Dirty Empire is the third installment in this four-book series and I absolutely adored seeing where this author took this story and I was beyond captivated in seeing the growth of the series here. I was so in tune with this romance and we just see so much from their romance and seeing it blossom in such beautiful ways. There is a forbidden love note to the story but it's slight, I did like seeing these two different people find their own way together in this one. Gabriel is working on getting out of the crime life and making everything legitimate, but his father wants to destroy what he has with Mercy. Seeing how devoted these two are for each other and how they are challenged in ways that you don't expect was quite unique. I really just wanted to see more of them and never wanted this story to end. I really was interested in seeing how this would develop and how they would reach their HEA. It did have an HFN feel to the end of the story but I have faith that this author will deliver that HEA in book four.