Thank you to NetGalley and KR Press, LLC for this ARC.

Aileen lives in a neighbourhood full of hitmen. Her parents are hitmen and so are her brother and sister-in-law and Dante, the man she is secretly in love with. She has a daughter called Nessa who is the product of rape and makes a living with ASMR sleeping aide videos.

Suddenly she gets mugged two days in a row by two different guys in Santa costumes. Something fishy is going on - why is she being targeted? Her family immediately jump into action to find and eliminate the danger.

Dante is overprotective and stalkerish and I didn't like him at all. Women aren't possessions and he shouldn't wish to punch every man she talks to. He would be a walking red flag to me, and him being a hitman doesn't even come into it (but it figures that he would be).

This is book 2 in a series, the first one having been about Aileen's sister-in-law who her brother apparently kidnapped for her own protection. Not weird at all.

This author is new to me and she seems to be very prolific. This means that often substance can be in short supply which is the case here. The only person I truly liked in the book was Nessa, the daughter who just wanted a new Dad.

This is an incredibly fast read which goes in its favour. It doesn't really know what it wants to be though - a romance or a crime story so it's a strange mixture of both. It's set at Christmas time but doesn't feel very Christmassy.

The spice level is very high if you like that sort of thing - I skipped a few pages. Read if you like short steamy romances about hitmen at Christmas.

"Have you ever had one of those days where you’re holding a stick and everyone looks like a piñata?"