Luxury Romance

Four Reasons Caviar & Crimes is NOT for you (Part Two)

Part Two hits harder: no generic suspense, no damsels, no insta-love fluff, no recycled BookTok plots. Luxury Romance doesn't apologize, and neither do we.

Nikki Cummings

24 Sep 2025 — 8 min read

🎵 Pour a flute of champagne and queue up "Sorry, Not Sorry" by Demi Lovato. Because Part Two? Even less apologetic than Part One.

Still here?

Good. That means you read Part One and didn't run screaming. Or maybe you did run, realized everything else on your TBR suddenly felt... insufficient... and came back.

Either way, welcome back.

Because we're not done. Part One was just the warm-up. If you thought we were finished discussing why Luxury Romance isn't for everyone, you haven't been paying attention.

So let's talk about four MORE reasons Caviar & Crimes might not be your flute of champagne. And if you're still nodding along by the end? Well, then you're definitely in the right place.

Generic Suspense? We Don't Know Her.

You know that thriller where the "danger" is... vague? Some faceless stalker lurking in parking garages. A mysterious threat that's never quite explained. Suspense so generic you could swap out the characters and the plot would still be exactly the same.

Yeah, we don't do that here.

C&C suspense has teeth. It's the kind of danger that doesn't announce itself until it's already three moves ahead. It's threats that don't come from the shadows, they come from boardrooms, encrypted communications, and enemies who understand that the best way to destroy someone isn't violence. It's precision.

Take Allegra's stalker. At first, he's just shadows and whispers, a threat moving beneath the surface of her perfect life. But with each chapter, he inches closer, the danger becoming more real, more personal. When Nick finally finds her in that warehouse, his hands checking her for injuries aren't just protective touches. They're proof that in this world, love doesn't make you safe. It makes you vulnerable. And that's when things get truly dangerous. The kind of suspense where you realize you've been clenching your pillow for the past three chapters and your jaw aches from the tension.

This isn't danger for the sake of drama. It's calculated. It's intimate. And it's woven into every alliance, every betrayal, every moment when the real threat isn't the gun. It's the information.

A Damsel in Distress? Couldn't Be Her.

Let's get one thing straight: C&C women don't need saving.

These aren't heroines waiting for permission to be powerful. Allegra Norman is the COO of a government aerospace contractor worth billions. Cassie Norman dismantles federal prosecutors in court before lunch. Stella Norman orchestrates dream weddings for global elites where a single misstep could end careers. These women command boardrooms, coastlines, courtrooms, and empires with equal authority.

And the men who love them? They're not here to rescue anyone.

When Nick Battino protects Allegra, he's not saving a helpless woman. He's making sure no one survives the mistake of underestimating her. There's a difference. A significant one. Because protection in Luxury Romance isn't about diminishing the woman you love. It's about standing beside someone so formidable that the world needs protecting from her.

When William Kross watches Cassie work, he doesn't think "she needs me." He thinks "she's magnificent." When Pierce "Mack" McCray meets Stella, he doesn't see someone who needs his protection. He sees someone whose carefully curated world is about to collide with his, and the chaos that follows? That's where the real story begins.

So no, you won't find damsels here. You'll find women who build empires in couture and make grown men reconsider every life choice that led them to underestimate her. And the men smart enough to love the storm.

Insta-Love Fluff? Absolutely Not.

Three dates and a kiss. Holding hands by the fountain. A "sweet" romance where everything is soft edges and pastel feelings, and you've forgotten the characters' names by next week.

Lovely. For someone.

But that someone isn't reading Luxury Romance.

This isn't flowers and hand-holding and "let's take it slow" energy. This isn't a romance you read once and move on from. This is lust that detonates on first contact. Allegra trying to compartmentalize their night together into neat little boxes labeled "vacation fling" and "rebound," while Nick pulls her into his lap on that terrace and shows her exactly why logic has no place in what they're building. This is William Kross getting ink on his neck before disappearing undercover, carrying her love like armor into a world that could destroy him.

Devotion doesn't ask politely here. It demands everything. It's waking at 2 AM to find him watching you sleep, memorizing the details like he's afraid you'll disappear. It's the way her hand fits perfectly at the back of his neck where the ink lives. It's Pierce teaching Stella hand-to-hand combat and gun range precision, not because she's helpless, but because the world he operates in requires her to be just as lethal. It's the kind of passion that makes you forget your own name, your responsibilities, every single reason you swore you'd never fall this hard.

C&C love is consuming. Transformative. The type of connection where "I need you" becomes "It's my life's work to honor your existence" before either of them sees it coming.

So if you came here for soft and sweet? This isn't it. But if you want heat that brands itself into your memory and refuses to let go? The private jet is fueled, the villa's waiting, and no one's sleeping until dawn.

The Same 20 BookTok Recommendations? Been There, Read That.

Let's be honest. You've seen the list. The same mafia prince with a suspiciously well-adjusted moral compass. The same sad-girl-meets-billionaire plot you've read seventeen times. The same "morally gray" MMC who's actually just a dick with good PR.

It's a recycled playlist. Same tropes. Same aesthetics. Same books cluttering your algorithm with the same TikTok sound.

And honestly? You're bored.

C&C isn't playing that game. This isn't another carbon copy of what's trending. This is Amalfi Coast villas where Allegra Norman flees after her picture-perfect life implodes, and instead of finding peace, she finds Nick Battino. A man who sees through every carefully constructed wall she's built. This is federal courtrooms where Cassie defends her family's legacy against the Department of Justice while falling for an FBI agent. This is Stella navigating the intersection of high society weddings and black-ops intelligence when a retired operative walks into her life and everything she thought she controlled spirals into beautiful chaos.

This is MC wars where loyalty costs everything. Mediterranean negotiations where fortunes shift over limoncello. And three sisters whose love stories will ruin you for everything that comes after.

This isn't the book everyone's already read. This is the series that changes what you expect from romance. Because once you've tasted Luxury Romance? Everything else is just... pedestrian.

Here's the truth about Luxury Romance (again)

If any of this feels like too much? Caviar & Crimes is not for you. And that's perfectly okay.

This isn't the romance section you're used to.

There's no "vague danger and a kiss at the end."
There's no "she needs him to save her."
There's no "sweet and safe and soft."
And there's definitely no "I've read this exact plot twelve times before."

Why? Because you deserve better than recycled stories. And honestly, those books are everywhere. You can find them anytime.

But if you've read both Part One and Part Two and you're still here? If you're nodding so hard your champagne is in danger of spilling? If you're already mentally clearing space on your e-reader?

Welcome home.

This is Luxury Romance.
Where suspense is specific.
Where heroines are hurricanes.
Where passion doesn't apologize.
And where every story leaves a mark.

Part One told you what we're not. Part Two reinforced it. And if you're still standing? You're exactly the reader these books were written for.

Find "Sorry, Not Sorry" on the official Caviar & Crimes Spotify playlist. Because these stories don't just deserve a soundtrack. They demand one.

And trust me, we're just getting started.

Nikki Cummings is the creator of Luxury Romance and Caviar & Crimes. She writes high-heat, high-stakes romantic suspense that ruins you for everyone else.

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