Hell of a Mess (Mississippi Smoke #8)
Abbi Glines
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 11 ratings · 286 pages · Published: 12 Oct 2025
Waking up without any memory of who I was in a place with people who didn’t know me would have been terrifying if it hadn’t been for him. The comfort I felt when he was close by pushed other darkness away. Memories slowly fighting to return, haunting images, fear that crawled closer every day until he showed up with a book by my bedside to read to me. I didn’t care what he read, just hearing his deep southern drawl ran off the monsters lurking in the shadows of my mind. Luther Levine was my hero.
Luther
My life was what I’d made it. The one I wanted, and I was real damn happy with it. Until I found a woman with a pair of the prettiest eyes I’d ever seen staring up at me beaten and broken behind a dumpster. For the first time in my life, someone needed me. What was even more shocking was I wanted her to need me. I wasn’t planning on keeping her. She was too young. The age gap too big. But when they came to take her from me, the urge to fight back clawed at my chest. Just when I accepted I couldn’t let her go… we found out who she was. Not because her memory returned. It was her DNA that dropped the bomb on us all. The outcome was one hell of a mess.
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- mafia 2
- contemporary 1
- dark romance 1
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- suspense 1
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- hurt/comfort 1
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- shy heroine 1
- tall heroine 1
- late 20s fmc 1
- in his 40s/50s 1
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- praise kink 1
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The 'Mississippi Smoke' series
4.00 · 149 ratings
mafia · dark · contemporary · first-person-pov · mississippi · dual-pov · standalone-first · usa · bad boys · male-pov · m-f · alpha male · standalone · possessive hero · ic-standalone · found-family · super rich hero · explicit-open-door · late-20s-mmc · independent heroine
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