Book Recommendation ➱ Callous Desire (New York Underworld Book 4) A Dark Mafia Romance by Author Charmaine Pauls

Callous Desire by Charmaine Pauls
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

📖Book Info

His weapon is seduction, the battlefield between his sheets, and cruel betrayal the blade he plunges deep.

My mother raised me on knights in shining armor and happily-ever-afters. She groomed me to be the perfect mafia princess. It was only natural that I’d believe in fairy tales.

Only, I didn’t fall for the prince.

I fell in love with my father’s enemy.

I’ve never deluded myself about the man Dante is. Powerful. Cold. Ruthless. Brutal. Bad doesn’t come close to describing him. But when he held me in his arms in a rented room, he showed me that he could be good. Just for me. He always chained the monster when I was pinned beneath him, at my most vulnerable and exposed, in the most dangerous place I could be.

The darkness I glimpsed in him is embedded in his soul, coloring his heart and world black. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I lost myself to a callous man. I just couldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams that his seduction was only part of a cruel strategy and that I was nothing but the pawn he used for his revenge.

Callous Desire is the first book in the Callous Duet and ends on a cliffhanger. Tatiana and Dante's story concludes in Callous Love. The duet is part of the dark mafia romance New York Underworld series (Books 4 & 5). You don't have to read the other books in the series to follow this duet.

💭Our Thoughts

Inside her head, she’s running as fast as she can, mistakenly believing she can outrun the monster like before

I can't breathe!

Seriously, my heart is pounding right now

Talk about twisted plot lines!

This ends on a cliffy that left my head reeling!

It wasn't the actual event that left me wrecked emotionally, not that I wasn't already an utter mess; it was who was behind it

What a snake 🐍 😳

I'll be back with my review. I need to compose myself.

“Nothing has changed, and it never will”

I’m back - not sure how composed I am - every time I think of what an arse Dante is and what a snake another certain someone is 🤬 I can barely control my anger.

“am I simply the chess piece he needed, the queen he could use for his checkmate move?”

I feel for Tatiana. She is fighting her heart and her body’s responses when it comes to Dante. I know what it's like to love completely, even if that love is destructive.

Then she has the added pressure of all the positives her current predicament offers her little one.

She is so ducked!

I am hella curious as to what actually happened on that fateful night when Tatiana walked away!

We get a brief glimpse, but it is a teaser, not the whole scene.

“I haven't lost her. I have to believe that. Because to have lost her would mean I broke something in my quest to own it”

I am pretty sure that last act of betrayal was the final knife in her heart. She offered you everything if you just let go and let her heal.

I will give you props with Noah.

Makes me wonder why you can't show the same respect to Tatiana?

This has all the edge-of-your-seat bendies and twisties, along with the crimson splashes and heart-ripping moments that you expect from Pauls.

Now GIVE ME BOOK TWO …

I have to know what triggered her leaving and how it is going to end

Author Website: https://charmainepauls.com/

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