Reviewed by True
TITLE: Christmas Mafia Prince
SERIES: The Naughty List #1
AUTHOR: K.A. Merikan
PUBLISHER: Acerbi & Villani Ltd.
LENGTH: 261 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 21, 2025
BLURB:
Expectations: Christmas break in Aspen.
Reality: Married to a mafia hitman who hunts people for sport.
Damen
All I want is to join my family for their annual Christmas hunt. But no, because that’s apparently only for married men. Like I need a ring on my finger to shoot a man in the back.
Oh, yes, the tradition is hunting people. We keep some enemies alive and let them think they can escape. It’s just a bit of festive fun, really, so it infuriates me that I, their best hitman, can’t take part.
If my homophobic father thinks I’ll marry a woman to qualify, he’s delusional. This year, I’m coming home with a husband. And the perfect disaster of a man literally falls into my lap.
Green hair, tattoos, piercings, ripped jeans, and kohl-rimmed eyes. He’s loud, drinks too much, and has no manners.
My father will hate him.
Killian
My type? Hot, toxic, and guaranteed to ruin my life. I’ve been cheated on, stalked, blackmailed, and I am so done. When my latest ex corners me at a bar with his signature mix of lies and threats, I ask a hot guy in a sharp suit to pretend he’s my boyfriend.
He agrees, but asks me to be his fake husband at his family Christmas in return.
Free booze, a vacation in Aspen, and drama? Where do I sign up?
Only it turns out he’s a mafioso, his family hunts people for sport, and if I don’t play my cards right, I might end up on their trophy wall.
To survive the holidays, I just need to make sure I don’t fall for my rich, gorgeous, and psycho fake husband. Easy-peasy.
Have I mentioned he’s a millionaire, speaks French and f*cks like a demon?
REVIEW:
I was looking forward to this one. Reading the blurb already made me excited!
Damen Van der Horn is a millionaire, and he’s gay, something his family, especially his father, doesn’t accept.
The Van der Horn family Christmas hunt is approaching, and only married men can play.
One night in a bar, an extraordinarily tiny guy ends up in Damen’s lap, asking him to play along as his boyfriend, because his ex is playing mean. That gives Damen a splendid idea.
Killian can’t shake off his ex, the guy is mean and violent. Killian ended up in the lap of a massive beautiful man. His looks are expensive, with hazel eyes that he could drown in. Killian asks him if he could please pretend to be his boyfriend, so his ex will back off.
Damen accepts, on one condition, that Killian has to travel with him to Aspen, to the Van der Horns Christmas gathering as his fake husband, with the best food and drinks, and the promise of hot dicking.
That same night Killian understands Damen is a killer, but super protective of Killian. Why does he like this so much?
What could go wrong, a few weeks with the most handsome super-rich man and his family?
Spoiler, everything goes wrong, except the possessiveness of his fake husband.
What a super duper captivating read this was. It was extremely entertaining. All excellently written.
There’s hot sex, dark humor, a sinister family, a hunt on… read yourself, there’s violence and a lot of family drama. I couldn’t get enough of this story!
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