Be With Me is the first book in the House of Ferraro series by Gabrielle Sands and it is an enemies to lovers mafia romance.
Mia is the daughter of the man expected to be the next mayor and she is putting her business on the back burner while the election campaign is on as she’s doing everything she can to ensure her father gets elected.
Tattooed, morally grey Romolo Ferraro is a member of the notorious crime family Mia’s father has promised to take down once elected. His job is to collect intel the family can use against Mia’s father and he’ll do whatever it takes to get it.
Mia is smart and she knows Rom is suddenly turning up at the same events as her because he wants info on her father and she knows she needs to avoid him. The problem is she doesn’t want to.
“But we were the same. Both of us were starved for the love we’d never received.
The only difference was I’d kept searching for it. He’d stopped.”
Mia and Rom both had trauma in their past they needed to work through and I loved seeing them peeling back the layers to show each other who they really are. Their chemistry was fire and I loved the yearning and angst, the push and pull of their relationship and the suspense and twists that kept the story interesting.
Mia was the light to Romolo’s dark and he would burn the world down for her! His declaration of love was definitely one of my favourite parts of the book!
“I love you.” The words scorched their way out of me. “I love you like I’ve never loved anything in my goddamn life. It’s terrifying. It’s relentless. You’ve gotten under my skin and into my soul, and you didn’t even try. Somewhere along the way, I stopped being mine and became yours.”
Overall, I loved this book! It was a 5 star read for me and I can’t wait to see what happens in the rest of the series.
– mafia romance
– enemies to lovers
– forbidden romance
– slow burn
– bad boy/good girl
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Publisher: Velvet Pages LLC
Format: Ebook
ASIN: B0DL8KF72D
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Here’s the synopsis
I’ve spent my life putting others first. So when my father runs for New York City mayor—on a promise to take down the city’s most notorious crime family—I do what I always do: push my own dreams aside to help him win.
Until I wind up at the wrong party. Trapped in a bedroom with Romolo Ferraro—the dangerous, merciless youngest son of the man my father has sworn to destroy.
He terrifies me. He fascinates me. Six foot four and covered in tattoos, he’s everything I should avoid.
When he starts pursuing me, I know I’m just a pawn in his game. A means to an end. And yet… part of me wants to play along.
I tell myself it’s to protect my father’s campaign. But I’m not thinking about politics when Romolo’s rough hands slide over my skin, teaching me how good it feels to burn.
They say good girls don’t fall for the villain.
But maybe, I’m tired of being good.
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