DISHONORED
by Bethany-Kris
Publication Date: August 6, 2018
Genres: Adult, Organized Crime, Mafia, Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this
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SYNOPSIS:
Sex is his weapon.
Power is her drug.
Power is her drug.
Caesar Accardo is gasoline. Mostly harmless while stable, but Aria holds the match to set the dishonored Cosa Nostra prince on fire in more ways than one. And if he burns down everything in his path because of it—so be it.
The problem is … she just wasn’t prepared for all of him.
Aria De Rose is a hurricane. Amazing from afar, but destructive up close. Caesar keeps getting pulled into the Camorra queen’s plans in her effort to gain power, but he’s a better player than she knows.
The thing is … women like her are the reason why rules are meant to be broken.
Philadelphia isn’t ready for game these two are playing—the sacrifices they make might not be worth it in the end, and someone will always lose in a war.
They’re broken, so very vicious, and they are not the good guys. But for every villain in the world, there’s a monster at his back who made him that way.
And monsters like those hide in plain sight.
Note: This is a standalone romance with content that some might find triggering. Be warned, and read with caution.
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Caesar Accardo seems to be very cocky. He also loves pushing his father’s buttons. Caesar also loves women but just not for the long-term. Aria De Rose has to do something she really doesn’t want to. She’s a devious woman that loves to manipulate and deceive. Aria was a confusing character. You don’t know what to believe and what is part of her deception.
This author is very good at what she does. She never gives you what you expect. Her stories are original and this one covers the dark side of being in a mafia family. And that includes how they go about showing their muscle. Don’t expect her story to start off happy or to see lots of romance. You’ll see some heat but the meat of the story is what Aria is trying to accomplish. It’s a gritty story where power is what is fought for. Aria commands attention from both the men in her “family” and from us. This story had my attention right to the end.
My Thoughts:
This author is very good at what she does. She never gives you what you expect. Her stories are original and this one covers the dark side of being in a mafia family. And that includes how they go about showing their muscle. Don’t expect her story to start off happy or to see lots of romance. You’ll see some heat but the meat of the story is what Aria is trying to accomplish. It’s a gritty story where power is what is fought for. Aria commands attention from both the men in her “family” and from us. This story had my attention right to the end.
Excerpt:
Aria raised a brow, and nothing more, in the face of Simone’s sudden rage. He was not the first man to get angry, or to try something with her. He could raise his fist, and she would probably smile at him and dare him to try it.
She didn’t frighten that easily.
“I want to speak with Jac,” Simone demanded.
Growled, was more like it.
Aria smirked a bit, and shook her head once. “No, that won’t be possible for a while. You know how this goes while he’s in lockup—the less visitation, the better. He doesn’t want names and records kept of our coming and going besides his immediate family. Me, I mean. If you have something to say, Simone, you are looking at the one woman you get to say it to. Otherwise, sit yourself back down in that chair. I’m starting to think my father has severely neglected some things when it comes to you.”
She was acutely aware of the gazes watching her. Of the other men at the table who would report back to whoever they needed to about her behavior, and how she handled this situation. That was fine with her. She needed people to know her name. She needed them afraid of the one and only De Rose woman willing to cut them down.
Power came to those who took it.
It was never given.
Simone scoffed, although he did sit down. “What exactly has he neglected with me, Aria? Nothing more or less than he neglected with your ignorant—”
“Watch your tongue, or I will cut it out.”
He blinked, silenced.
Aria smiled.
Simone’s wife was not quite as smart, though. Giovanna’s gaze narrowed as it turned on Aria with a burning rage that might shrink a lesser woman.
“Who do you think you are?” Giovanna asked. “You’re reaching a bit when you talk to him like that, don’t you think? Be careful, Aria. Your father isn’t going to be in prison for very much longer.”
Didn’t this stupid wife know?
Getting up from her seat with the slow grace she had been taught was most beneficial to a lady who wanted all eyes on her, Aria fingered the rim of the wine glass she’d emptied just before this meeting had begun. The wine bottle was all the way at the other end of the table, so no one seemed to think twice about her grabbing the glass as she moved down the table. All eyes stayed on her, and frankly, they should have known.
When it came to her, they always should have known.
Aria had just come to the back of Giovanna’s chair when she showed them she had no intention of going for the wine bottle. She smashed the wine glass overtop of the woman’s unsuspecting head before she grabbed a fistful of Giovanna’s hair, and yanked her head back so wide eyes were staring up at her. Chairs scraped, and warnings murmured along the table, but no one stepped in.
They did know better, then.
Or, they were learning.
Good.
Bending down to murmur in Giovanna’s ear, Aria’s smile stayed firmly in place when she said, “Check my bloodlines, cagna. You’ll find exactly who I am.”
She was a De Rose.
Camorra.
Vicious, violent, and vehement.
And she would bow to no one.
Not again.
ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS:
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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