*** ARC kindly provided by Ardent Prose in exchange for an honest review. ***
Elise needs answers! She lost her mother to cancer and now she needs to know what happened to her father. She’s sure he’s dead too and the answer can be found on the Blackwood grounds. The hot, brooding owner didn’t give her permission but that doesn’t stop her. Until she gets attacked by boars and has to depend on that same man to heal her. But there is more that gets healed. Garrett is broken and became a recluse. But when ‘Red’ knocks on his door he wants to be the big bad wolf to ‘hurt’ her but he wants to save her from his proclivities. Will Elise find the answers she needs? Will Garrett be able to keep his hands of her? Will Elise stop him? Will she get devoured by him?
Read this wonderful, dark, erotic romance to get the answers. I loved every second of this suspenseful, well written story. The chemistry between them … H.O.T.!! Both characters are strong and amazing.
What I did miss was an epilogue. I would have loved to have had a look in their future. I also wouldn’t mind a book on Garrett’s brother Hart.
A short warning. There might be some triggers in this story … breath play, consensual non-consent.
Before I forget to mention this… I loved the cover! The perfect Garrett … another reason to read the book 😉
This reminds me I still have to finish the Acquisition series… another great dark book by Celia Aaron.
Author’s Note: This is a mystery/suspense romance with violence and explicit sex. Trigger warning.
“Sheriff Crow comes to visit and all of a sudden you’re chatty?” Garrett leaned against my doorframe and watched as I struggled to eat the “mayo with a side of chicken” sandwich.
“I’ve always been chatty. Now it shows because the drugs have worn off and I’m not in agonizing pain.” I put the sandwich down and focused on the potato chips instead. “You’re the non-chatty one.”
He tossed my phone onto the bed. “Maybe that’s for a reason, Red.”
“What reason?” I picked it up and swiped across the screen. No service. Shit.
“I told you when you got here that I wanted you out.” He sighed. “That hasn’t changed.”
I dropped the phone with a grimace and picked at my sandwich. “Okay. And I told you that I can’t wait to leave, so we’re on the same page. Why would those facts keep you from telling me why your fingernails are covered in filth sometimes?”
“It’s not filth.” He shook his head. “While you’re lying around eating my delicious food all day without lifting a finger, I’m working.”
“On what?” In all the research I’d done, I never found Garrett to have any real source of income other than timber and oil royalties on the Blackwood property.
“Why won’t you tell me?”
“Why does it matter?”
I crunched the salty chips. “It wouldn’t matter if you weren’t so stubborn about not wanting to tell me. Now I have to know.”
“You’re calling me stubborn?” He arched a dark eyebrow.
“I see your hearing is working fine.” I plucked out another chip.
His lip twitched, a smile trying to form but failing. “You don’t even know me.”
Me and my book addiction 