Reviewed by Mal
TITLE: His Wicked Wants
SERIES: West Coast Mobsters #6
AUTHOR: Leighton Greene
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 492 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 27, 2025
BLURB:
For a man who takes what he wants, desiring the one thing he can’t have is torture.
Nero Andretti is used to getting his way. Cold, calculating, and criminally seductive, he clawed his way up from the back streets of Rome to the edge of the Castellani crime family’s inner circle.
No one can resist him.
No one except Gabriel Carstairs.
Straight-laced, stubborn, and infuriatingly principled, landscape architect Gabriel refuses to bow to Nero’s demands or succumb to his seduction. But each heated encounter leaves Nero more obsessed, more determined to conquer the man who looks at him with equal parts defiance and desire.
Gabriel fled East Coast shadows for California sunshine, hoping to bury his past. The last thing he needs is a tattooed mobster stalking him with promises of pleasure. And as their arguments intensify, so does their dangerous attraction.
But when Gabriel needs a favor, he’s forced to turn to the last person he should trust. Nero is only too happy to offer his protection, for a price that has nothing to do with money and everything to do with surrender…
Because some wants are too wicked to deny.
His Wicked Wants is the final book in the West Coast Mobsters series, and delivers a finale packed with romance, heat, and the transformative power of found Family.
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Follow the men of the Los Angeles underworld in this page-turning romantic suspense series as they find love, danger and mystery in the most unexpected places.
Each book in West Coast Mobsters tells the love story of a different couple who find their happy ending, as well as a resolution to the mystery they’re investigating, but there are cliffhangers to the wider suspense plot for the series.
REVIEW:
I have been dying for Nero’s story and it is fantastic. I love Nero as a character, so indolent, a selfish view of the world, ruthless and yet softer layers buried under that horrific childhood are peeking out and his dynamic with Gabriel drags them out into the light to thrive. Gabriel isn’t a black and white character, his layers and his moral compass is complex, building a fantastic chemistry between them. Gabriel denying his attraction lends a delicious resistance and edge, his animosity towards Nero a great start to an enemies to lovers trope.
This story is a wild, action packed roller coaster, be prepared to hang on. Twists and reveals abound and Eli expected characters become important pieces in the game of criminal factions that’s playing out. Nero and Gabriel’s dynamic is fire, specially when they sort themselves out and give into the trust and love, standing united against everything. I also particularly loved Sandro and Nero’s story, their brotherhood, the back and forth in the timeline, it’s quite touching. I love how Greene always brings the plot layers, unpredictable twists, stellar characters and above all emotion and found family. I loved Ray! Also Yvonne.
If you enjoy an addictive mafia romance which makes you root for morally grey characters and is full of chemistry and a touch of k1nk, I highly recommend this series, but this one I’d say read in order for maximum enjoyment
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