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Highlights
- From award-winning author, Emily A. Myers, comes a standalone, full-length Mafia Romance novel.
- Author(s): Emily A Myers
- 400 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Romance
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About the Book
Mine to Protect is a slow-burn Mafia Romance featuring enemies-to-lovers and forbidden love tropes set in New Orleans.
Book Synopsis
From award-winning author, Emily A. Myers, comes a standalone, full-length Mafia Romance novel.
Alister Amato is rich, powerful, and feared by all who know the truth. He's the Blood King, a mafia boss with a lust for blood and an infinite reach. Everything in me screams I should stay away. But when my Organized Crime Task Force is called to investigate the slaughter of a rival criminal syndicate, I know that isn't an option. The way the men were killed is something I've only seen once before-eighteen years ago when my mother was murdered and I was orphaned. I don't know how my mother wound up in the clutches of the mafia. But, after all this time, I will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Even if it means aligning myself with the dangerous, mysterious, and undeniably handsome, Blood King.
They call me King, but I am nothing but a prisoner. The world of darkness I belong to has stolen everything from me-my mother, my sister, my happiness, my freedom. Most of all, it has stolen my ability to love. If it weren't for my sister, Sophia, I would walk away from the throne I never wanted and let New Orleans burn. But even that would not set me free. My name and my blood have placed a target on my back and cursed anyone who stands beside me to the same fate. Which is why when FBI agent Ariana Valentine weasels her way into my life and heart, I do everything I can not to fall for her. My love is a death sentence. And, after everything this world has taken from me, I won't let it take her too. Even if it means I have to walk away from the only woman I've ever allowed myself to love.
Review Quotes
Alister Amato is "the bad boy [with a] soft side. He is smart, strong, and hot-tempered, but, in his heart, there is room for love. I loved how brave Ariana was after everything she'd been through. She is stubborn, has a good heart, and has an infectious sense of humor. The descriptions of the city are magical and mystical, just as I imagine New Orleans to be. Scenes involving fighting and shooting were not many, nor were they overly graphic. There were quite important topics touched upon such as violence against minors, the life of children without parents, loss of loved ones, as well as the important choices we make in our lives. The action is engaging and dynamic, but the thing that excited me the most was the love story between Ariana and Alister." - The Librarian's Granddaughter via Goodreads