HIS DARK DESIRE by Brooke Summers/ Stella Bella-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 29, 2024
Denver’s most notorious mafia man, “The Snake’ is ready to hang up his title.
What happens when he finds a woman who turns his world upside down?
Is leaving the world he created behind the best way forward?
Or will he end up losing everything he loves in the process?
His Dark Desire is a crossover between the Made Series by Brooke Summers and The Temptations series by Stella Bella
They live in the shadows and have their own moral compass that guides them. These men and women don’t follow your rules. They make their own. When they meet their perfect partner, nothing else matters. They’ll do whatever it takes to win the owner of their Dark Hearts.
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REVIEW: HIS DARK DESIRE by Brooke Summers (Stella Bella) is a contemporary, adult, stand alone, erotic, Mafia romance story line set in the author’s MADE series. This is fifty-five year old, Mafia kingpin turned businessman Joe Raineri, and twenty-three year old, PA Hazel’s story line. HIS DARK DESIRE fills in some of the missing background and history regarding our story line couple. Joe Ranieri is Gabriella Sanchez’ father (OBSESSIVE UNION Made 9).
Told from dual first person perspectives (Joe and Hazel) covering several years HIS DARK DESIRE reveals some of the background information about Gabriella’s father: his Mafia connections; his estranged marriage to his first wife; the conception of his daughter; and the woman with whom he will fall in love. Joe Raineri is a Mafia kingpin but wants to go legitimate in the wake of his personal life spiralling out of control. Meeting and hiring PA Hazel stirred something deep within our story line hero but Joe’s personal life refuses to go quietly, and in this Hazel finds herself on the outside looking in. What ensues is the building but embattled relationship between our story line couple, and the potential fall-out as Hazel struggles with the possibility of losing the man that she loves.
The world building follows several years, briefly mentioning some important events in Joe Raineri’s life, events that cross over with the author’s MADE series and characters. As Joe battles with the past, the past takes aim at everyone he loves.
The relationship between Joe and Hazel begins as a professional arrangement. Joe is Hazel’s boss but his attraction to Hazel is threatened by a personal life he has yet to let go. A back and forth affair finds Hazel walking out of Joe’s life, a life that is about to become much more complicated with events back home. The $ex scenes are limited but intimate ..
The secondary and supporting characters include Joe’s soon to be ex Christina: his daughter Gabriella, as well as Hazel’s best friend Briar.
HIS DARK DESIRE is a fast paced, quick read: a novella length story of secrets and lies, power and control, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dramatic and edgy but felt a little bit rushed; the characters are stubborn and determined ; the age-gap romance is seductive but too many timeline skips results in missing details but such is the nature of the novella.
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Reviewed by Sandy
USA Today Bestselling Author Brooke Summers is a Mafia Romance author and is best known for her Made Series.
Brooke was born and raised in South London. She lives with her daughter and hubby. Brooke has been an avid reader for many years.She’s a huge fan of Colleen Hoover and Kristen Ashley.
Brooke has been dreaming of writing for such a long time. When she was little, she would make up stories just for fun. Seems as though she was destined to become an author.
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