Little Nightmare (The Rise of the De Langes 2)by Rachel Van Dyken-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 5, 2025

Not all monsters hide under the bed. Some guard your heart while plotting your ruin. Welcome to your final dream. Don’t worry. I’ll keep you safe. I promise. Just close your eyes.

Sleep.

Grief has five stages, they say. But in the mafia, there’s only one: survival. The day I buried my boyfriend, the Families replaced him with the man who rejected me four years ago—Ace “Matchstick” De Lange. Cold. Calculated. Deadly. He has the bedside manner of a serial killer and the looks of a fallen angel. And now, he’s my shadow, ensuring I don’t end up in the grave beside the man who died for me. I despise that I’m the one left behind. I loathe how Ace provokes me, pulling me from the abyss of my sorrow. But most of all, I hate that the only piece I have left of my dead boyfriend is something others would kill to possess.

When Ace uncovers my secret, there’s only one solution: marriage to the devil himself to protect the legacy of the one who had no choice. I vow never to love him. He promises he’ll never love me. He’s a means to an end—the only one who can stand against my father and live to tell the tale. He claims his life is mine, but I don’t want it. I tell him I’ll never be his.

Ace’s response? A chilling, “We’ll see.”

But what happens when everything you believed was a lie? When the only one who can free you from your nightmare threatens to drag you deeper into the darkness? Some families are tested and break under the weight of the mafia. The De Langes broke… then gathered the pieces and rose.

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REVIEW:LITTLE NIGHTMARE is the second instalment in Rachel Van Dyken’s contemporary, adult THE RISE OF THE DE LANGES dark,Mafia romance series, set in the author’s EAGLE ELITE WORLDS. This is Ace De Langes, and Raven Alfero’s story line. LITTLE NIGHTMARE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but a working knowledge of the Eagle Elite and interconnected Mafia Royals worlds. Raven is the daughter of Dante Alfero, the boss of the Alfero crime family

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Ace and Raven) LITTLE NIGHTMARE follows in the aftermath of the murder of Raven’s bodyguard Louis Santorini, a man who was closer to Raven than anyone could have ever imagined but secrets were about to be revealed, and as Raven’s new bodyguard, Ace De Langes would pay the price for the sins of someone else. Raven has been targeted, and Ace is willing to protect Raven Alfero with his life.

The world building focuses on the building but acrimonious relationship between Raven and Ace. Raven is struggling with grief and loss, and in this, she is about to push Ace out of her life, a life that has become fodder for something more. All is not as it appears to be, and the ghosts of the past return to finish the jobs.

The relationship between Ace and Raven is an enemies to lovers in the wake of a forced marriage of convenience, and the perceived betrayal by our story line hero. Ace has fallen for the woman who is about to break his heart while Raven continues to pine for everything she has lost. There are no $ex scenes, everything is implied.

We are reintroduced to Raven’s father Dante Alfero, as well as Raven’s sister Tempest; the return of several members of the Abandonato and De Lange families, and the introduction of a group known as the La Nebbia Syndicate.

LITTLE NIGHTMARE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, death and destruction, family and acceptance, forgiveness and love. The premise is detailed, complex and dramatic; the romance is limited but struggles in the face of lies; the characters are determined and dynamic.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one CIAO BELLA

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.

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