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Mafia Crown: Axel & Theresa's story. Standalone Arranged Marriage Romance (The Sovranos) Kindle Edition

by L. Steele (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,257 ratings
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"I’ll marry you Sunshine," his eyes gleam, "on one condition."
"What?" I whisper, "what is it?"
"I get equal stake in the Cosa Nostra business."

He’s my second chance.
The man with the face of my first love.
A terrifying and magnetically gorgeous man with brutal blue eyes.
An outlaw whose very presence sucks the air from my lungs.
A monster who doesn't remember his past, whose soul is shrouded in scars, pain, and darkness.
A villain who refuses to acknowledge my very existence.
The rogue who I am going to marry,
For this may be the only chance I have to find happiness.
So what if it means binding myself to a man who hates me?
Except 'until death do us part' is going to come quicker than anyone knows...

A brute of a Mafia guy clashes with a firebrand florist who refuses to take no for an answer in this intensely emotional pretend marriage, dark Mafia romance. This is a complete stand alone. No other books should be read prior to this. 1-Click NOW
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" ★★★★★ A twist on the classic Beauty and The Beast." - Book reader

"★★★★★ Could not put it down." - Aner

"★★★★★ A page turner, full of action, suspense and heart." - Cheryl B

"★★★★★ Ah-mazing! Be prepared for this page-turning, hot, and feisty read!" - Farmgirl

" ★★★★★ An emotional roller coaster on steroids." - Jenn Borne

"★★★★★ Fast-paced, will keep you engaged from start to finish." - Irene Talbert

"★★★★★ Brewed with drama, electrifying exposé, and unexpected twists intricately entwined throughout the pages of this fabulous read." - Sophie K

"★★★★★ Keeps you hanging on with baited breath and white knuckles." - Abella Di Noto, Vine Voice

"★★★★★ Absolutely thrilling rollercoaster of emotions and many twist and turns and it is actions packed." Trina

"★★★★★ Full of turmoil and angst and push and pull, must read!" - Stacey Foss

"★★★★★ An all-consuming page turner." Wendy Livingstone

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L. Steele loves to write romance novels featuring powerful men and strong women who bring them to their knees. When she's not writing she enjoys trading trivia with her filmmaker husband, watching lots and lots of movies, and walking nature trails. She lives with her family in London.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09M93XSMG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (February 21, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 955 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,257 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars All Mafia stories
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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Why oh wow! What a fantastic story. I want more!
Why isn’t there a story about Adrian and Cassandra?
Please, write a story about them. So I can say I read the story of all seven brothers.
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Lori morrill
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2023
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Absolutely love this book! This one was different from the rest of the series. I absolutely loved the story of Axel and Theresa. Some really great twists in there. Highly recommended! It definitely needed a epilogue!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Loved the characters and the story!
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2022
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I loved the characters in this story. The H, Axel, is an Alpha, dominating man, yet he does have issues and a softer side he hides well. He is conflicted between his goal of revenge against the family of the father who abandoned him and using an innocent to achiev his goals. An innocent he's developing feelings for but continues to deny it. The h, Theresa, is the innocent. She's sweet and caring to a fault, yet she's no pushover. I love that even though she has submissive tendencies and he's a dominate, he gives her the courage to fight for what she wants; he doesn't want to break her spirit.

This isn't just a romance of two people finding their way to each other. It's also a story of one man finding his way back to the family he lost.

While this is a stand alone story, it does include characters from Steele's Arranged Marriage series (Michael and Karma's story in books 1-3 and Christian and Aurora's in book 4). I have to admit, I did not read that series. Why? Because I read the Big Bad Billionaires series (which I loved) and Michael is the Mafia Don and son of the former Don who was the villain in that series. So ... Bad guy! But now that I've read this story in which Michael and the other brothers appear, definitely want to read Michael's story now! Should have known, haven't read an L. Steele story that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed yet. 4.5 stars!

My rating system:
5 stars: It was Epic! I loved, loved, loved everything about it ...awesome story, phenomenal characters, intense feels! It made me cry real tears, or laugh out loud, or get really angry, etc. ... or did all of it ... I FELT every emotion and lived the book! The characters became my friends and family and I didn't want to leave them when it ended. I will read this book over and over again! I can't recommend it enough!

4 stars: Loved it! Great story/plot that was well written with multi-layered characters. Will definitely read more of this author and likely reread this one too.

3 stars: I liked it. Decent story and characters. But ... it had some minor proofing or editing issues, not enough to detract. Will likely try this author again.

2 stars: I finished it, but..... The story may have had potential, but went haywire somewhere or there were too many errors (typos or miss-used word) and/or inconsistencies (story line or characterwise) that detracted from the story. Needs serious proofing and editing. Or all of the above.

1 star: Didn't like the story or the characters or both. It was too all over the place. If the book is part of a continuing story in a series and 2nd or 3rd in that series, it's likely DN, meaning I got through the first, maybe even the second one, hoping things would improve in the next....it didn't.
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Virginia Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Axel & Theresa’s story: Full of plot twists and turns!♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023
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Theresa was attending a Sovrano wedding when a very large man stepped in front of her and was shot in the temple of his head. After surgery, the man, who looked so much like Xander Sovrano, was placed in a medically induced coma so that his body could heal from the trauma and blood loss. Theresa stayed by his bedside for two weeks watching over him.

Then he woke up. He saw her sleeping in a chair. He noted how beautiful she was. Not his type, though. Suddenly the glass window shattered when a man came threw it with a gun. Theresa jumped up to protect Axel, but the man threw her against the wall, knocking her out. Axel could barely move his body, but he managed to evade the bullets fired at him by rolling over and then dropping to the floor. The man stood over him and pointed his gun at Axel. Suddenly, a bullet hole appeared between his eyes. One of Axel’s brothers had shot him dead.

When Axel woke up, he asked where Theresa was and how badly she was hurt. She wasn’t his type, but she had tried to protect him. When he awoke again, she was asleep in a chair near him. Why was she there?….

There would be more between them after the Don of the Sovrano family sent Axel and Theresa to live in Xander’s house while Axel did his physical therapy to get his muscles back to their former strength.
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Carla McDaniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Mafia Crown
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
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Riveting story with a cantankerous lead character in Axel. Love how Axel fell in love with Theresa. I got impatient with Theresa’s insipidness.
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3.0 out of 5 stars hmm
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022
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It was a pretty good story if you ignore Axel and Theresa. I really couldn’t believe Theresa’s responses to Axels behavior. She was like a gold retriever but not in a good way. Being a submissive is no excuse. They both had personalities that sucked. Axel did little to redeem himself. I raced through it but kept reading because I really like the other characters.
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brii.g3
5.0 out of 5 stars OKAYYYYY!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2023
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Okayyyy but the twists and turns were just so shocking and left me in awee! This book was too good, it just keeps getting better as the series continues. I absolutely loved Theresa, her character development grew from being a naive, trusting woman to growing a spine to stand up for herself. Axel was very surprising, very dominant at once and attentively sweet the next. He definitely has a way with words but filthy and sweetly/romantic with Love!
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Tara N.
4.0 out of 5 stars These two....
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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Hmmmm this series just keeps improving and sucking me in. Axel is a alphahole at most times but has a heart that Theresa finds and bring out constantly. Their story just builds the overall storyline together even more. This series and author do not disappoint.
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Cherie
5.0 out of 5 stars what a alphahole
Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2022
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I wanted to hate Axel, but he had charm and once he fell there was no turning back. Teresa is now one of my favourite people
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ROSE
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2023
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Read this book in 2 days, I was shocked that Axel was a triplet, and undercover cop.
Great story line, enjoying the series.
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Elegant Fantasy
4.0 out of 5 stars So good!
Reviewed in India on April 3, 2022
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L. Steele is a new author to me and before reading this book, I had no idea that it was a part of a series? I went into it completely blind, not knowing what to expect and that one twist towards the end, shocked the hel out of me. I had to take a pause there to check if I read that right? The smut in this book is one of the hottest I have ever read, it left me a blubbering mess lol! Axel had such a dirty and unfiltered mouth, he was unintentionally funny and nonchalant. His attitude was the best part of this book. Sometimes the way he behaved made me want to smack him but he never failed to amaze me. Theresa on the other hand was way too forgiving. Her soft, pliant and naive nature was cute but when she forgave Axel too quickly, I wanted her to hold up her ground for once. Overall, the book was engaging with some intense and funny side characters. I would definitely like to read their own stories especially of Michael & Karma and Seb & Elsa!
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Lady Mamma.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mafia Crown: Axel & Theresa's story.
Reviewed in Australia on September 29, 2023
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I loved reading this book. The story and characters were beautifully written and I could not put the book down. The story continues to be intriguing and interesting. This family really stick together. I recommend a very good read.
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Laura Henman
5.0 out of 5 stars Apples to oranges??
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2022
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Ok there's a few mistakes of you've read all the books pertaining to "The Seven," but the main one is, that it is Nikolai Solonik's daughter who is married to one of the seven and not his sister....After all there was no sister only brothers!! But you don't meet the brother or hear about him in the aforementioned books!!

There's also the fact that Theresa's scent changes from Apple Blossom to Orange Blossom!!

But let's forget those mistakes and the couple more, as it really doesn't detract from the story!! The one thing that I do argue with is the statement that it's a standalone and no other books need to be read beforehand.

You see, you really do need to read them in order. IF you don't you lose pivotal information, as well as the fact that there is kind of a cliffhanger at the end of each and the following book picks up from that point.

Let's take the end of this book....

It ends with Elsa banging on the door, screaming for help.....

The next book continues with her pounding on the door....

Ergo.....follow on, a continuation of, you get me??

Same with this book. You need to have read the other four books to be able to read this one, or you'll be scratching your head asking questions that wouldn't make sense.

For example

Why did he blackmail Aurora??

Why did he shoot Christian

Who is Xander and why/how did he die!!

And so many more. So trust me when I say, you need to read the books in order.

Regardless this story is great!! Oh did I call hard for Axel!! And what a great love story, but oh boy did Theresa get on my last nerves on the odd occasion!! Yes we get it, you thought you loved Xander and how you knew Axel wasn't Xander and lastly how you still liked to dream that he was Xander come back to you!!

After all of the woe-be-me of A Very Mafia Christmas, book four, I'm kinda over it!! But I know I'm going to be cursed on this as we all know grief affects everyone differently, but when It's a character (and the main female character,) in a book, I'm sorry it just gets a bit much after awhile!! So I am finally grateful once she stood with all the Xander stuff!!

But thankfully it all ends well....Or does it?? Can it??? Will it?? Only one way to know. Buy the book and read it. However if you're like myself, then you'll also buy the audio to go with it!!

I love to listen to the narration as I'm reading my book and the narrator's this time is one of my favourite male narrator's of all time.....

Mr Shane East!!

And reading for the female lead is one I've not come across before now and her name is Rose Dioro!!

Well what can I say about this, that I haven't said before when it comes to Shane?? He is yet again just fantastic. As for Rose, I felt that she was just as good as Shane, but the one thing that did shock me, is the fact that Cassandra is Italian and everybody else has kept the Italian accent, yet Rose decided to give her an American accent instead in her narration!!

Well whatever, both Shane and Rose brought all the characters to life and the pages just seem to go by in a flash. I love it when It's like that, as you know that you was fully immersive in the experience as opposed to counting the pages until the end!!

So why not do as I do and buy both and give yourself over to the real experts, as you listen and read the book you're ready to throw yourself into and enjoy 😏😉
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