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Bound by Honor
Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, Book 1
Cora Reilly
Aria Scuderi was promised to Luca Vitiello when she was 15, and the wedding that will unite the Chicago and New York families is now close. Luca has a reputation for brutality, and Aria plans to work her way into a heart everyone says he doesn't have.
Builds gradually after the wedding, then regular, with the relationship driving the story.
Heat level
Clocked.
if you've ever planned your way into a guarded heart
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Reader fit
This book is great for
A mafia arranged-marriage romance where the heroine is terrified of the husband she has to marry and the hero's patience is the surprise. It starts a long series, and later books follow other couples.
- wants an arranged marriage where fear gives way slowly
- likes a hero with a brutal reputation who is patient with one person
- enjoys a short, fast-moving mafia romance
- is starting the Born in Blood world and wants the first book
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