For police woman Gabrielle Fawkes there is only one thing that is holding her shattered world together and that is revenge. Her husband was killed by a drug lord and all she can think about is getting the guy. At least until a chance shooting sends her to the hospital and to LUCA.

Luca Rizzoli knows all about betrayal and revenge but this Las Vegas crime boss has hardened his heart and won't be struck again. Until the mysterious angel who joins him in the hospital. How would it be even possible for the criminal and a cop to fall in love? It's against both worlds rules. But love has a way of fixing even the most impossibilities into exactly what people don't even know they are seeking.

In LUCA author Sarah Castille blurs the line between good guys and bad guys until her readers are just to immersed in the book to care for anything but the survival of Luca and Gabby, and reading as quickly as you can to find out how they work things out. Reading LUCA is really refreshing as having read a number of "mafia" and "bad boy" romances, I found the male leads to be overly crude and foul mouthed (and yes I know swearing and dirty talk is in real life an everyday thing, I've even sworn a time or two), but too much can be too much. LUCA managed to be realistic without being offensive.

Both Luca and Gabby try to keep their hearts out of whatever it is that is happening between them, but life, love and lust just have a way of changing a lot of ideas. It was fascinating watching the two worlds collide and then reform for the two of them. Ms. Castille put in a lot of fun and/or realistic characters to add to the color of this story-line as well as throwing in a number of twists, especially the one concerning the drug lord. Wow, did not see that one coming at all.

If you want sexy man with a good bit of criminal, strong woman with a head for what's really right and wrong, a twisted world that only these lovers can navigate, action and danger then LUCA is just what you want to read.