The Tied Man By Tabitha McGowan

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Lilith Bresson, an independent, successful young artist, is forced to travel from her home in Spain to the wild borderlands of northern England, to repay her feckless father’s latest debt by painting a portrait of the enigmatic Lady Blaine Albermarle. 
On her first night at Albermarle Hall she meets Finn Strachan, Blaine’s ‘companion’, a cultured and hauntingly beautiful young man who seems to have it all. But Lilith has an artist’s eye, and a gift for seeing what lies beneath the skin. She soon discovers that Blaine is more gaoler than lover, and if the price is right, depravity has no limits. 
As the weeks pass, Lilith finds that she too is drawn into the malign web that her patron has spun, yet against the odds she forges a strong friendship with the damaged, dysfunctional Finn. In a dark, modern twist to an age-old story, Lilith Bresson proves that sometimes it’s the princess who needs to become the rescuer. 
Please note that this storyline contains depictions of drug abuse, violence and non-consensual sex.

The Tied man had me curious since I read a few reviews. Reviews that referred him to Archer By Mia Sheridan. I can see why they did now because just like Archer, you grow an attachment to Finn and so desperately want to protect him.

I found some parts of the stomach sickening and was glad some of it never went into much detail, otherwise this book would never have left my mind. I would have been having nightmares over a boy named Finn who needed saving. 

It's a compelling dark read, with a lot of disturbing scenes, but you can't help but carry on reading, wanting, no needing, to find out what will happen. 

It was like both Lillith and Finn both had a chain to that castle because of Blaine. Who by the way I really bloody hate. She's the ring leader into what happens within those walls and has no mercy on anyone. She's like the devil.

The writing really made a change to the usual I read. It was set in Britain and also written in English(UK). I'm so used to reading USA writing that it really was a change. It felt like I was listening to a friend talk. I think it's why the book felt so real. 

I want to say it's a beautiful story, but it's not. The story behind it however is completely beautiful. Two people falling in love without intimacy. Finn thinks Lillith is saving her, but deep down he saves her too. 

4* 

Warning: This novel contains strong language, disturbing scenes of violence and rape. I do advice strongly that you are 18 and above before reading this.      

Unmasked Volume two By Cassia Leo

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I left my former life – and my mask – behind. 

Running from a past where I was born unloved. A past where I was betrayed by love. 

Running from an organization with limitless power and stealth. Running for my life. 

I never expected to find love on the run. Not in a tiny seaside town on an island in the middle of nowhere. 

Not without my mask. 

But it seems as if my sad story is being rewritten with someone else’s pen. But whose pen is it? 

This question haunts me day and night. And I get my answer on a perfectly decadent evening. When I come home to find my bedroom perfumed with the scent of death. 

He’s here.

Ahhhhh, short story, short review. 

I couldn't put it down. 

It was read within the hour, like always, and I was completely annoyed when it come to an end. 

I'm seriously annoyed that she has jumped into bed with someone else so quickly. 

But WOW!! Cassia Leo sure know's how to keep us gripped to a story. I feel like I just get into it, them bam THE END!! Keeping up to date with this series though. 

Oh, and the price thing is an issue. For such a short novel, I wouldn't charge so much for it. £1.81 I personally think is to much for something so short. I wouldn't be surprised if Cassia has loads of refund made out with this one. People like they're money well spent, not something that they read within an hour. Sorry Cassia, just voicing my opinion, at least it's not a bad review though huh? ;~)

5*

Unmasked By Cassia Leo

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I was born into this world unwanted. 

I spent the first hours of my life unloved. 

I spent the first eighteen years of my life with the parents who tried to shelter me from the harsh reality of my existence. 

But you can’t un-write a sad story if the ending is literally written all over your face. 

So I moved out and now I hide. I have a night job that pays the bills. Every night, I put on my mask and walk to work. 

Then one night, I hear and see something that will change my purpose in life... forever: a murder that will bring him to me. 

He says he wants to protect me. And, through a series of events I can’t fully make sense of, I find myself believing him. 

But our nightly visits are always cloaked in darkness. I don’t know his face and he will never know mine. 

I was born into this world unwanted. I will leave this world unmasked.

Ahhhhh, I literally read this within the hour of purchasing. I couldn't put it down it was that good. From the moment I started to the minute I finished. 

She's got a skin disorder, with defective eyes. She doesn't go out in the day light and she doesn't have any friends. When she witnesses a crime, she ends up becoming friends with the detective, but they only meet in the dark. 

I'm kind of classing this as a dark read, although its not, i feel like it will be becoming that. It had such an epic ending, that I'm hoping we dont have to wait long for the next installment.

There isnt much I can say about the book without giving something away and I don't want to ruin the novel for anyone. Let's just say though that there are a few things I NEVER saw coming and was completely flabbergasted when it was done. 

5*

Only pretend By Nora Flite

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I had a plan. I also had no family, no friends, and definitely no jerk of an ex-boyfriend who thought I was boring. 
I was tired of being me. 
In Vegas, I could be anything. 

And then I saw him. 
His hungry smile wanted a taste of the new me. 
Only a boring person would have said no. 

It was reckless to follow a stranger to his bed. Dangerous to take the drink he handed me. I thought the worst regret I'd have would be a hangover, a walk of shame through the hotel. 

Except I didn't wake up in the hotel. 
Or in Vegas. 

I doubt my face will end up in the news. “Woman missing,” the headline would say. “A stupid person who thought she could be someone else.” 

I'm not someone else. I was only playing pretend. 

Too bad he was playing for keeps. 

This is a dark read and wouldn't recommend to people who are sensitive to certain issues. 

As you can tell from Blurb it's about a woman who gets broken up with by her long term boyfriend, then goes out to be spontaneous. To have fun. To not be boring like he called her. She changed her hair, puts on some clothes and makeup and heads to Vegas where she is determined to have some fun. 

Only that fun lead her to a life she wasn't prepared for. 

When Celeste meets Leonide she finds him dark, and mysterious. Well what you see is what you get. When she went out looking for a new life she never expected to wake up in another country, captured, and used for a certain training. 

He wants to train her to be the wife he needs for his clients.... only Celeste is determined not to let him break her. 

What happens when two strong minded people get put together? they collide. Read about their story and how it ends ..... its a fantastic read 

3* 

Four score By Lilli St. Germain

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This story unfolds over seven volumes approx. 25 - 30,000 words each. 

Love and hate aren’t all that different. 

Two sides of the same coin, the yin and the yang. 

Once upon a time, Jason Ross loved me. And now that he's in danger of figuring out what I've done, I see the love and the hate warring within him. 

I see the way he looks at me. 

The way he wonders how I could do the things I’ve done. 

I hear it in the way he begs me to stop, to leave his father and this life and never look back. 

But there’s only one way I’m leaving LA. 

And that’ll be when Dornan and the rest of his sons are dead and buried. 

Four score is literally the quickest one to read out of the series. It had taken me all of half of an hour to get through it. 

I was hoping for more in this novel so I was disappointed when we dont get to read much more. 

Though, that said this has to be the one with biggest cliff hanger. Holy hell I screamed. The fact I have to wait now until July for Three years is another matter. I NEED! to know what happens. 

Lillie how could you do this to us? ahhh 

I can't even see Jace being able to save the day and I think thats the sad part. Hopefully she gets her revenge and all is good in Jules world. 

Fingers crossed ...... 

5* 

Five Miles By Lili St,Germain

Five miles

My father taught me the importance of an eye for an eye—a cardinal rule, ingrained in every club member. 

A life for a life. 

Seven lives in payment for an unimaginable list of sins. 

People might wonder why I’m doing this. If this vengeance is borne from some noble cause, that I’m trying to prevent others from suffering at the hands of Dornan Ross and his sons. 

But I’m no vigilante. 

I’m doing it for me. I’m doing it because I want to. Because the look on Maxi and Chad’s faces when I killed them was a balm to my soul. 

This is the fate they have earned. The penance for their crimes. 

Two down, five to go. 

Time to send some of these brothers off with a bang. 

Read on for my review ....

The beast By Jaden Wilkes

The Beast

Dimitri Sokolov is a man scarred, physically and emotionally. From the rough streets of Moscow to the highest ranks in the Solntsevskaya Bratva, he has seen it all. 

An attack four years ago left him disfigured and in seclusion, hiding from reactions to his appearance and in safety from those who failed to kill him the first time. 

Comfortable in his penthouse, managing his billion dollar businesses, he's resigned himself to be alone, simply called The Beast among those who've dealt with him in the past. 

Columbia Grey is a pseudo-activist trying to save her neighbourhood from a developer intent on levelling it to build apartment towers. She goes along with a plan to confront the CEO of the company on his own turf, to force him to listen to her demands...all in a pathetic attempt to impress a man she barely likes. 

Little does she know, she's taken herself into the mouth of the beast, a man familiar with death and destruction, sex and seduction, a man used to getting exactly what he wants and a man with nothing left to lose. 

She's a beauty, but will that be enough to tame the beast and save her life? 

Read on for my review ...

Twist me By Anna Zaires

Twist me

I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.

Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful - a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.

My captor is an enigma. I don't know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him - a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.

My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.

Hero By Leighton Del Mia

Hero

Calvin Parish 
They call me Hero. 
I defend. 
I protect. 
I ask for nothing in return, and that makes me good. 
Doesn’t it? 

That which makes me the ultimate predator also feeds dark impulses I’ve learned to control—until I bring her too close. For years I’ve watched her from afar, but what started out as duty has become obsession. 

Cataline Ford 
I work hard. 
I play by the rules. 
I’m content. 
My scars are quiet and invisible, and that keeps me hidden. 
Doesn’t it? 

One fateful walk home, I’m taken by someone I didn’t know I should fear. Captive and afraid, nobody will tell me why I’m confined to this hauntingly beautiful mansion. I’m given everything; I have nothing. He takes what he needs from me, and for that I hate him. But I might have loved him once. 

And just because you’re reading this doesn’t mean I survive him. 

Read on for my review.... 

The scars of us By Nikki Narvaez

Kaiya Marlow has always been cautious, precise in every decision she makes. When her dark past threatens to resurface, she decides to take precautions to protect herself by enrolling in self-defense classes at her gym. 

Her instructor, Ryker Campbell, is the tattooed womanizer everyone warns about. Kaiya attempts to resist Ryker's advances, but the more time they spend training together, the harder it is for Kaiya to resist him. 

Ryker's view on relationships is simple: strictly sex, nothing more. Haunted by demons from his past, he never allows himself to become attached to any woman. No attachment means no weakness, no vulnerability, no pain. He doesn't realize that his whole world is about to be turned upside down when Kaiya enters his self-defense class. Determined to have her, at least for one night, Ryker sets a plan into motion that will change both of their lives forever. 

Will love be able to heal their scars, or are they too deep to overcome? 

Read on for my review ...

Six brothers By Lili St Germain

Six brothers

I have lied. 

I have cheated. 

I have given my body and my life to the man who destroyed my family and left me for dead. 

I have killed, I have sinned, and worst of all, I have enjoyed the misery of others. 

I have licked the salty tears of a father mourning his firstborn son, and nothing has ever tasted so sweet. 

I have died, and I have been resurrected, a phoenix from the ashes. 

I know I’m going to hell. I’ll burn in the fiery pits alongside Dornan and his sons for the things I’ve done, and for the things I’m about to do. 

But I don’t care. It will be worth every lick of the devil's flames on my guilty flesh to destroy Dornan Ross. 

One down. Six to go. 

Read on for my review ....

Raw By Belle Aurora

Raw

Growing up the way I did, you’d think I’d be more screwed up than what I actually am. 
Soon as I turned sixteen, I left that bump in the road I called home and took my chances on the street. 
Best decision I ever made. 
Now, at the age of twenty six, I’m educated, employed and damn good at my job. 
My friends have become my family. Like me, they know what it’s like to grow up unloved. 
But the saying is true. 
The world makes way for those who know where they are going. 
That’s me. 
I know where I’m going and I’ll get there eventually. On my own terms and at my own pace. 
But then there’s him. 
I feel his eyes on me. I see him hiding in plain sight. He watches me. 
He makes me feel. 
It’s unconventional. 
But it’s real. 
I’m sure you’re wondering how a person falls in love with their stalker. 
So am I. 
This isn’t a story. 
This is my life. 

Read on for my review...

Seven Sons By Lili St. Germain

Seven Sons

My father was most certainly NOT an innocent man. As the leader of the Gypsy Brothers MC, he was guilty of many things. But he died for a crime that he didn’t commit, framed by an enemy within who then stole his club and everything he had ever worked to protect. 

Including my innocence. 

When Dornan Ross framed my father, he set into motion a series of events that could never be undone. My father was murdered by Dornan Ross and his sons when I was fifteen years old. 

Before my father died, Dornan and his sons stole my innocence, branded my skin and in doing so, ensured that their lives would be prematurely cut short. That they would suffer. 

I’ve just turned twenty-one, and I’m out for blood. I'm out for revenge. 

But I didn't expect to fall for Jase, the youngest brother in the club. 

I didn't expect that he would turn my world upside down, yank my heart out of my chest and ride away into the sunset with it. 

Now, I'm faced with an impossible choice - Jase, or avenging my fathers death? 

Read on for my review ....

Ruined:An Ethan Frost novel By Tracy Wolff

Ruined

He’s the last man Chloe Girard should love . . . but the first she ever could.
 
Ethan Frost is a visionary, a genius, every woman’s deepest, darkest fantasy—even mine. And, somehow, I am his.
 
He stole into my life like a dream. Turned my reality upside down and made my every desire come true—especially those I never knew I had. He demanded everything I had to give and gave me everything of himself in return.
 
But dreams don’t last forever, and ours is no exception. Because my nightmares are darker, and my wounds deeper, than I could ever reveal. And as much as Ethan wants to protect me, the secrets we we share will only tear us apart. 

Read on for my review ....

Fighting for Irish By Gina L Maxwell

Fighting for Irish

Former MMA fighter Aiden "Irish" O'Brien hasn't stepped into the ring since he accidentally took someone's life in the heat of rage. When his friend calls in a favor that sends him south to check on family, Irish figures he's got nothing to lose. His life is on the ropes. The least he can do is make sure the sexy redhead is safe.

Kat MacGregor has forty-eight hours to settle the twenty thousand dollar debt her deadbeat ex-boyfriend owes a crime boss. If she doesn't, she'll pay for it--with her life. Kat's halfway out the door when a sexy new guy walks into the bar and insists he's there to help.

Irish is forced to fight in the underground MMA circuit to win the money she needs. But he's been lying to Kat. About who he is, about knowing her sister, about why he comes home bruised every night. She's the best thing that's ever happened to him, but breaking her trust will cost him the most important fight of his life: the one for her heart. Read on for my review >>>

Very Bad things By Ilsa Madden-Mills

Very bad things

Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl could desire. She's an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. She's perfect. Or is she?

Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she changes the course of her life, becoming a girl hell-bent on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex.

Then through a chance encounter, she meets her soulmate. But he doesn't want her.

When it comes to girls, twenty-five-year-old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in love. His gym and his brother are all he cares about...until he meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung up on their six year age difference.

As they struggle to stay away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will flare, and hearts will be broken.

Read on for my review.....

Undeniable By Madeline Sheehan

Undeniable

Eva Fox is the princess of the Silver Demons Motorcycle Club. Growing up with bikers in the club lifestyle is all that she knows. When she’s a young girl, Eva meets the reason for her existence. Deuce West is the sexy, biker bad-ass of the Hell’s Horsemen Motorcycle Club. Like Eva, he was born and raised in the club—but that’s where the similarities end. Their first meeting is innocent, but as Eva matures into a woman, their chance reunions evolve into a fit of lust and love. Fate continues to bring them together time and time again, but their twisted journey is filled with pain, betrayal, and bloodshed that could tear them apart. Eva sees in Deuce what he cannot see in himself—a man worthy of love—and Eva spends her lifetime proving to him that her undeniable love is the one thing he can’t live without. Read on for my review .......

Torn from you By Nashoda Rose

Torn from you

Love is like an avalanche. It hits hard, fast and without mercy. 

At least it did for me when Sculpt, the lead singer of the rock band Tear Asunder knocked me off my feet. Literally, because he’s also a fighter, illegally of course, and he taught me how to fight. He also taught me how to love and I fell hard for him. I mean the guy could do sweet, when he wasn't doing bossy, and I like sweet. 

Then it all shattered. 

Kidnapped. 
Starved. 
Beaten. 
I was alone and fighting to survive. 
When I heard Sculpt's voice, I thought he was there to save me. 

I was wrong. 

With you By Nashoda Rose

With you #0.5 

Sculpt is an illegal fighter. 
He’s also the lead singer of a local rock band. 
No one knows his real name. 
And from the moment I met him, he made me forget mine. 

In order to convince Sculpt to give me self-defense lessons, I had to follow his one rule—no complaining or he’d walk. I didn't think it would be a problem. I could handle a few bruises. What I hadn't anticipated was landing on my back with Sculpt on top of me and my entire body burning up for him. 
I tried to ignore it. 
I failed of course. And having a hot, tattooed badass on top of me week after week, acting completely immune to what he was doing to me—it was frustrating as hell, so I broke his rule—I complained. 
Then he kissed me. 

Misled By Kathryn Kelly

Misled

He deals in a world of violence, sex, drugs, and crudity. As president of the Death Dwellers' Motorcycle Club, Christopher "Outlaw" Caldwell presides over a club in chaos after the death of their longtime president and his mentor, Joseph "Boss" Foy. 
Megan Foy runs from her abusive stepfather, hoping for her daddy's intervention to save her and get her terrified mother away before it's too late. Only problem is, she soon discovers her beloved daddy is dead and the man who killed him is the man she's falling in love with.