Sins of the Father

"If I tell you everything right now, you'll never see me again. I won't come back." "Will you continue to sin?" "Yes." "Then you'll need to come back." "Sounds like you want me to be a sinner, Father." "You want me. You're aware of what I've done and you still want me." "No." "I think I found something we have in common. We're both liars." "We're opposites. Good and evil. Light and dark. Order and chaos." "You got me on my knees, Father. Should I make a confession? I'm about to ruin your life." "There's no heaven waiting for you." "As long as you're waiting for me, there is." "Here's my confession. I might be obsessed with you. And if what we do is sin, I never want to stop sinning. I don't want to be saved. I don't want to seek forgiveness for what I feel when I'm inside you." "Is there anything else you'd like to confess?" "I've never felt closer to Heaven than when I'm with you." "He's looking at me like I'm a challenge that he's already accepted. Dear God, give me the strength." Isabel hit it out of the park with this story. Wow! I know I say that about all her stories, but this one is a close favorite. This had some amazing troupes like priest/mafia hitman, forced proximity, forbidden romance, opposites attract, and secret identity. I love me a good mafia story arc and this author did this one justice. The plot kept me engaged through the entire book. Add in a priest, kinky spice, and a mafia hitman obsessed with said priest 🥵🥵. This story follows…

It was good. Not the best priest book I've read, but not the worst at all. I could have used a little more catholic guilt and pining, and the transition from one form of the priest to the next was a little stark. Confliction is half the fun with these stories and I felt this could use more. But overall it was good. 4.0 ☆

I love a good priest trope - is there anything that is more forbidden? And add in the mafia connection - wow! This book had me hooked from the very beginning. The story itself is so good and the characters were fabulous. Carlo is a priest and as the story unfolds, we find that he is hiding something big. A chance encounter with Javier becomes so much more. The two are drawn to each other from the beginning and the chemistry is off the charts.