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Mine to Keep by Rhenna Morgan – a Review

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Mine to Keep by Rhenna Morgan – a Review

 

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She’s in way over her head…

Bonnie Drummond is from the wrong side of the tracks, raised in a family of liars and criminals. No matter how hard she tries to stay on the straight and narrow, she always finds herself sucked back into the family drama, forced to sacrifice everything she’s earned to protect her family. 

But this time they’ve gone too far—crossed the wrong people—and to save them she’ll have to put her life on the line.

Roman Kozlov, enforcer for a New Orleans mafiya family, is the poster child for the life Bonnie is struggling to escape. But he’s also as alluring as he is dangerous, and it doesn’t take long for their lives to begin to mesh.

With Roman, Bonnie finds the family she never had.

As their race for answers heats up, so too does the budding romance between them. And with danger nipping at her heels and love threatening her heart, Bonnie must come face-to-face with her past if she wants to have a future

Reading Order: 

NOLA Knights:
Book 1 His to Defend
Book 2 Hers to Tame
Book 3 Mine to Keep 

 

 

Review:

Mine to Keep by Rhenna Morgan is the 3rd book in her Nola Knights series. It seems like ages since I read book 2 Hers to Tame (which I read and loved) and I have to admit I had forgotten how much I had liked that book, so I was ready for book 3….. 

Bonnie is Cassie’s friend (MC from Hers To Tame) . Her life is crappy at the moment, two jobs to just make ends meet, she’s constantly having to bail out both her brother and father in whatever scheme they are embroiled in. She’s also trying to make a dent into the hospital bills her father has accrued (he’s waiting for a liver transplant) 

Her life takes a nasty turn when both her father and brother have an altercation with an unseen foe (she’s hiding in her fathers bedroom at the behest of her brother) noises are heard, then silence, both of them are missing, and there is blood! The only person Bonnie can turn to is her new best friend Cassie (and hope it doesn’t end the start of a friendship) 

Why Cassie you ask, well, she’s in love with a Russian Mafia Mobster (or Bratva) So Bonnie thinks that maybe Kir can help?! But is it asking for more trouble becoming involved with the Mafia? But what choice does she have? 

Roman is happy with his life, an enforcer, a job he takes seriously, it’s gotten him out of the hell hole he lived in, so he’s grateful and a hard worker. He’d love to have what Kir and Sergei (MC in book 1 His to Defend is his Pakhan or boss) have, but he know that won’t ever happen, so he will get his happiness within this family. He becomes involved when Cassie gets a phone call asking her to go to a part of town he knew her husband would not like. (He’s away at the moment, and Roman takes his wife’s security very seriously) So he drives Cassie to see her friend. 

Bonnie is amazing, she wants to walk away from her troublesome family, but she can’t do that, so she works a multitude of jobs to help. She has a quick brain, and an even quicker mouth. She’s not afraid to voice her opinion, but she’s a very private person. 

And I thought I loved Kir, well move over dude, my heart belongs to Roman, he’s such a teddy bear, he’s a family man at heart, and a core of loyalty that is never in question. But cross him at your peril. He’s also had a hard life, so he’s in a position to understand why Bonnie is so guarded. He also thinks that once Bonnie really gets to know him, she’s going to walk away (his mother left him at an orphanage, so why shouldn’t Bonnie?!)

The story is well put together, enough action to keep you entertained, it’s a pretty fast paced book once Roman and Bonnie go looking for her father and brother. Very descriptive, and it has it’s funny moments (like when he saw Cassie start to play matchmaker between Roman and Bonnie) I’ve not read the previous series (Men of Haven) and it doesn’t matter if you haven’t, but when we catch up with them, listening to how they found each couple, has me itching to read more. 

Reading the interactions between Roman and Bonnie had me sighing with delight, he wants to take care of her, and she’s suspicious of his intentions, she’s also worried that If she gets to attached, it would break her when he left! Only by showing her his intentions does Bonnie slowly come round to his way of thinking. 

Her brother and father are a liability! Both have taken the easy way out for years, but being Ki napped and beaten by their captors certainly shakes loose a few home truths! And when Bonnie becomes a bargaining chip, will Roman and his family pull the city apart to find her? You bet they do! 

I’m going to have to go back to visit Cassie and Kir, and as I never read Sergei’s book it looks like a visit to Amazon ?

Highly entertaining, and highly recommend you pick up this book. 

Reviewed by Julie

Copy provided by Publisher

 

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Hers to Tame by Rhenna Morgan – a Review

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Hers to Tame by Rhenna Morgan –  Review & Spotlight

 

 

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Description:
Book two of NOLA Knights, the heart-stoppingly sexy spin-off series by Men of Haven author Rhenna Morgan

As an avtoritet for the most powerful crime syndicate in New Orleans, Kir Vasilek doesn’t act without purpose, doesn’t speak without thought and never, ever loses his cool. The lives of his brothers, his family, depend on it. But then Cassie McClintock strolls back into his life, and staying cool is next to impossible. Cassie was the one who got away—and Kir is willing to break all his own rules to keep it from happening ever again.

It’s one thing to report on the Russian mafia; it’s quite another to sleep with one of them, especially one as dangerous, and as sinfully sexy, as Kir Vasilek. Even though the information he once provided helped make her career—and the memory of his touch still keeps her up at night—Cassie knows too much about his world to go down that path.

But when Kir reaches out for help after a rival family comes for one of his own, Cassie doesn’t want to say no, either to investigating a gruesome murder or to the heat that pulls her right back into his arms…and his heart. Taming Kir—and helping to save the family she’s come to call her own—is not the story she thought she’d write, but it’s the one she’s determined will get a happy ending.

 

Review:

Hers to Tame by Rhenna Morgan is the 2nd book in her NOLA Knights series.  I’ve not read the first book, but I don’t think you need to worry too much. 

Kir use to be a bodyguard for the Bratva, now he runs a crew of his own, but he’s not the boss, that title belongs to his brother Sergei “His to defend” although not blood brothers, they guard each other’s backs and love each other like brothers. 

After watching Sergei fall for Evette, Kir longs for the same connection with a woman, but his past won’t allow that to happen (being sold into a Bratva as a young boy changed him) so Kir settles down to fact he will remain alone. 

Cassie is a reporter but, she’s not really had a good story in a while. She needs a fresh story, but going back to a source she used before maybe difficult. But if she needs to stay at the top of her game, Cassie is going to have to swallow her pride and ask the one man she walked away from. 

Almost from the moment they reconnect you can see that Kir wants Cassie on a permanent basis. Not just as help finding out who killed a member of his crew, but as a companion, maybe even more of a commitment!!! He makes plans to show her his world and his family. 

Cassie really likes Kir, but she knows about his background and is very wary, but after meeting his “family”, she sees a different side to the Bratva and Kir. But there is her job to consider! Won’t people wonder how she got her stories? And will they assume they will favour Kir and his family? 

But there is the murder to solve, and Cassie’s involvement may put her in the firing line! Is someone targeting her? Kir? Or the whole Bratva? 

I liked this book, in fact I’m off to find the first book. 

The sex isn’t too over the top, and there is isn’t too much either?

The connection between Sergei and Kir got me wanting to find out more, and what made the boss man fall for Evette, and then there is Roman (another group leader) he’s as close to Sergei as Kir is (and rumour has it, that his book is next) 

I’d recommend this book all day long. The plot flows really well. Characters are a delight to read about. And doing research on the author I found a series in which a lot of characters that we meet in this book are from (so this in theory is a spin off series) but you don’t need to read it, it just gives you more info on the characters. But I think that’s another series to be added to my never standing TBR list ?

Reviewed by Julie B

Copy provided by Publisher

 

 

 

“Please take this in the spirit it’s intended, but you work for a man who’s suspected of leading a growing crime family. I don’t think me telling you where I live is a good idea.”
“1023 South Franklin Avenue.”
Cassie stopped so hard she wobbled slightly in her heels. “How did you… I mean, I only just moved in there.”
His smile softened and his words were offered with gentle deliberateness. “I’m a very thorough man, Cassie. You can’t possibly think I wouldn’t learn everything I could about a person before I shared important information with them.”
Very thorough.
Frighteningly so.
She shook the foreboding off and resumed her trek to the station, albeit on slightly less stable legs. “All the more reason for us to meet someplace public.”
“All right. Then I’ll pick you up and take you somewhere.”
“Not necessary.” She checked both ways on the street and hurried across. “Just tell me where you want to talk, and I’ll meet you there.”
“I’m afraid my retrieving you and escorting you is nonnegotiable.”
She frowned at him, but kept going. “You’ve got a lot of points you won’t negotiate. Tell me why this one’s one of them.”
“Because while I’m very much interested in hearing what you have to share, I’m not interested in anyone else hearing. The best way to ensure our privacy is to make sure no one else knows where we’re going—including you.”
She stopped just six feet from the station’s front door. “You don’t trust me?”
“Should I?”
Hmm. He did kind of have a point. And given how she’d stiffed him after their second date, he still might be wondering if she’d simply used him. “Fine. Pick me up at my place tomorrow at eight. But don’t pick any place fancy. A coffee shop, or someplace simple. And not Starbucks either. It’s criminal what they charge for coffee.”
His mouth twitched as if it were all he could do to keep a wisecrack trapped behind his lips. “You seem determined to expose me to establishments with limited standards.” He nodded, the picture of gentility and confidence. “I’ll endeavor to pick a location that suits your expectations.” He held out his hand, palm up. “Until tomorrow, then.”
He had great hands. Not too smooth like someone trapped in an office, but a man’s hands. Slightly calloused, with long fingers and blunt fingertips. Of all the things she’d replayed from their time together, his touch had been the most frequent. Which was exactly why she’d be smart to avoid any and all physical contact with him going forward.
Glutton for punishment and well-mannered Texas girl that she was, she slipped her palm against his.
Oh, yeah.
Still amazing.
Electric and warm. Supercharged and bristling with promise.
And that was just her hand.
“Thank you again for the dinner. It wasn’t necessary, but I appreciate it all the same.” Hating the breathiness in her voice, she tried to release her hand.
Kir held it tight, the pad of his thumb subtly moving over the tender spot between her thumb and her forefinger. As if he were remembering other, more in¬timate places he’d touched her. “I assure you. The pleasure was all mine.”
He gently released her, turned without the least amount of hesitation, and strolled toward the parking lot like he didn’t have a care in the world.
Watching him was something to relish. An indulgence she didn’t even realize she’d taken until he
stepped off the sidewalk and turned to open the door to his car.
Great. And now he’s busted you ogling him.
She swung one of the double glass doors open and strode into the arctic reception area.
“Girl, that dude was hot,” Bonnie said before Cassie’s eyes could adjust from the blinding sunshine outside. “He your boyfriend?”
“Oh, no.” She set the paper bag on the counter and shook her head. “Just a contact that helped me out on a few stories a while back.”
And ruined me for other men, but why quibble over details?
Bonnie took the bag and opened it, but the look on her face and her answering chuckle said she didn’t buy a word Cassie’d said. “Uh-huh. Looked to me like he was plotting how to peel you out of your professional getup.”
Yeah, it’d felt like that, too. But she wasn’t going to think about that now. Or ever, if she could help it. “Nope. Just talking business.” She waved toward the bag and headed back toward the newsroom.
“Good business, or bad business?”
Cassie swung the door to the hallway open and cast Bonnie one last look. “I haven’t decided yet. Could have been the lottery, or the biggest wrong turn of my life.”

Copyright © 2020 by Rhenna Morgan


 

 

 



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