Always Salty by Lani Lynn Vale (4.5 Star Book Review) Mafia, Emotional Romance

My 4.5 Star Book Review:

(Stalker romance, mafia romance, mask kink, she’s in danger, he’s former military and a techie, emotional/trauma…)

Wow. Wow. Wow.

This book has delicious tension and steam, out-of-this-world spice and a plot that had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t ask for a better romance read!

Dima is former military and a hitman for his mafia family. When he is on a job to take out a bad guy, he over hears this gorgeous woman express her dark desires to have a spicy encounter with a masked man…and he may or may not make them happen.

Seriously, this book not only has an amazing plot but has characters that are relatable and REAL while bringing the HEAT. Both characters are broken and together they can make a whole if they try hard enough.

Kudos to Lani. She has done it yet again by writing another amazing romance that I couldn’t put down.

(Beta/ARC reading.)

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Title: Always Salty
Series: Semyonov Bratva #4
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Mafia Romance
Tropes: Anti Hero/Stalker Hero/Walking Red Flag
Release Date: April 8, 2025
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Was it considered stalking if the woman you were stalking liked the idea of being stalked?
It started out like any other job.
My brother, the head of the Russian Mafia, wanted me to delete an opponent. Like the good brother I was, I decided to give him what he wanted.
In doing so, I ended up finding a woman that made my cold, dead heart start to beat again.
One day while doing some reconnaissance on my target, I happen to overhear Keely telling her friend one of her darkest fantasies, and I decide that I’d be the one fulfilling that particular craving for her.
I tell myself that it’s only once. I’d give in to that darkness inside of me once, and I’ll leave her alone from then on.
Except, once turns into twice. And twice turns into way too many to count.
Just when I plan to cut all ties so she doesn’t start to develop feelings for a killer, I find out that Keely doesn’t have just one stalker. She has two. And the one that wasn’t me wanted her dead, and I couldn’t allow that to happen.
Not to her.
Not to the woman that not only chased my demons away, but also didn’t care that I had them in the first place.
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Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. She’s married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as “LLV’s Bearded Half.” She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. She’s gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.
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