Kit del Bianco doesn't recognize the word 'no'. His striking good looks and his family's vast wealth and political power can very well afford him almost anything. Any woman he covets, he gets. He has never encountered a woman who didn't want him, or at least a piece of him. Until now.
Bettina Palermo is hauntingly beautiful but elusive as a unicorn. Finally, Kit meets a woman capable of outwitting him at every turn. Her open defiance of him ignites a raging fire in his blood, a challenge he cannot resist. For the first time in his life, he desires someone with frightening intensity and she doesn't come easy. Or cheap. He wants her for pleasure, but her price tag is a wedding ring. Something he cannot afford.
Ina used to love Kit with all her heart. But he betrayed her in a manner that she cannot forgive. She is alive for only one reason-- to make Kit del Bianco suffer. Her thirst for revenge is unquenchable, her will, unstoppable. She would sell herself to the devil to get even with Kit.
NOTE: This novel was written in 60% English, 40% Filipino.
Eve Montelibano is an Interior Designer and a hopeless romantic. That said, she couldn't be blamed for the amount of cheese and cream you'll find in her books. She loves to write about jaded, super alpha heroes and spunky, sassy heroines.and enjoys putting them in a lot of sticky, steamy, sweaty situations. Definitely not for the fainthearted.
Her favorite authors are Jackie Collins (modern fiction) and Robert Greene (Philosophy). Her major influences in romance writing are Brenda Joyce, Linda Howard, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught, Susan Johnson, Penelope Williamson, to name a few.
This is the book that I could sadly say I have read only twice. Why?
One, it hurts to relive Lizzy’s hardship and agony; her bullies, her friendship and relationship with Kit, the rape, the death of her person and of her heart.
Two, it’s heavy to relive Kit’s anguish and angst; his family, his friendship with Lizzy, his almost shot at redemption, his addiction, his abuse, David and Lizzy’s loss, the death of his person and of his heart.
Three, it’s a pain to see through Ina’s vengeance and deception; her rise from the ashes, her planned destruction, her vendetta, the discovery of unfounded truth that made her quest an utter path to self-death, Kit’s almost death, yet almost another death of a wounded person and heart.
In my opinion, and mine alone, this is Eve Montelibano's darkest novel yet. And as dark as it can get, it brought me pain and tears and a handful of emotion I’ve never experienced in my entire existence.
I know in time I’ll find the courage to flip through the pages again. In time I’ll shed a bucketful of tears as I try to relive the agony. And in time, I’ll be able relive what I consider as an arduous trek to truth and forgiveness of Lizzy, Kit, and Ina. But until then, I’ll just run my fingers through the cover and trace the face of the personification of life, death, and redemption.
Ms. Eve is one of my favorite filipina romance author. I admire all of her works especially her series Lothario.
In all of her books in her second batch of Lothario. Kit is the second book that made me cry next to Blue del Rosario in Batch One. I can feel all of the emotions while I'm reading the books. Especially Bettina's and Kit's. The Romance, the anguish and all of kinds of emotions once you read this book.
The reason why i feel inlove bigtime. First book from LOVEMATCH that i read. And gosh until now, i still cant described my feelings. Love myKIT forever.
heart wrenching. ouch kit... im speechless... but i really like it :) ♥ this is my first read from ms. eve and its really worthy :) ♥ more power ms. eve ♥ ♥ ♥ :)