Brooklyn. Six in the evening. A man parked across the street from a flower shop for forty minutes, watching a woman he was supposed to be writing a report on.
Renzo Salvatore was sent to do one job. Find the woman. Confirm the name on the birth certificate. Hand the file to his brother. Three paragraphs. A formality.
That was six weeks ago. The file is still in his glove compartment. The three paragraphs are still unwritten. And the only thing Renzo Salvatore has been able to put into words is the way she laughs when she does not know anyone is watching.
Lena Castelli is twenty-nine. She runs the flower shop her mother left her. She wears a pencil in her hair when she is working and she keeps her mother's photograph above the counter and she has, for two years now, been quietly grieving in a quiet life she made on her own.
She does not know that her father was Salvatore Russo. She does not know that the woman who lives four blocks away on Carroll Street is her sister. She does not know that the man who killed her father has been sleeping in a brownstone she has walked past a hundred times. She does not know that the man who walks into her shop one Thursday morning, asks for three arrangements, and pays her in cash, has been watching her for forty-three days.
By the time Cassian Salvatore figures out what his middle brother has been doing, it is already too late. Renzo has fallen, and Renzo does not fall halfway. Cassian gives him a deadline. Two months. Two months before Aria learns she has a sister. Two months before everything Lena does not know becomes everything she cannot un-know.
Two months for Renzo to give her up. Two months for Renzo to keep her. Renzo Salvatore has never given anything back in his life.
Sin of Want is Book Two of The Salvatore Sins, a dark mafia romance series set in Italian-American Brooklyn. Each book follows a different Salvatore brother. All books end in a HEA.
Tropes: Forbidden romance. Obsessive watcher hero. Family secrets and hidden identity. Slow burn with explicit on-page heat. Possessive morally grey hero. Off-limits heroine. Found family. HEA guaranteed.
Heat level: Explicit. On-page intimacy from the second half. Dark themes including organized crime, on-page violence, the loss of a parent, and the long shadow of a buried family secret.
Reader note: This is a dark romance for adult readers. If you read for the slow burn, the obsession, and the moment a man who should not love her gives up trying not to, this one is for you.
Genre: Romance
Renzo Salvatore was sent to do one job. Find the woman. Confirm the name on the birth certificate. Hand the file to his brother. Three paragraphs. A formality.
That was six weeks ago. The file is still in his glove compartment. The three paragraphs are still unwritten. And the only thing Renzo Salvatore has been able to put into words is the way she laughs when she does not know anyone is watching.
Lena Castelli is twenty-nine. She runs the flower shop her mother left her. She wears a pencil in her hair when she is working and she keeps her mother's photograph above the counter and she has, for two years now, been quietly grieving in a quiet life she made on her own.
She does not know that her father was Salvatore Russo. She does not know that the woman who lives four blocks away on Carroll Street is her sister. She does not know that the man who killed her father has been sleeping in a brownstone she has walked past a hundred times. She does not know that the man who walks into her shop one Thursday morning, asks for three arrangements, and pays her in cash, has been watching her for forty-three days.
By the time Cassian Salvatore figures out what his middle brother has been doing, it is already too late. Renzo has fallen, and Renzo does not fall halfway. Cassian gives him a deadline. Two months. Two months before Aria learns she has a sister. Two months before everything Lena does not know becomes everything she cannot un-know.
Two months for Renzo to give her up. Two months for Renzo to keep her. Renzo Salvatore has never given anything back in his life.
Sin of Want is Book Two of The Salvatore Sins, a dark mafia romance series set in Italian-American Brooklyn. Each book follows a different Salvatore brother. All books end in a HEA.
Tropes: Forbidden romance. Obsessive watcher hero. Family secrets and hidden identity. Slow burn with explicit on-page heat. Possessive morally grey hero. Off-limits heroine. Found family. HEA guaranteed.
Heat level: Explicit. On-page intimacy from the second half. Dark themes including organized crime, on-page violence, the loss of a parent, and the long shadow of a buried family secret.
Reader note: This is a dark romance for adult readers. If you read for the slow burn, the obsession, and the moment a man who should not love her gives up trying not to, this one is for you.
Genre: Romance
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