HIS: Tony (The Sabatini Family 2) by Fiona Murphy-Review Tour

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Sandy

HIS: Tony (The Sabatini Family 2) by Fiona Murphy-Review & Excerpt Tour

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A Sabatini may be a lot of things: an asshole, rude, ruthless, even a killer. But one thing we never are is sloppy, not with our money, not our business, and especially not with our bodies.

Until the moment I got sloppy with the most dangerous thing I could: a woman. I’m third generation in the Outfit. I’ve killed more than my share of men, have had more than a few guns held to my head. Christy wasn’t the first person who tried to kill me, she wasn’t the last, and I’m sure there will be more in the future.

I knew how we started was messed up. I’m old enough to be her father. She was thirty to my fifty, I should have spanked her, taken the gun away from her, and killed her the way I planned. She wanted me dead to pay for her childhood trauma. The way I saw it, I’ve done a lot of messed up things but I wasn’t to blame for what she went through. If she wanted me dead, there was only one thing for me to do: kill her before she could kill me to save me from looking over my shoulder for her to take a second shot. Only the moment I laid eyes on her everything changed: the plan, me, her.

When I put the ring on her finger and she promised forever I believed we had a future. There was no hint I would wake up the next morning and find her gone. I tried to let her go, I can’t. She promised forever, I’m holding her to it. It doesn’t matter how far she’s gone. I will find her.

Christy belongs to me, and a Sabatini keeps what is his.

This is a dark mafia romance with elements that may be disturbing to some readers.
While this is the second book in a series it can be read as a standalone and does not end in a cliffhanger.

***Despite what you may have read in Dominic’s story. This is not safe-on Tony’s side. After she leaves he loses it for a little while. Once he calms down yes it becomes safe but I know this is an issue for some readers.
Safe from her side.***

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REVIEW:HIS: TONY is the second instalment in Fiona Murphy’s contemporary, adult THE SABATINI FAMILY erotic, Mafia, dark romance series-a spin off from the author’s Dirty Billionaire’s series. This is fifty-one year old hitman Tony Sabatini, and thirty year old nurse Christy Teller’s story line. HIS: TONY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Some of the events of HIS: TONY cross over with, and run parallel to HIS: DOMINIC.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Tony and Christy) HIS: TONY follows two time lines ( present day and five years in the past) focusing on the acrimonious relationship between fifty year old Tony Sabatini, and thirty year old Christy Teller. For years, Christy Teller has wanted revenge against Tony Sabatini, blaming him for the destruction of her family and her life but meeting Tony stirred something deep within our story line heroine. Having set out to kill our story line hero, Christy found herself falling in love with a man who took control of her life and her heart but Christy struggled with Tony’s affections believing she would always wait for the proverbial ‘other shoe’ to drop. Running from the man that she loved, Christy would disappear for close to five years where her life was about to change in a matter of days. Fast forward to present day wherein Tony has finally located the woman that had stolen his heart but a woman whose secrets are about to be exposed. What ensues is the back and forth, tempestuous and rebuilding relationship between Tony and Christy, and the potential fall-out as Christy continues to struggle with Tony’s intentions, and the possibility that he never loved her the way she loved him in return.

The relationship between Christy and Tony begins as a business arrangement but our heroine had every intention of seeking vengeance for perceived wrongs of the past. Tony knew that Christy had every intention of taking down our story line hero but Tony’s need for Christy outweighed the possibility of the ultimate betrayal. The $ex scenes are erotic, intense and provocative including some scenes of spanking.

We are reintroduced to Tony’s son Dominic and his wife Regina: his housekeeper Carmella; Luca Tora, as well as several Mafia personnel.

HIS: TONY is a story of family, power, betrayal and vengeance; secrets and lies. The premise is entertaining and exciting ; the characters are head strong, determined and fierce; the romance is dramatic and edgy.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one HIS: Dominic

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Reviewed by Sandy

NOTE: The excerpt is intended for mature readers due to strong language and content.

“Tony, you moved my stuff here?”
An eyebrow goes up as he turns to me, “Yeah, of course.” He says the words slowly. I want to slap him so badly.
“There’s no, of course. What the hell is this?”
“What’s what?” He frowns down at me.
“This. What am I doing here? I’m going to follow you around for the next what week, two weeks. I don’t even really understand why I’m still alive right now. And I’m trying not to freak out over how that can change at any minute.”
His frown deepens. “Where the hell did you get the idea—”
Oh my god, is he serious? “Maybe from the way you offered to have my death be an easy one not even twenty-four hours ago. Which I totally fucking get. I deserve it. I don’t deserve to be standing here and now—”
Hot, angry, consuming his mouth is on mine. I’m weak in an instant, clinging to him. I groan when it ends far too fast. Shaking his head, “What I was trying for, my sweet Christy was to give you time to come to terms with it. Slip the bridle on nice and easy before you even realized you were wearing it, but you have to keep pushing.”
“What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think you’re speaking English right now?”
“We settled this the first damn day, yes, less than twenty-four hours ago and again less than an hour ago. You’re mine. I’m keeping you.”
It doesn’t make sense to me. Even though, yes, not even an hour ago he claimed me again. This is Tony Sabatini, a cold, ruthless, killer. Was he really going to let the whole trying to kill him thing go like it never happened? “What? Locked in the basement or something?”
The fucker laughs. I know I thought I wanted to hear him laugh, but not right now. Especially because it makes me wet and I need to focus.
“No. You’re mine. You belong to me. I’m keeping you with me here in this house, in my bed and hopefully,” he reaches out and the touch of his finger along my stomach is tender. “Before long you’ll help me fill this house with the children I always wanted.”
A baby, he wants me… “You’re serious. You’re really. Oh god.” My knees go weak and I sink to the floor.
Tony hauls me up and puts me on the island. Damn that’s cold. He studies me intently. “Are you okay?”
I shake my head. “No, I’m not okay. You’re telling me I’m going to stay here and have your babies like it’s not the most fucked up think I’ve ever heard in my life. What woman would be okay with that? I’m trying really hard to wake up from this insane nightmare.”
His face goes hard. “You are awake. This is real life—yours and mine. Accept it fast. Because the alternative is killing you.” I flinch. He sighs. “I don’t want to fucking kill you, Christy. To keep you alive, I’m keeping you at my side, as my woman in every sense of the word.”

Due to commitment issues I have lived in many different cities and my favorite is Chicago but I have managed to settle into Austin and perhaps my commitment issues are behind me.

I have enjoyed reading from a very young age and it wasn’t long before the children books bored me and I read the books my mother enjoyed Stephen King and Dean Koontz and I didn’t sleep without the light on until I was about ten.

I came across my first Harlequin by accident and it was love at first read, no one died and happy endings? It was a whole new world and I loved it.

I wrote my first story at eight and everyone died, of course. Since then I would like to think I’ve gotten better and now I’m writing the happily ever afters I first fell in love with, with some hot sex thrown in along the way.

As a plus size woman myself, I have started writing the stories I always wanted to see myself in but never did. And now I’m ecstatic to give BBWs the happily ever afters with hot Alphas I want to read.

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His: Dominic (The Sabatini Family 1) by Fiona Murphy-Review Tour

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Sandy

His: Dominic (The Sabatini Family #1 ) by Fiona Murphy-Review & Excerpt Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 1, 2021

Any minute I am going to wake up from this nightmare. Being tied up and thrown in the trunk of a car doesn’t happen in real life. Except the silk tie around my wrists feels very real. And my father, Johnny Conti, the head of the Outfit, is telling me to be a good girl—that I’m to be the wife of the man who tied me up and has me over his wide shoulder.

Some women might swoon over gorgeous Dominic Sabatini with his blue eyes, dimples, and muscled body in a silk suit. Not me. Those are just distractions from who, what he really is: a ruthless killer with blood on his hands and ice in his veins.

There is no way Dominic could actually want to marry me. A virgin, curvy, buried in an all-girls Catholic boarding school for most of my life and seventeen years younger than him. He’s marrying so far beneath him it’s absurd.

No to all of it. Tomorrow I’m going to marry the man of my dreams, a nice, kind accountant. I’m going to have the safe, boring life I’ve always longed for. I have to escape this nightmare. But Dominic growls I belong to him and he keeps what is his.

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REVIEW: HIS : Dominic is the first instalment in Fiona Murphy’s contemporary, adult THE SABATINI FAMILY dark, erotic, Mafia, romance series-a spin off from the author’s Dirty Billionaires series. This is forty year old, capo/soon to be underboss Dominic Sabatini, and twenty-two year old, translator Regina ‘Gina’ Conti’s story line. HIS: Dominic can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous series is revealed where necessary. Dominic Sabatini is the cousin to Cesare, Enzo, and Dante Sabatini from the Dirty Billionaires 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 (Dom and Gina) HIS : Dominic follows the acrimonious, age-gap, arranged marriage between forty year old, capo/soon to be underboss Dominic Sabatini, and twenty-two year old, translator Regina ‘Gina’ Conti. When Johnny Conti, head of the Chicago Outfit calls in a promise from Tony Sabatini, his son Dominic quickly discovers that his life as a single man is about to come to an end. Johnny’s illegitimate twenty-two year old daughter is about to marry a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and Dominic is tasked with ‘rescuing’ the woman from potential disaster. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Dom and Gina, and the potential fall-out as Gina struggles with the ongoing secrets and lies surrounding the Outfit, and the possibility of living a life without love or children.

Dominic Sabatini doesn’t want to be the next Don in the Outfit but since the death of his brother, and imprisonment of his father years before, Dom has inadvertently and purposely positioned himself in the line of succession. His power and control is only matched by the head of the Outfit, a man whose time on Earth is coming to an end. Forced to marry Regina Conti finds our hero falling for a woman whose issues of self-esteem and poor self-image have been reinforced by the men in her life, and the forced proximity to a man who refuses to fall in love. Gina Conti thought she was in love with a quiet accountant but said accountant is not the man he pretends to be. Blinded by love, Gina finds herself a virtual prisoner of the Sabatini family, a prisoner who will eventually fall in love with her personal kidnapper.

The relationship between Dom and Gina is tempestuous at best. Gina has been promised to the Sabatini family since the moment of her birth, and in this Gina had no idea since she never felt love or affection from the man who claims to be her father.Meeting Dominic Sabatini forces Gina to take a long, hard look at the man she thought she loved, a man more evil than the man she is about to marry. Falling for Dom was easy but life with Dom was always going to be hard. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense including some scenes of bondage and spanking.the sexual tension and chemistry is heavy and hot.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including many of the original couples and characters from the Dirty Billionaires Series: Cesare and Alicia, Dante and Bethany Enzo and Chloe; Dom’s father Tony Sabatini; Outfit guards-Vincent, Marco and Dario; Regina’s father Johnny Conti; Dom’s housekeeper Mary; underboss Carlo Toro and his son Luca, and Regina’s former fiancé Richard Taylor. Tony’s story is next in HIS: TONY.

HIS: DOMINIC is a story of blood and family; power and control; secrets, lies, promises and love. The premise is edgy and gritty; the characters are energetic, animated and spirited; the romance is raw, spicy and provocative. The epilogue fast forwards the story line twenty-five years.

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Reviewed by Sandy

It hits me. I’m not getting out of this. I won’t be able to get away from Dominic Sabatini. Not today, a month, or even a year from now. If somehow, some way I got away, he’d find me. I have no idea why instead of scaring me, the realization thrills me.No, no. Fear shakes me out of my reverie. I can’t just give up. There has to be a way. There is always a way, isn’t there?

I startle at the knock on the bathroom door.

“Regina, get moving. I’m starving. I want to grab something to eat then get back on the road.”

Looking down at the dress, anger at Dominic and myself fuels me. Today was supposed to be my wedding day, this is my wedding dress. I refuse to make this easy, for either of us.

Hands shaking, I put on the pretty white lace bra and plain cotton white briefs. Forcing my fear down, I slip into the white dress.

When I open the door, Dominic is standing by the door leading out of the room, carrying his leather duffle. His eyes go cold. “Change.”

“No.” I’m defiant, refusing to back down from the dark energy vibrating around him.

He drops the duffle and crosses the room in all of three steps. A hand goes around my throat and my stupid body betrays me, going instantly limp against him. “Take it off or I will.”

I shake my head as much as I can. I blink and holy fucking crap, his other hand finds the neckline and tears it from my body. We’re both breathing hard and fast. The hand around my neck lets me go and fucking shit, I stumble into him. His hands wrap around my arms as he catches me close, his mouth at my ear. Hot air is sliding down the skin of my neck and I can’t fucking breathe.

“You are mine. You belong to me. I can make you tremble in ecstasy or fear. The decision is yours.”