Release Blitz: Beautifully Savage Butterfly: K.M. Neuhold
Beautifully Savage Butterfly
(Mafia Bound #2)
K.M. Neuhold
September 6, 2024
Being savage in the ring is one thing. The way Elio Moretti craves my violence outside the ring is another.
I feel like I’ve been fighting my whole life, and tapping out has never been an option.
I can live with owing money to the Morettis. I can even live with the constant guilt that my brother is the one paralyzed in a hospital bed while I live his dream. What I can’t live with is Elio Moretti, second in command to the infamous crime family, showing up to all my fights, sitting in the front row, watching me like he can’t look away, and barging into the locker room to patch up my wounds and invade my space.
The Morettis are monsters. Vicious, brutal sociopaths. So, why is Elio so eager to get on his knees for me?
He’s as desperate to give up control as I am to take it, but is giving in to these primal urges enough of a reason to sell my soul?
He claims there are worse people in this city than his family, and the deeper I get dragged into his world, the more true that’s starting to seem. Can I really fall in love with a Mafia underboss? Is it even possible to walk away?
This is the second book in the Mafia Bound series, and it focuses on the second in command Elio Moretti. He is cocky, privileged, self-assured, and morally gray. Elio has found himself a bit obsessed with an MMA fighter. He shows up at his matches, he pushes his buttons, and he may be a bit stalkery. And they push each other to the point of strong reactions.
Orion is a powerful, broody, MMA fighter who fights legit fights, but also underground ones because he needs the money. He takes care of his brother and he also has a lot of guilt regarding the whole situation. The fights help him release his stress and anger, and now Elio is helping with that too by either fighting or their volatile sexual chemistry.
These two are very compatible in their kinks and the internal rage and the deep feelings that fuel them that they manage to exorcise together. And now Elio has enlisted Orion’s help in a delicate situation, so they’re spending more time together and getting to understand more about what makes the other tick. Elio likes to just take care of things when he can. Orion is fiercely independent and doesn’t want to be a charity case, but it seems to be the best way to pay off his debt.
They have a brat and boss dynamic in private, but in public they are both intimidating and volatile.
There is a twist on the dom/sub dynamic, enemies-to-lovers, shared kink, and violence, but it’s a relatively low angst story. They help each other work through their hate, rage, and confusing feelings. They’re actually kind of strangely sweet and well-matched in a scary kind of way. It brings back the other characters from the first book and they are as intense as ever. I am interested in more with Sal, Enzo, Alessio, and Dante.
There is a twist on the dom/sub dynamic, enemies-to-lovers, shared kink, and violence, but it’s a relatively low angst story. They help each other work through their hate, rage, and confusing feelings. They’re actually kind of strangely sweet and well-matched in a scary kind of way. It brings back the other characters from the first book and they are as intense as ever. I am interested in more with Sal, Enzo, Alessio, and Dante.
Deadly Little Sparrow
Is there such thing as love at first bar fight?
I may be small and pretty, but what I lack in intimidation factor, I make up for in violence.
I made a vow five years ago that the motorcycle club responsible for my brother’s death would pay the price, and I’m finally ready to collect. May God have mercy on the men who hurt my brother, because I don’t plan to.
Accidentally breaking the nose of the deadliest man in the city wasn’t my best move. Xaviaro Saviano, trigger man for the Moretti Crime Family... and now my own personal stalker. But if I have to go through him to deliver well-deserved justice, so be it.
As strange as it sounds, Xaviaro seems to want to help me more than he wants to hurt me. I can’t shake the man no matter what I do. Threatening him feels like foreplay, tying him up only turns him on… I could play nice, but that’s never been my strong suit.
I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t starting to grow on me, especially when he calls me his Deadly Little Sparrow from his knees. I’ve never met a man who could handle me, let alone one who can’t stop begging me for more.
Author K.M.Neuhold is a complete romance junkie, a total sap in every way. She started her journey as an author in new adult, MF romance, but after a chance reading of an MM book she was completely hooked on everything about lovely- and sometimes damaged- men finding their Happily Ever After together. She has a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well. And she fully admits that her OCD tendencies of making sure every side character has a full backstory will likely always lead to every book having a spin-off or series. When she’s not writing she’s a lion tamer, an astronaut, and a superhero…just kidding, she’s likely watching Netflix and snuggling with her husky while her amazing husband brings her coffee.
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