TITLE: Broken Prince
SERIES: Cosa Nostra #1
AUTHOR: R.G. Angel
GENRE: Standalone Mafia Romance
RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2021
BLURB.
Cassie
Being the daughter of the Riverside monsters is a heavy cross to bear, one that twenty-one-year-old Cassie West can’t escape. But first she needs to get her ten-year-old brother out of social care.
Social pariahs can’t be choosy and she finds a job as a live-in housekeeper at Hartfield Manor—a cursed job that no one wants.
But as the days pass, she is intrigued and determined to figure out who is the man in the shadows. The mysterious owner of the manor whose obvious pain resonates with hers.
Luca
How the mighty have fallen.
Luca Montanari turned from an adulated powerful mafia underboss to a recluse, clinically alcoholic beast with a death wish in the blink of an eye.
All he wants is to be left alone, to soak in his pain and guilt—in his own version of purgatory—until Cassie West enters his life. She is everything he doesn't want and everything he needs. The fiery redhead starts to bring back to life parts of him he wanted dead. The closer she gets, the harder it is to remain the ghost he’d become.
Who better than the daughter of monsters to love a beast?
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I slid closer to him and removed my gardening gloves. I brought my hand up and brushed the soil from his bearded cheek.
He tensed as if he was made of stone under my touch.
I brought my other hand up and brushed my fingertips across his scarred cheek softly, barely a touch, and despite his frozen state, I saw his pupils dilate. He liked that I touched him.
His small reaction made me bolder somehow and I traced the scars with my forefinger. I traced the one going down in an almost straight line from the side to his forehead, down the corner of his eyes, the corner of his mouth to his chin. It tipped the corner of his mouth in a small pout.
“The scars are not ugly,” I whispered softly, worried that I’d break the spell and he would pull away—retreating in his shell of self-hatred. “You’re handsome. I like both sides of you.” I kept my eyes locked on his—showing him that my words were nothing but the truth. It was not pity talking; it was the attraction I felt for him despite knowing how wrong and hopeless it was to feel something for a man like him.
“You don’t have to say that,” he whispered but remained immobile, letting me trace all the scars.
“I know I don’t. But I mean it, every word. Please don’t hide your face from me.”
I didn’t realize he had moved until he gently brushed his fingers along the seam of my bottom lip. He had removed his gloves while I was engrossed with his face and he seemed as mesmerized as I was.
OUR REVIEWS.
4 Stars from Tiffany!
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Great Start to the Series!
R.G. Angel gives her readers a great start to the Cosa Nostra series with Broken Prince. While the blurb pretty much spelled out the story of Cassie and Luca, it was nice to learn about them, thier families and thier pasts. And boy do they both have quite the past!
I was an instant fan of Cassie. This is a girl that has been put through the ringer and all she can think about is how to move on from her craptastic parents and get her brother out of the group home he's in and back with her. She is a girl with some major grit and wasn't scared to do whatever it took to get her brother, even it it means taking a job many, many others weren't able to handle.
Luca is that job. He's a mafia prince that is drowning his sorrows in a giant house on a hill with his poor, abused, but good friend Dom. At first glance Luca is a big baby. Worrying about what others thought of him didn't fit well with a capo in the mafia. Even though he wasn't really the capo at the moment, again because he's a big baby. I didn't want Luca to be a big jerk, but I did want him to be more of a man when it came to standing up for himself.
Cassie is the best thing to happen to Luca in a long time and Dom sees it instantly and starts to steer her in Luca's direction. She's the push he needed after a long two years of self pity. Dom knows what kind of man Luca can be and wants nothing more than to seem him in his rightful spot.
The book has great storylines, albeit a bit clunky at times, but a great read. While predictable the storylines were interesting and kept me turning the pages. Along with Cassie and Luca there are a handful of supporting characters to keep the story moving. Dom's book is up next and I might just care about Carter and Nazalie as well!
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4 Stars from Brianna!
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Whoa. What a story and those characters! I was not expecting that.
R.G. Angel is a brand spanking new to me author and this is quite the way to be introduced y'all. I really, really liked this mafia romance with a Beauty and the Beast twist to it. Sexy, swoony, intense, unputdownable. This one packed a serious punch to the heart in moments and had me flipping this pages fast in others.
Broken Prince, the first in a new series, hooked me by just a few chapters in and didn't let go until long after it was over. Cassie and Luca were everything in a whole lot of complicated, addicting ways y'all and my heart. Gahhhhh, all the feels. Just wait until you meet these two and there whole lot of crew.
That blurb might have brought me in at the start, but those words had me staying until the very. last. one.
I'm definitely ready for the next book (Dom!) in the Cosa Nostra series.
I can recommend this one.
AUTHOR BIO.
R.G ANGEL is a trained lawyer, world traveler, coffee addict, cheese aficionado, avid book reviewer and blogger.
She considers herself as an ‘Eclectic romantic’ and wants to write romance in every sub-genre she can think of.
When she is not busy doing all her lawyerly mayhem, and because she is living in rainy Britain, she mostly enjoys indoor activities such as reading, watching TV, playing with her crazy puppies and writing stories she hopes will make you dream.
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