SILENCED (The Forgotten Boys 1) by Serena Akeroyd -review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 1, 2023

I sit on a throne of sins.
Silent in the shadows, untouchable like the King of the Underworld himself.
Few even know the sound of my voice, but those who fear me call me Monster. My men just call me Pakhan.
To her, I am Nikolai.
Her savior. Her captor. Her lover.
With hair as bright as the sun, a face that could sink a thousand ships, and more curves than I can handle, Cassiopeia. Is. Everything.
But she’s in danger.
And safety comes with a price tag.
She can fight that, can even fight me, but I’m her Hades and I won’t let my Persephone go…

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REVIEW: SILENCED is the first instalment in Serena Akeroyd’s contemporary, adult THE FORGOTTEN BOYS dark, erotic, Bratva romance series set in the author’s Five Points Mob Universe. This is American Bratva Pakhan Nikolai Veles, and blogger Cassiopeia ‘Cassie’ Trundel’s story line. Cassiopeia is first introduced in FILTHY KING (Five Points Mob #7).

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

Told from dual first person perspective (Cassiopeia and Nikolai) with a chapter by Mischa, SILENCED follows in the wake of the rescue of our story line heroine. Nikolai Veles has been tasked with locating Cassiopeia Trundel but Nikolai never expected to find her bound, gagged and drugged, a potential prisoner of the Albanian Mob. Cassiopeia’s ex husband stole something for which he offered up his ex-wife as payment, a young woman who is struggling to survive. Upon the rescue, Nikolai Veles claims Cassiopeia as his own but not before making our heroine a virtual prisoner but a prisoner in a gilded cage. As Nikolai searches for the people responsible for hurting the woman with whom he is falling in love, someone else is targeting our story line couple. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Cassiopeia and Nikolai, and the potential fall-out as a trip to Russia incites a struggle for power and revenge back home.

Cassiopeia Trundel has been used and abused, and she has become a pawn in her ex-husband’s payment for a debt but Cassie struggles with Nikolai’s need to claim, a claim that Cassie sees as going from the proverbial frying pan into the fire. Nikolai Veles is a the Miami Pakhan, a selective mute who doesn’t talk but lets his power do the talking for him. Falling for Cassiopeia is easy, keeping her safe means taking down the people who have threatened her life.

The relationship between Cassie and Nikolai begins as a rescue. Cassie has been sold as payment for a debt but her life with her husband had never been easy. Nikolai doesn’t do relationships but something about Cassie calls Nikolai like a moth to a flame, a flame he is willing to suffer the burns. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative but I dislike the use of a certain four-letter word, used twenty three times in my romance story lines.

The colorful and dynamic secondary and supporting characters include Nikolai’s ‘brothers in arms’ Misha and Maxim, his ‘son’ Dmitri; Cassie’s mother Dema Turgenev, as well as several members of the US and Russian Bratva-Igor, Boris, Grigoriy, local businessmen and women who work for and under the Pakhan’s rule. We are reintroduced to Aiden and Savannah O’Donnelly (FILTHY KING). Dmitri and Sofia’s story line is next.

SILENCED is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, abuse and murder, acceptance and love. The premise is detailed, engaging and captivating; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are powerful and determined.

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Reviewed by Sandy

USA Today and International Best Selling Author Serena Akeroyd aka G. A. Mazurke is most known for her mafia and MC series set in the Five Points Mob Universe

Avid reader of all things romance, she first started her career as a why choose author in both contemporary and paranormal.

She eventually made her way to MF romance where she found her groove with the O’Donnelly brothers, the Satan Sinners and most recently the Valentini Family.

In her back list you can find some MM, MF, MFM and Why Choose romances. HEA guaranteed!

When not writing Serena is either reading, traveling or coloring

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