Title: The Lies That Shatter: A Dark Mafia Romance
Series: Beautifully Brutal Book 5
Author: Emma Luna
Release Blitz: January 19, 2024
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Mafia Friends to lovers Childhood sweethearts Virgin FMC Found family Possessive, protective MMC, Male honeytrap

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡-𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑚𝑎𝑓𝑖𝑎, 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛! ★★★★★ – 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡. 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑆𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔! 𝐼 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠! 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑎 𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡! ★★★★★ – 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫

I was raised to be a liar, a master manipulator.

A honey trap.

My job is to make women crave me, then use them for whatever benefits the Doughty Family.

I’ve been doing it so long, I thought I’d never know what love really felt like… Until she came back into my life.

McKenna Lowry was my childhood best friend and first love, but I pushed her away and hurt us both.

Now she’s back, and she knows all the secrets I’ve tried to keep hidden. She’s no longer running.

Instead, she’s claiming me as hers, the way she’s always been mine. But I can’t give my heart to her and my body to others…

Can I?

Together, we have to pull off one final job to destroy our enemies so we can leave this mafia lifestyle behind.

But with everything on the line, can we finally get our happily ever after, or will the lies shatter us in the end?

Emma Luna is a USA Today Bestselling dark romance author from the UK. In a previous life she was a Midwife and a Lecturer, but now she listens to the voices in her head and puts pen to paper to bring their stories to life. In her spare time, when she should be sleeping, she also loves to edit, proofread, and format books for other amazing authors.

Emma’s books are dark, dangerous, and devilishly sexy. She loves writing about strong, feisty, but underestimated women, and the cocky, dirty-mouthed men they bring to their knees.

When Emma isn’t writing, promoting, or editing books she can be found napping, colouring in adult colouring books, and collecting novelty notebooks. She also enjoys coffee and gossiping with her mum, playing or having hugs with her gorgeous nephew, who is the light of her life, and curling up on the sofa to watch a film with Mr Luna. Oh and for those of you that don’t know, Emma is a hardcore Harry Potter fan—Team Ravenclaw!!

Thank you for taking a chance on a crazy Brit and the voices inside her head. That makes you a true LUNAtic now too!

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MY REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 out of 5

Finn and McKenna are a great couple! I love their story.

Finn is the second oldest of the Doughty family. He always felt as if he didn’t have anything to bring to the family business, but his teen years show him his contribution to the family. However, it could destroy him and the life he wants with his best friend, McKenna Lowry.

McKenna is bounced around from foster home to foster home. Never feeling quite like she belongs anywhere or is cared about. Her friendship with Finn Doughty means everything to her, so when he pushes her away after she confesses her feelings to him, she’s devastated. It will take years before these two can figure out their feelings and come to terms with how they both feel.

I loved this story of Finn and McKenna. Their story is a love that can’t be distinguished by Finn’s family responsibilities or the distance between these two. McKenna knows that it’s their time and she will not be deterred from showing Finn that they belong together. This is a dark and twisted story, but so worth the read. I love the characters in this series and the fact that we get to have them in each book in the series is great. I can’t wait for Ethan’s story. It looks to be another great addition to the Beautifully Brutal Series.