Title: Coerced Kiss
Series: New York Underworld #1
Author: Charmaine Pauls
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Release Date: October 21, 2024
♡ Touch her & di€
♡ He falls first
♡ Fake relationship
♡ Forced proximity
♡ Coerced marriage
♡ Good girl
♡ Dirty talker
♡ Possessive, protective anti-hero
♡ Enemies to lovers
♡ Dark mafia romance
ABOUT THE BOOK:
I’m an alibi for a killer, but he demands so much more than my testimony.
I stumbled across something I wasn’t supposed to discover. I saw something I wasn’t meant to see, and now I’m an alibi for a killer.
He’s the most feared and powerful man in the New York underworld. I don’t have a choice but to do as he says.
But he commands so much more than just my testimony.
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Coerced Kiss by Charmaine Pauls
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
You guys know the drill, right? I have nothing to say LOL because, well, the story is just starting to build, which is the most crucial moment of any story so I can’t tell you anything about the story itself.
However, I can talk about other things …
✔️ I can’t tell the last time I picked up a book and was so transfixed with the story that nothing mattered. I mean, okay, bathroom breaks mattered, but that’s it!
✔️I trust Charmaine’s writing like I’d trust my siblings and/or parents with my life. I don’t think about one-clicking one of her books because she has built that trust for the last 6 years with me. I trusted her with this story blindfolded and she delivered! (seriously, I didn’t even read a teaser lol)
✔️ I was excited and captivated from scene one act one. And it never stopped. The story builds from the beginning and just keeps building. Your guess is as good as mine as to where this is going, AND I AM HERE FOR IT!
That’s all you get from me, and I hope that’s all you get from other reviewers because when it comes to Charmaine the ”beauty of the story is in the details”, as they say (kinda lol) and I wouldn’t want you to know any of those before you begin.
I would be remis if I didn’t tell you that as far as #covers go, this is not winning any points from me and actually it’s a hot mess. LOL Saverio is ”most feared and powerful man in the New York underworld”, did no one think he should have a suit on in the cover or at least a shirt? #fail :(
Sidebar: I’ve also gotten the opportunity to 🎧listen🎧 to this leg of the story by Charmaine’s generosity but I’ve decided I want to take the whole story in via audio when all the books have published. So stay tuned for the review in the coming months!
EXCERPT
A clang echoes through the alley. My heart jolts in my chest. My phone. It lies at my feet. The screen is dark. Cracked.
Aghast, I look from the cause of the noise to the men in the alley. The man loosened his hold on Mr. Lewis. My boss lies on his side next to his briefcase, staring at me with wide, glassy eyes.
“F#ck,” the bulky man says, snarling as he trains his gaze on me.
Heatwaves of shock run through my body, propelling me back into action even as I lock eyes with the killer. Something passes between us—the knowledge that I’m done for. The way in which he tilts his head holds a strange kind of apology.
I don’t think. If I do, I’m dead. I spin on my heel and run.
The stocky man’s words follow me like a demon’s promise down the dark street.
“Get her and finish her.”
COMING SOON IN THE TRILOGY
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MEET THE AUTHOR:
Charmaine loves to write dark and edgy romance that will melt both your e-reader and your heart. She’s a mom of two teenagers, an adorable dog, and a dominant cat. Her country of birth is South Africa where many of her stories play off. Her French husband kidnapped her to the south of France where she currently lives with her family. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in the kitchen baking cakes or in the gym lifting weights (because … all those cakes!).
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