Mafia / Mob Romance
Bound by Desire: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (Born in Blood)
Book 1 in the Born in Blood series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
A dark mafia arranged-marriage romance where being bound by desire becomes the only truth either side trusts. Cold power plays meet possessive intensity.
At a glance
Bound by Desire is book 1 in Ivy Davis’s Born in Blood series. It rates 4/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for mafia romance: of the 931 mafia romance books we rate, 32% score lower for darkness and 24% lower for spice. Tropes: forced marriage, morally grey MC and possessive-obsessive MC. It is about as dark as Ivy Davis’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.1/5). It runs to 258 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 258
- Published
- July 2024
Bound by Desire spice level
Bound by Desire is rated 4/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: explicit and frequent, meaning multiple detailed scenes, with heat central to the story. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate
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