There was a lot more meat to this story than I ever expected to find in an erotic romance. Kele Moon has told a wholly original, completely fleshed out story here, complete with some intense suspense elements, multiple (multiple, multiple) hot sex scenes, phone sex scenes, loads of dirty talking, rough touching, throw me around baby sex...and tops it off with a Romeo and Juliet star crossed lovers theme that will knock your romantic socks off!!! I mean, how much more romantic can you get than Romeo and Juliet? But does this end in tragedy like the infamous Shakespearean couple's story? Hmmmmm.....The story begins in book one, [b:Defying the Odds|13114255|Defying the Odds (Battered Hearts, #1)|Kele Moon|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1323218608s/13114255.jpg|18288119], when Romeo Moretti first fights Clay Powers in the MMA title match, then saves the day by saving his woman from a madman ex husband. This is how the story of Romeo and Juliet begins...Romeo the hero!!! **sigh!**Jules is thankful, takes him out to dinner, blah blah blah...these two hit it off instantly, and one of the things that I really love about this story is how they don't fight their attraction to each other. They both know what they want, they both get what they want. It's when Romeo decides to move to Jules hometown to train with Clay at their awesome training facility that things get weird. Because Romeo comes from a pretty bad mafia type family, and he's definitely NOT the favored son. He sure is favored by Juliet, though!Here's my Romeo and Juliet...Italian hottie and fit and hot blondie...In fact, his two brothers are beginnig to get in over their heads with their family business, and Romeo is doing everything he can to get them away from that life. Same as he's always done, big brother Romeo tries to save the day and take care of the only two family members he has left. But you can't save those who don't want to be saved. Jules is a pretty badass chick, more ripped than the normal contemporary heroine, but just as much girl. She's afraid of being alone for the rest of her life, stuck in this little town, living in her childhood home with her twin brother. Romeo is her match, and she knows it, but she's a cop and a lawyer, and Romeo is a mafia son, ex con, and secretive about it all.Needless to say, while these two are star crossed, theirs is still a seemingly impossible love. But love they do, and I did too! This is one hell of a passionate story...betrayals and lies and deception everywhere, but also burst-out-of-your-chest passion and the love of family and friends. Don't wait if you've been saving this!ARC provided by Loose ID via Net Galley.
