My Dark Ever After

My Dark Mafia Romance

De: Giana Darling

Narrado por: CJ Bloom, Dane Anderson

Wrapping up this daring duet, bestselling author Giana Darling takes readers back to Tuscany for another tantalizing mafia romance, where dark players and passions collide to reveal explosive secrets.

Guinevere

My trip to Italy shattered my dreams. I just wanted to connect with our family’s roots, but that meant defying my father’s wishes. I was looking for truth and goodness. All I found was darkness and deceit. And one man who embodies it all: the capo dei capi, Raffaele Romano.

Raffaele saved my life—then stole my trust. But my broken heart still pulses for him. When his enemies follow me home to Michigan, I realize I’ll never be free of him. Now I’m right back where it started.

Raffaele

I will do anything to keep Guinevere safe, even abduct her back to Italy and earn her hatred forever. I know the villain never gets the girl. But as ghosts from our families’ pasts arise to haunt us, I decide there is only one thing worth fighting for: a dark ever after with my brave, beautiful American girl. And I will raze everything else to the ground to get it.

©2025 by Gianna Darling. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Great morally grey mafia romance duet

Thank you to Giana Darling and Valentine PR for providing me an early copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

What an exciting rollercoaster of an ending to this duet!

We travel a bit more in this one, there’s more danger and violence, and even some answers to some mysteries I *personally* was wondering about after book 1.

Guinevere and Raffa were just as hot as ever. Guinevere really comes into her own in this one, especially as it pertains to Raffa’s world. 👀

I don’t want to say too much more for fear of *spoilers*, but if you are looking for a deliciously spicy morally grey romance duet: look no further, you have found it! 🤗

Audiobook notes: Ok, ok, ok. Again, I am no expert, but…Dane Anderson’s Italian/Italian accent sounded absolutely fabulous to me. The perfect swoony voice for Raffa. And CJ Bloom was no slouch on the Italian/accent front, and I just love her voice anyway. Definitely recommend the audio, especially since its available for free with your KU subscription… 👀

What this book is giving:
✅ Mafia Romance
✅ Part 2 of Duet
✅ Dual POV
✅ Age Gap (He’s 34, She’s 23)
✅ Mafia Boss
✅ Secrets Revealed

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
🌶️🌶️🌶️ / 5

Passion and danger at every turn!

4.5 STARS ⭐

CJ Bloom and Dane Anderson once again did a phenomenal job with the narration. I loved read the book but knew I had to listen to the audiobook once it went live!

My Dark Ever After by Giana Darling picks up right where book one ended. It's two months later and Guinevere is back home in Michigan.

Within the first two chapters alone there's so much action and adrenaline! I was left on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next!

Just know that Raffa comes to the rescue like an avenging angel to bring his cerbiatta back to Italy! These were everything. The chemistry was once again undeniable. No matter how much Guinevere tried to fight against her feelings.

Someone is after Guinevere and she must now fight back not only to protect herself but to protect those who have become her family.

This duet was so good! Giana is a mastermind storyteller. The suspense and the twists and turns will consume you! Raffa was the perfect dark prince for Guinevere. Now I need all the Mafia romance from Giana!

Darkness ever after

This was such a dark, brutal and beautiful ending to Raffa & Guinevere’s love story.
I absolutely loved how fiercely Raffa protects his loved ones, especially Guinevere. He is the morally gray anti hero, who would gladly burn the world down if it meant saving her & keeping her safe.
I love that she embraces Raffa’s darkness & loves him enough to become his huntress and protect him and his own.
This was a dark story filled with betrayal, loss, devastation, destruction, despair. As well as love, hope, family, healing and peace.
This story was consuming and the narration was absolutely amazing. I am sad their story is over, but love how it ended.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/🌶️🌶️🌶️

As book 2 in this duet you must!!! MUST!!! Read book 1 first!

Rafaele Romano can do no wrong!!!!

The spice?!?! Both books have a scene that lives rent free!!! Food play all day baby! A top microtrope!!!

I loved the ratio and balance in romance plot to mafia plot!

We really got to watch Guinevere have a whole transformation of finding herself!

What to expect
Age gap
Italian mafia
Bad boy x girl

I also went back and listened to this on audio since I listened to book one on audio and it only solidified the greatness! Dane Anderson and CJ Bloom were brilliant!

Loved it!

It was a great sequel to this duet. I think I liked it even more than the first one. There was more action and plenty of spicy scenes. I enjoyed the twist and turns and further development of certain characters. Overall, it was a very satisfying mafia romance.
The narrators did an amazing job and made it a great listening experience

Worth the wait!

Both books are on KU listen now. I listened to the first book after reading about this release, so I didn't have to wait too long. This book is full of suspense/action and all things that a dark romance reader is going to crave. I really loved that Raffa was all in. He knew what he wanted even if he didn't want to put her in danger. Once she was in danger all bets were off. Guinevere is not one to cower in the corner either she is meant to rule with her king! The fact that you get to see all the different sides to these characters throughout the book make it feel more realistic. Some twist I didn't see coming and some that I thought were coming so it will keep you on your toes! I look forward to seeing what else this author has out!

Guinevere and Rafa

5 ⭐ 3 🌶️ 5 🎧

This was such a fantastic finish. The twists absolutely gutted me, but thankfully Giana put me back together in the end. Guinevere and Rafa were so perfect together and I loved their dark ever after.

Part of me is really hoping for a spin off with a certain someone and his certain someone, I imagine their story would be fascinating. But regardless this one was tied up in a beautiful bow. The epilogue was sweet and everything I was hoping for.

The audio was fantastic. CJ Bloom and Dane Anderson absolutely slayed this narration and I loved this listen. Thank you so much to Valentine PR and Brilliance Audio for this advanced copy!

Fantastic

One of the best mafia books I have read in a while! Fast from beginning to the end. What are you waiting? Grab a copy and enjoy!! Thank me later!!

My Dark Ever After

A Dark Ever After follows the events after My Dark Fairy Tale. Be sure to read that before My Dark Ever After.

I have been anxiously awaiting the conclusion to this duet since reading the first book and I was not disappointed. I just love the setting, the supporting characters, and of course, Guinevere and Raffaele. I don't want to say too much as I would hate to inadvertently spoil anything. I will say the ending of this book had some twists I definitely wasn't expecting and I'm wondering if maybe there will be a spinoff?

Also, I loved the brief mention of Dante Salvatore. I really loved his character in the Anti-heroes duet.

Loved it!

I could not wait to start this book since finishing the first one yesterday! It was excellent, the MMC is one of my favorites, and the twists in this book were so good.