Three months of construction. Four bedrooms. One set of rules.
Vincent's rule was balance. Damien's rule was that he had been there first. Alessio's rule was that he would never make her choose. For a while, the rules held.
Then a jealous man drank himself unconscious in a Los Angeles bar, and a woman with a grudge made sure Cher saw the photographs. Cher left at one in the morning with three of their shirts in her suitcase. It took the Moretti and Rossi families five days to find her.
That was the easy part.
Because Beatrice Fontana was not finished. Because a fraternity party in May ended with a drugged girl, a warehouse, and three names screamed at a ceiling. The men who came through that door are not the men who carry her to bed at night, and what they did after they carried her out is the one thing they will never tell her.
Our Rules is the summer three men stop taking turns and start being one thing. It is horses at dawn and a saddle engraved with words Damien actually meant. It is a house in the mountains, bought because she once said Los Angeles did not have enough stars.
And it ends with a report on Alessio's desk. A name. A date of birth. An address in New York.
Her brother did not die in that fire.
Book Two of the CHER series. Explicit, 18+. Cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed at series end.
CHER is a dark mafia why-choose romance series for readers 18+.
Book Two contains: explicit sexual content throughout, including group scenes (MFM, MFMM); drink spiking and drugging; kidnapping and restraint; on-page attempted sexual assault by secondary characters (interrupted, not completed); on-page violence and execution; a secondary female character subjected to off-page sexual violence as retribution, never depicted and shown only through its aftermath; infidelity accusation and framing; graphic language.
The three heroes keep two absolute lines: no drug trade, no human trafficking.
Ending: cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed at series end.
Luna Moretti writes dark mafia romance where the danger belongs to the men, not the woman they love.
CHER, her debut series, follows a young woman raised between the most powerful families on the West Coast, and the three men who grew up around her: the brother who became her guardian, the brother who knelt in the grass at thirteen and promised to wait, and El Emperador, who refused to wait at all. Three men who would burn empires to keep her safe. Three men who love her in three irreplaceable ways. One woman who refused to choose.
Across five novels and two companion novella collections, the series moves through summer infernos, blood debts, quiet manor mornings, and the years that come after. Violence stays at the door. Inside the manor, she is adored.
For readers who like their dark romance with tenderness at its center. Worshipped heroine. Obsessed heroes. Found family forged in danger.
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Round two of the adventures of Cher, Vincent, Damien, and Alessio was enjoyable. Thank goodness for the Assistive Reader on the Kindle app, as it allowed me to read while listening simultaneously. This book certainly deserved five stars, but it was a bit too long. I feel that some of the interactions could have been shortened by 75 to 100 pages without detracting from the overall story.
The pacing was excellent, the intimacy was steamy, and the character development was phenomenal. It handled the polyamorous "why choose" trope flawlessly, showcasing how a dedicated group of partners navigates complex and sometimes toxic relationships. I also appreciated that Damien realized she was not exclusively his and that the dialogue regarding Alessio and their shared relationship was well-placed.
One woman journey is not going to be easy when she leaves three men behind her. Things will get very dark and may trigger issues due to the actions of others in this book. A very powerful read but be careful reading if you get triggered by sexual abuse and violence I received an advance copy from hidden gems and an extremely powerful read