Mafia Lust (Arranged Marriage 9) by L. Steele-review & excerpt tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 25, 2022
I shouldn’t be attracted to him…
JJ Kane. Billionaire CEO. Ruthless villain. Supposed boss of the underworld.
The first time I set eyes on him I hated him with a visceral intensity that took me by surprise.
Considering he gave me a roof over my head when I had nowhere else to go, I should be grateful.
Instead, I can’t seem to stop baiting him.
He’s also my boyfriend’s father. Twenty-six years older than me.
And strictly off limits.
He goes out of his way to avoid me, treats me like I don’t exist… also gives me a job in his office, and protects me from my boyfriend’s anger.
Now he’s also my boss, so I definitely can’t afford to antagonize him.
Yet we can’t seem to stop fighting every time we meet.
That is until he kisses me…
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REVIEW:MAFIA LUST is the ninth instalment in L. Steele’s contemporary, adult ARRANGED MARRIAGE erotic, romance series, a series interconnected with the author’s Bad Boy Billionaires. This is forty-nine year old, billionaire owner of the Kane organized crime syndicate Jack ‘JJ’ Kane, and twenty-three year old, executive assistant Lena Richards’ story line. MAFIA LUST can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order including the Bad Boy Billionaires series as the premise makes several references to, and many of the aforementioned Bad Boy Billionaires’ characters play second and supporting roles.
WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers including spanking, bondage and MFM sexual situations.
Told from three first person perspectives (JJ, Lena, Isaac) MAFIA LUST follows the age-gap , forbidden romance between forty-nine year old, billionaire owner of Kane Company and head of the organized crime syndicate Jack ‘JJ’ Kane, and twenty-three year old, executive assistant Lena Richards. Twenty-three year old, Lena Richards and her boyfriend Isaac Kane are currently homeless, without employment, and are about to move in with Isaac’s billionaire father JJ, but Isaac and JJ have a dysfunctional relationship, a relationship that is about to push our story line heroine between father and son. When Isaac refuses to work for his father’s corporation, JJ offers the executive assistant position to Lena Richards, a position that places Lena up close and personal with her boyfriend’s father. Disappearing for days and hours at a time, Isaac, working for his father as a corporate photographer, begins work on a series of pictures, once again, pushing our heroine towards the man with whom she will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Lena and JJ, as Lena’s relationship with Isaac begins to implode.
Meanwhile, JJ Kane is working with the group known as 7A Investments (Bad Boy Billionaires) in an effort to open an exclusive club for men, work that will open up a new line of friendship for Lena, with the wives and significant others of his billionaire partners.
The relationship between Lena and JJ is a forbidden, age-gap romance in which our heroine battles between head and heart knowing her attraction to JJ is a betrayal to Isaac but Isaac and Lena’s relationship is tepid at best, and in an effort to remain in Lena’s life, Isaac agrees to a night he will never forget. The $ex scenes are erotic, passionate and intense.
There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including most of the couples and billionaires from the Bad Boy Billionaires series, as well as the current Arranged Marriage series.
MAFIA LUST is a story of passion and obsession, dysfunctional family dynamics, acceptance, forgiveness and love. The premise is entertaining; the romance is provocative-there is some slight ‘daddy kink’; the characters are charismatic yet often immature -Lena and Isaac’s attitudes were childish and stubborn.
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Reviewed by Sandy
His nostrils flare. His dark gaze grows intense. He lowers to his knees and glares into my features. “What did you say?”
“You heard me.” I toss my hair over my shoulder. “You’re the one making moves on your son’s girlfriend, I hope your conscience can cope with that.”
“You’re the one who can’t look at me without blushing, who shuffles her feet and can’t stop twitching her butt whenever she’s in my vicinity.”
“Hey, don’t blame your stalker tendencies on me.”
He stiffens, then draws himself up to his full height. “Are you implying I’m watching you?”
“Aren’t you?”
“I haven’t seen you in three days.”
“The very fact that you went out of your way to avoid me is another sign that you feel an affinity for me.”
“I’m not sure I’d call it an affinity; more like an itch I need to scratch.”
I gape at him. “Seriously? Did you just say that to my face?”
“Best to be up-front about what this is. Explosive chemistry. Nevertheless, it’s only a physical attraction. If we fuck it out of our systems, we can both move on.”
“A-n-d, I can’t believe you’d stoop low enough to proposition your son’s girlfriend.”
“At least I am being up-front about what I want. I’m not the one lying to myself and those around me.”
“I’m not going to stay here and listen to you insult me. I—”
I begin to rise to my feet, but he firms his lips. “Sit down, Lena.”
Meet L. Steele
Steele loves to write romance novels featuring dangerous men and feisty women. She enjoys trading trivia with her filmmaker husband, watching lots and lots of movies, and walking nature trails. She lives with her family in London.
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