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Cold Hard Kisses: An Age Gap Arranged Marriage (London Mafia Kings Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Marissa Farrar (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Tam:

I’ll give Hallie Wynter thirty days.
Thirty days of living with me before I’ll marry her.
Thirty days for her to tell me no, so I can send her running back to my family’s biggest rival—her father.
She might act tough, but I don’t doubt my ability to break her.
She’s so innocent. So naïve.
The girl will be begging to go home by the time I’m done with her.



Hallie:

Tam Cornell is too old for me; too hard, too cold, too everything.
It was never supposed to be him.
I know he’s pushing me, trying to send me back to a father who is just as ruthless as he is.
He thinks he can shock me with his filthy words and violent touch, but nothing he can expose me to will make me leave.
My father has always taught me family is everything.
And in thirty days Tam Cornell will become my family, too, whether he likes it or not.

*Discover the heart-racing world of the London Mafia Kings. If jealous-possessive, British anti-heroes, enemies to lovers tropes, and all the tantalising dark and dubious theme of the mafia world is your thing, then keep reading! If not, look away now. Each book in the series can be read as a complete stand alone, with no cliff hangers and a HEA guaranteed.*

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    London Mafia Kings
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  1. “That’s not what it looked like to me. It looked like you were hitting on what’s mine.”
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  2. A sudden surge of fierce protectiveness grew within me. It wasn’t an emotion I’d come to expect in regard to Hallie. Jealousy, yes, but not protectiveness, like I wanted to pull her against me and wrap my whole body around her and absorb her into me so no one would ever be able to hurt her without literally going through me first.
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  3. “Fine, I will marry her, but under one condition.” “What is that?” “She must live with me for thirty days first. If at the end of the thirty days, or at any point in between, she tells me she wants to go home, then the agreement is off. I won’t marry a girl who doesn’t want to be married to me.”
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09CF5GY2P
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Warwick House Press (4 November 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 485 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
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Marissa Farrar has always been in love with being in love. But since she's been married for numerous years and has three young daughters, she's conducted her love affairs with multiple gorgeous men of the fictional persuasion.

The author of more than thirty novels, she has been a full time author for the last six years.

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Madina Y
3.0 out of 5 stars Good read but a little choppy
Reviewed in Australia on 20 November 2022
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I feel bad giving this book 3 stars because I really did like it; but there was just so many components of a 5 star that were missing.

Things I liked:
- Story developed really fast, I hate a slow start
- The interactions with Tam and Hallie were abundant and exciting
- Not a super lengthy book where lots of crap happens just for the sake of more pages

Things I did NOT like:
- Tam’s dialogue whether internal or with others, didn’t seem very “mafioso”. For a 35 year old he was either super whiney or just a prick…but not in the way we love our alphaholes
- The emotions between characters were choppy at best, there was no bridge between hate and love
- We didn’t have any moments between Tam and Hallie outside the bedroom that could have shown a growth in their relationship
- The mystery “culprit” was clear as day

Overall, you won’t regret reading this book. You might even enjoy it like I did and contemplate reading the next one in the series, but maybe just go into it with an open mind and little to no expectations :)
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LoveToRead
4.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 stars
Reviewed in Australia on 10 February 2022
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I'm a bit torn with this book, it's a good story which isn't resolved but I'm guessing that will happen in the next book...
What I really struggled with was the lack of believable character development. Tam was a cruel but smart character and (without giving too much away) seemed to miss a great deal that was in front of him. Also the side characters - her father wants an alliance but can't be civil with them - isn't the point of an alliance to build strength?
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Claypot_reads
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2022
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This was a great mafia read. I enjoyed the slow burn development of their love and the supporting characters made for a rich story
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Sewsummore
4.0 out of 5 stars A new groom to take his brother's place!
Reviewed in Australia on 14 November 2021
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This book is set in the city of London where two rival mafia families unite to fight a new family intent on taking London for themselves. The Cornell Organisation and the Wynter Syndicate had been uneasy rivals but with the arrival of a new and powerful rival family, only together would they survive the battle ahead. Harvey Cornell would marry Hallie, the daughter of Marlon Wynter, however the groom was killed by an assassin before their vows were completed. Hallie had not been in love with her future bridegroom but never expected that his brother would be forced to take his place. Tam was Harvey's older brother and had not been given any choice either, but was determined to make Hallie refuse. He would only marry her if she spent a month living with him before they said their vows. This book grabbed my attention from the start. Tam was much older and determined to force Hallie to refuse the marriage, but Hallie believed that only marriage between the two would keep her family safe. It was a battle of wills from the beginning, nothing he said or did could change Hallie's mind and Tam found himself becoming obsessed with his future wife. Hallie was a woman I can only admire! Tam was much older and more experienced in every way, but he could not resist admiring Hallie, it was only when he pushed her too far and she left, that he realized he had fallen in love for the first time.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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Cucumber
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on 27 February 2024
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Loved this book! It was well written and exciting. Hallie wynter was perfectly happy with an arranged marriage between her and Harvey Cordell, but he's gunned down at their wedding. That doesn't change the fact that their fathers wanted an alliance between the two families and Harvey has a much older brother.
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Luisa Andrade
4.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in Brazil on 17 January 2022
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The book is good and the story it’s nice.
TAM is really cold and mean most of the time and it’s hard to relate to him a little, but when he finally accepts Hailey and break down his walls is amazing!
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F(r)anny Gallops
5.0 out of 5 stars Had me hooked…
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2023
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Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love: ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Dark: 😈😈😈😈

Humour: 😂

Tears: 💧

Predictability: 🎱🎱🎱

Spice quantity: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Spice quality: 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

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This was my first book by the author and I will definitely be reading more. I downloaded during the September stuff your kindle day and it hooked me instantly.

Hallie begins the book believing she will be married to Harvey Cornell, while not a love match she’s willing to make the best of her situation because she gets on with Harvey and believes that he is a good man. On their wedding day Harvey is shot right in front of her. To save the alliance between the Cornells and the Wynters Harvey’s older brother Tam is ordered to step in and marry Hallie.

Hallie thinks that Tam hates her and in the beginning he is cruel and does everything he can to drive her away. Despite humiliating and degrading her, Hallie can’t deny the intense attraction she feels towards Tam and when they give in to the feelings it’s explosive and passionate. Tam makes a huge mistake, pushes Hallie too far and so she leaves him. Eventually Tam realises that he fell in love with her the first time they met and that she is everything he wants.

There is a good solid plot line running through the book alongside the relationship stuff. I did guess the traitor almost instantly but it didn’t in any way ruin my enjoyment of the book. I’m really looking forward to the next in the series to see how Leo tries to get even for Jodie’s death and hopefully to see more of Tam and Hallie, and what they are doing after the wedding.

The spice is really spicin’ all the way through the second half of this book and I would definitely advise caution if reading in public 😈

HEA, No epilogue, Ex-fiancé’s brother, Arranged marriage, Forced proximity, Mild kink, British crime family.

F(r)anny Gallops
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Caroline
4.0 out of 5 stars Meet the Biggest Alphahole Ever!
Reviewed in the United States on 15 March 2024
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I liked this! But man, Tam is a tough pill to swallow. He is not exactly gentlemanly, and he really has you questioning his whole character til about 80% of the book. That being said, I really liked this story.

Hallie was supposed to marry Harvey, but after Harvey is gunned down at the altar, Tam is the runner up to form an alliance with Hallie’s family, but she has to live with him for a month before they marry. He thinks he’ll push her away so she’s the one to break the alliance, she thinks that she can make this work and keeps an open mind, and of course sparks fly, but Tam is such a jerk. I had to laugh after some of his behavior otherwise I’d curse him up and down. But when it clicks for him, it clicks.

There’s a lot of questions that still need answers, so I need to read about Leo now!

Spice was very nice! 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
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Kindle Customer
3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on 8 October 2023
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This book was a good read. I enjoyed it.
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