Royally Arranged by Nora Flite
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Royally Arranged is the third book in the Bad Boy Royals series which I received a copy in exchange for my honest review from Montlake and NetGalley. Hawthorne, or Thorne to his friends, is the middle child in a family that has 3 boys and he feels it every day. He has always thought his father and pretty much everyone in his family had no use for him and preferred he just stay out of the way. He appears to be close with his mother and enjoys making her smile, but, even she seems to be rubbing him the wrong way these days. Things have gotten really tense and violent with the Valentine family, who they compete with to pretty much run the underworld in Rhode Island. The heads of both families are willing to talk truce, but, the Valentines have more information about the Fredericsons and their family legacy than even the Fredericonsons have about themselves.

The truce involves Thorne and he is none too happy about it, though everyone else in both families appears to have more information than Thorne. Nova, the middle child in the Valentine family who doesn't much feel the love in her family either, seems to be in the know and is ready to make the sacrifice because she really has a crush on Thorne. Not only is Thorne expected to take the mantle of leadership of an entire country, but, he is expected to marry one of the Valentine daughters, which one he marries is his choice. Not only does Thorne resent what is being forced upon him, he believes his father is only choosing him because he has no other choice and not because he has any sort of faith in Thorne. I did not read the first 2 books in the series, but, I can see how they would be great stories for Thorne's two brothers. Each is quite dynamic and how they met or ended up with the women they love looks like great stories, especially, Costello, who is dating a police officer. Given their family's background, that looks like it would make for an exciting read. Tieing a royal family to a mobbed-up family makes for a great story!

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