4-8-26Arc/Bkfunnel -Twins for the Russian Bratva by Alessia Reid

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I stalked her for six months before I bought her to be my forced, pregnant bride.

 I'm the most dangerous man in Los Angeles. I built my empire on violence and blood. I never wanted anything I couldn't have. Especially the forbidden sister of my greatest enemy.

 But one look at her, and I was hooked. 

Dark hair. Pale blue eyes. A woman who tends gardens and teaches children and laughs in bookshops like the world isn't full of men like me.

She was untouchable and utterly forbidden.

 I stalked her anyway.

 When her enemies took her, I didn't hesitate. I paid a million dollars, walked her out of a crumbling estate, and told myself I was solving a strategic problem.

 That was a lie.

 Now she's my wife. Furious, fierce, holding a divorce plan she thinks I don't know about. She tends the garden of a house she insists she's not staying in. She starts the coffee before I come downstairs.

 She is the most stubborn woman I have ever met.

 She is everything.

 When she gets pregnant, I stop pretending this was ever about strategy.

 It was always about her.

 She thinks she married a man who wanted an alliance.

 What she doesn't know yet:

 I would fight a hundred men in the dark just to be the voice on the other side of a door she's waiting to open.

 She's not my strategy.

 She's the only thing I've ever wanted that I actually get to keep.

---My 5 Star Review:  A Patient Obsession 

Anna Kashkin has been on 33 year old,  Nikola Morozov's radar for quite a while.  He has files about her family and 15 pages into her information he knows he's in trouble. He starts traveling 400 miles to just see her.  She's smart, beautiful and has a plan for her life. Getting her teaching certificate and teaching children. She's only 22 years old but she's studying hard,just going abut her life. She wants to build something for herself although she dearly loves her family and their kids !

Nikola has eyes on her and she is under surveillance by his people. Quietly ! His older brother, Sergei was obsessed with Bianca

*ARC-updated from Booksprout/The Don's Assassin by Jasmin Song

   

 

What happens when a ruthless Don and the virgin assassin sent to kill him end up ravishing each other…

Lian

I’m the Syndicate’s best assassin.   

Before my last assignment, before my plans to escape, I have a one-night stand with a stranger who offers a taste of the freedoms I seek. 

What happens when a ruthless Don and the virgin assassin sent to kill him end up ravishing each other…

Lian

I’m the Syndicate’s best assassin.   

Before my last assignment, before my plans to escape, I have a one-night stand with a stranger who offers a taste of the freedoms I seek. 

My final target is the Wolf. 

But when the perfect shot comes… I can’t throw the knife. 

Because the Wolf is the man whose bed I just left. 

Now the Syndicate wants me dead. My failure proves what they drilled into me: attachment makes you weak. 

But does it? Because my failure also earned the protection of the most dangerous man in New York.  

And the ways he claims me to the underworld and in his bedroom feel nothing like failure.  

Then the Syndicate offers me a deal: complete my original mission and earn my freedom.

Now I must choose my family of twenty-two years or the man cracking open my heart who I’ve known for one week. 

I have to kill one of these to stay alive.

My final target is the Wolf. 

But when the perfect shot comes… I can’t throw the knife. 

Because the Wolf is the man whose bed I just left. 

Now the Syndicate wants me dead. My failure proves what they drilled into me: attachment makes you weak. 

But does it? Because my failure also earned the protection of the most dangerous man in New York.  

And the ways he claims me to the underworld and in his bedroom feel nothing like failure.  

Then the Syndicate offers me a deal: complete my original mission and earn my freedom.

Now I must choose my family of twenty-two years or the man cracking open my heart who I’ve known for one week. 

I have to kill one of these to stay alive.

MY 5 STAR REVIEW TITLED:  The Wolf & The Dangerous Red Notices 

22 year old Lian has been planning her escape for 2 years. One last job before she runs! Unfortunately the night before her assignment she meets and intriguing man at the bar. Mr. Vescari and he's intrigued by her too. So she leaves the bar with him. She's been trained since childhood by Dr. Lin's rules for the Night Blossoms. It's the Black Lotus Syndicate that holds of their cards as well !  She hates it and she's done. Done being a number, just Night Blossom Fourteen ! So many lies, so many successful kills, and she's wondering what other manipulations have been in place by her handler, That means =Kill Lian!  Jade is one vengeful, vindictive woman who desperately wants their "asset" Lian DEAD as a door nail !

Dante Vescari wants quite the opposite although at first he wonders why he is so involved. Especially when he realizes she's 20 years younger than him.  But he keeps it up and takes some pretty bold risks ! I loved how much Dante enjoyed some of the outrageous theater that he performs against their enemies ! It's courageous and hilarious !  His housekeeper Elena is so special with a story of abuse herself and that makes her even warmer to those who enter the house having been abused. Starting with Lian.

People learned after a while that it was going to cost them Big Time when they mess with The Wolf and Lian who is under his announced protection. Some try anyway and end up dead !  Of course vengeful Jade keeps trying to upend their lives and kill them ! She puts several Red Notices on Lian, breaking all promises. I got the feeling it wasn't going to end well for Jade.  Kept me on the edge of my seat !

This story was spectacular, tense, emotional, romantic and the ending was even better than I could have hoped for !!

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April 5-bksprout/ My Badass Grumpy Biker Next Door by Betty Cameron

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Who is this dangerously Hot Biker?

And why is he stealing the last bag of Oreos?

I saw them first,

But he was faster than me.

His eyes lock on mine – amused.

And I forgot how to breathe.

A slow, knowing smile curls his mouth

He seems to enjoy teasing me.

With infuriating confidence

He swaggers to the door

Swinging MY cookies in his hand.

I should be annoyed

I am annoyed.

Why is my heart racing so hard?

He is waiting for me outside.

The air crackles between us.

"I bought them for YOU," he says.

My mouth opens to protest.

No words came out.

He coolly swings onto his bike

The engine rumbling, straight through me.

“See you around, OREO!”

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Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Women's Fiction alpha male tattooed biker grumpy protector forced proximity small town

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My 5 Star Review Notes: TITLED: What a great Adventure !

 Savannah  Halloran and George (a.k.a.Thunder) are just having the start of a bad day. They just don't know it yet. Or even how really bad things are going to get ! They are two different but good people who deserve a lot better. I loved the hilarious "battle" over the Ores at the start of the story.  I loved how her nickname now stuck with her ! She married to an evil man named Brad, who so abusive and she wants out but he just WON'T let go !! I hope that things end BADLY for him !!!  Savannah has The BEST FRIEND, Lacey who would and does go out of her way to help her and George. That causes her to meet up with George's friend, Rocco would is part of the motorcycle "club". It was fun to watch them become a hilarious "team."  Loved them !

Intense chases, captures, escapes, corrupt cops, relentless ex Brad, and some good neighbors, friends that help on both sides !  The romance is so tender and I loved the ending 

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Apr 04, 2026ARC/ Mafia Don’s Virgin Bride by Vira Black

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My twin sister drugged me and left me to marry the mafia Don in her place—and he knew the moment he lifted my veil.

I expect Cesare Monti to stop the wedding and expose the switch. Instead, he threatens to kill everyone I love if I don't play the perfect bride.

So I say "I do" to a man who terrifies me.

He gives me a week to consummate our marriage—to claim what I've never given anyone. 

But those first two days, he surprised me. Gives me space when I'm breaking. 

Ask what I want instead of taking. Touches me with a gentleness I never expected.

I fold on day two. Willingly.

Then everything shifts. He defends me to his family when they call me the imposter. Listen when I speak. 

The forced marriage becomes everything I want.

Now I'm in love with the killer who forced me down that aisle and pregnant with his baby.

And someone inside his inner circle sold us out.

Every weakness. Every secret. Including me.

If he doesn't reach me in time, our daughter will never take her first breath.Cesare Monti

If Cesare can't find the traitor in time— The empire falls. And everything we built together dies with it.

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My 5 Star Review TILED:  It's Quite the Set-Up

 

Paola is an art curator, and artist who teaches kids to paint.  She also has a identical twin Bianca. Bianca has stayed in their father's organization while Paola stayed as far away as possible. She's on a different, innocent path until she isn't ! She's terrified when she's drugged and forced to say I do! All because the twin she trusted ran and couldn't be found ! Was their evil father, Giovanni Lombardo complicit in the switch? He didn't care really which daughter filled the bill. But he would do anything to save his Golden Daughter (to him) from harm or shame. It's a really emotional, scary time for Paola.  She now under the power/married to a scary man who threatened her at the altar.  

 Cesare Monti saw the difference at the altar but had to accept her so it wouldn't make him appear weak or start a war.  The marriage alliance was meant to avoid war to begin with.   Giulio is both his friend and bodyguard 100 percent of the way ! Cesare surprised me as time went by and I found that I liked him and how he was willing to give Paola choices. Especially,  giving her a time limit about consummating their marriage. She's still staggering from all the shocks and trying to come out of the drugged state and exhaustion. 

I gotta say the more I read, the more I thought that someone out to take out that viper, Viktor ! Permanently !!! And I was on the fence about her father too !

Great romance, suspense, some sadness, a wily enemy and a wonderful smile worthy ending! I wanted to read this story because of the unique book information and I wasn't disappointed !

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Booksprout/ Mafia Don's Scarlet Vows by Piper Raven

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 Book 16 of The Mafia Don Series

I agree to pick up a bag at the airport because my best friend says it’ll clear her mafia debt.

She says it’s easy.
She says no one will notice.

By the time I’m dragged into a stranger’s mansion and the bag is unzipped on a marble floor, I realize the job was never simple.

Because the woman inside is my mother.

The one who disappeared when I was a child.
The one the mafia claims murdered a king.

Roman Caruso is ten years older. Cold. Controlled. Dangerous.
An alpha man whose silence makes an entire room hold its breath.

Now I’m trapped in his world—his estate, his rules, his watchful gaze that lingers just a little too long.

I was meant to deliver a package. Not become his wife.

But the longer I stay, the harder it is to ignore the tension between us… or the secrets closing in.

Then my body changes everything. I’m pregnant with Roman Caruso’s child.

And now the most dangerous man in Miami—the one I can’t trust, the one I can’t seem to resist—is the only one who can keep me alive.

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Contemporary Romance Erotica Dark Romance arranged marriage age gap surprise pregnancy forced proximity alpha male bad boy with a good heart protector enemies to lovers kidnapping innocent

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 My 5 Star    Review TITLED: The House of Secrets

Mila Silva is a silly girl at first at least. She's going to have to wise up..fast. She often is one who who ignores her gut instincts and trusts her best friend, Zoe.  She's grown up in foster homes and when Zoe asks her to pick up a bag at the Miami airport she reluctantly goes.  Zoe was there for her when she aged out of the system so agrees although she thinks it just might be a bad idea. And boy, was it ever. And she ends up married and finding out just what was in that bag. Ouch ! She has more Ouch s coming.

She's angry, defiant and oh so attracted to Roman. With them having quite a few detailed hot moments. 

Roman Caruso against his better judgement feels that strong attachment too and acts early on it until she finds out why she should hate him !! Roman is hiding so much from her, trying to protect her AND unravel some very dangerous secrets ! He's trying to catch some really sketchy people and address some years old LIES ! He's suspicious of his brother Antonio who is super charming when it wants to be, relaxed and smiling while he charms. He's also VERY ambitious ! I think that he wants to oust Roman and take over, everything ! He's a long range planner for sure ! Roman does some of his trusted people keeping a very close eye on things. Including Mila's crime dad,  and his new wife. Both of them don't care a bit about Mila. Roman has several trusted men with Matteo and Luca at the top of the list !

This is an emotional,  has some humor, well played story with twists and turns that I adored. Many I didn't see coming until they did !  Mila and Roman are going to have to "play well" together to survive this Mafia story ! Suspense until the end. 

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bkfunnel/ Ruthless Bratva Pakhan by Alessia Reid

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 Book 2 of 2: Rysev Bratva Pakhans 

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GHC6N6XR
• 292  pages
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 18, 2026

 

He was supposed to be my patient. Now I'm forced to marry him, and my belly is growing with his baby... 

I spent twelve years hiding from my past—building a new identity as a psychologist, pretending the daughter of an Irish mob boss never existed. Then he walked into my office. 

I didn’t know he’s the Bratva king, my family’s worst enemy. Until he draws his gun and kills for me. 

Apparently, my lovely family wants to drag me back to their world to sell me off as an arranged bride. And the Bratva king offers me the only way out: marry him instead. 

A marriage of convenience. That's all it was supposed to be. 

But there's nothing convenient about the way he touches me. Nothing safe about the way he looks at me—like he’ll make me scream his name if I give in. 

And I give in. 

Now there's a baby growing inside me, and he’s got me trapped in his bed.

Will he ever let me go?

---My 5 Star Review TITLED: There's MORE to their stories 

 Rodion Rysev gives a false last name when he first goes to see Dr. Keira Walsh. He comes in as Mr. Zelenov; a 32 year old "businessman" who can't sleep.  Lies, all lies but Keira see something more in him as they progress. Well, she's been keeping some dangerous secrets herself and she knows the signs.  After all, her father was a very dangerous man who she was hiding and running from all these years. When he is killed, the danger doesn't stop. Her uncle Cormac O'Shea wants to find her and arranged her marriage to a very brutal man for an alliance to benefit him. Keira has only one friend that she has let in her life years ago but she can't help.

Rodion is a VERY charming man but Keira has seen through charm before and isn't sure about him for a long time.  Even Rodion's siblings don't really trust Keir wondering if she's a plant for information on them. Demyvan is actually the head of the family (Older brother) and he was fiery and kind of uncontrollable until he mellowed somewhat when he married. Krill is the cold brother with pale eyes who  says little but notices EVERYTHING !  Nina is that sister that fills the helper role in their dysfunctional family !

Kolya is a pretty stable man who stays by Rodion's side even when he wonders about the decisions that Rodion is making.  There are a few others that actively helping them too.

I liked that was a slow burn of trust and love between the main characters and how most of the dangers have been "erased". But the Italians are still coming but they are safe for now !

Apr 02, 2026-bksprt/ Indebted to the Mafia Don Gia Hartley

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Enemies to lovers. Arranged marriage. One dangerous debt.
A ruthless mafia don forces his childhood enemy into marriage to settle a debt—but the woman he claimed to control might be the only one capable of bringing him to his knees.

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Contemporary Romance Dark Romance Women's Fiction mafia romance enemies to lovers morally gray hero arranged marriage settled debt touch her and die mafia succession war protective possessive obsessed

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____My 5 star Review TITLED:   This woman comes armed with Lists !

 

I loved Gianna Cortese the woman who fights with a battle plan of lists and research.  She owns Caffe Milano and inherited a huge debt. Everyone wants her place and are working against her to get it.  She's not  only fighting to keep it but to also protect her 17 year old sister, Mia !  And she wasn't as defenseless as everyone seems to think that she is !!!

It made me smile when Damiano D'Angelo swaggers in with HIS smile thinking he already has the wining hand.  Ouch for him ! She's already at least 3 steps ahead of him and he doesn't like it ! He's known her for years and could never figure out how she always beat him at chess when they were younger. It still stings but he's always wondered about that. I guess he always though HE was the smartest one in the room.  I loved how marriage to Gianna was going to be on Her Terms only !!

I couldn't help it but it didn't take long for me to like Damiano as I watched him get out maneuver by Gianna.  And later, their first real negation gets really HOT !

Mia is sadly had to be wiser than her years but Gianna has practically raised her for YEARS. I really liked Mia too!

 Damiano's cousin, Luca Caruso is going to be a big thorn for them but it gets really interesting when he tries his hardest to win. 

 Turns out Gianna and Damiano make for a great team !

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