Bound by Honor

I absolutely loved this Mafia Romance novel, Cora Reilly done an awesome job writing her characters and bringing them to reality. This story is about Aria Scuderi and her being betrothed to Luca – The Vice – Vitiello, the oldest son of the head of the New York Cosa Nostra to ensure peace between the two families. Luca is a very gorgeous and very highly dangerous man....he has to be, since he's the next in line to becoming Capo. Aria is a virginal girl who is very innocent and very sheltered. So going from never being in an intimate with the opposite sex to marrying a man she doesn't know I honestly felt for Aria. She was of course scared out of her mind about her marriage to a man that was known for crushing a man's throat with his bare hands. I really thought Aria was going to submit and become a doormat to Luca but I was incredibly surprised by her being the heroine is this story. She was head strong and confident and I loved that she didn't keel over and give Luca her virginity because he was 'entitled' to just because she was his wife. Luca was surprising as well. He's not all hard-hearted as people pegged him to be. Of course, there was the cheating part that made me hate him a little and Aria was seemingly upset but soon brushed it off and they began their 'clean slate'. I didn't really like that she gave up so easily. I would've made him suffer a little bit more but he redeemed himself greatly but being totally sweet to Aria and taking his time to know her and Aria to know him. Luca is pure male, he's possessive, he's alpha and above all else he is a total teddy bear and overprotective of Aria and he would kill anyone that would hurt her (and he has). The story finally had some steamy scenes once Aria let Luca explore her body and when they consummated...it was extremely hot. You do anything for the people that you love and Luca finally understood the love Aria had for him when he almost lost her. The scene when he realizes this was so touching I had water in my eyes. I loved loved Bound by Honor. Out of the whole story I'm loving Gianna Scuderi, the hot-head, independent and opinionated little sister and can't wait for her and Matteo's story. Now there's a firecracker couple who's story is gonna blow everyone else's out the water and cannot wait to read it! Cora Reilly does good Mafia-Dark Romance!