Ok. I messed up. I didn’t know what this book was about and I OBVIOUSLY ignored the trigger warning page assuming I’d be fine. I was not. Whew chile, I was NOT!

This book was a crazy good time and I enjoyed reading about Menace and Stevie.

Book 2 in the Caselli Family book. This one about Landon (Don) Caselli.

Zoe is sent to Italy to bring back her younger sister, Zahra (book 2). She’s going with her cousin, Shea (book 1) who is acting weird for unknown reasons and they’re trying to retrace Zahra’s location in Italy. Well, if you read the first 2 books, things got real when they ended back at the small pizza shop in Naples from book 1 and that’s when things get fun!

I enjoyed the book but Francesca still annoyed me. She’s admitted she’s young and doesn’t understand this world and yet at almost every turn makes poor choices, doubts Fausto knows what he’s talking about and puts herself in harms way too many times.

Francesca is the oldest daughter from a Toronto mafia family. She’s a bit of a wild child but has helped raise her sisters since their mother died many years ago. She has plans to attend college now that’s she’s graduated high school, so she is understandably surprised and mortified to hear that she’s betrothed to the son of a mafia king in Italy. She doesn’t want go to Italy, doesn’t want to get married and is not interested in having kids right now.

Antonio is the mafia king of this part of Italy. Anything that happens is not done without his knowledge. So, when he gets word that someone is after his painting, he sets them up so he can catch them. Imagine his surprise when he realizes it’s the woman he met almost 10 years ago. She’s as beautiful now as she was then and add in that she doesn’t seem to be scared of him and his power, he’s just about smitten.