Witness protection program has trained her to be a master of disguise. The mafia has brought him home to salvage what is left of his family and inspired him to be a powerful, international legitimate businessman. They love each other, but their pasts are a huge issue... for her.Fast, short read with a tumultuous beginning, middle and ending. How he got his way so easily was disconcerting but in the end everyone gets what they dreamed of having... well, almost everyone. I really didn't like this one. I found Vittorio to be too horrible a male lead to like or even want the heroine to end up with. The mafia story was half-interesting and half-annoying at the same time, but I don't get why, having learnt his wife was in witness protection, Vittorio then makes her confess her true identity to him despite it putting her in danger. He's so busy going on about secrets that it's like he disregards the fact that some secrets are there for a reason. Also, for someone who is supposed to belong to an ex-mafia family, he displays some pretty strong organised crime habits, like hiring a woman to impersonate a nanny and the stealing his son from his mother. A weird mention of another member of his family that was shot is brought up and then ignored for the rest of the book, and given that the heroine, Jillian's, sister was killed by a car bomb, the man who did it wasn't caught at all until he made a phone call from America to Italy. It's details like that that irritated me a lot while reading this and I just thought that the whole romance angle of the story was forced and didn't make sense.Not for me. 1 star.
What do You think about Secreto Siciliano (2012)?
I like the book. It had a good storyline and the moved along.
—mitz
