Sunday, November 1, 2026

Bksprt/PAWN: A Forbidden Love, Hidden Heir, Enemies to Lovers Dark Mafia Romance by Hannah Rio

 

 PAWN: A Forbidden Love, Hidden Heir, Enemies to Lovers Dark Mafia Romance  Bksprout 

  

Every king falls. Every bishop bleeds. Every knight wages war. Every rook moves. Now the Pawn crosses — and the board will never be the same. The saga concludes.

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A Protective Hero. A Mafia Princess. A twisted Romeo and Juliet romance that detonates the moment our lips touch.

I'm Guido Rivas. The Pawn.
The illegitimate son no one claims.
And I just found the one thing my dead father hid deeper than everything else.

Liana Maritz.

The shielded daughter of my family's most lethal enemy.
Twenty. Brilliant. Furious.
Sealed inside a cage of lies her father calls love.

 A dead king planted her name inside a machine — and the countdown has started.
And the boy nobody watches is the only one standing between her and the grave his father dug.

 I show her what her father hid, what my father did.

We are two people forged by the damage of our fathers.
We possess matching frequencies.
The attraction is instant, visceral, and strictly forbidden. 

She should hate me.
Instead, she pulls me closer.

I worship her inch by inch and take her hard until she screams my name.
She is the ultimate forbidden fruit.

Her body fits against mine like the missing piece of a board I've mapped my whole life.

 If her father finds out I've claimed her, the streets will burn.
The clock is ticking.
Seventy-two hours. One girl. One board.
The Pawn crosses — or the game ends with her.
And what waits on the eighth square may shatter the Rivas dynasty forever.


PAWN is a dark, gritty, high-heat mafia romance featuring a forbidden Romeo and Juliet dynamic, a hidden bastard heir, a protected mafia princess, and a devastating enemies-to-lovers forbidden romance. It is the final installment in the Shattered Pieces series.

Explicit
393 pages
English
Action and AdventureContemporary RomanceDark RomanceENEMIES TO LOVERSDARK MAFIA ROMANCEMAFIA PRINCESSSUSPENSE THRILLERSTEAMYALPHA MALE HEROSPICY HOTACTION ADVENTUREMAFIA BOSSSECRET HEIR SUSPENSE THRILLER
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My 4 Star Review TITLED:  The board is changing!
Guido is the invisible one; the quiet one; the watcher ! It surprised me how young these men really were. Dangerous, lethal but totally loving towards family and anyone that they adopt as family !  I adored that about them ! Zina remainded the quiet mystery for quite a while but the suffering she has endured for "her boys" is clear.   I loved the phrase that "the women hold the ground. They are the ground!"   I loved how Nova held the whole family together, as she raised her sister, Marisol and the younger brother Tomas.  Special times with Guido and Marisol as she is now 14 years old and when they play chess they have always had their own Chess Language that no one else understood.  It's been built by trust from day one til now. Marisol now has a boy she likes but now he has to run the gauntlet of the brothers ! It was amusing to watch both Marisol, the young man and the gauntlet. 
The dead King, their father was one manipulative man; trying to move everyone like puppets.  His arrogance was incredible! Liana Maritz's father, Emiliano was also a manipulative man of a different kind. He loves his daughter and she knows it but she's tired of being caged inside his box of protection.  
Guido's family begin to fight to build something new and it won't be easy.  One downside for me, was how some things were continually repeated. Longer than I enjoyed however; 
the ending was very interesting and the ending very satisfying to me. 
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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