Loyal Vows by Ketley Allison
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I thought I knew evil.
Loyal Vows
I thought I knew love.
But here, locked within the rotting walls of an abandoned manor, something much darker unfurls—something that makes my previous life seem like a childhood fairy tale.
Morgan, Rio, Xavier.
Each one a jagged puzzle piece that somehow fits perfectly into my shattered life.
Rossi.
The man I can’t figure out, yet the one who holds the key to the riddle that surrounds us all.
In this house, every whisper becomes a scream, every touch leaves a burn. We share secrets, tangled sheets, and rituals too dangerous to utter aloud.
When Rossi lays a choice at my feet—one that could either save us or doom us all—I realize how precarious loyalty can be.
We’ve sworn vows, some in blood, some in tears.
I thought I was ready for the fallout.
I was wrong.
Nice ending!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😟🤭😤☺️
The heroine: Clover – her father hung around bad people and she was sheltered from the start while her father trained her brother Tempest for what would someday be expected of him. Now she is attending Titan Falls University where her brother is a TA and he is dating her best friend Ardyn. Clover knows that her brother, Rio and the guys are into something dangerous but doesn’t know what it is. She has a paper about Sarah Anderton, a witch who lived in the 1700’s in Titan Falls and poised people for her clients. Clover was determined find out what Sarah’s daughters name was, but in looking she found that Sarah may have had a treasure of jewels that she got from her clients that nobody has found in hundreds of years.
The Heroes: Morgan, Rio, Rossi and Xavier – They are the Vultures of Titan Falls, they are mafia assassins whose job it is to dispose of the Don Marco Bianchi’s enemies.
Miguel Rossi – he is a professor and the leader of the Vultures. He was once the Don’s most effective assassin, until he thought to try to get away from the life with his wife and child. Don Marco Bianchi then killed his wife and child and exiled him to Titan Falls where he calls on him and other people in his debt to assassinate anyone he wants to be rid of.
Rio (a.k.a. Riordan) – Best friend of Tempest (Clover’s brother), who was sold by their father to the Bianchi’s to pay for his gambling debts. Rio is loyal to Tempest, so he agreed to help Tempest and is now in it as deep as Tempest.
Hunter Morgan – a professor of occult studies at Titan Falls University. He is also the nephew of Don Marco Bianchi. He was basically abused and tortured as a kid by his uncle and was exiled to Titan Falls to get his psychopathy and fetishes under control. Don is grooming him to take over someday.
Xaviar – he is a former soccer star from England who made a mistake and fell in love with the wrong girl. When he broke up with her via text, her father kidnapped him, broke his leg, ending his career then sold him to the Bianchi’s, who tortured him, and now he works for them (unwillingly). He doesn’t really have the stomach for killing but has no choice.
The Story: Clover wants to find out about Sarah Anderton and is searching for the cache of jewels that may be hidden somewhere in Titan Falls. Though Morgan, Rio, Tempest and Xavier also want to find the jewels so they can get out from under the thumb of Marco Bianchi. Morgan was told by Bianchi to find the Jewels because he wants them, he also told Morgan that someday, he wants Clover because she will fetch a high price at auction.
Meanwhile, Clover has hooked up with all four of the men in the Vultures, (except Tempest of course) Though Tempest doesn’t know this and still wants to protect his sister from guys and from what they do for the mafia, but he finally starts to see her value.
Tempest stares at me with heavy eyes, then blinks. “I can’t with you, Clo. Stop being such a fucking Nancy Drew.”
I wasn’t too happy when I found out there was a second book about these characters, since Goodreads didn’t show it when I started the first, but I was glad I went ahead and bought this book. It was worth it and I loved that each of these two books were over 400 pages, I have to say, that I hate it when authors do three to five 200-page books. I would much rather have one or two longer books like this. I often feel cheated when I have to read (and pay for) a bunch of shorter books. I sometimes won’t even bother to start a series when I see that.
The story was really good, and the action began from the first page of this book. Though I didn’t like the fact that a powerful secret society came into the mix. I really dislike secret society plots, they are just too scary and controlling. The mafia was bad enough, but throw in a secret society that runs the government and shapes world events to give its members more power, and I just hate the thought of it.
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