Recent Reads: Queen of the Night by Elizabeth Muse

Queen of the Night by Elizabeth Muse  

Publisher: ABO Publishing, LLC
Publication Date:  January 22, 2022 

 

Format: Ebook
Source: Freebie from a Stuff your Kindle day

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

Frankie Baxter knows what it means to lose everything. Because once upon a time, she did. And being the oldest daughter of a mafia Don means going nowhere unguarded. Too bad she’s run off anyone who might stand a chance at keeping her safe.

Now, even a quiet night out with her girlfriends requires she spend some quality time under the watchful eye of the last remaining bodyguard willing to risk his neck to babysit, her ex-best friend, Charlie Morrow. The only man on Earth who seems to delight in pushing every single one of her buttons.

Not that any of that matters, though, when one of the Five Families, a rival organization hellbent on a hostile takeover of her father’s territory, comes for her, forcing her and Charlie to head to the one place nobody is brave enough to attack: her grandmother’s house.

Five days. One impromptu road trip. A mountain of secrets. And sexual tension so blistering it threatens to scar whoever makes the first move.

Of course, unlocking the vault of whispered conversations and previously classified family lore isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for Frankie. Especially when her best friend, turned enemy, turned lover, is a werewolf who’s been keeping her at arm’s length for her own safety.

Turns out a night with the big bad wolf never looked so good.

Review: 

Frankie is a mob-boss daughter, her brothers were murdered in front of her, and she is barely hanging on to her sanity. Her best-friend, who had always been around for all of them, wasn't there to help and wasn't there afterward either. She is even more pissed about that fact when he is assigned to be her babysitter/bodyguard now that she can go out again. While out they have to go on the run.

This is a mafia/werewolf/ romance  - it is spicy and short and was a quick read. 

Frankie is just a brat, Charlie has his guard up most of the time, but you can tell he cares for Frankie even though she is being a pain. Frankie really is just living through her grief being so angry.  

While the writing wasn't anything spectacular, the story/ spice/ will-they-wont-they elements were what kept me reading. The werewolf add-in was an interesting one and I am not sure it was nessesary but here we are, iot was weird, but worked. This short book was lots of emotion, fun and funny, and the dialogue was very entertianing. 

If you are looking for a shorter romance and like a mafia focus, this might be for you. (but it is spicy!)