Bound by Honor
2014
- fiction, romance, erotica
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- erotic stories, fiction
The story
"Born into one of the leading Mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi struggles to find her own path in a world where no choices are given. Aria was only fifteen when her parents betrothed her to Luca - The Vice - Vitiello, the oldest son of the head of the New York Cosa Nostra to ensure peace between the two families. Now at eighteen, the day Aria has been dreading for years is looming dangerously: her wedding to Luca."
What it’s like
Dark, intimate and close-quartered, this romance moves through the claustrophobic world of a Chicago mob family, where velvet-lined rooms, late-night city glass and the hush of tense dinner tables carry as much weight as the dialogue. The prose sits tight on one young woman's inner life, its voice confined and watchful, and the atmosphere is one of simmering dread that slowly warms into obsession as the arranged marriage tightens. Pacing is intense and bodily, with long stretches given over to desire, power and emotional wariness between two people forced together. Sexual content is explicit and frequent, and the book includes coercive dynamics and threats of violence, with some onscreen-style brutality from the criminal underworld; it is not gentle. This suits adult readers who want a steamy, brooding, forced-proximity romance with a dangerous hero and don't mind dark themes, rather than a cosy or low-stakes read.
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