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Sinful Vows builds on other characters in the Cavaleri Brothers series. Michael is part of the Messina crime family, and they are also not like the Bianchi’s who kidnap and traffic women. He attends a meeting where Agnelo Bianchi is supposed to meet him in a house where some of the trafficked women are kept and sold to men who want to hurt them. Michael sees two women in the window and one of them catches his attention.

Elsie is one of the women he sees in the window. She and Kayla and Jade were kidnapped bye the Bianchi’s 9 years ago and she hasn’t lost all of her fight yet. They’ve made her do things that she would never do by holding the threat of harm to Jade and Kayla over her head. She would never, willingly, let them be hurt. The day she looks in the Michael Messina’s eyes when he arrives at the house she’s being kept in, she gets an idea to escape. She can’t, however, talk Kayla into going with her. Kayla tells her to go and come back for her. Elsie sneaks into the car that Michael Messina is driving that day, and it sets off a whole new set of circumstances for her that she can’t escape.

Does she want to escape??? That’s why you need to read this! It is a well-written, wonderfully told story of a family struggling within (which is a whole other twist in this book), and a young woman who has been used and abused for many years, who finds herself in a place where she doesn’t know if she wants what’s offered to her. It’s a fantastic story… and you’ll love it.

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Sinful Vows - Messina Crime Family #1

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Where do I even begin with this review because WOW. I am obsessed with this book!

This was my first ever mafia romance book and I must say that it definitely started my addiction to read mafia romance tropes! I was hooked from chapter one and while reading the growth between Elsie and Micheal’s relationship considering they were in a forced marriage/marriage of convenience, I found it hard to put the book down! When I had a moment to do something else, my mind wouldn’t stop thinking about this book