Filthy Marcellos: Giovanni
Book Two in the
Filthy Marcellos Trilogy
by Bethany-Kris
Genre:
Contemporary, Erotic Romance, Organized Crime, Suspense
Length: 102k,
full length
Release Date:
April 2nd, 2015
Blurb:
Giovanni
Marcello lives life by his own terms and has no intention of changing. As a
Capo and the son of a mob boss, he knows what is and is not acceptable conduct.
That doesn’t stop him from doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it.
The one thing he would never do is disobey the principles of La Cosa Nostra.
That is, until he spends a night with a beautiful stranger.
He’ll
break every rule for her.
Kim Abella has made some mistakes—no doubt about
it. She’s paying for them by a forced marriage she doesn’t want to a man who
suffocates her with his demands and abuse. After everything, she knew better
than to get mixed up with another family, especially their youngest son. Then
again, when she’s with him, he reminds her of who she is beneath the control
that’s slowly killing her.
She just
can’t leave him alone.
Being spoken for by a made man means Kim is
off-limits, but Giovanni doesn’t play nice when it comes to taking what should
be his. The only thing that might save them both from a bullet and a makeshift
grave for what they’ve done are the very same rules they already broke.
Sometimes,
love has to start out a little filthy.
*Not intended for readers under the age of 18. Filthy Marcellos: Giovanni can be read
as a standalone in the series but it recommended for the reader to read book
one first.
Excerpt:
“What’s your name?”
“My friends call me Kim.”
Gio tasted the name on his tongue. Silently trying it
out in his mind to see if he thought it truly fit the girl, or if she was just
lying to appease him. She didn’t necessarily have a reason to be lying about
her name.
“Just Kim, huh?” Gio grinned. “Kim with no last name?”
“I am tonight. Tomorrow, I’ll go back to being whoever
I need to be.”
Something in the lit of her tone stopped the heart in
Gio’s chest for a split second. There were too many times in his life when he
wished he could be someone different. That he didn’t have so many eyes watching
and expecting something from him. Days when it was easier to let people see him
crawl out from the bottom of a bottle than to show his other failures.
Gio was the troubled one. The black sheep. He was
lawless and mostly, he loved it. Often times he didn’t think things through,
but he was cunning as hell and able to get himself out of most bad situations
he ended up in.
He was also careless, but never carefree.
A dichotomy in a world where everyone had to be just
perfectly so. Where everything needed to be explained and understood.
That wasn’t Gio.
“I get that,” Gio finally said.
“You should be in the ballroom dancing and celebrating
with your brother and his new wife,” Kim said, sparing him a glance that waged
a war with his insides in just a look.
“I should.”
“It’s just not you, hmm?”
The side of Gio’s lips quirked up into a smirk.
“Something like that.”
“Mr.—”
Gio tapped his finger to the table again, interrupting
the dealer without even considering he should just fold his hand. The king of
clubs popped up and sent his hand bust. Gio should have expected that. He
probably should have held his hand last draw, but someone had him otherwise
distracted.
The longer Gio stared at Kim, the drunker he felt. On
what, he wasn’t quite sure. He’d taken all different types of illegal
substances in his life and downed more than enough alcohol to know a buzzed
out, high feeling when it came along. This girl only needed to be within
sitting distance of Gio to get his nerves stirring like drug or drink had been
infused straight from her air to his.
That was crazy.
And he wanted to know why.
“Miss?” the dealer asked Kim.
It was only then did Gio notice her hand. A three and
an eight. Eleven. How fucking lucky was that? The dealer had stayed at
seventeen, the house limit. Everyone else at the table had either folded,
stayed, or gone bust. Kim, though, had not. She only needed to beat the house,
and really, she had a pretty damned good chance of doing just that.
Kim smiled at Gio, the sight almost too innocent to be
true. “Forty percent chance I hit a number lower than a five. Five percent says
it could be a six. Fifty-five puts it high enough to beat the house. It’s a
risk. A little too close to fifty-fifty for some. Which would you choose,
Giovanni?”
How did she know his name?
You never knew who the shark was.
“I’d take a card,” Gio replied.
“Me, too.” Kim nodded at the dealer for another card
and didn’t even bat an eyelash when a jack turned over. “Keep my bet for the
house,” she told the dealer with a shrug. “I was counting. It’s unfair to the
game.”
Just as easily as she’d slipped into her seat at the
Blackjack table, she was suddenly getting up to leave. Gio reached out and
snagged Kim’s wrist in his palm without even thinking about it. Like her
reaction to the card game, she didn’t seem all too surprised at his
interruption of her exit, either.
Who was this fucking girl?
“You didn’t answer my question,” Kim said quietly, the
heat of her skin soaking into Gio’s palm like a drug.
“Which one?”
“Why wouldn’t you do what your brother did and pick
both?”
“I wouldn’t do this at all,” Gio stated with a pointed
look to the entrance separating the dance hall from the casino section.
“The wedding thing, or the marrying thing?”
“Why does it matter?”
Kim shrugged. “It doesn’t.”
Gio doubted that. “Maybe it’s just not my thing, Tesoro.”
He didn’t miss the recognition twinkling in her eye at
his use of an Italian endearment for one’s sweetheart. Did she understand what
the word meant? Treasure. Dear. Darling.
Gio couldn’t think of another time when it’d slipped so easily from his mouth,
yet he heard his father call his mother that every day of his life.
“Or maybe I’m not the marrying kind,” Gio added.
“Maybe you just haven’t found the right one to tame
you, yet.”
A smirk crept over his lips. “The fun isn’t in the
taming. It’s in the attempt.”
“Sì,” she agreed.
Kim pulled her wrist from Gio’s grasp
without another word. He wasn’t entirely sure this was how he wanted their odd
encounter to end, considering the bubbling attraction curling around his senses
and the lust pooling in his gut. Even still, he rested back in his chair and
watched blue peep-toes walk away from the table without even a single glance
back.
When she disappeared into the influx of
people moving into the casino room from the ballroom, Gio turned back to the
table.
“Mr. Marcello?” the dealer said, gaining
Gio’s attention once more.
“Hmm? I think I’m done for the night.”
“Ah, no, sir. On the table, Mr.
Marcello. It was underneath her cards when I picked them up.”
With those words, the man handed over a
key card. The fancy script of a hotel’s name was scrawled across the front in
golden embossed letters. The hotel directly across from the plaza they were
currently in. On the back, a floor and room number were printed above the
barcode.
Hell … Gio did like to take his risks,
after all.
What was one more?
Review:
“See, we’re
Marcellos, Kim. We are not dirty, we are downright filthy.”
Giovanni is the
youngest Marcello boy. He too is a Mafia prince, becoming a mad man at just
seventeen. The rules of La Cosa Nostra are the only rules in life he will
follow and that fact has always brought a sense of relief to his father. At
twenty six, Gio is an incredible Capo, but his family is worried. Gio enjoys
getting high, in fact he prefers it. His father is at his wits end and wants to
get him clean, threatening to send him to a rehab facility in Mexico where he
will stay AS LONG AS IT TAKES to get clean. But he has a job to do first, maybe
Gio can clean himself up without help. Gio is going to Los Vegas to scope out a
business opportunity for the family, little does papa know, Gio is about to break the only rules he
values.
OHHHH MYYYYY
GOOOOOOD, Gio can get filthy with me anytime!!! From the first book I knew
Gio’s drug tendencies were an issue for the family so I expected this book to
revolve around that, and, in a way it does. However it has an entirely
different life of its own, and I loved it. I literally could not put this book
down. I stayed up until 3AM two nights in a row to finish it. (I think I read
it in less than 24 hours). Bethan-Kris is incredible with her characters. I
feel like I know this family and their joys are my joys, their troubles are my
troubles. Not to mention she is quite talented when it comes to writing sex
scenes, HUBBA HUBBA! As a reader, it is clear that not only is her book's
story based on research, but there is a
dark side to this author and she has been through some of what she writes about,
which brings an air of reality to her words I give this book 5 stars with 5
hands down the pants. Bring on Dante baby!!!
~Bookaholic Mama
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Filthy
Marcellos: La Cosa Nostra is not just a choice of regime
and routine, it’s a culture. Born as mafia royalty, the Marcello brothers were
raised ingrained with the beliefs and rules of what it meant to be a Mafioso
prince. It is for life. Their status is considered a given right. They will
always be these people. They will always be Marcellos.
Lucian,
Book One
Blurb:
Lucian Marcello is
aware of the expectations following him as the oldest son of one of North
America’s most infamous Cosa Nostra Dons. Family in his world is more than
blood and sharing a last name. It’s the honor, respect, business, and the life.
Being a Capo is just a stepping stone until it’s time for him to take on the
role of underboss but a chance meeting with her could be
the one thing he’d risk it all for.
She is exactly what he
didn’t know he was looking for.
Jordyn Reese spends her
time trying to stay under the radar of a man who wouldn’t think twice about
killing her. Unwillingly affiliated with a dangerous MC gang, her life is
dominated by the men surrounding her and her future rests solely in how useful
she can be for them. The last thing she needs is some Mafioso gaining her more
unwanted attention from the club.
He is everything she
should stay away from but can’t.
Notoriously violent
when it comes to getting what he wants, Lucian will stop at nothing to make the
target on Jordyn’s back
disappear. But sometimes the worst threats are the ones you can’t see until
it’s too late. The truth behind Lucian’s history is about to take
center stage in more ways than one, and it’ll either save him … or
kill him.
This world leaves
everyone a little filthy.
Publication Date:
February 2nd, 2015
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Coming June 2nd, 2015 – Dante, Book Three
Dante Marcello’s life has been a carefully planned event as
an heir to a Cosa Nostra throne. For as long as he can remember, he’s had one
goal in mind, and that’s becoming the Don. With his father ready to step down,
it’s Dante’s turn to step up. But without a wife at his side, his seat as the
boss is on shaky ground. Until she shows up with an offer he wants to refuse,
but can’t.
With her,
he’s got everything to gain.
Catrina Danzi is known for her angel face and a
predator’s grace. For over a decade, she’s worked as a successful Queen Pin
dealing with a repertoire of clientele who can’t afford a scandal. That’s why
they ask for her and why they call her Queen. Marrying Dante Marcello means
giving up the business and status she loves in order to gain protection she
can’t provide on her own, but she no longer has a choice.
Without him, she’s got everything to lose.
The rules for their arrangement are simple: no
intimacy, no emotions. Dante isn’t looking for love and Catrina doesn’t need
attachments. In the end, life has a way of breaking down walls when you least
expect it to, and once love gets in, there’s no bleeding it out. Together, they
make a formidable team the Commission won’t be able to ignore. Catrina’s secret
of what she’s kept safe will put the entire Marcello family in danger when it
finally catches up with her. The Marcellos have yet to be beaten, and they’re
not about to start bowing down now.
Even the
most beautiful things are a little filthy.
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About the Author: Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother
to three young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada
where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her
boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his
shoulder, she is nearly always writing something ... when she can find the
time.
