BENI BY BETHANY-KRIS
Guzzi Legacy, #4
Publication Date: October 7, 2019
Genres: Adult, STANDALONE, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime, Erotic Romance
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I
have a thing for watching these made-men becoming fathers and growing up. Beni
and Bene are the babies that push everyone's limits in the family but since
they're the babies they find themselves not getting in as much trouble as other
Guzzi children might have. Until they take it a bit too far. Beni and Bene are
sent to Chicago to learn life lessons and to hopefully mature and go learn some
respect and appreciation. Sometimes it just takes a good woman, THE woman, to
change a man's life. Beni's and August's eyes meet across the club and it's all
over. They are hooked from that first look!!
I wasn't too fond of the way Beni acted with his brother after meeting August. He just didn't keep that close relationship that they had and I felt a shift. While I liked both Beni and August, they fell a bit flatter than most of Kris's couples. However, I am aware that not everyone can be Cross and Catherine. They just didn't reach that seem level of love that I often feel in reading her books. Saying that, I do love the man that Beni developed into. The Chicago change was definitely a good move for the Guzzi babes!
Bethany-Kris does it again... and again... and again! I recommend this author time and time again when someone is looking for a mafia and/or organized crime books. Obviously I don't know the mafia or anyone in the mafia but she builds these stories up to just what I'd think is accurate and she takes it deeper, further. They are always better than I could have imagined. The families are all about their loved ones, their children, and this deep bonding that seems to go hand in hand with a Kris book. They are always family-centered.
I wasn't too fond of the way Beni acted with his brother after meeting August. He just didn't keep that close relationship that they had and I felt a shift. While I liked both Beni and August, they fell a bit flatter than most of Kris's couples. However, I am aware that not everyone can be Cross and Catherine. They just didn't reach that seem level of love that I often feel in reading her books. Saying that, I do love the man that Beni developed into. The Chicago change was definitely a good move for the Guzzi babes!
Bethany-Kris does it again... and again... and again! I recommend this author time and time again when someone is looking for a mafia and/or organized crime books. Obviously I don't know the mafia or anyone in the mafia but she builds these stories up to just what I'd think is accurate and she takes it deeper, further. They are always better than I could have imagined. The families are all about their loved ones, their children, and this deep bonding that seems to go hand in hand with a Kris book. They are always family-centered.
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.
SYNOPSIS
Chicago has never been more fun, or dangerous …
Sent away with his identical twin to get their wild ways under control, Beni Guzzi expects nothing to change. Same crap, new city, right? But if the boss of the Chicago mob can’t set the principes straight, then nothing will.
And then she rolls into town.
Stuck in a job that seems intent to keep her working behind a desk, August Rivera hopes a trip to the windy city for an assignment will make the magazine finally give her a spread. But getting to see her best friend, well, that’s just a bonus.
And then she sees him from across a club.
With a gang causing trouble for the Outfit, and a Capo’s crew in shambles, Beni has a million other things to focus on except the beautiful New Yorker who keeps finding her way into his bed. The thing is, when he’s with August, everything is better—easier.
Falling in love while handling family drama and mafia affairs is anything but simple … and in this business? It only takes a single mistake to lose it all.
That lesson can’t be taught, and it always comes too late.
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NOTE: Beni is a standalone novel within The Guzzi Legacy series.
It can be read as such.
EXCLUSIVE RELEASE EXCERPT
Spinning around while taking a sip of the hot coffee, August came face to face with a smirking Beni. Damn, he looked good today. Gone were the dark wash jeans, leather jacket, and the Converse shoes. Oh, sure, she liked him in that, too, but today he had settled on something a bit more … classic, and fancy.
Black slacks, and a white button down that was rolled up to the elbows. A blazer hung over his arm, forgotten, likely because of the current summer heat sweeping through Chicago. No tie, she noticed, but that was okay because he’d left the top two buttons of his shirt undone, giving her a peek at the golden skin of his throat, a couple days’ worth of facial hair covering his jawline, and the way his Adam’s apple bobbed when he looked her over, and swallowed.
So good looking.
Did he know how he looked?
Because Jesus …
At least, August didn’t feel underdressed standing in front of him, considering she had thrown on a black dress with elbow-length sleeves, a scoop neck, and a pencil skirt that fell to her knees. Black pumps matched the dress, and she went for a simple, rose gold necklace and matching earrings to draw attention to her little makeup, and the braids she had piled high on her head in a spiraling bun.
She did have a meeting today—one that involved talks about a possible job. She had to look professional, didn’t she?
“No work today?” she asked.
Beni flashed her another one of his sinful smiles. “Nah, I had better things to do.”
Was she one of those things?
He was here.
So … yep.
August liked that.
Too much.
There was something about a man that made a woman his priority that did it for her. Beyond sex, a man that cared enough to put in effort … it was all about the fucking effort with a woman like her.
She appreciated it.
“And you didn’t answer me,” he said. “Is this the second date?”
She gave him a look. “We didn’t really have a first.”
“Well—”
“That was not a first date.”
Beni chuckled, shoving his hands into his pockets as he looked her over from head to toe. There was something about his slow perusal that had her heating up from the inside out, butterflies beating hard in her stomach all the while.
What was he doing to her?
“So, we consider this a first date, then?”
August nodded. “And depending on how it goes, well, we’ll see about another one.”
His dark, husky laughter coated her in something sinful and wicked as he stepped alongside her to wrap a strong arm around her waist. He pulled her into his side for a one-armed hug, his mouth coming down to press a quick kiss to her soft line of baby hair along her forehead.
“Never stop doing that,” he told her.
August tipped her head back so that she could stare up at him. “Do what?”
“That—keeping me on my toes. Nobody ever does that anymore, and I like it.”
Noted.
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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