Haunted Hearts by Leighton Greene

Title: ⟫ Haunted Hearts (Friends of Friends #4) 

Author: ⟫ Leighton Greene 

Rating: ⟫ 5/5 

Blurb: ⟫ Lord Arden is an arrogant, prickly, critical jerk…and I’m falling for him. 

 After a disastrous first weekend as his service sub while he's on a working vacation in LA, I give in to the pleas of my friends and return to try again. 

Haughty Hottie, I call him. 

Never in his hearing, or I’d get another five infractions marked down in the little card of punishments he's tied around my wrist. The more time we spend together, the more his icy exterior seems to melt. But as hot and haughty as he is, he’s also haunted… And he won’t share his heart. 

After the Halloween masquerade, he'll be gone. Back to England, back to his lonely life. Can I persuade him to open up before then, or is he already planning to ghost me? 

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Haunted Hearts is the fourth book in the Friends of Friends series. HFN/HEA guaranteed, and no cliffhangers. While this book is part of a series, it can be read on its own, but characters from previous books do show up in cameos. 

Review: ⟫ I’ve never really understood the whole service kink thing so I went into this wanting to learn. And boy howdy, did I learn! This book steamed right through my expectations and showed me exactly what’s so sexy about service. 

I adored Oliver – I thought he was an honest, straight-forward, cool guy. But I LOVED Lord Elliott. I haven’t read any of the other Friends of Friends books, but I will definitely be adding them to my list because I was blown away by this book. The pain Lord Arden was suffering from was apparent in every word he spoke and every move he made, but so too was his instant attraction to Oliver and his desire to find a way out of the rut he had found himself in. 

I had tears in my eyes on more than one occasion, but I think it was the walks in the maze and the music that really touched me the most – this book really surprised me in so many ways. 

I liked how respectful of each other they were – and how they were both willing to admit to their failings when they messed up – and their honesty was refreshing. Yes, there were moments when I wanted to shake both of them, but it wasn’t through lack of effort on either of them – it was about reality and how things don’t always come tied up in a sweet little bow, perfectly fitting in with your plans. 

I have enjoyed Leighton Greene’s mafia series previously and this definitely reached the same heights – really pleased I read this and open to the idea of reading more about service. 

I received an ARC from GRR.