A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend… take care of anyone who gets in our way.
But ever since the incident.
Ever since Him.
There’s been a war in our little clique.
After all, a house divided cannot stand.
He’s the problem, not me.
He used to kiss me like I was his oxygen.
Now he looks at me like I’m his poison.
But we both drank it, again and again, never believing there would be a day when our love would start a war.
And our friendship would shatter into a million pieces.
Then again, the worst thing you could do in the mafia is hang on to hope that your life will be normal.
The second worst thing?
Fall in love with your best friend.
Enemy.
And heir to the Nicolasi throne.
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Friends to enemies to lovers, plus mafia, plus all the steam? Yes and please!
New from Rachel Van Dyken!
A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.
He used to kiss me like I was his oxygen.
Now he looks at me like I’m his poison.
With each breath, we make our vows of hate.
Until disaster strikes…
Sending me into his arms and heart forever.
Our love started a war even hatred couldn’t end.
With each punishing kiss we fall deeper.
They will kill us for this.
And for the first time in my life.
I welcome death with my enemy, my lover, my best friend a Junior Nicolasi in my arms.
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Love this enemies to lovers story!
There’s no easy path to HEA for the next generation of mafia royalty in Rachel Van Dyken’s new release, RUTHLESS PRINCESS. The emotion and conflict grab you from page one and don’t let go, even after you’ve finished the book. Prepare for an emotional roller coaster that will become your favorite ride of the summer.
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Warning: None of you are prepared for this book!!! let me repeat, none of you!!! it’s absolutely mind-blowing!!!
I have always been a fan of Rachel Van Dyken’s books because of the way she manipulates the story line. There are moments when you will cry, there are humorous moments and the story is never dull. Ruthless princess too had all of those characteristics.
I mean I was so hungover this book that I ended up making so many book edits!!!
So, this is the story of Jasper and Serena. Serena is the mafia princess of her family , with her being Nixon’s daughter and all and Jasper is Phoenix’s son. Jasper was perfect in every damn way , but in this it was the heroine that took my heart. Serena , oh god, I don’t even know what to say!! She was so perfect. Her ruthlessness , her courage and strength just made it so easy for me to fall in love with her!! In this book we also got to see our old elite generation parenting, and that was something to witness!!!
The way their story is portrayed is amazing. Every dialogue, their longing and the feelings they had for each other just tore my heart. And Rachel just broke my heart when she gave a certain twist in Arsher’s story. I literally cried with him!!! I just hope he just gets his own book fast, I can even guess with whom his story is going to be!!
It was impossible for me to give this book anything less than 5 stars.
Recommended for all the mafia lovers , trust me , this book won’t disappoint you!
In a world where rules are the only way to survive we have a new generation he’ll bent on breaking them. Serena and Junior the next generation of forbidden love. This book, well this book gives us more than Eagle Elite it gives us the Eagle Elite on steroids. I couldn’t put it down. The fear, the love, the tears streaming down my face. All I can say is that Is. so happy that I can’t leave my house because this book had me messed up! When we were quarantined I started reading the Eagle Elite series gain, because Rachel’s mafia romance is my favorite. I mean who can not fall in love with a group of kids with unlimited resources that fight for what they believe.
This story however has taken everything to the next level. A new generation he’ll bent on making their own way with the old generation secretly rooting the on. The forbidden takes on new meaning for our newest rulers and for Serena and Junior it is life or death.
Get ready for the New Elect~ Ash, Serena, Junior are going to break you.
A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series. I mean what more could you ask for in a book?
YES! No one does mafia like RVD!
A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the
number-one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.
A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.
He used to kiss me like I was his oxygen.
Now he looks at me like I’m his poison.
With each breath, we make our vows of hate.
Until disaster strikes…
Sending me into his arms and heart forever.
Our love started a war even hatred couldn’t end.
With each punishing kiss we fall deeper.
They will kill us for this.
And for the first time in my life.
I welcome death with my enemy, my lover, my best friend a Junior Nicolasi in my arms.
AVAILABLE NOW!
A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.
He used to kiss me like I was his oxygen.
Now he looks at me like I’m his poison.
With each breath, we make our vows of hate.
Until disaster strikes…
Sending me into his arms and heart forever.
Our love started a war even hatred couldn’t end.
With each punishing kiss we fall deeper.
They will kill us for this.
And for the first time in my life.
I welcome death with my enemy, my lover, my best friend a Junior Nicolasi in my arms.
AVAILABLE NOW!
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What a WILD RIDE! This mafia romance is so heartbreaking and soul mending and entertaining and OMG. Just read it. Blow your own mind.
Mafia…dangerous…sexy… what is not to love!
All hail the queen. Because no one does mafia romance like this author.
A friends to enemies story that had me from the very first line on the very first page. I swear this book will delight and frustrate you all at the same time.
The story itself is twisted and fun. It’s dangerous and sexy, and just a little bit crazy. I loved the characters and their penchant for the dramatic. I loved reading about the world they live in. And how far some people will go to get exactly what they want.
This was just an all around great read, and the perfect thing to keep you distracted from the current craziness! 5 solid stars from me!
“Love, if anything, isn’t a blessing, it’s a curse.”
I need a moment to pick up all the broken pieces of my soul
This was beyond a boy meets girl …
Boy hurts girl…
This was more of a journey(?) of self-discovery.
Not sure that is even the right wording to describe how I felt reading this, the emotions I experienced.
The whole crew –
Each of them was such an intricate piece of the story –
So much happens –
As always I don’t want to risk spoilers
The story centers around Junior and Serena and the forbidden feelings that develop between them –
The choices that they have to make – duty before self –
and how those choices shaped their lives –
Good and bad
Each character here is so important to the overall storyline
Each secret
Each betrayal
“My hate is all I have. Please don’t take that too. ”
Know going in you will laugh something fierce
You will know heartbreak intimately
You will see sacrifices made in the name of blood
Experience first hand the gut-wrenching pain of betrayal
And the dark void that comes from loss
Most of all you will feel …
5 *BLOOD IN, NO OUT* STAR
First I love the cover so much!!! I loved the prequel and I can’t wait to read this story! And Ruthless Princess!!! OMG! I cried a lot!!!!
We can read this story in present time from Junior and Serena’s POV. This is a forbidden maffia romance with dark elements. You need to read the prequel.
“I’ll hate you for as long as we both shall live”
Serena is a brave and strong heroine. A Maffia Princess. Junior is a cruel, protector and badass hero. A Maffia Prince. Their love would start a war. Their hate keep them to alive.
I ugly cried while I was read! I was mourned the loss of their. I was mourned for the lost moments. I cried for Asher!!! I didn’t want to feel anything because what I felt. HURT ME!
A story about loss, love, family and friendship. The life is too short. Too short to waste of time.
Can I give it more than five stars? It certainly deserves a higher rating. This is a new series, Mafia Royals. It is not necessary to read the Eagle Elite series prior, but I’d definitely recommend it. This series is about the kids from the Eagle Elite. So for more background on the parents, reading EE would give you that. Serena is Nixon’s daughter. Heir to take over for her father. But the bosses have made rules that all their children must follow. There are consequences if not followed. So Serena must hate the one that she loves so deeply. Must keep her mask on as being ruthless with no feelings. But under that mask she is in pain. Junior is Phoenix’s son. Trying
not to follow in his bloodlines shoes. He also has to hide his pain. Has to become the enemy. Has to hide his true feelings for her. So stand with each other as enemies is just what they will do. When the children are asked to return to Eagle Elite as the second generation rulers, things become much more difficult. Having to always question motivations from others. Wondering if today is the day that will be there last. But they must stay united as a whole. Even when things can go bad.
I almost lost it when there was a two twirls moment. An explanation of the true meaning of the saying. Gah!
Will the second generation follow the rules of their fathers? Or will they stand on their own and set a new path for the families? These kids are the second generation and the bosses have groomed them to be the best. To make their own decisions and to learn from their mistakes. While trying to not break any rules. But sometimes, the pain can be too much and the heart can’t help who it chooses to love.
A must read that will take you back to the mafia world that we love so much!! Rachel you out did yourself once again. Can not wait for the next book.
Rating:
Five stars and two twirls!
They are the children of the leaders of two of the five families. Junior Nicolasi and Serena Abandonato we’re doomed from the moment they first fell in love. Their parents had been through it in the past, when members of the families fell in and out of love with each other. They knew that jealousy , hurt and anger can start wars between friends and family. So they made it a rule that their kids can’t get together. No kissing, no dating, no falling in love. The punishment for betrayal is death.
In the prequel, Asher Abandonato saw what was happening between Junior and Serena and to save them from themselves. Ash made sure to test them in public and unless they outed their own relationship by publicly claiming each other which he knew they couldn’t do, they had no recourse but to betray the relationship by choosing someone other than each other. By doing that they hurt each other beyond repair. Now all they have is hate and pain.
Though Junior and Serena must still work together as the Elite of the University and the mafia Prince and Princess that they are. They are sometimes friends, sometimes enemies and always the cause of the deep hole in each other’s heart. This book had all the feels of this torturous relationship between two people that deep down want nothing more than to be able to claim each other and tell the world. But instead are forced to keep hurting each other for their own survival.
I loved the relationships in this book. Not only between Serena and Junior, but all the kids, and even the parents. Though this world is so unreal as to be comical at times, it does portray the brutality, paranoia (righteous though it is), and the kinship that must exist in the mafia. The craziest parts are how brutal these people are with their own family members in effort to make sure they are strong enough to survive in their world.
Like I said, the world is also comical at times. As a matter of fact, the book was pretty humorous in the way that these college students/made men and women make light of their world. They joke about the number of weapons they carry around daily, the fact that they are killers and that their lives are so bizarre compared to others their age. I have no clue if people like this would really joke like these kids do, but I have a feeling that you’d almost have to, otherwise some of that stuff would drive you crazy.
“Anything going on there?”
“Well, if there is one or both of them will die, so let’s hope not because I’m really attached to my sister, and if Maksim touches her wrong or even breathes wrong, I’m cutting his dick off.”
“Graphic,” Claire muttered next to him.
“What?” Ash shrugged. “She’s too young.”
“She’s your twin dipshit.” This from Breaker.
So much happened in this book, some of it was unbelievably surprising and some was revealing. There are definitely secrets all over the place in these families, not only about who is in love with whom, but also secrets from the past. It is quite a dark and twisty ride. I can’t wait for more. I did purchase a bunch of the Eagle Elite books, I can’t wait to get some time to start in on those and find out what kind of trouble the parents got into. RVD has outdone herself here!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
What the heck did I just read?!? This book has absolutely slayed every part of me. Just when I thought Rachel couldn’t get any better, She proves I am wrong! I AM FREAKING OUT AFTER FINISHING THIS BOOK!! Sitting on the edge of my seat, wanting to cry, and laugh and throw my kindle all at the same time – yep that was ME!!
This book was freaking EVERYTHING to me. Hands down, one of my TOP 3 reads of this year!! Rachel Van Dyken is brilliant and amazing and knows how to suck you into this amazing mafia world!!
I am a HUGE FAN of Eagle Elite! Like HUGE! And this book continues the legacy they left behind. Holy cow! These kids are making a name for themselves and won’t take any crap from anyone!! The blood in – no out continues and is stronger than ever.
I think I would shout at the rooftops about this book if possible. It’s theme is dark, mafia and absolutely steamy. It is not for the faint of heart, but these men and women will grow on you and become part of you. They are ruthless, loving, and know what the true meaning of FAMILY is!! You DON’T want to miss the start of this series, or the continuation of the Eagle Elite generation.
Junior and Serena have been doomed since birth. They are the best of friends, but they have very hard boundaries. There are rules. There are guns. There are threats. It’s the mafia y’all!! Their world is full of secrets and deception. Responsibility means everything to them and they have to step up to take over. With this responsibility comes rules, lies, fighting, killing and tragedy. This story is so hard, so real and raw you won’t be able to put it down.
Enjoy seeing the characters from her Eagle Elite series and be prepared to laugh your butt off, listen to crazy, funny banter, and see the darkness that is involved in this amazing world of The Mafia Royals.
GO AND BUY THIS BOOK NOW! Seriously!!
10+!!
The anticipation was worth wait!
I know this is a standalone, but how can you not go back and read the whole Eagle Elite series after reading Ruthless Princess!
We already knew the kids in these families would have to be strong to survive their legacy, but I don’t think we really knew how much they’d have to go through. We are given a look at all the children of our favorite mafia families. Family dinners are still happening & as always they are very eventful!
When a white horse shows up everyone is made to choose. Years later they are all called back to rule Eagle Elite. A new school next door is suspicious. Members of their group are acting strange. Serena and Junior want to kill each other. They have loved each other for years but are forbidden by penalty of death to do so. What’s the closest emotion to love??? Hate!
There were parts where you want to just smack everyone, but this is how these characters have to learn to come out the other side. There are heart wrenching moments that just make your heart clench. My favorite of those is the explanation of Sergio’s Two Twirls tattoo. It makes you feel like you are back in that moment all over again.
I love the way Rachel writes these characters. I develop an emotional connection with them fairly quickly, which can turn bad quickly! I definitely recommend Ruthless Princess to all!
All I can say is that I was at a loss for words even days after reading this book. Ruthless Princess is Rachel’s best mafia book to date. It’s gritty, raw, emotional, and HOT HOT HOT.
Mafia, the next generation, is no joke. There are rules. Rules not to be broken. But the heart wants what the heart wants and for Serena – she wants Junior – her best friend but sworn enemy.
This book will push you emotionally. The next generation of the Elect at Eagle Elite has amped up the fear factor to a whole new level. They have something to prove not only to the students there but to their fathers who came before them.
This is a new series in the Eagle Elite realm, so you do not have to have read the Eagle Elite Series in order to know what’s going on. But in my personal opinion, when you have the time, you’ll want to binge the series. It’s my number one series of all-time.