Joey: A Dark Mafia Brother’s Best Friend Romance Novel (Chicago Ruthless, 2)

Name: Joey: A Dark Mafia Brother’s Best Friend Romance Novel (Chicago Ruthless, 2)
Author: Sadie Kincaid

Amazon Bestseller · #79 in Gothic Romances

Sadie Kincaid

Book 2 in the Chicago Ruthless series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A brother's-best-friend mafia romance where the one man off-limits is the only one she wants. Forbidden tension, family loyalty tested, and a slow burn that finally catches fire.

At a glance

Joey is book 2 in Sadie Kincaid’s Chicago Ruthless series; to read in order, start with Dante. It rates 3/5 for spice and 2/5 for darkness, on the lighter side for mafia romance: almost none of the 931 mafia romance books we rate are lighter on either scale. Its tropes include brother's best friend, slow burn and forbidden romance. Brother's best friend is one of the less common tropes in our catalogue. Of the 10 Sadie Kincaid books we rate, it is the least dark. It runs to 416 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Brother's Best Friend Forbidden Romance Slow Burn

Book details

Pages: 416
Published: February 2026

Joey spice level

Joey 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 2/5: morally grey, meaning the love interest does real harm and consequences are acknowledged. How we rate