Ready To Cash Out

I feel like I had alll of the free time since my currently-borrowed-ARCs weren't due for weeks...weeks have past. Its the end of July. Here's to me speed-reading (which, frankly, I'm great at). Here's K.L. Hier's "Ready To Cash Out."

["Trevanion Usher's mother had always told him that beauty faded but stupid was forever, so he aimed high and set out to be beautiful for as long as he could and only let people think he was stupid.

Since her passing, he's managed to navigate the perils of Perry City, a dangerous metropolis run by the mob and oozing with corruption. His sharp wits, good looks, and absolute lack of shame have served him well, and he's almost ready to escape and start over somewhere with a tropical climate. When his landlord calls in a favor, Trev is suspicious but jumps at the chance to score big in exchange for one night of work.

Naturally, that's when everything goes wrong.

Jupiter Prospero is a member of the city's ruling mob family and he's interested in sharing much more than Trev's company for the evening. He's gorgeous, powerful, and has secrets to reveal—like Trev's relation to a powerful gangster in the city of Strassen Springs.

Trev finds himself trapped as an unwilling pawn in a deadly game between two long feuding criminal families and he'll have to use all of his skills to survive, but does he stand a chance against Jupiter's devastating charms?

Or will he succumb to even darker forces before he has a chance to cash out?"]

I gotta say, I looooove me some mafia dark romances. They're glorious. So much drama and steam and hidden fluff and "touch him and die" and twists and secrets and plotting. Beautiful.

As were Trev and Jupiter. Beautiful. Dramatic. Glorious. Dark. 

Jupiter, I'm pretty sure, was gooooone from the first moment he met Trev. Trev was gone lust-wise at first sight as well, but it took him and his damaged heart to accept that there was more between them than the enemies-with-benefits situation they had going on.  

There were so many bad people and so many bad people that were good (and don't get me started on the good people that were bad OR the crazy people that were once bad but now are (sometimes) good). So many people, so many stories, so many moments to really test your lack-of-trust, but Trev (and Jupiter) eventually got their HEA...eventually. 

And now I have to add the Cold Hard Cash series to my TBR list, because I neeeeeed to know how Jimmy make Cold fall that hard.

Trigger Warnings: violence, kidnapping, murder, temporary character death, and more.

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