I love a quirky romcom and you can't get more quirky than a cinnamon roll hitman and his fellow band of assassins for hire!

Aileen has overcome a lot in the last decade.  Her assault in college, bringing up her daughter, her r*pist trying to gain visitation and her family treating her like a fragile female.  Nessa is a well adjusted 10yr old who will never know her father, his family or the horror that brought her into the world.  She loves her mum, her family and the entire neighbourhood of trained killers dotes on her!

Dante has loved Aileen from afar.  He's been her best friend, confidant, protector and favourite "uncle" of Nessa.  He'd love more but he just doesn't want to cross that line and ruin their friendship.  But Aileen has been asked on a date...and she accepted.  Now Dante is all up in his feelings, mainly jealousy, and he's even willing to accept help from his archnemesis to disrupt the date. However, it would seem that Aileen has caught the eye of someone else, someone who wants to hurt her. Oh boy, have they picked on the wrong woman!

This is a true joy to read.  Their weirdly functional bunch of misfits, who unalive people for a living, are all the biggest bunch of saps!  They'd do anything for each other - ok they'd beatch about it and insult each other while helping them out but still.  Aileen and Dante are perfect as friends to lovers and their personalities mesh so well.  Dante may want to protect her but he's going to have to learn that Aileen is also capable of surviving worse things and has. The banter is brilliant and this crew really does feel like a family.

There is spice but it's not over the top and I thought the suspense elements were just right.