Escape Part Two by Sydney Holmes

Shane has finally found the love of his life but is he strong enough to keep her?

Rowan is finally living the life she's always wanted but is she strong enough to fight and keep it?

Escape Part One laid the foundation of the relationship budding between Shane and Rowan but now in Part Two we find out if they're strong enough to fight for their love and keep the life that they've started to build together. 

It's time for all the secrets to come out now and Shane is determined to protect Rowan at any cost. While Rowan's gut instinct is to run, she has to find the strength to trust Shane to help her fight her demons. 

Finally seeing Rowan happy, Justin is willing to do what it takes on his part to keep her that way. Shane's friends and the ones that he runs his PI company with are also willing to stand by their best friend. 

A new threat is rising. The cult is now looking for them nationwide and has now hired Shane's company to help them. 

This threat is hitting close to home and it' scaring Rowan to no end. Now not only does she have to trust Shane but now she has to place her trust in two other men she knows nothing about. 

The fear is real. The battle has just begun. 

Who will win?

Shane and Rowan or the cult that seems dead set on Rowan returning to them?

Hopefully I did the book justice without giving too much away :)

Happy reading everyone!!!!

Escape Part One by Sydney Holmes

This was the first book that I read this year. Surprisingly, I found this book as an ad on my Facebook page. A lot of authors are now using Facebook to promote their work and it really does work. They put up the cover of their book or maybe a picture with the main characters and a small blurb or excerpt from the book. It definitely is enough to hook you in. 

Escape Part One is obviously the first part in a three part story of a woman who escaped a cult. This first part is all about being out and staying out. 

Rowan Baker just escaped from a lunatic, from a crazy cult. The last thing she wants is to get involved with anyone when she's so busy trying to stay under the cult's radar AND trying to make an actual life for herself. She's strong and independent, but most important, she's a survivor. 

Shane Adams is used to a certain way of life. He and his best friends are P.I's and they're damn good at what they do. He enjoys puzzles and Rowan is a puzzle he just has to solve. It helps that she's beautiful and he can't stop thinking of her. 

The secrets that Rowan keeps could very well push Shane away but what could possibly be wrong with having an affair...just for a little while. Two consensual adults with burning passion between them, sure what could go wrong with that. 

Emotions. That's what goes wrong with that. Shane starts to fall for Rowan and he doesn't even have all the pieces yet. Rowan knows she's falling for Shane too but to keep him safe (so she believes) her secrets need to remain hers and maybe it's time to run again. 

Part one sets the stage for these two heroes. Will they succeed in building their life or will it all come crashing down around them? 

Take a chance with a new book, you won't regret it!!

Happy Reading Everyone!! 

NEW Lisa Renee Jones

So I went back onto Facebook to double check my dates and all but this news is too big for me to keep in.

One of my favorite authors of all time, Lisa Renee Jones has new duet coming out starting April 18th.

Provocative is the first book and will be released in e-book on April 18th
Shameless is book two and will be released in e-book on July 11th

Now for those of you that are like me and don't like e-books and I know that there are quite a few of y'all out there. I love not being the weird one about this topic lol, I have been assured that there will be paperback copies.

When those copies will be coming out we're not too sure. I was told maybe when Shameless comes out or sooner. So I'll keep my eyes and ears open for it for sure.

Those of you who do like e-books, y'all definitely have to try out these books!!!

I'll never turn away a Lisa Renee Jones book and I'll always recommend them.

Good Reading Everyone :)

My View of Hardpressed by Meredith Wild

In this book, which is number two in this series, Erica thinks that this new chapter in her life will be the happiest one she's ever had. Boy, is she totally wrong.

She finds her father and that was supposed to be a decent relationship. Maybe not a particularly close one but civil. It turned out to be a lot more trouble than it was worth.

While he runs in an election for Governor, he wants Erica's help with the media aspect. However, his step-son Mark is the one who raped Erica years ago and is causing problems now.

Blake, Erica's boyfriend, told him that he needed to send Mark away. Where, he didn't care just get him and keep him away from Erica. That was the wrong tactic to take with this guy because he killed his step-son and made it look like a suicide.

After, he told Erica about it and also gave her an ultimatum. She ditches her company and works for him as well as dump Blake or he removes Blake from the equation permanently.

This was supposed to be a happy time in her life, she found someone she loves deeply and her father, whom she had never known. Instead it's turning into a nightmare.

Erica's choice rocks her world and Blake's. To protect the man she loves, she dumped him. Weeks they spent in their own personal hell just because she loved him too much to be the cause of his death.

How will they find their way back to each other? Especially now that an employee of hers knows she's single and wants a shot at her heart.

Things just got crazy in Erica's life and all she wants to do is be happy.  

That's all anyone ever wants yet continuously it seems to be just out of Erica's reach. I'm rooting for her because her pain is  literally breaking my heart here.

Hardpressed by Meredith Wild The Hacker Series Book 2

Hardpressed is the second book in Meredith Wild's Hacker Series.

If you got addicted to book one this one will capture you even more. I thought that I had posted the synopsis already but as I can see I haven't yet. Bad me, I'm falling behind again.

I hope that everyone enjoys this because, as I read farther into this series I became more addicted to it. Hopefully I at least give you something to look into.

Without further ado, here's the synopsis:

"In Hardpressed, the highly anticipated second book of the Hacker series that began with Hardwired, Blake and Erica face threats that put both their love and their lives on the line.

Despite Blake Landon's controlling ways, the young and wealthy hacker finally won the trust of the woman he loves. Internet entrepreneur Erica Hathaway broke down the walls that kept her from opening her heart and her business to Blake.

Ready to start this new chapter in her life, Erica is determined not to let anything come between them, even if that means giving Blake back some of the control he craves in and out of the bedroom.

But when demons from the past threaten their future, Erica makes a decision that could change their lives forever."

It's a good synopsis this time lol. I can agree with it completely.

Curious yet?

Hardwired- Meredith Wild After Reading

Erica Hathaway just graduated college and has a start up fashion website with her best friend Alli and another friend Sid. Her professor got her a board meeting with a friend of his, Max at Angelcom to try to get an investment so Erica could get the website off the ground.

What she didn't expect however, was to meet the mysterious and handsome Blake Landon. For Blake one night of passion led to him being captivated by Erica and he just had to see more of her.

In the boardroom he turned down her pitch which devastated her but Max picked her up. It was a decent day all together.

Neither of them expected things to get hot and heavy between them so fast. Erica had no choice but to tell Blake about her past. As a freshman in College, her and a few friends went to a frat party, it was there she was raped and just left in the bushes.

When she told him, the tears and the upset were there but so was the self-loathing. Erica actually couldn't believe that Blake still wanted her.

Blake himself has many issues and one of his quirks is control. Blake has to be dominant in the bedroom and for Erica he's learning to let go of some of his control in public.

It's something that they both have to get used to, especially when Blake says that he loves her. When he loves, he must protect and to go about that without controlling or stalking isn't something he knows how to do yet.

It's interesting to watch these two damaged people get to know and fall in love with each other. It's true that Blake used to be a hacker, part of a group called M89. He's made some enemies and Erica is messed up.

However, Erica is big on control for other reasons. She wants to control her own life mainly because she's fought to get that control back. Now Blake wants to take that away from her again in a different way. For Erica, this is still one of the most scariest things she's ever contemplated on doing.

They have to learn to trust each other or what they have will go down in flames.

Feel free to share any thoughts or comments you have on the book. I look forward to reading them :)

The Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day

Ok so with there being so many books in this series I decided to do this all in one post. I should go back and do synopsis-es and I probably will even though that means back tracking just because that way people can draw they're own conclusions about the book without my point of view persuading them at all.

Four books span the new relationship between Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell. Four books span over only a few short months.

From the time they met in Bared to You to the public break up but not break up between them in Reflected in You to their cinematic worthy reunion and marriage in Entwined with You to finally they're private separation in Captivated by You.

The whole series has been a roller coaster of ups and downs for them both as well as Eva's best friend Carey. Everyone in this story is in some way fucked up in the head. Things were done in their past to doubt themselves and any future they deserve.

The books are most definitely classified as erotic romance so if you can't handle heart pounding, rough sex don't pick up the book.

In my opinion I think that the plot is great. It doesn't matter that Gideon is rich because so is Eva in a way. Gideon was lost in his own way and Eva found him and brought him out into the light. It's hard for him to come to terms with what was done to him as a child and Eva is having a hard time waiting for that part of him to find peace.

That might sound but she's a survivor as well. Eva herself was raped as a child and had even suffered a miscarriage by her attacker. It's not the fact that Gideon won't talk to her about anything but he won't talk to anyone. It's a strain on their already strenuous relationship.

That's the big thing in Bared to You. Just to admit that something happened because she's shown him her demons.

In Reflected in You things seem to be going great that is there's progress being made in their relationship lol. But then enter in ex-lover from her past Brent and attacker Nathan. So many secrets are being kept and it's killing Eva. Gideon withdraws from her almost completely without actually saying that they've broken up. Eva assumes that. The only thing Gideon says to her when he does get the chance is wait for him.

Complete mystery as to why. Eva goes completely mental though and here's why. When she can finally get out of her Gideon induced coma, she has a spa day. Cuts her hair and changes her nails from neutral to red. Determined still to understand Gideon's past, Eva confronts his old pediatrician, his mother and I'm pretty sure there was one other person....oh yeah Corrine the ex-girlfriend that still swears that she'll end up with Gideon not Eva.

Yeah Eva becomes hell on heels. Turns out that Nathan is also dead, so the cops come poking around. We get the picture however towards the end. Sylvia Day doesn't leave us in a complete mystery thankfully.

Entwined with You, slowly brings Eva and Gideon back together. It's such a welcoming sight that it could break your heart. Brent is still a problem because he wants another chance with Eva. In his world if Gideon deserves a second chance than so does he. Needless to say that will never happen, Eva is too much in love with Gideon.

Gideon whisks her away for a small vacation with just the two of them. It's a beautiful beach house but once again Gideon seems to withdraw from her with no reason. Eva being Eva decides after a very awkward dinner to throw herself in to the ocean and just let go. Gideon being Gideon drags her out and not in the most romantic way asks her to marry him.

They'll do another ceremony later but he wants something small, private and immediate. It was actually the happiest day of their life at that time. No one knows and how Eva is going to keep this secret from Carey, she doesn't know.

Which now brings us to her latest installment, Captivated by You. Nothing has seriously changed. Gideon is still trying to get used to giving Eva freedom yet at the same time trying to keep her safe. They start compromising somewhat well yet he hasn't let go of the fact that he wants Eva working for him.

It's something that Eva was working around to agreeing to but Gideon screwed it up by asking her current boss to go work for him. Gideon gave him a secure position and a raise to make the move not only because he's good at what he does but because he wants Eva to make the move with him.

This drives Eva away. She stays with her mom and step-father with Carey while trying to get her head on straight. This drives Gideon to talk to their therapist about his dreams and his past. A ray of hope also shines through when he calls Eva and they start talking. He admits that he was wrong, tells her about his session and then they just talk.

It was what they were missing, not the sexual life or at least not just that, but just being with each other and how easy it is. They can act normal when they want to lol.

They are still in love and are still saying they're engaged but it's just taking a little time to get back to where they were when things made sense. They're also learning how to face problems together and Gideon is trying to stop going behind Eva's back to do things.

I guess we have to wait until the next book though to see the big wedding and how far they come together.

Personally I can't wait lol.

Bound by Flames by Jeaniene Frost

So we temporarily conclude the Night Prince series by Jeaniene Frost with Bound by Flames. It moves much quicker than I thought it would and we got redundant.

Now that Leila is a vampire, Vlad is treating her like an equal in certain ways. However when it comes to protecting her it's a job that he doesn't take lightly.

While Vlad goes out in search of his old enemy, he wants Leila to stay home and safe with his men. Sounds good right. The beginning of the book is starting off great because Leila will be safe seeing as she agrees to stay home.

That was all part of his enemies plan. Though Leila being home wasn't nothing but luck for him. She gets kidnapped....again.

See the redundancy yet?

Trying to get one step ahead of his enemy, Vlad had gone to see his old friend Maximus, who he had banished to try to get him to agree to be his spy. With knowledge of his banishment no one would suspect that Vlad would employ Maximus again and there would more than likely be a grudge.

It is actually lucky for Leila that Maximus had agreed to this plan because once she is kidnapped, it's Maximus that actually makes it just slightly easier on her compared to the horrors that could have been.

Leila endured her skin being flayed off of her and mock rape. It was horrible for her in more than one way. With her powers, she lives with essences, when her skin was flayed, he took off her sister's and father's and most importantly her mother's essence leaving her feeling like a stranger in her new skin.

It takes her time to get some kind of strength back, and even for a time she can only just see Vlad. She can see how mad he is and mad isn't even the word he was beyond livid. Vlad actually burned the rest of his house down he was so mad. Finally she gets to him and was able to tell him where she was.

The rescue was weird because Vlad's friend Cat summoned the dead to help get her out and Vlad had to wear a disguise to get to her. Obviously this isn't the whole story though, if you think about it, you probably could make that one whole story.

Anyway, I didn't write it and Jeaniene obviously didn't want that to be the whole story.

It's weird for Leila to be around everyone again and touching is weird but good. It's really hard for Leila to be touched by Vlad because when Maximus had snuck in blood for her she felt like she was cheating on Vlad. It's not something that sat well with her.

When she finally told him, he didn't hold anything against her. It's a natural reaction for a vampire that has been deprived of blood to act wild when they finally get it. It wasn't a big deal.

The whole situation had take some getting used to, especially when Leila falls asleep and tries to kill Vlad and herself. Turns out that Vlad's enemy got smart and had a necromancer put a spell on her. One that not even Vlad's old mentor, Mecheres, can break. The solution....burn Leila while she sleeps to weaken the spell.

Thanks to Mencheres though, with magic he grows her hair back...all of it. The kind on her head and eyebrows. It's a long journey to get to the bottom of everything and then add in the battle of fighting Vlad's anger as well.  

But wait, there's more!!!!

Leila is connected the necromancer. Anything that happens to one happens to the other.

Uh-oh!! What happens now?

Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost--Sorry

There are a few reasons I haven't been on here lately and really they're just excuses. In actuality I should be on here more. See this is why I don't have an actual website of my own.

Anyway, I'm getting used to my husband's laptop right now, so I'm slower than usual typing. The plan though is to totally catch up today. A tall order when I'm so far behind.

Today we're starting with Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost, the second book in the Night Prince Series. I can say series because there will be a fourth book coming out, I believe next year.

In book two of the Night Prince series, Leila tries to show Vlad just how much she loves him. However, Vlad refuses to face that fact and it leads to Leila moving out. 

Maximus is charged with getting her back to her best friend, Marty, safely. It seems fine and Leila wants to get back to  normal, to try and heal here broken heart. It's just not as easy as it sounds. 

Marty found someone to  replace her in their circus act and the trailer is actually too small for three people to live in. While trying to sell some of the jewels Vlad had made her leave with, Marty's trailer explodes. Thankfully, Leila was still covered in Vlad's aura so the fire that had melted everything around her, just passed over her. 

Maximus, who should have left after dropping Leila off, teams up with her to find out who killed Marty and the new kid in the trailer. Not wanting to believe it, Leila has to accept Maximus' idea that it could be Vlad behind the attack. 

It doesn't take too long before Leila is kidnapped....again. It seems that it's becoming a new fad to kidnap her and quite frankly Leila is getting tired of it. 

During her captivity though, she discovers it's not Vlad behind the attacks and she's more powerful than she realized at first. Her emotions power her electricity and it helps when she slays every vampire on the ship where she's being transported to God only knows where to an unknown buyer.  

The last thing that she wanted to do was go back to living with Vlad yet he gives her no choice. When he comes to  get her and save Maximus and other humans on the boat that was his ultimatum to her.

Being back with Vlad hurts them both more than Leila had realized. Yet when she says she loves him again Vlad insists that she only knows the man in fantasies not him.

You know staying safe with Vlad is one thing, especially now that her powers are slowly killing her. When she over uses her psychic powers, Leila dies unless she gets vampire blood immediately.

That doesn't stop her though from going down to the weapons room and running her hand across all the weapons, learning about Vlad's past through his his eyes. Thus proving she loves him and not some made up version of him.

Once Leila gets Vlad to admit that he loves her the wedding happens immediately. Yes, I know that we've set aside the actual plot of finding out who kidnapped Leila, for romance but after all it is a paranormal romance.

This also solidifies that Leila is Vlad's greatest weakness. The love that they have is so strong and he is so old fashioned, he MUST protect her. Not to mention is something happened to her, the world would burn. Those were his words somewhere in the book lol.

It takes some effort but Leila does figure out who is behind everything. A witch that Vlad used to bed, Cynthiana. Though she's not in it alone.

However the downfall is, Leila does die. In using her powers too much, this time saving her sister and human friend Sandra from one of Vlad's people turned traitor. Having ingested so much of Vlad's blood though, started the transformation.

Vlad got there just in time to be able to finish turning Leila into a vampire. She had made the choice to turn but her ability of choosing when and easing her family into it was taken from her.

It takes time for her to get herself right again. The bloodlust in the beginning really does make you crazy. Her father stops talking to her because he doesn't approve of her choices yet it's her sister, Gretchen that surprises her.

Gretchen not only approves but since she was there and watched her sister die, she's so elated that Vlad was able to bring her back to her. It actually brought the two closer than they had been in a while.

Together, Leila and Vlad will find who is behind these attacks and together they will bring them down.

As it turns out though, it's just one. An enemy that Vlad thought he had destroyed ages ago. Vlad knows who he is now and it's time to set things right and make sure he's dead....for good this time.

No In Between- Lisa Renee Jones

I started this one about two days ago actually. See I really need to do a better job keeping up with this.

No in Between is the fourth book in Lisa Renee Jones' Inside Out Series. Originally it was a trilogy but I'm finding out that when an author says that there's going to be another couple books after the last one because there is always more to be said.

This series was no different. She could have ended the series after Revealing Us but there's still Ella missing and what's going on with Mark Compton.

In book four, Sara and Chris are back in San Fransisco to "aid" the police investigation of Rebecca's murder. The police there are running all kinds of theories that may or may not be probable.

They had called Sara in Paris to say that Ava was accusing Sara of murdering Rebecca and blackmailed Mark so Ava had confessed to protect her "Master."

Now the cops are switching gears, they are asking questions to see if maybe Sara murdered Rebecca to endure her dream job would stay hers. They are also going down the avenue that maybe Mark had something to do with this mystery and maybe even Chris.

Things have just become a hot mess for everyone involved now. Sara's even going back to work for Allure (Mark's art gallery) for a few weeks while things are getting settled. Mark's mom is battling stage 3 breast cancer and ended up with a blood infection just before he came back to talk to the police.

I can't imagine what Mark is going through right now. All that pain he has just got to be feeling over everything. It honestly makes your heart hurt.

Before I say anything else here's the synopsis from the back of the book so you can draw your own conclusions:

"Was Rebecca murdered--or has she simply vanished? Sara's obsession with Rebecca's fate has already lead her into danger once. Now the woman who nearly killed her is making accusations that implicate Sara in Rebecca's disappearance. Forced to defend herself to police investigators, Sara must expose dark private pleasures that she and her fiance, Chris, share. And while Chris remains strong and supportive, the formerly invincible Mark is crumbling. He's been too intimate a part of their lives to let that happen...but will he accept help?

Although Sara and Chris love each other deeply, the pressure is triggering past pains. To make it through this, they must face and reveal their final fears: Everything must be exposed, and their hearts and bodies will be pushed to the limits. There can be no shame. No more secrets. No in between..."

Yeah, it definitely leaves you wanting more lol.

Mysterious by Nora Roberts Part 2

The second story in this novel is Search for Love.

I will even admit that this one isn't one of my favorites that Nora Roberts has done. I'll read it and like it but not one of my favs.

This time we follow Serenity Smith to Brittany to meet her long lost maternal grandmother. It's only been a short time since her parents had died in a plane crash and now her grandmother has practically summoned her across the ocean to visit.

For Serenity this was her last connection to her mom and she wasn't going to miss out on this opportunity. She had to wonder though, why her parents never spoke about her grandmother...ever.

Soon she would see why. However, first she will meet her kissing cousin, Christophe de Kergallen, who dislikes her on the spot....or at least that's how he makes it seem.

For as much as they fight throughout the story you would think that they hate each other with a passion. Serenity takes great pains to conceal that she's fallen in love with this cold aristocrat.

Even Christophe felt Serenity bewitched him the moment she stepped off the train. But what her Grandmother the Comtesse Francoise de Kergallen has told him of Serenity's father makes what he feels for her wrong.

See, before Serenity was even born the Comtesse had a Raphael that she wanted cleaned  and entrusted her father to do so. She had thought nothing of him being there, seeing as her daughter was already engaged to another man. So the day that she fainted in the garden and told the Comtesse that she was pregnant, it was a great shock.

They decided to go to America after the Comtesse disowned her only daughter. She also labeled him then as a thief.

For she believed that he took her Raphael. It was foolish pride that denied her, her daughter and her granddaughter.

It's up to Serenity to clear her father's name and discover what's beneath that cold pride of her grandmother's. For Serenity is hoping beyond hope that she has just one more family member left in the world.

As for Christophe, he's hoping to win the heart of a feisty American woman and make her his forever.

Seeing how there's french in here you can imagine how I've butchered some of these words in my head lol. It's nice read though, and I'd recommend it.

Mysterious 3 books in 1 by Nora Roberts Part 1

While waiting for the fourth book of the Inside Out series to come in, I started a book by my favorite romance author, Nora Roberts. This one, Mysterious, is a compilation of three books in one. For that reason I will post about this book in three parts. Just to make things easier.

The first one is This Magic Moment, staring main characters of Ryan Swan and Peirce Atkins. Ryan Swan is the daughter of Bennett Swan, the owner (I assume) of Swan Productions and she has fought tooth and nail for where she is in the company.

Bennett Swan had wanted a son and he had done nothing to show otherwise after Ryan's mother had died. In his eyes he gave her the best but in hers, Bennett had just shipped her off for someone else to handle. Ryan works as hard as she does one because she loves her job but also because she hopes that one day he will turn to her and say he's just proud to be her father.

I think all children want that from their parents though. When it doesn't happen that little ray of hope stays and never dies out. We just stop thinking about it and move on with our life.

Pierce Atkins had a hard start to life in general. His father was a drunk that after he had a few drinks liked to beat on his mother. Most of the time he would end up in the closet for most of the beatings but every so often his father would hit him as well. The state took him away from his parents and placed him in an orphanage. Pierce however was unadoptable because though the state took him away, his parents wouldn't sign their rights away.

He had become a magician during his stay in a hospital when he was young. Pierce's story was that he fell down some stairs and they were diagnosing him as paralyzed. Of course he wouldn't accept that so he busted ass every day to make sure he would walk again. When he did, magic was his career choice and he became the best. Famous for escapes, his reasoning will come as perfect to most people.

When he was younger, he was locked in and couldn't get out. Now he can and he keeps coming up with new escapes to prove to himself that he really can escape anything now.

Two people with two very different things to prove, come together in this novel to prove that love can overcome anything....even a dark past.

However their hurdle comes when Ryan learns of the new escape that Pierce plans to do for the special. Priding herself on being a strong woman, when she hears his plans it brings her to her knees. It's too dangerous and it scares her near to death.

The question the whole story comes down to is can she love him as he is?

If we love someone, what right do we really have to ask them to change? Especially if what we want them to change is their way of life?

Revealing Us-Lisa Renee Jones The Complete Overview

Seeing as I complete this book in record time lol this is a whole overview instead of pieces.

Sara has decided to drop everything and go to Paris with Chris. He's so much a part of her that she has to try and make this relationship work. If going to Paris is what it takes for Chris to open up about his past and inner demons, then going to Paris is exactly what she'll do.

This whole book focus on Sara's best friend, Ella's, disappearance and the unveiling of Chris's secrets. The whole trip keeps getting turned upside down for them because Sara is going through emotional hell right now.

Not even a day after they had arrived in Paris, Sara gets a call from the detective back in San Francisco that Ava is trying to pin Rebecca's murder on her and blacked-mailed Mark into getting her position at the gallery. We all know that's not true but Ava's lawyer had to find a defense for the psycho somewhere I guess.

On top of that accusation, no one can seem to get a bead on Ella and it's driving Sara crazy with worry. Lets add one more thing, Sara keeps running into Chris' past everywhere she goes yet he won't open up to her yet.

That's enough to drive any reasonable person insane. If he wanted to test Sara's love for him, taking her to Paris was the way to do it. However, Chris does spill his secret and it has to do with his parents death, and the death of his friend Amber's parents.

See, he was visiting his parents' graves with Amber and her parents when they had walked out there was a 16-yr-old with a gun in his hand. Chris had looked into this boys eyes and seen what he needed to see. If Chris hadn't pulled the trigger and killed him first, he would have killed them all without a second thought.

His regret. Chris' demon that still haunts him, is the fact that he couldn't pull the trigger before the boy killed both of Amber's parents. After that she followed Chris down the wrong path. Using pain to get rid of pain.

A few days later, is the anniversary of his parents death. He laid out his coat and opened a bottle of wine for them. They just sat there and took sips. Wine isn't Chris' thing because that's how his father basically killed himself. Drowning his sorrows in wine.

Instead of letting Chris even think about the whip and trying to get rid of pain with pain, Sara takes him in the house and becomes the dominant for all of two minutes before he snapped out of his wallowing mood. When Sara had woken up she found a map on her pillow to where he was.

Now usually I would tell you the end because it's such a cliff hanger but this time, if you want to know the end you'll have to read it yourself. It was the most sweetest end that I could have imagined. If you don't read it then you'll find out when I finally get the other book lol.

I will say that there is a small epilogue. Ella is alive and in some serious trouble.

Stay tuned lol. You wouldn't want to miss the fun.

Revealing Us- Lisa Renee Jones

I am so ahead of myself right now it's not even funny. This is how addicted to the series I am. When I finished the second book in this series, Being Me, I started the next one right away. I barely even got the post up about the second book before I started it.

However I was so caught up in the book, I finished it in two days. That's me TRYING to stretch the book out because I won't get the next one until tomorrow. Now I finished it on Saturday and I won't get the next book I was missing until tomorrow, Tuesday. That's a long wait for me lol.

Even though I am ahead of myself though I will stick to the way that I've been posting lol. I'll post up the synopsis so you can draw your own conclusions then I'll post everything else lol.

"He has become her life, her heart, her very soul. But he is dark and damaged, and his secrets are many. Sara will risk everything for him. He, in turn, will dare to expose his deepest needs, his most erotic desires. And in the fury of passion he will reveal all that torments him, all that he can never escape. To love him, Sara must embrace the darkest part of him, and become his shelter in a storm that will be his ultimate salvation."

Really it's not as bad as it seems in the synopsis, I can promise you that. Enjoy :)

Being Me- Lisa Renee Jones....DONE!!!!!

Good afternoon everybody. I hope that you have all been enjoying my blog so far this year. I am making a better effort to be on here more. This series though has me enthralled.

As of this afternoon, before my family had even gotten home from grocery shopping today, I finished Being Me. I think this is a record for me, even when it comes to the first time I read Fifty Shades of Grey. I started it at around 8:30 last night and finished around maybe 1;30 or 2 this afternoon.

The ups and downs and twists and turns really got to me to keep reading. Can you see why I love my husband so much now? I totally shut him out for a book lol.

Everything at this time seems fine in Sara and Chris' relationship and things are even ok with her and Mark. Lines have been drawn and Mark swore he won't cross them.

Sara even gets Mark's blessing to go to Los Angeles with Chris to his charity function for cancer. It's there that she meets the little boy that has captured Chris' heart. Dylan has leukemia and there is no doubt that he is dying. The most they can do is make him comfortable and keep his spirits up.

Usually I wouldn't mention sad facts like that except this is a turning point for both Chris and Sara. At the gala function, Sara runs into her ex, Michael. The things he says to her are awful and he tries to blackmail Chris to get Sara to go home with him. It's the past that she wasn't ready to share yet rearing it's ugly head.

Of course Chris sees more than he should when it comes to Sara, so when she runs off to the bathroom he follows her and has two of his female friends keep a look out for him while he tries to talk to her. Bawling her eyes out on the floor of the bathroom she tell Chris. Two years ago she was feeling weak and Michael was being kind and she let him in her door. From that point he forced himself on her. She had said no but then ultimately gave into him and did exactly what he was asking her to do. Sara thought for sure that Chris would hate her after that confession but no, he actually confessed that he loves her.

I was so shocked lol. It's a good thing that I don't really read in public because all eyes would have been on me when I started squealing and laughing. It was a point that you shouldn't laugh and be happy but the moment itself was so sweet that you just can't help it.

Chris took care of her that night and the information didn't change how he thought of her. As he put it, one night doesn't dictate a lifetime. That night had made love to her like never before and it was so sweet.

The next turning point was Chris' turn. It was only a few days after they had returned home that Sara received a call from Dylan's mother. Dylan had just passed away but she was worried about Chris because when she told him, he didn't take the news too well.

Now here, this is where we see the side of Chris that Sara was never supposed to see. The dark side of this protective man. Unlike Fifty Shades of Grey and even the Crossfire Series, Chris does not revel in giving pain. He's not the dominant that we are all used to seeing in other series or even in this one. Chris likes pain.

Mark to her to his club to try and pull Chris back from the edge of the abyss. He honestly thought that Sara was the only one that could and it needed to be done because Chris was pushing limits that were way past safe. When Sara walked into the room and saw that Chris was chained up to some poles and being beaten she was shocked.

That would be enough to shock anyone but she got him to stop....at a price. Broken inside and bleeding on the out, Chris was in agonizing pain that she saw him like that and told her it was over. Chris was trying to protect her from himself and forced her away.

It was a week, I think, that she had just stopped eating. Sara wasn't even sleeping. Mark gave her some more to do in her new client's apartment building that was being built. Seeing as the owner, Ryan, and Mark were friends it was easy to convince Ryan to let her do the work. However it was after the opening night that Sara figured things out. Mark and Ryan offered her a way out of the pain she was drowning in. Master and submissive. Sharing. Everything that Rebecca had done with no feeling whatsoever.

Sara never wanted that life. Not even the pain she felt over Chris could make her choose that life and she ran out. To her surprise, Chris was waiting outside for her. Not one word from him and now all of a sudden he shows up. It's funny. Chris pushed her away and yet drove himself insane without her. Two broken people that NEED each other to pull out of the darkness. Now that is something that doesn't seem to change in any book.

It was that night that they decide to try and work through this and figure it out more. No more secrets, no more shutting each other out. Then there's one other little secret that Sara finds out. Packing to go see Chris' god parents, Sara finds Chris' paint brushes.....that match the one that Rebecca had kept.

That leads to a fight that takes Sara to Mark's house. At the time she knew that she was interrupting something but didn't know what. That is until Ava, the girl she thought that she made friends with and owned the coffee house next to the gallery, came stomping out in only a shirt and with Ryan in tow.

Ava threatened that Mark wasn't going to do the same thing with Sara that he did with Rebecca. She would kill her first before that happened again. Which she did try to do.

In that moment everything happened so fast. Ava had a gun on her and Chris was riding his Harley down the street to get there for her not even knowing what he was walking into. Ava fired a shot that sent Chris crashing and somehow the police got called. Thankfully they arrested her but it put Sar and Chris' relationship on rocky ground.

Chris hated that she turned to Mark for the facts instead of trusting him but even though he vowed it would be over if he found her here, he was giving her another chance. It was that evening that Ava confessed. She had killed Rebecca before she could take Mark back again. Very nearly killed Sara for the same reason except that's never been the relationship between her and Mark.

Ella is still missing and there's a gaping void in Sara's heart at the distance that Chris has put between them. Sara spent that night in Ella's empty apartment. Chris showed up for all of five minutes with another one of his little tests. He's leaving for Paris in the morning and he wants her to go with him.

There were no fluttery words, no romance just a simple if you want to know all of me then this is where you'll find it. Just leaving her there and the book in an emotional turmoil.

Does she go and risk her heart again for this man or does she stay and try to make a life for herself again?

Being Me 50% Through

We have officially hit the half-way point in the book and everyone should consider themselves lucky that I stopped reading long enough to post this lol. I really didn't want to put the book down at all.

Rebecca is still missing and all the clues point in different directions. Things between Sara and Chris are getting more serious which is leading her deeper into confusion. Mark is still dark and overbearing with minor moments of humor.

We're getting closer though to what is happening with Rebecca. Chris did as promised and hired a P.I to find out what is going on. So far all we know is that she did go on vacation with the boyfriend but she came back early and alone. There's no way to track her yet because she doesn't own a car and she didn't rent one at the airport. We have also discovered that someone else has also hired a P.I but not to find Rebecca. They hired him to find her journals.

Even though no names were mentioned in them, someone wants them bad enough to hire a P.I to find them. That was who was in the storage unit with Sara at the end of If I Were You and the beginning of this book.

The relationship with Sara and Chris is getting deeper. He has asked her to move in with him and she doesn't know quite how to answer that. It's only been a few weeks after all and the major fear right now is that she loves Chris and it's not reciprocated.

Boundaries are still being tested and they're still trying to figure out how to be together without destroying each other. Both people are broken in different ways and neither has told the other what is actually broken. It's all in bits and pieces.

Sara is determined though to tell Chris her dark secret and lie. Will he stay with her after she tells him though is a big fear.

I just HAVE to get back to this book. Check in later lol

Being Me- Lisa Renee Jones

Book two of this year is the second book in Lisa Renee Jones' Inside Out Series. I have become thoroughly addicted to this series, much like with Fifty Shades and Crossfire.

I never expected it to be this good when I started reading this series but the mystery of it has me completely wrapped up.

Before I give too much away I want to provide the synopsis from the back of the book. With the first book I just jumped into it and never gave anyone time to make their own assumptions or draw their own opinions.

"Sara McMillan is still searching for Rebecca, the mysterious woman whose dark, erotic journal entries both enthralled and frightened her. Tormented by a strong desire to indulge the demands of her new boss while also drawn deeper into her passionate bond with the troubled artist, Chris Merit, Sara must face a past as deeply haunting as Rebecca's written words. In one man's arms, Sara will find the safe haven to reveal her most intimate secrets and explore her darkest fantasies. But is safety just an illusion, when the truth about Rebecca has yet to be discovered?"

So there is the back of the book. What are your thoughts?

If I Were You- The Middle to End

I last left you with Sara going to the art gallery the night of the Alvarez showing.

That night she met two different men that left her breathless. The first was Chris Merritt, though she didn't know at the time she was talking to the amazing artist. The other was the owner of the gallery, Mark Compton.

Showing off her skills with art by selling a painting to a couple that couldn't make up their mind between two Chris Merritt paintings. Doing this earned her Rebecca's job during the summer. It's hard for Sara to be around Mark because he's so intimidating.

Mark has that air of it's mine and so are you. Every time they meet, there's an underlying tone that Mark wants Sara but he never says it.

Chris on the other hand knows that he wants Sara and doesn't keep it a secret. Go figure the bad boy artist is who she's leaning to.

The problem is that Mark and Chris know each other and every time they're around each other it feels like she is just a pawn in a game that the two men are playing. She remembers what it's like to just be a pawn and she never wants to be like that again.

Chris just seems to know how to push all of her buttons and in the right way. He's honest and dominant. Sara hates taking orders but the first order he gave her she was too hot and bothered to care.

Sara is trying to stay guarded because she knows that Chris will eventually leave but he's throwing off hints that he wants to be together more officially yet he won't actually say it.

One night they go to her apartment, against her wishes might I add, and Chris finds Rebecca's journals on her coffee table. She spills her secret about looking for her and he explodes for a few minutes because of what he's read in the journal.

It was an entry about being bound and making this master of hers happy but she was confused by it as well. At the time we don't know but infer that this is what Chris is into. Everything that he's done, warning her away and how he's so dominant in the bedroom (or wherever lol), this is what he does.

However he doesn't want Sara to go into this alone for fear of her safety. Chris surprises her and says that they will hire a private detective to find out what's going on.

When she goes into work the day after that, Mark shows her the video of the tape showing Chris pushing her against the wall and kissing her in the art gallery. He is trying to make her see that Chris is just manipulating her and that he owns her. None of this is sitting right with her and Chris is leaving the next day.

Sara cancels dinner with Chris to stay late at work, just to think about what's going on. She's falling for this guy even though logic says not to and it shouldn't be love yet. When she finally leaves, Chris is waiting for her.

This is where the big secret is revealed. Yes, Chris knew about the camera. No, he didn't put on a show for Mark, he just forgot about it because all he saw was Sara. No, he's not sorry that Mark saw it because he knows exactly where Mark wants Sara.

To prove it, Chris takes her for a ride to a place that Mark owns. It's a BDSM palace. All Chris does is get a room with a live feed in it to show her what Mark wants to do to her.

That wakes Sara up in a horrible way. Now she has it in her mind that she can't be what he needs because she can't be what was in that room. Chris is generous and gives her space to think.

Sara wakes up the next morning, remembering Chris has left early that morning and now it's a full week of just thinking about her choices. To her surprise though there is something waiting for her.

Chris drew her when she was pressed, naked up against the glass the first time they had sex in his apartment. It had a little note saying "You're all I Need". Now if that isn't sweet, I don't know what is.

Sara's ready to admit that he's her drug right now and that she misses him terribly. However she's been neglecting to try and find Rebecca which is the whole point of her being in the world.

Sara makes calls to Rebecca's building manager and a few other contacts that she found but none of them are helpful. The last thing she decides to do for the night is go back to the storage unit and see if she can hunt up more clues.

Lisa Renee Jones leaves us with the fact that there is someone else in the unit with Sara.

Literally lol, that is the end of book one.

If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones

This is my first book of the new year and I have to say I picked a good one. I'm about 44% of the way through it according to GoodReads, in my terms I'm on chapter 15 lol.

So far we have Sara McMillan, a poor high school teacher with a dream of working in the art field. Her best friend, Ella, buys a storage container as her latest venture that has many hidden secrets. Ella rushes off in the middle of the night to get married, leaving the storage container in Sara's hands.

In this storage container lies journals of a woman named Rebecca. Rebecca's journals are very erotic and for a school teacher that has a scarred past and no current life, reading them was exciting. Until Sara came upon more troubling entries.

These entries lead her to look for Rebecca. Sara just wants to know that she is alright and to return her things to her. This path leads her to her dream.

Sara has always wanted to work around art, however she knew that dreams don't pay the bills. When she finds out that Rebecca works at one of the more prestigious art galleries, Sara gets immediately fascinated.

Every time Sara calls to talk to Rebecca, every person says that she is on a type of vacation. The gallery hosted an Alverez art show for charity that week, giving Sara the PERFECT excuse for her to indulge herself and also to go and physically seek out Rebecca.

That night changed her life.....

Feel free to contemplate on those changes and I'll be back with more later on today because that's just the beginning.

It's Here FINALLY IT'S HERE!!!!!

You guessed it right!!! Today is the official release of the much awaited fourth book in the Crossfire series, Captivated by You.

If you have read the first three books like my mother in law and I then you know why this is such a huge deal. Like Fifty Shades of Grey this series was highly addictive, so when Sylvia Day left the third one the way she did, it upset a lot of fans.

If you're like me you waited until all the books came out to read it. My mother in law warned me that I would get addicted to them, that's why I waited. But then Entwined with You left me hanging and it was a whole nother year for this one.

Thankfully I pre-ordered the book so I will get my copy by the end of the week. If you've already read the book no spoilers lol.

Facebook has the first three chapters on there. I read those and now I'm even more itchy for the book now.