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The Rosetti Family: Chicago #3
Brutal Union
He stole the bride. Now he’s keeping her.
When Valentina is snatched from her own ceremony—still in her white dress—she should be terrified.
Instead, she taunts her captor. Challenges him. Smiles when he shows his darkest impulses.
Marco Rosetti, the ruthless Don of Chicago, took the bratty rival princess to force a territory negotiation.
But the longer he keeps her, the less he cares about business…and the more he wants to see what happens when the ice-cold bride melts for him.
She’s either brave or insane.
He’s determined to find out which—before this brutal union consumes them both.
More details coming soon.
When Valentina is snatched from her own ceremony—still in her white dress—she should be terrified.
Instead, she taunts her captor. Challenges him. Smiles when he shows his darkest impulses.
Marco Rosetti, the ruthless Don of Chicago, took the bratty rival princess to force a territory negotiation.
But the longer he keeps her, the less he cares about business…and the more he wants to see what happens when the ice-cold bride melts for him.
She’s either brave or insane.
He’s determined to find out which—before this brutal union consumes them both.
More details coming soon.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 8, 2025
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January 18, 2026
3,75 ✨
Sharing notes in the margins of war strategy books?
I loved that.
The first book was definitely my favorite but this one was good too.
Though I feel like the epilogue that set up the premise for the next book completely undid all the character development Marco had in this one…
Side note… there were errors in this book too, like in the first two…
Sharing notes in the margins of war strategy books?
I loved that.
The first book was definitely my favorite but this one was good too.
Though I feel like the epilogue that set up the premise for the next book completely undid all the character development Marco had in this one…
Side note… there were errors in this book too, like in the first two…
January 17, 2026
"I saw how he looked at you. Like you're the sun and he's been living in darkness. Like he'd kill anyone who tried to eclipse you."
Valentina Bernardi has an obligation to fill. Marry into the Irish O'Brien crime family, make an alliance between the family so they can take down the most notorious crime syndicate around, the Rosetti family.
Marco, Don of Chicago, head of the Rosetti family, has waited. 11 years to claim what is his, and he plans to, at her wedding. Two years prior, Marco met Valentina. She displayed being a force despite how her father tried to cage her, and when she disagreed with the negotiations, she threw red wine in Marco's face. The dismissal was not a dismissal at all, but a declaration of what he planned to claim.
Stealing the bride on her wedding day should have been a curse, but instead, you are thrown full force into this dangerous game of the most powerful Don in the business and the principessa who swore not only to survive in life, but to thrive!
**Potential Spoilers**
In the epilogue from book 2, we know that Marco is preparing to not only crash the Italian/Irish wedding of the year, but to "steal" the bride, which was a choice! A choice that made me look at Marco in a different light. So far with the brothers, they have been a bit reckless in their pursuits, but to see Marco, the level-headed brother, also go a little unhinged was fun! I loved the immediate connection that started 2 years prior to this, when Valentina threw wine in Marco's face and smiled! She smiled at the man who could have ended her life. The sexual chemistry between the two was right from the jump and stayed strong throughout the book.
There were things that Marco's father did before Marco stole Valentina that he should have made clear to her, like the involvement in her mother's murder. Being told that her mother wrapped her car around a tree was a devious lie concocted by their fathers. What Alonso didn't bargain for was his daughter finding out about the truth of her mother's murder, but standing by the man who executed it without truly knowing why. That was a very hard pill for Valentina's sister, Alice, to swallow.
I really enjoyed this book more than I thought. So far, this series has kept me interested, and now we are coming down to the last two, and I cannot wait to see what lies ahead. Let's see what chaos is up for the fourth, and final brother!
Happy reading📚
Valentina Bernardi has an obligation to fill. Marry into the Irish O'Brien crime family, make an alliance between the family so they can take down the most notorious crime syndicate around, the Rosetti family.
Marco, Don of Chicago, head of the Rosetti family, has waited. 11 years to claim what is his, and he plans to, at her wedding. Two years prior, Marco met Valentina. She displayed being a force despite how her father tried to cage her, and when she disagreed with the negotiations, she threw red wine in Marco's face. The dismissal was not a dismissal at all, but a declaration of what he planned to claim.
Stealing the bride on her wedding day should have been a curse, but instead, you are thrown full force into this dangerous game of the most powerful Don in the business and the principessa who swore not only to survive in life, but to thrive!
**Potential Spoilers**
In the epilogue from book 2, we know that Marco is preparing to not only crash the Italian/Irish wedding of the year, but to "steal" the bride, which was a choice! A choice that made me look at Marco in a different light. So far with the brothers, they have been a bit reckless in their pursuits, but to see Marco, the level-headed brother, also go a little unhinged was fun! I loved the immediate connection that started 2 years prior to this, when Valentina threw wine in Marco's face and smiled! She smiled at the man who could have ended her life. The sexual chemistry between the two was right from the jump and stayed strong throughout the book.
There were things that Marco's father did before Marco stole Valentina that he should have made clear to her, like the involvement in her mother's murder. Being told that her mother wrapped her car around a tree was a devious lie concocted by their fathers. What Alonso didn't bargain for was his daughter finding out about the truth of her mother's murder, but standing by the man who executed it without truly knowing why. That was a very hard pill for Valentina's sister, Alice, to swallow.
I really enjoyed this book more than I thought. So far, this series has kept me interested, and now we are coming down to the last two, and I cannot wait to see what lies ahead. Let's see what chaos is up for the fourth, and final brother!
Happy reading📚
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 20, 2026
1.5* That was terrible, disturbing and just weird.
I give up on this series. I really do. I tried this one thinking it would be better and it’s WORSE. A lot lot worse. Valentina goes from a terrified bride at the beginning of the book to getting turned on by killing people at the end. 😱😱😱 It’s like she had a personality transplant somewhere in the middle! Then there’s Marco. Marco starts off as a total d*ck threatening Valentina with a gun to her head to marry him, threatening her sisters life all the time, if she doesn’t behave, and SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM??? Her sister is right when she says she’s got Stockholm syndrome. It’s crazy. He’s got NO redeeming features at all! NONE!
I carried on reading it and I don’t know why as it was like a blood bath and s*x, endless s*x. The s*x scenes are ridiculous and at times gross, 🤮 as they both get turned on by killing and having s*x with other peoples blood on them. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Just no! Neither of them have any redeeming features and Valentina turns into a serial killer. There’s a huge difference between books that the mc’s kill people because it’s to survive, and this book. 🤮🤮🤮 I’m still grossed out.
I give up on this series. I really do. I tried this one thinking it would be better and it’s WORSE. A lot lot worse. Valentina goes from a terrified bride at the beginning of the book to getting turned on by killing people at the end. 😱😱😱 It’s like she had a personality transplant somewhere in the middle! Then there’s Marco. Marco starts off as a total d*ck threatening Valentina with a gun to her head to marry him, threatening her sisters life all the time, if she doesn’t behave, and SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM??? Her sister is right when she says she’s got Stockholm syndrome. It’s crazy. He’s got NO redeeming features at all! NONE!
I carried on reading it and I don’t know why as it was like a blood bath and s*x, endless s*x. The s*x scenes are ridiculous and at times gross, 🤮 as they both get turned on by killing and having s*x with other peoples blood on them. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Just no! Neither of them have any redeeming features and Valentina turns into a serial killer. There’s a huge difference between books that the mc’s kill people because it’s to survive, and this book. 🤮🤮🤮 I’m still grossed out.
November 16, 2025
Slow start
The book starts out the same as all the mafia books he kidnaps her she hates him yet her body can't deny she's dripping blah blah blah he tears her wedding dress off gives her oral sex and then walks out for punishment. I forced myself to keep reading and it did get a little better but there was an overuse of your delusional your body says otherwise my nipples are hard I'm dripping with I can smell her arousal that's about every other page. It's so unrealistic that he was celebrate for 2 years that's not like a mafia guy or any guy LOL. The book had a few twists and turns at the end that I won't mention so it doesn't spoil the book probably it wasn't a bad read but I don't think I'll read the next one. I didn't really like the characters and the situations were not like most mafia books
The book starts out the same as all the mafia books he kidnaps her she hates him yet her body can't deny she's dripping blah blah blah he tears her wedding dress off gives her oral sex and then walks out for punishment. I forced myself to keep reading and it did get a little better but there was an overuse of your delusional your body says otherwise my nipples are hard I'm dripping with I can smell her arousal that's about every other page. It's so unrealistic that he was celebrate for 2 years that's not like a mafia guy or any guy LOL. The book had a few twists and turns at the end that I won't mention so it doesn't spoil the book probably it wasn't a bad read but I don't think I'll read the next one. I didn't really like the characters and the situations were not like most mafia books
February 25, 2026
DNF
Couldn’t do it!! It’s painful when an author writes using descriptive pose like it’s going out of fashion. Pages and pages of metaphors to describe someone walking from one room to another, then pages and pages more to describe the view from a window or a thought. So much, that the author forgets where she is in the plot!
One example is after pages of monologues and unnecessary use of metaphoric description, we’re told the MMC makes the FMC face the door. More description follows. The he turns her to face him. Pages more of monologues and we’re told she whirls round to hit him. I had to go back a few pages to check that she had already turned around! Seems the author forgot too!!
Trying too hard to deliver a literary winner and forgetting the basics. Follow the plot!
Couldn’t do it!! It’s painful when an author writes using descriptive pose like it’s going out of fashion. Pages and pages of metaphors to describe someone walking from one room to another, then pages and pages more to describe the view from a window or a thought. So much, that the author forgets where she is in the plot!
One example is after pages of monologues and unnecessary use of metaphoric description, we’re told the MMC makes the FMC face the door. More description follows. The he turns her to face him. Pages more of monologues and we’re told she whirls round to hit him. I had to go back a few pages to check that she had already turned around! Seems the author forgot too!!
Trying too hard to deliver a literary winner and forgetting the basics. Follow the plot!
April 1, 2026
Great series!
Marco steals Valentina from her wedding to his enemy Liam from the Irish mafia. Valentina and Marco are attracted to Rach other but she fights him,he holds a gun to her head makes her marry him! The Irish and Russians are both after the Rosseto family. Valentina falls for Marco but as she helps him statagise the plans fall apart and his brother is injured,Marco turns against her. A great story.
Marco steals Valentina from her wedding to his enemy Liam from the Irish mafia. Valentina and Marco are attracted to Rach other but she fights him,he holds a gun to her head makes her marry him! The Irish and Russians are both after the Rosseto family. Valentina falls for Marco but as she helps him statagise the plans fall apart and his brother is injured,Marco turns against her. A great story.
February 26, 2026
I had real high expectations about this book, but they didn't get achieved. It was good, but the second was best!
What irritated me is the lust at first sight, like for real every time? They always have a weakness that way.
I liked Valentina and her backbone, but we didn't get to see too much of it in my opinion.
What irritated me is the lust at first sight, like for real every time? They always have a weakness that way.
I liked Valentina and her backbone, but we didn't get to see too much of it in my opinion.
November 16, 2025
One hell of an emotional roller coaster
Every book I have read in this series has been masterful in manipulating emotion. This one was no different, one of the best mafia romances I’ve read thus far. Of course I haven’t read the next one yet :)
Every book I have read in this series has been masterful in manipulating emotion. This one was no different, one of the best mafia romances I’ve read thus far. Of course I haven’t read the next one yet :)
February 7, 2026
Debo admitir que me tardé en leerme este libro porque en ciertas partes pudo más que yo, pensé que el libro de Luca era el más crudo y loco pero este lo supera por mucho Valentina está tan loca y desquiciada como Marco, y bueno el Don de Chicago realmente me sorprendió pero bueno igual 5/5
December 9, 2025
This one was better, but still only 3 stars for me.
January 26, 2026
Liked this one best so far. However I could have done without hurting Dante’s hands. Seemed not necessary. Only bothered my heart.
February 8, 2026
Wow, just loved this one with Marco and Valentina, lots of violence, passion and lust, excellent!
March 26, 2026
2.5 stars!!!
May 9, 2026
Pensé que iba a ser dark romance potente y fue más bien un circo: mucho control, mucha intensidad forzada y poca coherencia.
Aun así, imposible soltarlo.
Aun así, imposible soltarlo.
November 11, 2025
2,5 ⭐️Didn’t like the fist book that much but for some weird reason I couldn’t stop reading. The story, the characters, the spice .. everything feels like a parody of a mafia romance but clearly it’s addictive
This was a replica of the first book in the series but with a guy who talks too much.
I can’t with 10 orgasms per minute, baaaddd dirty talk and trying to turn vanilla sex into something more with bad description of semi violent passionate scenes.
I did like the pacing and the chemistry between the mcs and I finished it which is quite surprising considering almost all of it made me want to set my kindle on fire
This author is not for me and I’m happy I took the time to read two books to really confirm it
If you want: cringe spice, cliché characters, a copy of all the Mafia romance out there you got it
This was a replica of the first book in the series but with a guy who talks too much.
I can’t with 10 orgasms per minute, baaaddd dirty talk and trying to turn vanilla sex into something more with bad description of semi violent passionate scenes.
I did like the pacing and the chemistry between the mcs and I finished it which is quite surprising considering almost all of it made me want to set my kindle on fire
This author is not for me and I’m happy I took the time to read two books to really confirm it
If you want: cringe spice, cliché characters, a copy of all the Mafia romance out there you got it
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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