LOYALTY
John + Siena, #1
by Bethany-Kris
Publication Date: March 5, 2018
Genres: Adult, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime. Erotic Romance
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SYNOPSIS:
Fresh out of prison after serving a three-year sentence, Johnathan Marcello wants to get back to normal business as a mafia capo. The rules set out for him are clear—keep out of trouble, maintain a low profile, and stay stable. But stability is a delicate balance for a man like John, and shaky ground is only a single step away.
A chance encounter with a blue-eyed woman might just change his whole world.
Siena Calabrese’s life revolves around cooking numbers, and scrubbing books clean. After all, a girl is only useful to men in the mafia, if she isn’t totally useless. As long as she does what they want, then she can maintain the illusion of freedom. But illusions are only delusions in the grand scheme of her life, and reality is far more dangerous.
A man with secrets might just be the one thing she didn’t know she needed.
In this life, family is everything. Or, that’s how it should be.
Distrust.
Love.
Betrayal.
Loyalty.
Mix it all together, and it makes for a volatile city.
A war is coming.
REVIEW
Loyalty kicks off John and Siena's story and what a start it delivers. This story isn't just a romance, it isn't just mafia - oh no there is so much more here - so many layers to lift and see and work around - each one pulling you further into the story, into the lives of John and Siena - into the very heart of them.
John's not a simple man - he's not your regular average joe in any way imaginable; He's bi-polar and having been diagnosed since he was a teen - he's lived with it and suffered from it for a long time. It affects his life in many ways and sometimes he doesn't know if choices he's being led to make are the right ones or not but he usually gives in. John feels alone often, he feels like he's not good enough, not trustworthy, just Not enough period - which has effects on his relationships with family and friends. Finding himself out of prison, he's determined to keep a handle on his senses, to stick to his meds, find a therapist and do what he has to do and he thinks he's got a grasp on it - but can he maintain it?
Siena is the odd one out in her family - wanted only in the sense that she has something to offer - cooking/cleaning the books of their illegitimate businesses. She's got no other worth, no other use for them and it bothers her though she's always known it to be the case.
What they find with each other is unexpected and yet feels right - even if no one else understands it. Their connection was immediate and only grew the more they saw each other, a deep intensity that only served to draw me in deeper and leave me rooting for them. There's much going on, as per Bethany-Kris usual style so while we are quickly falling for these two and the bond they are forming, there's other stuff going on behind the scenes, plotting among family and questions of what it will lead to.
Loyalty was quite the ride, with emotional heights, action and of course that edge of danger and mystery that comes with any mafia type book. It was nice to dive back into the world of the Marcello's and Calabrese's, discovering members of the families more in depth and catching glimpses of those we know and love from previous books - Cross! Bethany-Kris has done it again, woven a story with so many layers that not only compels you to keep reading but sets your mind to wonder and connect dots and work through every single thing and yet still seems to surprise you along the way. I'm not so patiently anticipating what is to come in the next installment.
ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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