A few months before the wedding, Gianna runs away and begins a new life in Europe away from the mafia. When brought home and forced to marry, Gianna is determined not to become the submissive mobsters wife. But as she's fighting to stay out of the life, she misses that there is more to Matteo than just being a Made Man. Gianna has always hated how women have been treated in the outfit, and after watching her sister marry a man who terrified her, she vowed never to herself to somehow leave this life behind. Yeah, i know that he loved his brother and he didn't liked him to suffer but in some point i really wanna kick his ass for his behaviour.

I really loved Luca in the first book, but Matteo spoke equally to my heart and he was a more approachable guy! When he finally finds her and brings her back to New York he locks her down and does everything in his power to keep her. Because of their mafia wife status and over protective males, they are strapped into their apartments.Yeah, he was possesssive, but also was so protective of her and that was something that Gianna needed because nobody else offered her a shelter anymore.

Gianna never accepted just sitting back and doing what she was told and wouldn't just accept her fate like her sister, Aria did. Yes, she was brave enough, but i didn't like the fact that she alouded to the others to think nasty and untrue things about her. Although I should include the explanatory caveat that I probably wouldn't do so if it wasn't available via KU.

The plot is probably the most interesting of the three books in the series that I have already read. I understand that she hated the life of crime she was born into, but I couldn't understand her taking all of her anger out on Matteo. I loved seeing the silent and deadly side to him just as much as seeing the vulnerable side to him that came out when he thought Gianna would run again. Then I got to the part where she picks up some asshole in Europe and decides to have sex without having any feelings for the guy.