If she was a virgin because she was afraid men, I would have bought it. If Vivian was inexperienced because Nikolai was the one for her and she never wanted anyone else, I would have bought it. (Wince!) Don't hate me, I'm just being honest.Ī virgin heroine is one thing. I didn't like her all that much and it all stems from one thing: Her religion. My attitude about Vivian is something I'm not proud of. Also that the suspense and intrigue of it all overshadowed the romance of it just a little bit. I felt like key moments between Nikolai and Vivian happened during a section of the book that made it anti-climactic.

Bring it!Īll of the build-up made for the possibility of a let-down. A nice tabooish relationship (older mob boss with dark secrets pining after his young ward): Check.

Tortured hero: CHECK(in bold and caps!) Innocent and traumatized heroine with daddy issues: check. Vivian and Nikolai were set up to be epic. Who would have thought that reading the guilty pleasure that is this series would cause me to do some introspection? Huh.Īnyway, the build-up to this book was crazy. But I'm going to pause here for a second and admit something about myself that I've just realized and am not proud of. When I say I'm gorging, I mean I'm damn near obsessed with these books. Part of it is that I'm not going to say anything that hasn't already been said before and the other part is that I'm not even taking a breath between books. I've also been lazy and not reviewing them.

I read In Kelly's Corner, Dimitri, Yuri, Nikolai and now I'm about to start Sergei.

I've been gorging myself on Roxie Rivera these past few days. Suddenly, Nikolai's only chance to keep her safe is to do the one thing he vowed never to do-he'll drag her deeper into his shadowy world and bind her to him forever.īecause their tangled pasts are about to collide and the shockwave threatens to bring Houston's criminal underbelly to its knees… She's the bright light in his dark world and the only thing that keeps him from sliding deeper into a life of crime and violence-a mobbed-up life he can't escape no matter how hard he tries.Īfter Vivian is ripped from his arms in a brazen blitz attack, Nikolai will stop at nothing to get her back-but rescuing her and keeping her safe in his arms isn't enough. She's completely, irrevocably and unabashedly in love with Nikolai, the Russian mob boss who saved her life.įrom the moment Vivian appeared in his life on that tragic April night, Nikolai felt himself inextricably bonded to her. After a brush with death as a juvenile delinquent, Vivian swore she'd never stray across that line again-but there's just one problem with her plan to stay on the right side of the law.

Nikolai her russian protector