SCORNED OBSESSION (Scorned Fate 4) by Victoria Paige
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 17, 2025
It’s when her obsession for him vanishes that he becomes desperate to have it back.
Bianca De Lucci has always been obsessed with Sandro Rossi. He was the hero of her girlish dreams. And the dream man of her adolescence. But no matter how much she showed him she wanted more, he always treated her like a younger sister.
In one tragic night, she pushes her obsession too far and someone dear to her pays the price. Sandro becomes the enemy, and she wishes for him to burn in hell like the rest of his family.
Sandro Rossi has too much blood on his hands. Hands undeserving to touch Bianca’s goodness and light. But when he shatters her heart, instead of freeing her from her obsession, he extinguishes her light. A light that he realizes has become his addiction.
Now he will lie, cheat, steal, and, yes, fight like hell to win it back.
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REVIEW: SCORNED OBSESSION is the fourth instalment in Victoria Paige’s contemporary, adult SCORNED FATE dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is thirty-two year old, made man/ underboss Alessandro ‘Sandro’ Rossi, and twenty-three year old, Bianca De Lucci’s story line. SCORNED OBSESSION can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. The Scorned Fate series is set in the author’s DE LUCCI’S OBSESSION world, which is interconnected with the author’s ROGUE PROTECTOR’S series.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Sandro and Bianca) SCORNED OBSESSION follows the childhood friends to frenemies to lovers relationship between made man Sandro Rossi, and Bianca De Lucci. For most of her life, Bianca De Lucci has been in love with Sandro Rossi but the Rossi crime family are the sworn enemy of the De Lucci clan, a Mafia-adjacent family with times to the mob but Sandro has always kept Bianca at a distance until the night she returns to New York, and finds herself at the centre of a gun fight with her brother fighting for his life. In an effort to appease the man in charge, Bianca is forced to marry a man she does not love but all is not as it appears to be.
The world building focuses on the tempestuous relationship between our story line couple, as Sandro struggles to toe the line as he battles to uncover a possible traitor in the family. Several attacks against the De Lucci family edges the Rossi’s closer to war but Bianca is determined to prove her family is not behind the threats to their lives.
The relationship between Sandro and Bianca is a childhood friends to frenemies to unrequited love relationship in which Sandro has ‘friend-zoned’ the only woman he has ever loved but Bianca is willing to prove she is the woman to stand beside a made-man, and in this, places herself in the direct line of fire. Sandro is determined to claim Bianca as his own, and in doing so, sets the stage for a rocky truce. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including the large extended De Lucci and Rossi families. We are introduced to Tommy and Divina, Tommy’s sister Griselda, and Sandro’s ‘cousin’ Gian. The requisite evil has many faces. Trust is an issues, betrayal is constant. Bianca’s cousin Dom’s story is next.
SCORNED OBSESSION. Is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, obsession and friendship, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dramatic and edgy; the romance is fated and seductive; the characters are determined, dynamic and powerful.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Scorned Heir
Scorned Vows
The Reading Cafe
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Reviewed by Sandy
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Victoria Paige writes smart, edgy, seductive romance.
Her heroes are badass alpha males and her smart, strong-willed heroines can hold their own against a bossy hero. Her books are sexually explicit and may contain dark themes, morally ambiguous choices, and disturbing situations as she injects realism into her stories and gives them her own twist.
Victoria lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and playful German Shepherd Dog, Loki.
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