Mafia Wars book 4 time! I’m loving that as we get further into this series, more and more characters become familiar before their individual book. Wilted Orchid follows Valentina, the younger sister of Lucien, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi who were the love interests in book 3. Valentina is taken to Chicago to be married into the Moretti family, whose little sister Lily we met in book 2.
Valentina has spent most of her life basically hidden away. She’s fully aware of the true nature of her father and brother’s work, but she is removed from it. And she has no idea that the day she turns 18 she’s going to be practically kidnapped from her school and shipped off to be married to one of her family’s worst enemies.
Sal, Fausto, and Armani each have a different way of handling this situation. Sal is a total douche bag who treats Val with an upsetting level of contempt and disrespect, while the twins warm up to and eventually fall for Val fairly quickly. Things definitely progress, especially between her and Sal. The way their dynamic shifts was honestly so sweet.
This was probably one of my absolute favorites from this series so far. There were a couple of things left kind of unanswered, but nothing too crucial to the plot so I can overlook it given how amazing the story was in general.
The Reading Anomaly 