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Mafia / Mob Romance

It Kills Me: Betrayal, Book 1

Penelope Sky
SpiceDarkness

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Why we recommend it

Betrayal sits right in the title, and this series opener delivers the ache to match. For readers who like their romance wounded and their tension drawn from broken trust, it offers a slow, painful pull between two people the world keeps trying to pry apart. Atmospheric and emotionally charged, it favors heartache over easy heat, building toward a reckoning that promises both danger and the faint hope of devotion.

At a glance

It Kills Me is a mafia romance by Penelope Sky. With 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for mafia romance (of the 931 mafia romance books on Readark, 32% rate lower for darkness and almost none lower for spice). Its tropes include revenge, slow burn and forbidden romance. It is about as dark as Penelope Sky’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.1/5). 2 content warnings are listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Published
May 2024

It Kills Me spice level

It Kills Me is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate

It Kills Me content warnings

We list 2 content warnings for this book. They stay hidden until you tap, so you can check without spoilers.

Content warnings (tap to reveal)
  • Death of a Loved One
  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting

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