Giovanna (Marino Famiglia Series #1)
Victoria Arrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
4.15
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 13 ratings · 397 pages · Published: 17 Jun 2023

Sent away to the other side of the world by parents who didn’t know how to deal with her trauma, Francesca is summoned home eight years later and told she is to marry Sydney’s new mafia boss. Devastated at the prospect of the arranged marriage and her fiancé’s philandering reputation, Francesca turns to her soon-to-be sister-in-law. It’s been eight years since she saw Giovanna but she is no less incurably infatuated with her than when she was shipped off at sixteen. The famiglia ’s mafia power struggles are nothing compared to the battles Giovanna and Francesca wage internally over their feelings for each other. Giovanna proves time and again that she will do anything to protect her brother’s fiancée but is she willing to take what’s hers?
TW: sexual assault (not described), violence, torture, explicit spice (1 MF and multiple FF), profanity.
Tagged as:
- forced proximity 3
- age gap 3
- mafia 3
- dark romance 3
- queer romance 3
- contemporary 2
- other man/woman 2
- lesbian romance 2
- rich hero 2
- bisexuality 2
- competent heroine 2
- dangerous heroine 2
- criminal heroine 2
- forbidden love 2
- tall heroine 1
- dual pov 1
- first person pov 1
- arranged/forced marriage 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- grumpy/ice queen 1
- independent heroine 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
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- past sexual abuse 2
- graphic violence 2
- torture of side characters 1
- queerphobia 1
- rape 1
- child sexual abuse 1
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The 'Marino Famiglia Series' series
13 ratings 4.15 ·
torture-scs · graphic-violence · arranged marriage · competent heroine · sweet heroine · child-sexual-abuse · contemporary · mafia · other-man-woman · outlaw-heroine · rape · australia · explicit-plentiful · forbidden love · forced proximity · grumpy sunshine · dangerous heroine · age difference · cold heroine · past-sexual-abuse
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