Undone
by Elisabeth Naughton
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating persons.
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Behind the doors of the House of Sin, no one is ever safe…
I love him. It’s the only truth that matters now.
I’ve cast my old life aside and given myself fully to his wants and desires, to the fire he alone ignites inside me. And together, we’ve found strength and salvation in each other.
But there are evil forces, people who see me as a threat that must be undone. I trust that our love can withstand any test, but I can’t ignore the growing shadows lurking beyond our door.
Because I understand now that those shadows are not waiting to destroy me as I once feared. They’ve come for him. To steal him away from me for good. And to finally and completely engulf him in a sinister world he’s eluded for so long.
In the inescapable darkness of the House of Sin…
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My Thoughts:
Natalie Salvatici starts us off right from where Deceived left off. I didn’t think this series could get any more
disgusting but this author’s imagination is endless. Luc Salvatici thinks he’s doing the right
thing but it’s going to be tough. At
times he’ll speak in his native tongue.
If you don’t know languages you may try to sound them out, check a
dictionary, or skim over them. But it is
still romantic. So that’s when you need
a nice person who can speak them to you – nothing like putting you in the mood.
For me, this book was the most emotional of the series. At times it may be hard to see but it’s still
there. Their love will shine
through. It’s not a series that’s all
romance. It’s something that you need to
experience. There’s just so much going
on that involves feelings – anger, fear, happiness, apprehension,
satisfaction. So if you like a story
that’s going to poke at your emotions than this book will do that for you. And there will be times where you will be on
the edge of your seat. But be warned
that you’ll miss a lot if you don’t start this series from the beginning. Another reason would be because of the happy
ending. Plus the previous books don’t
have an ending. But we get another happy
ending with this book because our author has a novella coming our way.
Excerpt:
“What are you doing?” He held up two hands and shuffled back until he hit the shower wall. “Get out of here.”
I stepped toward him. “I’m not going anywhere.”
“Natalie, this isn’t funny.” An edge of panic rose up in his voice as he held his hands out further in front of him, trying to prevent me from touching him. “Just leave, okay?”
I shook my head. “I made you a promise, remember? I, Natalie, take you, Luc, as my husband...”
“Cazzo.” His eyes slammed shut, and he shook his head, a pained expression crossing his features. One I was desperate to kiss away. “Don’t. Just don’t, please.”
I was done letting him push me around. He needed this. I needed it too. “I promise to be faithful to you always.”
He groaned and dropped his head, his hands beginning to shake.
I moved closer, until his heat and the sexy scent of his skin surrounded me.
“In joy and pain.” I reached his hands and gently pushed them to the side. “In health and sickness. And I promise to love you and honor you, every day, for the rest of my life.”
“Merda. Please don’t...”
His chest rose and fell with his rapid breaths. He didn’t try to touch me, just let his hands fall to the shower wall at his back. But he didn’t open his eyes either, and he didn’t make any move to run from me.
“Luc...” I placed my hands on his sexy abs, loving the way he flinched under my touch but didn’t pull away. “Nothing about my promise to you has changed.” I pressed my lips against his chest very lightly. “And you didn’t break your promise to me. Not even the tiniest bit.”
Deceived
by Elisabeth Naughton
Publication Date: May 15, 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Some doors were never meant to be opened…
I made a fateful mistake. I should never have peeked behind the doors into his forbidden world.
But I did, and now I’m a prisoner. Trapped by the man I thought I loved. The man I once foolishly trusted. The man who, despite his lies and deception, I continue to crave.
He can melt my resolve with one rough, whispered demand, and I feel myself giving in to the desire he still stirs inside me. And yet, if I want to survive, I must find a way to escape. Because if I don’t, I’m afraid I’ll be consumed by a shadowy world that will ultimately destroy me.
Lost forever in his wicked House of Sin…
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Excerpt:
“I...I’m sorry about last night,” I managed, my voice raspy and weak and sounding nothing like mine. I shook my head, hating this never-ending tension between us. “I shouldn’t have gone out to the living room to—”
“I’m not.”
My eyes popped open. Sure I’d heard him wrong, I stared at him.
He met my gaze head-on, his incredibly unique eyes with that one odd pupil no longer somber or sad but very focused and as fierce as a hurricane. “I’m not sorry about last night, and I don’t want you to be either.”
For a heartbeat, I didn’t move. Was sure I’d imagined that answer. But the longer his gaze held mine and the deeper he looked into my eyes, the harder it was for me to believe him. Especially when those emotions were welling inside me all over again, feeding off every one of my fears and neuroses and doubts.”
I closed my eyes, willing the dam to hold so he wouldn’t see. “Don’t say that,” I whispered. “You don’t have to say things you don’t mean just make me feel bet—”
My chair jerked to the left, the movement shooting my eyes open and tensing my body. Luc stood leaning over me, his hands on both armrests of my seat, his face only inches from mine, his eyes as wild and stormy as they’d ever been.
“Get this through your head right now. Everything I’ve ever said to you has been the truth. I don’t say things I don’t mean. I’m not sorry about last night. I’ve been dying to get my hands on you for weeks. I want to put my hands on you right this second, only I’m fighting that urge because I don’t want to scare you any more than I already have. And I guarantee later today when I’m gone I’m going to be plotting all the ways I can put my hands on you tonight when I get back.
“I know I fucked things up between us, and I’m trying like hell to fix them, but that doesn’t mean I’m lying to you. I didn’t tell you the details of what happened with Dante yesterday because I didn’t know how to tell you without stressing you out. I handled it badly, and I’m sorry for that. I’m sorry that everything I’m doing is only making things worse between us, but I swear to you that’s not my intention. I’m not trying to hurt you, Natalie. I’m trying to protect you. And I promise I’ll try to be better about sharing with you what’s going on. But don’t you dare tell me what I think or feel or mean or want, mannaggia. I know what I want. I want you. I want us. And more than anything, I want you to believe in me the way you did before everything went to shit, because nothing I’m doing to try to get us out of this fuckstorm means a goddamn thing if I don’t have you on my side.”
My heart stuttered as I stared at him, his words spinning in my head in the silence that followed. Then very slowly, it picked up speed until it was a whir in my ears.
Of all the things I’d expected him to say in response to my apology, that wasn’t it. That wasn’t even close to how I thought he’d react.
“I...” My tongue was dry, so dry I had to swallow to find the words. “I do believe in you,” I whispered, my heart suddenly pounding in my chest. “I’m just...scared.”
“Cazzo. I’m scared too, but if you give in to that fear, they win. They don’t want us together. You know that, don’t you? All the shit happening around us and the fact you can’t leave this estate is because they don’t want you in my life. But you know what? I don’t give a righteous fuck what they want. This is our life, not theirs. I have no intention of giving you up. You’re mine and I’m yours and everyone else can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.”
He captured my mouth in a hard, swift kiss that stole my breath. It wasn’t brutal, but it wasn’t sweet either. It was possessive and domineering, and when he dipped into my mouth and tasted me with his sinful tongue, I felt like the center of the universe, like every moment was spinning outward from this one.
Spinning outward from us.
Forbidden
by Elisabeth Naughton
Publication Date: April 24, 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
She has no idea what lurks behind the forbidden doors of the House of Sin…
He is temptation. Forbidden fruit. A craving I can’t seem to resist.
I went after him in search of answers, certain he had blood on his hands. Now I’ve fallen prey to his seductive looks and commanding charisma.
I know he is a threat. He’s entwined in a dangerous world I don’t understand. But that doesn’t stop me from aching for his touch, for the taste of his wicked lips.
Before I can truly surrender to the fire smoldering between us, I need to know more. I have to see behind the doors he keeps firmly locked.
I need to discover what he’s hiding in the shadowy world known as the House of Sin…
**WARNING!**
This book is very sexy, very dark, and very addictive! Contains consensual kink and a dark and dominant hero with a dangerous secret.
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Excerpt:
“You don’t want me,” he whispered in a lifeless voice, one I’d never heard from him. “You want a taste of the forbidden. Of what you think you saw at that party in New York. But what’s in me is not the same. It’s worse. It’s a darkness you can’t even imagine. And if you stay, it will devour you too.”
My heart thumped hard against my ribs as I tried to make sense of what he’d just said. I hadn’t been afraid once since I’d been with him, but I couldn’t deny the alarm sounding in my head as I looked into his haunted eyes. Because that was what they were, I realized. Haunted. By shadows and memories that sent icy fingers of dread down my spine. Whatever he was remembering, whatever he struggled with was so terrifying, it had just sucked the life out of his eyes right in front of me, leaving behind only a ghost of the man I’d spent the last few days with.
Could I survive that kind of darkness? I swallowed hard, trying to think.
He was right. What drew me to him wasn’t just his animal magnetism or his insanely good looks or even his overwhelming, protective nature. I was drawn to the very thing he seemed desperate to keep from me. To the danger swirling around him. To the shadows lurking in his eyes. To that forbidden darkness buried inside that was at the root of his need for dominance and control and even his hunger for me.
About Elisabeth Naughton:
Before topping multiple bestseller lists—including those of the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal—award winning author Elisabeth Naughton taught middle school science. A voracious reader, she soon discovered she had a knack for creating stories with a chemistry of their own. The spark turned into a flame, and Elisabeth now writes full-time.
Elisabeth has penned over thirty books and continues to write in multiple genres. Her books have been translated into numerous languages and have earned several award nominations, including three prestigious RITA® nominations from Romance Writers of America. In 2017, REPRESSED, the first book in her Deadly Secrets series, won the RITA® for best romantic suspense.
Her work has been praised by the Chicago Tribune as being filled with “deadly intrigue, high adrenaline action, and scorchingly hot passion.” Kirkus calls her “a writer talented enough at weaving a yarn to get her readers ensnared in it.” When not dreaming up new stories, Elisabeth can be found spending time with her husband and three children in their western Oregon home, wrangling two needy cats, or chasing after one very rambunctious Dalmatian.
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