She's been on the run for three years. Now Adriano Volante has found her.
Eliza Moretti has survived by keeping moving, changing names and never staying anywhere long enough to feel safe.
Then Adriano Volante walks into the café where she works.
Powerful, dangerous, and relentless, he's been searching for her for years. Now he's taking her back to Rome.
Eliza has built a new life for herself, and Adriano's arrival threatens to take it all away.
Trapped in his world, she's determined to keep her distance. But Adriano is controlling, infuriating, and far too tempting.
As their attraction grows, Eliza finds herself drawn to a man who has taken away her freedom, even as she fights to regain it.
Adriano wants something from her. Eliza has no intention of making it easy for him.
A dark, high-heat mafia romance featuring a dangerous, controlling hero, a fiercely independent heroine, forced proximity, obsession, buried secrets, and a battle of wills.
I only gave this book two stars in honor of Leo and Vinnie's story, which is the best one in the whole extended series. Pioter and Olivia was surprisingly decent too, but this one is awful in a way that makes me wonder if the same person even wrote it. I could not finish it and had to start skimming before I DNF'd. There's just no substance whatsoever, it reads like an AI paint by numbers with all the filling left out. I can't tell if AI was used and am not making that accusation here, but it sounds like that style - empty, incomplete, boring.
The premise sounded good, I was curious all this time to know how SD would pull off a romance with someone responsible for such a bad thing. It turns out, she just skipped it.
Still five stars because the mc’s are as good as in the other books in this series & related series. Maybe should’ve given it four bc it went so quickly when it could’ve (almost should’ve) gone deeper and longer. However, it doesn’t feel lacking for that. It would’ve been nice to spend more time exploring this couple but I enjoyed them nonetheless. Now I’m just hoping that I don’t have to wait very long for Benito’s story (or to hear more about Paolo’s family)!!!