The story is well written, the characters are interesting, and the romance is as sweet as it is steamy. I didn’t see it coming, and I want the next book like yesterday. The Mafia and His Angel ends on a cliffhanger that shocked the hell out of me.

Will her last name wind up being the reason she loses her life? What will happen to her then? Alessio doesn’t take betrayal well. How long can things go on the way they are? He will find out who she is eventually. While these feelings are amazing, she can’t stop thinking about when it will all come crashing down. Alessio has no idea about her true identity, but he can tell she is lying about it for some reason.Īs time goes on, Ayla begins to find friendship, love, and comfort amongst his people and especially Alessio himself. He is inexplicably drawn to her, so he decides to keep her around despite her lying about who she was. Worse yet, The Abandonatos and the Ivanshovs are sworn enemies.Īyla is surprised when Alessio offers to let her work as a maid in his home instead of throwing her out on the street or worse. It was the pakhan of the Ivanshov Bratva, Alessio. It wasn’t until the car stopped that she realized she had made a terrible mistake. It wasn’t an easy feat which is why she wound up in the back of a strange man’s car while trying to escape her husband’s men. She ran away from her father, her home, and most importantly her husband.

Her father turned a blind eye to the horrors she endured at the hands of the man that was supposed to honor and cherish her until death.Įveryone has a breaking point, and when Ayla reached hers, she ran away. She was forced to marry him, and when he got her in his grips, he brutalized her on a daily basis. Her father promised her to his second when she was still a child. Once again, my cover whore cravings didn’t steer me wrong!Īyla Abandonato is the daughter of an Italian mob boss and the wife of his second in command. Warring crime families, forbidden love, lies, betrayal, and suspense, the story was right up my alley. Mafia romances are some of my favorite things to read, so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. I was browsing through Instagram one day when I saw the cover of The Mafia and His Angel: Part 1 by Lylah James and immediately signed up for an arc after reading the blurb. Suprisingly, most of my cover buys don’t let me down, so I would argue that maybe that advice we have gotten since grade school is wrong at least as many times as it is right. The number of times that I’ve had to talk myself down from buying a book based solely on the cover that I knew I would never actually read is almost embarrassing. Lol If I see a book with a beautiful cover, I automatically want to read it. You know how they say you should never judge a book by it’s cover? Well, I pretty much never follow that advice.

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