Book Recommendation ➱ Hell of a Christmas (Mississippi Smoke Series Book 9) Southern Mafia Romance by Abbi Glines

Hell of a Christmas by Abbi Glines
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

📖Book Info

Kash Savelle hadn’t broken me, he’d shattered my world. I was alone, lost, and clawing to make it day to day. I should hate him and not a day passed that I wished I could. Seeing him again was the last thing I needed. Not when I almost had some form of security. But like the devil himself, there he was… standing on the street watching me. Still as painfully beautiful as he had always been.

Betrayal had never been something I’d experienced until Cressida Beck stole my soul, then ripped it from my body. My obsession with her had caused me to lose the life I’d been raised in, my family. I was exiled to Alabama to live with that branch of the southern mafia. No longer trusted in Mississippi, until now. This year, I was getting to come home for Christmas. Seeing the girl who had ruined me wouldn’t break me this time. I wouldn’t lose it all for her again. I just had to keep a firm grip on my sanity and stop seeking her out like the animal inside me that hadn’t stopped craving her.

💭Our Thoughts

This was a quick second-chance read with a bit of a “Santa” miracle.

We all know how famous the holidays are for “shedding a little light” on one’s path so they can see the way (yes, a roundabout reference to Rudolph)

This was high heat, with a bit of back and forth, all dotted with some crimson splatter

Don’t fret if you want more.

From what I understand, we will be spending more time with our resident psycho and his gal in the near future.

This was more of a glimpse of how their past was cleared up

"You're my soul, my obsession, and my home."

They were kids when it all went down

Now five years later

Cressida is still running

Kash is still angry and exiled

But fate has brought them full circle

Time to put the past to bed

We all do it.

Thinking we know what’s best for someone else.

Or that the choices we are making are for their protection

You would think we would have learned by now!

But no!

Sometimes it takes a miracle, or a family that is so deep in your business they have no qualms with underhanded tactics, to right the past

"She brought an address and a key to the only thing I ever wanted. "

Yeah, it was at this scene that I shed a couple of tears 😥

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