Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles - Bound by Honor
Bound by Honor is the first book in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles series by Cora Reilly. It's the complex love story of Aria and Luca, two seemingly polar opposites married off as part of a Mafia arrangement. Both were born into the Familia - Luca in New York and Aria in Chicago - and are married as a sort of peace agreement between the two factions. I felt really bad for Aria at the beginning of the novel. Her mobster father just informs her that she'll be marrying a total stranger and she's just expected to go along with it, regardless of how she feels about the guy. She's basically just a piece in a pretty vicious game of chess, and it was sad how she just accepted it out of love for her family and this twisted sense of duty to them. She was obviously scared of her husband, especially after Grace's nasty warning at the wedding, and a good chunk of the plot ended up revolving around her fear and avoidance of being with him, if you catch my drift. WAY too mu...