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Loving Elise: An Enemies to Lovers Mafia Romance
Second Edition This edition of Loving Elise has been revised to remove all sexually explicit content and strong profanity. While the storyline remains the same as the original edition, new scenes have been added in place of the intimate content.
Elise
All I’ve ever wanted is a normal life.
But when you’re the only daughter of Gabriel Consoli, the country’s most notorious mafia boss, “normal” is faking your death and moving away with a false identity.
It worked for six years until he found me.
He stole my normalcy, my freedom, my life.
I thought he couldn’t possibly take anything else.
But now he wants my heart.
Joshua
The plan was use the girl to get the territory.
After all, Consoli wouldn’t have hidden his daughter away if she wasn’t a weakness worth extorting.
Everything was going perfectly until she pulled that stunt.
Now, she knows too much for me to simply give her back.
But the longer she’s here, the more sure I am.
Whether she likes it or not, Elise Consoli is mine.
Loving Elise is an American Mafia enemies-to-lovers romance. It is book one in the Love and Blood series, but can be read as a standalone.
This book features torture, mild language, and sexual assault themes that may be triggering or offensive to some readers. Recommended for 18+.
Elise
All I’ve ever wanted is a normal life.
But when you’re the only daughter of Gabriel Consoli, the country’s most notorious mafia boss, “normal” is faking your death and moving away with a false identity.
It worked for six years until he found me.
He stole my normalcy, my freedom, my life.
I thought he couldn’t possibly take anything else.
But now he wants my heart.
Joshua
The plan was use the girl to get the territory.
After all, Consoli wouldn’t have hidden his daughter away if she wasn’t a weakness worth extorting.
Everything was going perfectly until she pulled that stunt.
Now, she knows too much for me to simply give her back.
But the longer she’s here, the more sure I am.
Whether she likes it or not, Elise Consoli is mine.
Loving Elise is an American Mafia enemies-to-lovers romance. It is book one in the Love and Blood series, but can be read as a standalone.
This book features torture, mild language, and sexual assault themes that may be triggering or offensive to some readers. Recommended for 18+.
426 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2025
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December 6, 2025
Enemiessssss to Lovers, kidnapping, close door mafia book!!! Kick Butt MFC
A great mafia romance book that offer No profanity; light intimacy with kissing scene. I loved reading about a plot and not about someone’s private parts. Just a heads up though this is a very dark read. The MMC is hard to like for about 65% of the book and at times you want to be Elise’s get away driver, butttt he does redeem him self. I’d love to see more groveling and the MFC making him work for redemption a bit more. Beautifully written story with LOTS of action and plot.
We got a story about a INNOCENT young women, Elise, trying to just live a normal life in the bakery after leaving her mafia family 6 years ago. She meets Mr. Perfect. Who’s actually not!! Mafia Boss Joshua will do anything to expand his business including kidnapping, ransom and do horrible things to the rival mafia boss’ daughter. Joshua our MMC doesn’t realize that he’s actually fallin head over obsession for her on day one and it takes him a long time to finally understand but something happens and he is left to grovel at her footsteps after making a HUGE MISTAKE. Then once things start to really take off for their love story the floor falls out from under them again. Here is where we see just what it takes to make it as a female in the mafia world and how much one must go to protect what’s his.
Great side character as well. Please read!!
Innocent MFC (both in mafia and life)
Morally Grey maybe even slightly black MMC
Touch her and 💀
Rival Family’s
Kidnapping
Found family
Close-Door Romance
No Profanity
⚠️Attempted SA (not MMC) but you could hold him responsible
⛔️ Torture scene(s) of MFC by MMC and others.
‼️ torture, war, violence, body mutilation
A great mafia romance book that offer No profanity; light intimacy with kissing scene. I loved reading about a plot and not about someone’s private parts. Just a heads up though this is a very dark read. The MMC is hard to like for about 65% of the book and at times you want to be Elise’s get away driver, butttt he does redeem him self. I’d love to see more groveling and the MFC making him work for redemption a bit more. Beautifully written story with LOTS of action and plot.
We got a story about a INNOCENT young women, Elise, trying to just live a normal life in the bakery after leaving her mafia family 6 years ago. She meets Mr. Perfect. Who’s actually not!! Mafia Boss Joshua will do anything to expand his business including kidnapping, ransom and do horrible things to the rival mafia boss’ daughter. Joshua our MMC doesn’t realize that he’s actually fallin head over obsession for her on day one and it takes him a long time to finally understand but something happens and he is left to grovel at her footsteps after making a HUGE MISTAKE. Then once things start to really take off for their love story the floor falls out from under them again. Here is where we see just what it takes to make it as a female in the mafia world and how much one must go to protect what’s his.
Great side character as well. Please read!!
Innocent MFC (both in mafia and life)
Morally Grey maybe even slightly black MMC
Touch her and 💀
Rival Family’s
Kidnapping
Found family
Close-Door Romance
No Profanity
⚠️Attempted SA (not MMC) but you could hold him responsible
⛔️ Torture scene(s) of MFC by MMC and others.
‼️ torture, war, violence, body mutilation
September 15, 2025
I was so surprised by this book as it’s my first time coming across this author! I’m so grateful that she notes in the book that this is a second edition and with that it becomes a closed door mafia romance book! There are some seriously hard adult themes featured but there are also moments of empathy, sadness and frustration and a few laughs! Loved the main characters and most of the supporting characters. The book was paced perfectly for me, enough drama and enough depth to keep me hooked. I’m off to read book 2 & 3 now!
January 21, 2026
2.5 stars. This was not a bad book by any means, just didn’t do anything for me personally. It felt repetitive to other mafia/kidnap stories, the plot dragged a bit in the middle, and the MCs fell a bit flat.
December 21, 2025
The chef's kiss
What an amazing story! There are some triggers but totally worth it to get to the happy ending. I could not stop turning pages from the moment I started reading.
What an amazing story! There are some triggers but totally worth it to get to the happy ending. I could not stop turning pages from the moment I started reading.
January 22, 2026
Chamo, este libro era plot-twist tras plot-twist, me dejó el cerebro 🤯.
February 10, 2026
I could not put this down! Closed door, enemies to lovers, mafia romance that had me gasping and laughing and feeling all the feelings. I can’t wait to read the next one in this series!
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