Mafia Secret by Angie Derek Review

By: Angie Derek

Re-Releasing
on April 12, 2016

Thoroughweb Press

Lessa Noelle grew
up never knowing she was the illegitimate daughter of a mafia king pin. After
his murder, she finds herself a surprise heiress immersed in the dangerous
world of organized crime with only the guidance of Marco Santos, her father’s
second in command, to help her.

An uneasy
attraction blossoms between the two as Marco searches for her father’s killer.
He tries to keep the realities of his life from touching her and an already
dangerous situation turns volatile when a killer turns his attention to Lessa.

Lessa
Noelle is on top of the world! She is a successful cheerleader for the NFL team
The Orlando Manatees and other than a few threatening letters from a jealous
cheerleader who couldn't get on the squad, her life was pretty fantastic! But
everything changed in one morning and it literally shook Lessa's world to its
foundations!

Firstly,
someone tries to knock her over with a car! Then a devastatingly handsome man
called Marco Santo brings her a letter, revealing that she is the illegitimate
daughter of a Mafia King Pin whom has just been murdered and that her mother
has lied to her her whole life!! So now Lessa finds herself on a plane to meet
all of the rest of her new family! One whom knows nothing about her.

Marco
Santo is not only Second in Command to Tazio empire, but he is also the
ex-fiancé to Clarissa Tazio, but he feels desire for Lessa and wants to protect
her from everyone including the family, But in his pursuit who murdered his
boss, he scares Lessa and she runs and he decides to give her space. But
nothing is simple in the Tazio world and Leesa is kidnapped and Marco will do
anything to get her back. Lessa and Marco soon realize nothing is as it seems
and Marco fights to find the killer before he can claim another victim.

Now
I'm a total Mafia nerd and when I saw this book, I knew I just had to have it!
I'm glad it didn't just stick to the lives of the two main characters, as the
author chose to include all of the Tazio siblings and I'm hoping that means we
have more books in this series (please please!).

The
whole storyline was refreshing and not too bogged down in the history of the
crimes of the family, but focused on the people and their dynamics and the plot
twist at the end wasn't in anyway predictable! It completely took me off guard.
The writing was smooth and gripping and the characters were three dimensional
and I have to say I would really like to see more from Nina and Jio and I'm
completely intrigued by Tony!

With
all that being said I really end loved this book and I can't say enough that
I'm hoping this turns into a series! Which is why I give Mafia Secrets 5 stars!

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Her
mother should be working the swing shift at the hospital, so she auto-dialed
her mom’s cell number. It rang twice.

“Hi
honey,” Erin Noelle said.

“Hey
Mom.” Lessa glanced away from Santos, who was now listening closely to her side
of the conversation. “Are you busy?”

“I can
talk for a moment. What’s up?”

The
background noise of the hospital faded out as her mother probably ducked into a
room to hear her better.

“I need
to ask you something.” She struggled for courage to ask the question which
could change everything.

“What
now?” Erin laughed.

Lessa
took a deep breath. “Who is Jiovanni Tazio, and why is he sending me a letter
saying he’s my father?”

Erin made
a startled sound and the line went quiet.

“Mom?”
Dread filled her. Her mom was supposed to say she didn’t know who the heck
Jiovanni Tazio was.

“How did
you find out?” Erin demanded.

“It’s
true?” The line went silent again. Lessa spun to focus on the photo from the
long-ago trip to Disney. Of the three of them smiling—her mother, Lessa, and
the man she’d thought was her father. Who maybe wasn’t.

“Of
course it’s not true. Peter’s your father. You look just like him.”

But she
didn’t. She closed her eyes. She and Peter had similar coloring. Blonde hair,
blue eyes, fair skin. But her features were like her mother’s.

“Just
send the letter back to this man. He obviously got the wrong person.”

Her mom’s
voice was too cool, and Lessa didn’t believe a word. “You mean hand it back to
the courier?”

Erin
gasped a second time. “Get away from him. Jiovanni’s men are dangerous.”

“Who says
it’s a man? And who says it isn’t Jiovanni himself?” The depth of her mother’s
lies started to work through her. She pressed her hand against her burning
stomach.

“You have
to get away from him right now.”

She shook
her head even though her mother couldn’t see her. “You lied to me. All these
years, and you pretended Peter was my father.”

“Sweetie,
listen to me, they’re dangerous people. I had to lie to keep you safe. You need
to stay as far away from Jiovanni as possible.”

She
almost choked on her outrage. “That shouldn’t be a problem since, apparently,
he’s dead.” And with him dead, she’d never have the chance to find out who her
father really was.

“Jiovanni’s
dead?”

Angie Derek writes paranormal and romantic suspense. She
lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, two daughters, two
horses, two cats, and a dog.