This excellent book about two hit men in the Mafia controlled town of Cape Swan, CA, is one of the best I have ever read. Domenico “Dom” Maisano is the nephew of Corrado Maisano, the head of one of the Mafia families. He's a "made man" and has few choices in his life as his uncle's hit man, which he has always hated. When Sergei Andronikov saves him during a beating, Dom pursues a temporary, no-strings relationship with the man before Dom is forced to marry a woman to keep up appearances and appease his uncle. He thinks Sergei is a stripper but he's actually a contract killer whose goal in life is to wipe out the Mafia families who destroyed his own family when he was a boy.
I cannot praise the writing, story line, and character development enough. Dom and Sergei have tragic and emotional back stories which allow the reader to understand their motivations for doing what they do. Full of action, tenderness, suspense, despair, eroticism, fear, thrills, and more, this story will stick with me for a long, long time. Highly recommended. 451 pages (Kindle edition).
