CHRIS BY BETHANY-KRIS
Guzzi Legacy, #3
Publication Date: September 2, 2019
Genres: Adult, STANDALONE, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime, Erotic Romance
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SYNOPSIS
A made man versus the cartel …
The job was simple—a contract from a powerful crime family to retrieve Valeria Lòpez. A woman believed to have been forcibly taken by one of the major cartels in Mexico. Easy enough, right?
Christopher Guzzi thought so, but the details made it difficult. He didn’t expect to trick his way into the path of the cartel leader only to develop feelings for the woman he was meant to recover. That leader’s wife. Every step he takes is risky, and one wrong move could leave them both dead. Too bad that’s not enough to keep him away from Valeria as he tries to find a way to free her.
Hope is a dangerous thing.
Love is even worse.
Here, everybody plays dirty.
No one can be trusted.
So, how do they get out alive?
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Note: Chris is book 3 in The Guzzi Legacy. It is a standalone novel.
I'm completely smitten with the many sides of Chris.
He is such a lovely and pure man. On the other side, he's fierce and loyal to a
fault. He's totally vicious when you mess with those he loves. He's out for
blood. I loved his conviction for everything he does. He believes in himself
and in what he does.
Valeria is a surprisingly strong woman. She has
always done what she needs to do to survive. Now with her daughter, she does
everything for her daughter, Maria, even if it means staying with a cruel and
ruthless boss of the Mexican cartel, Jorge, who happens to be her husband. I
don't want to go more into the actual storyline. This book was one of my
favorites by Bethany-Kris and that's saying something since I pretty much
always love her books.
There was something about this insta-love story.
Perhaps it was seeing Chris fall for both Val and Maria. My heart was all in
once I knew he loved them both. I just have no resistance for a man brought to
his knees by a woman and child that he loves. However, Chris was about more
than love and romance. I was lost in the suspense and the NON-STOP action, it's
a complete page turner... I found myself captivated by the action and fear of
possibly outcomes. Don't get me wrong I loved the intense and serious chemistry
between Chris and Val but the action... it just made this book unputdownable!
I received an ARC of this book with the
hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a
review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
EXCERPT
“Sorry to keep
you waiting,” Gian said, giving Chris a wave to enter the office first, “shall
we get started?”
Dare picked up
the remote on his desk and pointed it at the screen once Chris and his father
entered the office. The picture changed when he pressed a button, showcasing
Andino in a tux, a woman in a white wedding dress, and a little girl between
them being held by a black-haired, beautiful
woman with a wide smile.
And God, yeah,
beautiful didn’t do the woman justice. Her joyful smile brightened her delicate
features, and her black hair had a glossy sheen under the sunlight. Tall, and
curvy, the lavender dress she had picked for the day hugged her body and showed
off all kinds of leg.
With only a
picture, Chris thought whoever had taken it had captured the woman’s beauty,
her confidence, and her womanly appeal all at the same time.
Quite a feat.
“Valeria Lòpez,”
Cree said when Dare stayed quiet. “Formerly Gomez,
but she changed it after a forced marriage to Jorge Lòpez at fifteen when the
cartel killed her mother down in Mexico, it became a means to blackmail her
father. Or, those are the details we have.”
“That’s all we had,”
Andino muttered.
“Right,” Dare
said, nodding at Andino, “and so this is what we’re working on. Somehow, around
sixteen from what we understand, Valeria was pregnant, and ran away from her
husband, and the cartel. She found her way to the States, and we don’t know how.
What we do know is her daughter was born in the States, and at some point, she
met Haven Murphy.”
“Marcello, now,”
Andino added under his breath.
That name rang a
bell.
Chris looked to
Andino. “Your new wife?”
Andino nodded.
“The two happened to be roommates for quite a while before I came along,
Valeria worked for Haven, and one night she came home … seemed like Val up and
left and so did—”
Dare pressed a
button, and the screen changed to a single picture of the little girl Valeria had
been holding in the wedding picture. “Her daughter, Maria. Who is six. We
cannot find anything for this little girl anywhere at the moment. No school
records in Mexico, nothing for a doctor, and … yeah.”
Chris let out a
heavy breath as he took in the black-haired, brown-eyed child. She looked all
of maybe five on the screen if that. Cute, with a wide, toothy smile, and her
arms high in the air as her yellow summer dress spun around her legs.
“Jorge Lòpez is
her father,” Dare said, “but what’s important is … Valeria ran from the cartel,
we’re aware she was forced into
marriage, and at some point, they took her again. We have every reason to
believe she is back with the cartel.”
“Might she want
to be there?” Chris asked.
“Possibly,” the man
returned, “but you must figure that out when you get inside, won’t you?”
Gian hummed
under his breath beside his son. “And that’s why you want me here, isn’t it? Being
the boss of the Guzzis, I’m not affiliated to the Marcellos on paper as a
business partner, they wouldn’t expect me to go there for her, and I could use
my status and territory as a transaction for them, correct?”
“They wouldn’t
suspect something’s up, no.”
Chris looked to
the two Marcello men as this was their job.
They had come here with it, and they wanted to retrieve the woman. “Why is she
important? A cartel wife … that’s playing with fire. I’m familiar with details
about the Lòpez cartel. Jorge, he’s the oldest son, and has taken over more now
that his father took a step back years ago. And you want to … what, take his
wife and child from him?”
Andino arched a
brow, replying, “I respect the hesitance, but the woman never asked for the
life they gave her. From what my wife explained, and I understood, Val stayed
on the run and had been for years, which meant she had to be running from
something.”
“Or someone,” Chris finished.
“Jorge, likely,”
Andino agreed. “Val and Haven … she needs to know if Val is where she wants to
be, is safe, and happy. And if she
is, fine, we leave it alone. But if she isn’t, and if she needs help, that’s
what you’re here to do.”
Chris cleared
his throat and nodded once. “All right.”
ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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