MERCILESS VOWS (Seven Deadly Sinacores 1) by Aidee Jaimes

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 23, 2023

He wanted my innocent sister to become his submissive bride. What he gets instead, is me.

Forcing my father into a debt he cannot afford, the ruthless king of the Sinacore Mafia demands my twin as payment. A sweet prize to hang quietly on his arm. But when she runs away in fear, it’s up to me to save my father from certain death by sacrificing my freedom to a beast who has no idea I’m not the bride he bartered for.

There’s a reason he wanted her and not me.

I am not sweet. I am not weak. I bite back.

When he realizes who I am, he promises I will pay for my deception. That he will bring me to my knees and make me beg. That I’ll love every minute of it. And before long, I’m left wondering if I really want the fire raging between us to destroy him in the flames… or if it was the punishment I was after all along.

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REVIEW: MERCILESS VOWS is the first instalment in Aidee Jaimes contemporary, adult SEVEN DEADLY SINACORES dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is the new king of the Sinacore Mafia, twenty-nine year old Luca Sinacore, and twenty-three year old Carina Di Persia’s story line.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Luca and Carina) MERCILESS VOWS follows in the wake of the murder of Luca Sinacore’s brother Tony, a murder that forces Luca to take control of the Sinacore Crime Family. In an effort to prove he is worthy, Luca must take a wife, and demands the hand of Alma Di Persia, as payment for a debt but Alma is too timid and weak, and her twin sister Carina, steps in to take control. All is not well in the criminal underworld, several of men in charge of the most powerful families have been murdered, and Luca is struggling to find a common denominator between them all. It is his new wife, Carina Di Persia that stumbles upon a similarity and probable cause, a cause that is about to hit too close to home. As Carina and Luca continue to butt heads in their marriage of convenience, someone else is pulling the string behind the scenes. What ensues is the building but contemptuous relationship between Carina and Luca, and the potential fall-out as the real target of a killer is someone close.

The relationship between Luca and Carina begins acrimoniously although our couple have known one another for several years. Luca and Tony, along with Alma and Carina were thrown together by mutual family business but Carina has always believed Luca despises the ground upon which she walks, a belief predicated upon behavior and actions. The $ex scenes are intimate, aggressive and intense.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and powerful secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to Carina’s twin sister Alma, and their father Gregorio; Luca’s sister Sofie, their uncle Ray, and Luca’s right hand man Gunn Sinclair. The requisite evil has many faces.

MERCILESS VOWS is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, crime and punishment, acceptance and forgiveness, family and dysfunction. The premise is gritty and dramatic; the romance is provocative; the characters are energetic, enigmatic and charismatic. MERCILESS VOWS ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy