Title: Hidden While In Sight
Series: Wicked Defenders #1
Author: Amber Warden
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Mafia, Hurt/Comfort
Obsessive Hero/Stalker Vibes
Release Date: June 28, 2024
BLURB
Diego digs up dirt for the cartel, dirt they use to ensure business runs smoothly. Only this time, he’s assigned to the perfect rich family with the perfect rich life: a successful lawyer husband, two well-behaved kids, and a trophy wife.
It’s a life someone who grew up in the streets could never have.
But as Diego watches the family, he begins to notice things. There’s a nervousness to the children. The wife has an obsessive focus on maintaining her body. And tension rises every time the husband comes home.
Until one explosive night when it becomes obvious their life isn’t so perfect.
Diego witnesses what unfolds and becomes more and more fixated on the wife, Hannah. With every revealed secret, his obsession grows. Because she really is perfect to him.
Hannah belongs with Diego. Whether she wants to or not. Her and her kids.
And no one gets to touch what belongs to him.
Wicked Defenders is a series of mafia adjacent standalone romances, containing morally grey heroes that are sweet caregivers to those they love but don’t hold back on anyone else. These stories include dark themes and tragic scenes, but each book ends with an HEA.
Renee’s Four Star Review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is a dark Mafia romance. I have to say this is a book that you will want to heed the warnings in the beginning of the book. This book will contain triggers for some readers.
This is the story of Diego. He is in the cartel and his main job is to dig up dirt on anyone and anything so that they can keep their business running as smoothly as possible. His job is always interesting and he loves what he does. But, now he is assigned to watch a family. A family that lives like kings. These people have it all. Things that someone from the streets would never have. However, their perfect life might not be as perfect as it seemed in the beginning as Diego began to notice things about the family. Colin who is a lawyer along with his wife Hannah and his children seem to live the most perfect life ever. However, the lawyer husband is making sure that people see what he wants them to see so they don’t know the hell that they really live in. What Diego witnesses will turn your stomach. There are so many things wrong with this family all thinks to the dad. The more Diego learns about Hannah the more he knows that she would be perfect for him. But more than that he can’t let that family live like they are living now. Will he be able to save Hannah and her children and give them the life that they deserve? You have to read this book and find out. I thought that it was really good. It took me a while to get into this story. If you find yourself the same way, don’t lay this book down. I promise you that once it takes off it really takes off and you will be on the edge of your seat many times.
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EXCERPT
Diego’s hand twitched with the need to wrap around her stomach and pull her in tighter.
“Hey, neighbor,” he whispered in her ear.
Hannah’s body shuddered against him, and his mouth watered. He wanted so badly to nibble her ear, then her neck, but he knew he’d struggle to stop at just that.
“Enjoying the show?” he asked.
Her gaze remained fixed on the window, staring inside at her husband with someone else.
“Why don’t you interrupt them?”
She shook her head, her hair brushing against his cheek. “It doesn’t matter.” Her voice was so low, the breeze almost snatched it away.
“No?” Diego’s hand snaked out, sliding along her belly. All his worst intentions rose to the forefront of his mind when, instead of jerking away, her legs shifted and her back pressed fully against his chest. “And what about you, Hannah? Do you get to do the same as your husband?”
She shook her head again, the scent of her hair almost minty, maybe something with eucalyptus.
“That doesn’t seem right. How about taking some revenge?” He breathed in that sharp scent of her, the intensity almost intoxicating. “Let me take care of you, mami.”
She let out the smallest gasp as her body shuddered against his again. “That wouldn’t be right.”
“I think it would be delicious.” He gave in to his need, brushing his lips over her shoulder. Her head shifted, providing him better access, and his body shook as he held back from giving in to temptation.
“Let me touch you,” he begged.
AUTHOR BIO
A former numbers cruncher, Amber Warden left the accounting world to write emotional and steamy contemporary romance instead. Her main hope is for those reading her stories to take away the feeling that they are more than enough for anyone.
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About Renee Henson
Renee Henson has an obsession with reading and reviewing. Especially anything that is a dark romance, fairy tale retelling, MC, and is trying her best to love the PNR worlds. Nothing is quiet as exciting to her as reading a good book and then talking about it or making comments while reading with her friends that have read the book too. She is always happiest with her kindle in her hand and her nose is a book. She has been reviewing for Stephanie's Book Reports for over ten years.
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