His Wicked Wants (West Coast Mobsters Book 6) by Leighton Greene

Sad to see this series end! It's easy to hate the handsome and seductive possible new member of the Castellani family, and Gabriel knows he should keep his distance. But Nero has no intentions of letting the "little gardener" get away as he is constantly drawn to Gabriel as the man makes him forget that his secret agenda.


From the His Wicked Wants blurb:

For a man who takes what he wants, desiring the one thing he can't have is torture.

Nero Andretti is used to getting his way. Cold, calculating, and criminally seductive, he clawed his way up from the back streets of Rome to the edge of the Castellani crime family's inner circle.

No one can resist him.

No one except Gabriel Carstairs.

Straight-laced, stubborn, and infuriatingly principled, landscape architect Gabriel refuses to bow to Nero's demands or succumb to his seduction. But each heated encounter leaves Nero more obsessed, more determined to conquer the man who looks at him with equal parts defiance and desire.

Gabriel fled East Coast shadows for California sunshine, hoping to bury his past. The last thing he needs is a tattooed Italian mobster stalking him with promises of pleasure. And as their arguments intensify, so does their dangerous attraction.

But when Gabriel needs a favor, he's forced to turn to the last person he wants to trust. Nero is only too happy to offer his protection, for a price that has nothing to do with money and everything to do with surrender...

Because some wants are too wicked to deny.

His Wicked Wants is the final book in the West Coast Mobsters series, and delivers a finale packed with romance, heat, and the transformative power of found Family.

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Follow the men of the Los Angeles underworld in this page-turning romantic suspense series as they find love, danger and mystery in the most unexpected places.

Each book in West Coast Mobsters tells the love story of a different couple who find their happy ending, as well as a resolution to the mystery they're investigating, but there are cliffhangers to the wider suspense plot for the series.


SNik's review:

Sixth and finale of series (West Coast Mobsters), best if read in order. Adversarial to lovers. Found family. Dual POV. Heed content warnings. 

No one trusts Nero Andretti, not anyone from the Castellani crime family, nor Gabriel the landscape architect in charge of the Redwood estate and family home of the Castellani’s. Sure, Nero is an ambitious mobster and has a secret agenda, but he keeps getting side tracked by his personal spats with Gabriel that only make him want the man more. 

This story wraps up some of the longer overarching plotlines of the series, and it is sad to see this found family of mobsters and their partners come to an end. Gabriel and Nero were fun to read with their antagonism masking their attraction, and when they finally give in it is quick and complete (maybe a tad too quick). Luckily, Gabriel and Nero complement each other in and out of the bedroom, as Gabriel is no wilting flower and Nero although having a soft underbelly is just as deadly as expected. All of the series main characters come back for some action, and I am truly sorry to say goodbye to this group of mobsters.


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