsider but always in the thick of things we finally get a few answers as to why. I cannot wait to start Tex’s book I know it will not be disappointing. I’m so ready for more of Rachel Van Dyken’s suspense and plot twists .

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
Want to be kept up to date on new releases? Text MAFIA to 66866!

You can connect with her on Facebook www.facebook.com/rachelvandyken or join her fan group Rachel’s New Rockin Readers. Her website is www.rachelvandykenauthor.com.