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The Romano Crime Family #1

L'erede nascosto del Don

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Vor seiner verhängnisvollen Liebe zu fliehen hat mich mit einem tödlichen Geheimnis zurü seinem Erben. Vor drei Jahren habe ich Dominic Romano verlassen, den unwiderstehlichen Mafia-Milliardär, der mein Herz gestohlen hatte. Ihn zu verlassen war eine Notwendigkeit, ihn zu lieben eine Gefahr, die ich mir nicht leisten konnte. Doch das Schicksal hat einen schrägen Sinn für Humor, und jetzt bin ich zurück in New York City, mitten in Dominics berauschender Welt. Das Verlangen zwischen uns ist stärker und gefährlicher als je zuvor. Aber seine dunklen Augen bergen Geheimnisse, Geheimnisse, die uns auseinanderreißen könnten. Und ich habe eine eigene Offenbarung - unseren Sohn, ein Kind, von dem er nichts weiß. Jetzt, gefangen in einem tödlichen Spiel aus Liebe, Loyalität und Verrat, muss ich meinen Weg durch die Finsternis finden. Kann ich mein Herz noch einmal riskieren? Kann die Liebe auch in der Romano-Welt über alles triumphieren, oder sind wir von Anfang an zum Scheitern verurteilt?Ich werde es herausfinden, mit jedem Schlag meines Herzens"Der geheime Erbe des Mafia-Bosses" ist eine eigenständiger dunkler Mafia-Liebesroman mit zweiter Chance und geheimem Baby, komplett mit HEA und ohne Cliffhanger, Buch 1 der Romano-Mafia-Familie-Trilogie. Tauche ein in die fesselnde Welt der Romano-Brüder, gefährliche Mafia-Milliardäre, deren Herzen so komplex sind wie ihr Imperium. Ihre Welt ist durchdrungen von Macht, Geheimnissen und rücksichtslosen Kämpfen, aber auch von den Ketten der Liebe und Loyalität. Jeder der Brüder trägt seine eigene Last, eine dunkle Vergangenheit, der sie entkommen, und eine Liebe, die sie verzweifelt zurückgewinnen wollen. Wage den Schritt in die Welt der Romanos, wo jeder Kuss ein Versprechen ist, jeder Verrat ein Schritt näher an die Gefahr und jede Liebe ein Tanz mit dem Schicksal. Bist du bereit, alles zu riskieren?Bitte Dieses Buch ist ein dunkler Mafia-Roman mit Inhalten für Erwachsene und Gewaltdarstellungen.

232 pages, Paperback

Published November 26, 2023

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808 reviews25 followers
December 13, 2023
A bit cheesy and terrible editing

This was my first time reading this author. I can’t say I’ll take another chance. It’s not a dark mafia story, which is fine. There’s a secret baby, which was done quite well. She didn’t keep the child a secret for a stupid reason, and she didn’t start sleeping with him again while still keeping the child a secret. I hate both of those scenarios. I do enjoy when they discover their child years later in an unexpected way, and seeing his mini twin fits that bill. He immediately was committed to his son, and he didn’t lose his mind at Elena when he found out. Those were probably the only really solid parts of this story though.

You have to suspend a lot of belief in this book. We are to believe that Elena has gone from a young single mom to the CEO of New York City’s largest company, becoming a millionaire in just a couple years since starting her company. She must be an incredible mastermind, except she spends the entire rest of the book behaving pretty foolishly. Certainly not some insanely intelligent boss bish, but often a little TSTL. Dominic is the head of the Cosa Nostra and known by the nickname Death, but he doesn’t live up to either title. He has a couple scenes where he “enjoys” beating someone with his sharp rings, but that’s it. He makes unwise decisions otherwise.

The editing is atrocious . It is very distracting and completely pulled me out of the story. Just in the very first 30 pages there are multiple missing or misused words, and name changes. Lucas is sometimes Lucas and sometimes Luca, and David Peterson becomes Peter intermittently. This becomes the norm throughout the entire book. It reads like a rough draft TBH. These things should have been picked up.

Lucas’ speech vacillates between mature for his age and too childish. He also waffles between American and British English, referring to his mother as both Mummy and Mommy. Seeing as he’s an American child, it would not make sense for him to refer to her as Mummy. In an early scene she describes Lucas as having the same dark brown eyes as his father. But later she describes Marcus as having the same piercing blue eyes as Dominic. Maybe they change color? When Dominic sees Lucas for the first time he says “he has blue eyes and a sharp jaw like every other Romano in the world”. The rest of the book everyone has blue eyes. Make up your mind. I hate when there no continuity in a story.

I pushed through the horrible editing and inconsistencies, and even the silly juvenile writing, but when this naive woman tell the head of the mafia that she’s going to go up against his uncle alone and try to get information out of him to force him to back out of a war, I just couldn’t. The uncle has already threatened her and her son if Dominic doesn’t hand over leadership. But this foolish girl thinks she can take him down? I mean, at that point, she deserves whatever he dishes out as she’s clearly too stupid to live.

This is really one of the most childish mafia stories I’ve read. Im not sure how these people became heads of the family, because the decision they make are so foolish. Dominic has Elena and his child move in with him for safety, his uncle not only admits to knowing about them but threatens their safety, but they’re all pretending he has no idea that she knows who he is. As if he won’t hurt her if she doesn’t admit to knowing. Elena keeps “pretending” she is clueless and lets herself be alone with the uncle. Dominic is shocked to learn “everyone” in the mafia world knows about Elena and Lucas. Really? They are in your house, you have guards on them, and Lucas looks just like him. Just because you put your head in the sand doesn’t mean everyone else does. After Elena foolishly lets herself be taken, a month goes by after the ordeal and she says “Dominic doesn’t have his bodyguards follow me everywhere like he used to, he trusts I can handle myself just fine now.” Based on WHAT!? She has been nothing but foolish and TSTL and NO mafia man would ever allow his woman and child to “handle themself”. Especially after being taken once already. Not just taken, but she willingly left with the uncle. Come on.

If this were a first draft, then heavily edited, it would be promising. The premise was good, and the secret baby portion as spot on. But overall, a let down.
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8 reviews
January 8, 2025
Ni siquiera pude terminar de leerlo, no me gusta ni un poco.
702 reviews1 follower
January 17, 2024
Elena hat sich von ganz unten eine Firma aufgebaut und ist alleinerziehende Mutter eines Jungen.Dessen Vater ist ein bekannter Mafiaboss in den sie sich damals verliebte.Doch als sie es herausfand und dann die Schwangerschaft eintrat kappte sie die Verbindung zu Dominic Romano und verschwieg ihm die Schwangerschaft.
Doch man trifft sich immer zweimal im Leben und erneut flattern die Gefühle hoch ,doch Dominic ist sauer als er herausfindet was Elena ihm verschwiegen hat.
Dominic Romano war damals ziemlich fertig als seine große Liebe ihn so plötzlich verlassen hat und zog sich nach Italien zurück .Doch nun ist es Zeit wieder nach New York zurück zu kehren und prompt trifft er auf Elena und erliegt erneut ihrem Zauber. Doch wird er ihr ihr Geheimnis verzeihen können ?

Auch wenn das Thema Bad Boy und Mafia nicht neu ist so hat mich diese Geschichte dennoch gefesselt und mich gut unterhalten
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April 16, 2024
Kikka - per RFS
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Ciao Fenici, benvenuti a New York City insieme a me. Oggi vi racconto una storia che già dall’inizio mi ha lasciata stranita. Perché? Ora ve lo spiego.

Iniziamo parlando dei nostri personaggi: Elena è una madre single che ha costruito un’azienda partendo da zero. Molti anni prima conosce e si innamora di un ragazzo, Dominic Romano. Quando scopre di esserne incinta, fa le valigie e scompare, poiché non vuole che il figlio cresca in quel mondo di violenza e criminalità.

Dominic è il boss della famiglia Romano, soprannominato Morte, ma già vi avviso che non dimostra molto il suo soprannome.

Sono passati sette anni da quando lui si è ritirato in Italia a leccarsi le ferite perché l’amore della sua vita, Elena, lo ha lasciato, ma ora deve tornare a casa. Quando atterra a New York scopre che lei ha avuto un bambino che si chiama Lucas. Inizialmente si arrabbia, ma poi, quando vede che il bimbo è la copia di lui, si calma subito.

Questo libro mi ha delusa, poiché a mio avviso il lavoro di editing è stato superficiale.Talvolta è come se mancassero dei pezzi, altre volte vengono modificati i nomi dei personaggi e questa cosa ti fa diventare pazza, perché non riesci a trovare il filo logico della storia. Inoltre la trama stessa ha qualcosa di stonato, incongruenze su cui non si può passare oltre. Il personaggio di Elena, per esempio, viene descritto come un genio capace di creare un’azienda da sola in un paio d’anni e contemporaneamente nel modo più ingenuo possibile si affida allo zio che la rapisce. Dominic, il grande boss della mafia, dovrebbe essere un duro, invece perdona qualsiasi cosa fa Elenasenza batter ciglio, ma la cosa di cui non mi capacito è il fatto che lui non dimostri,tranne che in un caso, il suo essere “capo” della famiglia Romano.

Boh… mi ha lasciato un po’ basita questa storia, forse perché sono abituata a leggere i mafia romance di Cora Reilly e avevo aspettative abbastanza alte.

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117 reviews2 followers
May 2, 2025
My opinion about the book is as follows:

I feel that for such an attractive synopsis, it should at least be a three or four-star book—something somewhat decent. Honestly, I was super excited to read it because, to be honest, it really caught my attention, and that’s why I voted for it.

That said, it’s not a book I would read again. I found the story basic and not very exciting for my taste. It felt like a Wattpad story with a good plot and some edits that made it stand out a bit. It really had the potential to be better.

As for the main characters, this pair felt so boring in every sense of the word. At first, I thought it was going to be a "wow" because the way both perspectives developed at the beginning was good. However, as the chapters went by, it became frustrating. I couldn’t take their relationship seriously. I swear it felt like reading a story written by a teenager on Wattpad, just with better edits—but still not very remarkable. In my opinion, there’s nothing “dark” about this; it’s more like vanilla with an attempt at being dark (if that was one of its tropes).

Their brothers and all the problems related to the organization were more interesting to me than the main story itself.

Despite everything, I would recommend it to someone looking for something simple and with no expectations.

2 .🌟
2,328 reviews9 followers
November 29, 2023
The Don’s Hidden Heir by Celeste Riley is the story of Dominic and Elena. Seven years ago, she just left him. No reason. Just gone. Now, he’s back. He’s going to own this town and Elena. She had her reasons for leaving, she couldn’t tell him. Now, there are secrets and surprises that could destroy everything.

Games being played here by just about everyone! Danger and threats abound, keeping both of them ready for anything. Some parts pushed the line of believability…but, overall this was a good story!
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January 27, 2024
Abandonado em 50%.
Aí, não deu! A história bem fraca, pelo menos até a metade não engrena a trama.
A mulher tava mega apaixonada e você versa, descobre que o cara é mafioso, termina com ele sem explicação, ele aceitou de boa. Ela tava grávida e depois que teve o bebê inventou um produto para bebês e ficou milionária.... sério? Quando? Como? Sem suporte (rede familiar) de ninguém, com que dinheiro?... aí 7 anos depois, o cara volta e descobre tudo, fica com raiva, mas na realidade não....aí uma enrolação da porra...
Sem tempo!!
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75 reviews1 follower
January 22, 2024
Good Read

Good read, my only complaint is the proof reading/editing. I mean I myself am not the best and even I could see the errors and that was driving me crazy! That is the reason for 4 ⭐️

I will be reading the next books as I do want to know what is going to happen with the brothers.
111 reviews1 follower
February 16, 2024
Good story!

Good storyline and characters. Additional family books will be good reading.
Major complaint: Why has no one PROOF READ THIS BEFORE PUBLISHING? It is so very distracting with the major grammatical errors and extra words and incorrect character references.
Celeste Riley has good storyline writing skills, BUT PROOF IT! PLEASE PROOF YOUR BOOKS AND EDIT.
Profile Image for Barbara Avelino.
138 reviews
August 31, 2024
Elena y Dominic, una pareja intensa!

Es la primera novela que leo de esta autora y debo decir que la disfruté mucho. Es una historia de reencuentros y segundas oportunidades donde el amor y el perdón son los protagonistas. Aunque debo señalar que disfruté mucho la parte mafiosa de la historia, muy bien traída. Gracias Celeste por esta gran historia. Recomendada!
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1,373 reviews17 followers
December 13, 2023
3.5✨

Une petite histoire mafia sympa. Y’a de l’action et ça se lit rapidement.

Dominic est trop mims avec Lucas. Son couple avec Elena aussi.

Les personnages secondaires dont les frères sont cols donc hâte du prochain tome sur Marcus.
81 reviews1 follower
December 15, 2023
Great story

I enjoyed the H/h it had a very good story, character building. My only complaint was all the misspelled words or wrong words through the entire book. She definitely needed a proof reader. Sherrie
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2,096 reviews12 followers
January 22, 2024
he’s the boss,

7 years ago. They were
I’m love until she witnessed the try monster he was. She left him because she was pregnant & feared what it be would mean for their child. Now, he’s back. What could happen to the son of the Don
187 reviews
January 22, 2024
good read but….

I loved the story but the misspelling and grammatical errors were maddening. Why is it so hard to have someone proofread your book? I’d recommend but I get easily distracted with avoidable problems.
520 reviews
January 24, 2024
This is A MUST READ!

This book grips your interest from page 1, and holds it until the last word!! Fantastic shoot out screens. Passionate Love and all our Emotions are heightened to fever pitch!!
901 reviews4 followers
May 19, 2024
Vanilla

Yes there was a spanking and handcuffs in one scene but not enough to make it dark. For me the best part was the discovery of the secret child, other than that I skimmed most of the book.
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February 14, 2024
This was not good. Reads like a first draft than a finished product. Going to pass on the rest of the series. Not fond of the author’s writing style.
11 reviews
March 9, 2024
Good story. Needs proofreading - terrible grammar.
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429 reviews5 followers
April 7, 2024
Okay story. The book is in desperate need of a proof read, the lack of editing detracts from the overall read.
101 reviews1 follower
January 20, 2025
This was and okay book, it was interesting enough. However, it was riddled with clichés and errors, proof read the thing before you publish it.
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384 reviews13 followers
February 15, 2024
PREDECIBLE

una lectura que entretiene pero al mismo tiempo es predecible en cuanto a las acciones y reacciones de los personajes.
Dominic y Elena, estuvieron juntos años atrás pero los secretos ls separan y ahora después de años se reencuentran. Dominic ha regresado en busca de venganza y por lo que le pertenece.
Elena, tiene un secreto y no quiere saber ni estar cerca de Dominic. Pero el destino es caprichoso y todos esos elementos encontrará sus caminos llevándolo a enfrentar el pasado, presente y futuro.

Entretiene pero desde el inició sabes como ira la trama
Si buscar pasar una tarde sin complicaciones en una lectura posiblemente le puedes dar la oportunidad a esta historia.
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