While I didn't love this as much as the second book, it's still a fabulously fluffy dark kinky mafia romance. All the unhealthy co-dependency, obsession, and "I hate everyone but you who I would do anything for" you could ever want. There's violence, but it's not described in detail and the whole book is about hope. So really the only "dark" part is the whole killing and maiming and arrogance bit. This is going on my re-read list for sure. I really hope April comes out with another one in this series!