Konstantin:

I took her to protect her. To keep her safe.

Now, she wants more.

She wants to claim my heart.

She says she will fight for me…for us.

Trouble is, I don’t know if I have anything left to give.

Cassie:

He took me to keep me safe.

My captor, my protector, my lover.

I want more, he’s a Bratva king, and every king needs his
queen.

My heart is on the line, but I won’t give up the fight.

Love is war when it comes to the two of us, and this is one
war I will win.

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“Andrius told me there’s no going back to normal for me now. That once you’ve been part of something like what happened, you don’t ever go back to being the same.” I
tell Konstantin my deepest fear, which is that I’ll be tainted by this forever, unable to move forward. 

“No, you don’t. You can be normal again, though. You can go back to your life. To your dance classes with your neighbor, and helping your grandparents, and being generally kind and good. You had that walk on the wild side you craved, and you didn’t enjoy it. Lesson learned.” 

It’s not a lesson learned, though, because I can’t stop craving him.
He’s my walk on the wild side, and I don’t want it to end. I tried to tell myself I did. Tried to convince myself I was done with him, but he pulls me back in each time. Having him so close to me, holding me, is pure torture. 

I once thought he couldn’t be my shelter because he was the storm. Now I wonder if he’s really the jagged rocks guarding the bay. I’m in the bay, right in the eye of the storm, and it’s not me he’ll smash to bits, but anyone who gets close or dares to harm me. 

I turn in the water until I’m facing him and study his face. He’s not classically handsome. His features are too hard, his body too big, his face too arrogant. He’s beautiful to me, though. Truly, breathtakingly beautiful. From the first moment I saw him, he stopped the clocks for me, and they haven’t started since. 

Reaching up, I trace the outline of his jaw with one wet finger. He doesn’t move, but something subtle changes in him; he goes on alert. Like the predator he is, he watches me, eerily still, waiting, seeing if I’ll go ahead and offer myself up to him.

I do.

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Hi guys. I’m Skye, a paranormal and contemporary romance author from rainy Northern England. I write Paranormal romance as Skye Jones, and steamy dark romance as S.R. Jones.

The one thing my books in both genres have in common are gritty themes, and alpha heroes who are damaged but oh-so-redeemable!

When I’m not writing, I’m either walking my dogs, drinking coffee, or watching my fave TV shows such as The Sopranos, McMafia, and Little House on the Prairie, yep I have eclectic taste!

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MY REVIEW:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

The finale of Bratva Blood Duet was action packed and left me wanting more.

Konstantin does not trust easily and the betrayal he endures makes him that much more paranoid and leaves him questioning so much. There is more than one war that Konstantin is fighting, and he needs to find a way to win them both and keep the woman that he can’t seem to forget.

Cassie is so afraid of the situation she finds herself in and she wants to go home, but she can’t if she wants to live. When Konstantin takes Cassie to Paris things get a bit more confusing for her. When danger finds her in Paris, she has to decide whether she can find a way to live with Konstantin or if she has to give him up for good. It’s a real battle in her mind.

I loved this finale of this Duet. I couldn’t wait to start it and hated to see that I had finished it. I want more of Konstantin, Cassie, Vasily, Bohdan, Andrius and the others. They bring this book to life and are very entertaining. Konstantin is a ruthless Pakhan and businessman. He will win this war if it kills him and he will protect Cassie at all costs while doing it. The men in this story were ruthless and cunning. I give this book a 5-star review and cannot wait for more of these characters. I highly recommend this Duet to readers that love to read books that lead to Alpha, strong men finding the one person that makes them question everything they believed about themselves. Konstantin and Cassie have more than one battle going on is this story and the outcome may surprise you.

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Title: Beautiful Scars
Series: Cruel Heroes #1
Author: Ariana Black
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: July 13, 2020

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Kill
She is a means to an end.

Half my size and and ten times as innocent.

The job is simple. Ruin Meisie. Destroy her mother. Keep my business.

It’s the target who is complicated.

She’s broken. Scarred. Away with the fairies.

And everything I never knew I needed.

She wants to go home?

I’ll make sure she never leaves.

Meisie
He’s a nightmare parading as a dream.

He lured me in with the promise of a one-night-mistake.

If only I could have stayed that naive.

Cillian Hendry is a dangerous man, and I’d do my best to never forget that.

So why have I told him my darkest secrets?

Why am I walking down an aisle towards him?

I thought being abducted by the man they call Kill was a death sentence.

Turns out I’m wrong. Loving him will kill me.

And he’ll be there, like always, to twist the knife.

Beautiful Scars is a dark captive romance with mafia themes. This book is intended for mature audiences only as some scenes may be triggering.

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Ariana Black writes dark mafia romances guaranteed to give you a book hangover. Follow her to receive new release notifications, or sign up for her mailing list at https://smarturl.it/arianablack-newbooks
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 out of 5

He’s the twin without a heart, or is he?

Cillian and Cole Hendry didn’t have an easy childhood and neither one of them are the type for love and kindness. The owners of a popular night club, Asylum, businessmen of questionable dealings, Cole and Cillian are determined to get the First Minister to reverse her bill that will legalize drugs in Scotland. They have a plan in place to convince her that the bill is not a good idea, but what they don’t know is that she is just as determined as they are and maybe a bit more ruthless than them too.

Meisie Ford has returned to Edinburgh from South Africa, where she was living with her father. She finds herself in Asylum looking for someone that does not exist. Little does she know she has been set up and her life is about to be turned upside down, again.

This story is twisted, sad, and a bit dark. It is also entertaining and kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to see if things could get any worse for Meisie than they were. They can but then Cillian is there to rescue her and protect her. Two unlikely people that find themselves falling for each other and finding a way for their worlds to combine and them to have a life together. They will have to deal with a lot to get to where they want to be, and their life together does not start out as a fairy tale love story, but it will end that way. I give this story a 4.5-star review and highly suggest it to readers who like twisted, dark, psychological thrillers, and stories where the Hero is an unlikely character. I really enjoyed the story and I look forward to more in the series to come.

Title: Am I the Only One
Author: E.K. Blair
Genre: Thriller/Romantic Suspense
Release Date: July 10, 2020

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Desperation had a flavor.

It was all Emma could taste as her life in Washington DC started to crumble before her.

In a city filled with prestige and American dreams also lay political fallacy and corruption—corruption she would soon find herself indulging in.

Emma would have done anything to save herself from the downfall, gone to any length, sacrificed her soul if needed.

What she didn’t realize was that someone else was more desperate to save their own life and that the worst was yet to come.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

A story that blew my mind! Quite the plot twist at the end.

Carly Montgomery is the wife of Maryland’s Attorney General, William Montgomery, who is running for the Governorship of Maryland. They have been together for thirteen years. He has never given her a reason to doubt him or think he is cheating until now. After all, politics is wrought with cheating, lying, corruption and deceit, what makes William any different? When she witnesses a close encounter of William and his assistant Olivia, Carly begins to think the worse of her husband. She will not stand by and be made a fool of.

Emma is a student at Georgetown University with three semesters remaining of her college career when she is hit with more despair in her life. The past year has been rough on Emma and her college education is hanging by a very thin thread. She has done her best, but she finds herself drowning and when an opportunity comes along that she at first is appalled by, she finds that she has no choice but to accept the offer to get her head above water. The only trouble is that she could find herself as an outcast should be found out.

This is the story of two women that have had to fight for everything they have. When things get tough for Carly, she turns to a friend and then to Emma to help her out. When things get tough for Emma, she refuses to ask for help and when Carly approaches her, she declines at first until she gets more bad news and decides to work with Carly. These two are heading down a path of destruction and danger, but neither one can see anything beyond what is in front of them. Emma is desperate and when things don’t work out the way she expects she will improvise; however, things are going to get out of hand.

This story is full of suspense, corruption, surprises, and some twisted characters. I wanted more when the story was finished, I have questions. I give this story a 5-star review and highly recommend it to readers who are interested in stories with intrigue, desperation, twists and turns. This story blew my mind at the end and I was looking for more to the story. Great Read!!

I hungered to be seen.

There were three things I knew about Capo Macchiavello:

He was gorgeous.

He was reclusive.

He was considered one of New York’s most savage animals.

And he wanted me as his wife. A simple arrangement – you do for me, I do for you. Nothing owed, no expectations. Except for one: never leave.

Life was never that simple, though. By the age of twenty-one, I was parentless, jobless, and homeless, and I had come to learn the hard way that nothing was ever free. Even kindness comes with strings.

Capo might’ve been the only man to ever see me, but I had made a vow to myself: I would never owe anyone anything. Most of all, the man I called boss.

I killed to stay hidden.

Mariposa Flores thought she owed nothing to no one, but she owed everything…to me, the ghost the world had once called The Machiavellian Prince of New York.

Machiavellian is the first of three books set in the savage world of the Gangsters of New York series.

Bella Di Corte has been writing romance for seven years, even longer if you count the stories in her head that were never written down, but she didn’t realize how much she enjoyed writing alphas until recently. Tough guys who walk the line between irredeemable and savable, and the strong women who force them to feel, inspire her to keep putting words to the page.Apart from writing, Bella loves to spend time with her husband, daughter, and family. She also loves to read, listen to music, cook meals that were passed down to her, and take photographs. She mostly takes pictures of her family (when they let her) and her three dogs.
Bella grew up in New Orleans, a place she considers a creative playground.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

He gave his life for hers, but she didn’t remember him.

Vittorio Lupo Scarpone is the Pretty-Boy Prince, the oldest son of Arturo Lupo Scarpone, head of the Scarpone family, one of the five families of New York. He has one younger brother that he does not get along with. They share the same father but have different mothers. When Vittorio decides to protect a young girl, he puts his own life in jeopardy and his father has no problem using his own son as an example that you do not cross him. Vittorio reinvents himself with help from The Fausti Family, a family that no one crosses in New York., and now he is out for vengeance and retribution for what he went through that night in the alley. He is now a ghost and known as Mac Machiavello.

Mariposa has been in the system since she was ten years old and lost the only family she could remember. Now that she has aged out of the system, she is struggling to make rent, buy food, and wear decent clothes and shoes that fit. She is hungry, cold, and on her own for the most part. She finds herself standing in front of a fancy restaurant looking in dreaming about the steak when a man dressed very nicely gets out of a car that pulls up in front of the restaurant and she notices how everyone in the area stares at him and the man from the restaurant that just gave her a hard time about looking in the windows, falls over himself to greet the man that just arrived. She can’t help herself she is drawn to this man and can’t seem to forget him.

I really liked this story, it’s packed with action, secrets, betrayal, and vengeance. The characters are brutal, entertaining, and well written. Vittorio and Mariposa have a history, but they have not seen each other in years. That doesn’t lessen the draw they have to each other, nor does the age difference between them. Mac believes that he has no heart, but unbeknownst to him, a young girl stole his heart when he was a teen and never returned it. She still holds it after 18 years. They find each other again after Mariposa decides that she is done struggling to survive and wants to find a way to live and poses as someone else. I give this story a 5-star review and recommend it to readers that love to read mafia, vengeance, survivor, or suspense stories with a twist. I look forward to more of the Gangsters of New York.