She needed protection from my family… I needed protection from her heart… for her.
But when she offers me her v-card the last thing she has in exchange for protection I can’t deny such a tempting offer.
She’s everything I want, and everything I can never have.
When my brother finds out she’s under my protection and that I’ve been hiding her right under his nose he gives me an ultimatum…
Marry her, or kill her…and since there’s no way in hell I’m going to let her die I decided to make her mine…forever.
This is book One in the series but it can be read as a complete standalone. It contains NO-CLIFFHANGERS, NO CHEATING, and has a HEA. It is a dark mafia/crime romance and contains subject matter not suitable for all readers.
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Damon Rossi is a ruthless leader, and an even more ruthless man to my body, and heart. This book is a hard one for me to review, I liked the story line, it was interesting, dark and dramatic, but I just couldn’t connect with the characters. Keira was so innocent it was sickly sweet (Understandably at 18 years old) but so much sugar gave me a cavity, Damon was just warped from his childhood. The sex was hot, but they were in love within 24 hours, really? at least give it a week, to go from Damon not wanting to have her around (As he is emotionless) and her not wanting to be with him, to go to full on possessive deep love that they will kill for each other within 24 hours just because she gave him her V card, to she’s going to be his wife after a week WTF did I miss?. And then the book just ends and after looking at the books in the series I cannot even work out which one to read next? Where is the carry on from this book? Which is a pity because the story line was really good.
I have mixed feelings about Protect Me. The story is compelling and made me curious, so I continued reading to know what happened. But there were also parts of the story where I kept asking “why?” and I also had doubts about the timeline.
Protect Me is a mafia, instalove, very fast-paced story. The characters are very young. Keira is 18, and Damon is 22. She just started college while he is part of the Rossi crime family. Sometimes they behave like teens, others they talk like much older characters. And to me, it was confusing. And while I don’t mind the instalove part, some parts were not convincing.
There is a lot going on in Protect Me, which I’m hoping will make sense in the next couple of books. So, while I wasn’t completely sold on this book, I’m willing to keep reading to see where does this series go.
Kiera searches out the one man her murdered brother said to find for protection if the inevitable happened. Find Damon Rossi, younger brother to Xander. Both ruthless and dark, one psychotically more so. The lesser of two evils, Damon, falls for her while protecting her.
Xander is more than the heinous stories that proceed him. Wanting to ensure Damon is his equal with what they protect in life, a plan starts unfolding that draws them all into it’s fold.
I really enjoyed the plot and how it encompassed so much more than what you expected out of this insta-love/lust mafia romance.
Damon and Keira’s relationship is definitely not the norm. She goes to him after she finds her brother murdered. Always being told he would help and protect her. Little did they know it is from Damon’s brother they need protecting from. You can tell he is a hard man and definitely an a-hole who usually doesn’t care about others. But Keira gets under his skin. I like how possessive and protective he is over her. The ending although not a cliff hanger has slight cliff hanger feelings. Leaving you wanting to know what happens next to Xander’s story.
College student Keira comes home to find her brother Leo dead and the message “I’ll be back for you.” Keira goes to Leo’s friend for protection but when she meets the breathtakingly beautiful Damon, she wonders why Leo would send her to a heartless and dangerous man like Damon and tries to escape. Too bad there’s no escape for Keira as Damon tells her “I own you now, and you’ll do whatever I say when I say it.” And the person who’s after Keira is even worse, which means that Keira’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. Will Keira make it out of this situation alive?
Protect Me is a dark, action-packed and steamy story you won’t be able to put down. I can’t wait to read Keep Me, Book 2 of the Rossi Crime Family series.
Kiera is in trouble and per her brother’s request she seeks out Damon to protect her. Little does she know that she needs to protect her heart from falling for him. There are a bunch of twists that you don’t realize are coming from this story. The intrigue is what kept me engaged with the story. Kiera was a bit too wimpy of a character for my taste, but she starts to get a backbone as the story ends. Damon’s character provies the point that appearances can be deceiving.
I have such mixed feelings about this book. It’s dark which I have no problem with but there is a scene with another woman at the beginning that really spoiled the whole thing for me. I mostly liked the heroine but the hero just never really grew on me. The story itself was pretty good though .
***I decided to review an ARC of this book.***
I am loving J.L. Becks new books. There is just something about these new books and the way she is writing that I can’t seem to put these books down.
In the second book to this standalone series, we get Damon from the last book. He is not a nice guy at all. Damon is an arrogant, womanizing, jerk. He has almost no soul until Keria walks in.
Keria is in bad shape and is in need of help. She is told to go to Damon to get that help. What she doesn’t realize is she might have just walked into the wolves den. So will Damon be her guardian angel or will she have to walk with the devil to get out alive?
I can not wait to see where J.L. and C. come up with next.
This was a great story. It was well written and fast paced. The chemistry between the characters was sizzling hot. This book has everything you need to keep you turning pages hot sexy men, steamy scenes and some conflict thrown in. I cannot wait for what this author writes next.
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This book is dark, it has violence, lies, deceit, drama, mystery and passion. Throughout the book you never really know what some of these characters are going to do or say next! There are twists and turns in this that kept me completely enthralled. This is a wonderful 2nd book in the series, it could be read as a standalone novel, but I highly recommend you read the first book prior to reading this. Can’t wait for book 3!
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Was seriously blown away how it started until i got to the very end. It so hot and, raw and just wow. I am just in awe of it I need and want more it both of you make a perfect duo in writing together. I can’t wait for the other books to come.
A compelling and very interesting read! It is a fast paced, action packed, page turner that grabs your attention and holds steady from beginning to end. The characters are realistic, well developed, and believable with just enough flaws to relate; their uniqueness, traits, and personalities balance each other perfectly. The scenes are graphic and descriptive making you feel like you are actually there witnessing it unfold. The twists and turns, ups and downs, suspense, danger, along with unexpected circumstances make for one incredible, wild, and exciting ride. I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series.
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When Innocent college student Kiera finds her brother has been tortured to death and there is manifesting they are coming for her she doesn’t know what to do.She remembers him telling her several times a name and address and that if anything ever happened to him that man will protect her.When she sees the address is a strip club she’s shocked but she goes in she doesn’t even know what to ask a girl tells her where to go and no one is standing outside the office and she walks in and no one is in the office.She starts to look around and goes through papers and then sets down when a big muscle bound man comes in and says for her to get on her knees and pleasure him when she says no he grabs her throwing her down on the couch an starts ripping her close off when she starts crying he flips her over an pulls her leggings off she starts crying harder Damon maybe a bastard but he won’t rape a woman when there are a lot of woman willing to pleasure him .He asks who she is and who sent her? When she tells him about her brother and that he said before it anything ever happened that Damon would protect her.
Kiera returns home to find her brother murdered. He had warned her who she needed to ask for help in case anything ever happened to him so she sets off to find her helper. Surprisingly she arrives at a strip club and discovers that mob boss, Damon is the man her brother sent her to her. Will Damon protect her? Will her brother’s murders find her? This is a fast paced story which kept me engaged the whole time. I can’t wait to read the next installment!
Keira is a college student who finds her brother brutally murdered. Her brother Leo told her that if anything ever happened to him she was to go to Damon and he would protect her. This is a gripping, dark romance filled with family drama, danger, suspense, angst, a steamy romance and unexpected twists. I am looking forward to the next book by this amazing writing duo.
This is a real page-turner! The storyline is entertaining and the characters are good.
Would like to read more about them.
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Keira is stunned, shocked and can’t think straight. In fear for her life after her brother is brutally murdered she has to remember who her brother told her to go to.
What happens next is terrifying and intoxicating. Don’t miss how she discover the brutal man her brother sends her to could be the man who sets her free.
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This is the second book in this awesome series. Damon is a mafia boss and Keira is an innocent whose life is in danger when her brother is murdered. No spoilers; this is a definite must read, you will not be disappointed. This is a well written masterpiece by this extremely talented duo of authors’, and I was on tenterhooks throughout. This story is dark, passionate, and with twists and love. I was totally captivated throughout this addictive page turner and I cannot wait to read the next book.
This series is getting better. Keira is shocked when she finds her brother dead. Her brother told her where to go if anything happened to him. He sends her to a strip club owned by Damon. Keira can’t figure out why her brother would tell her to go here. Damon is an asshole and seems like the devil himself. He may be an ass, but he doesn’t want anything to happen to Keira, especially, when he finds who is after her. That man is even worse than Damon. This took me on quite the ride emotionally. There is suspense, action, secrets and of course some very hot and steamy scenes. The chemistry between these two is explosive and their attracted to each other right off the bat. Their connection gets stronger as the story goes on. The walls that Damon has set up start melting as does the ice around his heart. Damon will do whatever it takes to protect Keira and keep her safe.
This is book 2 in the Rossi Crime Family series and can be read as a stand lone. I did and understood everything that happens, although I liked it and went back and read book 1 because I liked it so much! Damon Rossi is a criminal through and through just because of how he was raised. He is ruthless and knows he has to make the harsh decisions in order to keep not only himself safe but the people that rely on him. Now he has been tasked with keeping Kiera safe after his former best friend (and her brother) is killed. He just never expected to be attracted to her or to want to keep her to himself. Kiera is scared of everything after finding her brother. And she is even more scared of the man her brother always told her would protect her if something happened to him. And because of that fear, she runs from him and fights him every time he tries to order her to do something. She just never expected to fall for him. Or for him to protect her, even from his own family.
I really liked this book! Damon is definitely rough and raw but at the same time he has tenderness in him. He just can’t show it because it’s considered a weakness. The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because I had a hard time with Kiera. I really wanted to like her, and towards the end I liked her more. But she seemed too scared of everything to be able to be a match for Damon. She had no backbone, not really. But like I said, by the end, I did like her more. I liked how the story progressed and how their relationship happened. I even liked how he protects her and tries to show her who he really is. It may not be someone else’s version of how a relationship should be but it definitely works for them! Now I need his brother’s story because he definitely has me intrigued on how he can become more than his monster!