Title: Coerced Wife
Series: New York Underworld #2
Author: Charmaine Pauls
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Touch Her and Die
Fake Relationship/Forced Proximity
Release Date: November 18, 2024
He offers me protection, but the bed of a killer isn’t a safe place to be.I got myself in a predicament. Powerful people on both sides of the law want me dead. A killer needs me alive for his own selfish reasons, reasons I never could’ve imagined in my wildest dreams.
I’m not safe in the bed of a cold-blooded murderer, but I don’t have a choice. On the one hand, he offers me protection, and on the other, he tightens the noose.
I’m caught in his web of lies and deceit. Every truth that’s uncovered destroys me a little more. But he’s already injected me with his venomous seduction.
Before I know it, he’ll swallow me whole.
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As for the rest, desolation rips through me when I push the door open and walk through it. Every step I take is like walking on a bed of glowing red coals.
Saverio stands on the gallery, talking to Dante. His smile slips when he sees me.
“What’s wrong?” he asks, wrapping an arm around my waist.
I plaster a smile on my face. “Nothing.”
The way his eyes tighten in the corners says he doesn’t believe me, but he doesn’t push the issue.
I stand like a statue at his side while people file past in a steady row to prematurely congratulate us and to make mindless conversation.
A short while later, Luigi asks the DJ to kill the music. He makes an announcement, but everything is like white noise in my ears.
Saverio takes my hand and pushes a ring with a huge oval diamond over my finger. I can’t stop staring at the monstrosity that shines under the lights, the huge stone weighing down my hand. Saverio holds my gaze as he lifts my fingers to his lips and kisses the ring, something dark and deviant sparking in those eyes that resemble the color of an iced-over lake. Clapping follows and then cheers.
Lowering his head, he claims my lips in a kiss that lasts too long to be appropriate for the occasion. This time, wolf whistling sounds.
It all happens in a blur. The one moment I’m Anya Brennan, and in the next, I’m to become Ms. De Luca.
“Soon,” Saverio whispers in my ear, sealing that frightening promise with a tender kiss on my neck.
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What an ending! I’m excited for the next book.
This is the Second book in Charmaine Pauls's New York Underworld Series, and it takes readers on one heck of a rollercoaster ride. Saverio and Anya's story must be read in the order it has been released so you can understand what is going on and become fully invested in this couple, as I have.
I don't even know what to say. So much is going on, and that incredible cliffhanger only intensifies my feelings for this story. Sav is doing everything in his power to keep Anya and her unborn baby safe from Crime Boss Luigi, who wants her out of the picture regardless of the fact she is Sav's alibi for a murder she witnessed. His feelings for her and the baby are evident in everything he does for her, even if his words say otherwise. Anya has strong feelings for Saverio as well, although she is given additional information to question his actions.
Will Sav and Anya get their HEA, or are they destined to be nothing more than Abductor and captive? I look forward to seeing how everything plays out in Coerced Queen, this trilogy's third and final book.
I recommend this book to readers who enjoy STEAMY dark romances, Mafia Romances, Touch-Her-and-Die Romances, Fake Relationship Romances, Captive Romances, Forced Proximity Romances, or Bad Boy/Good Girl Romances.
Happy Reading!!!
**I have voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy of this book for my Blog, Nadine's Obsessed with Books**
AUTHOR BIO
Charmaine loves to write dark and edgy romance that will melt both your e-reader and your heart. She's a mom of two teenagers, an adorable dog, and a dominant cat. Her country of birth is South Africa where many of her stories play off. Her French husband kidnapped her to the south of France where she currently lives with her family. When she's not writing, you'll find her in the kitchen baking cakes or in the gym lifting weights (because ... all those cakes!).
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