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All Good Things Absolved

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“I don’t care what bridges crumble or what ocean stands in the way, I’ll always find my way to you because I was born for this – with you. I was made to fill you and you were made to complete me.” – Jace Rush.

The epic love story of two wounded hearts comes to a conclusion in this captivating, heartwarming novel. An unexpected turn of events forces Jace and Olivia to fight their fears of the unknown and dive headfirst into a life they’d always dreamed about but never believed they would ever be complete enough to live. Olivia is pregnant and at first, the fear is too much – it crushes down around her heart until she feels desperate for reprieve. The only thing keeping her head above water is the smile on Jace’s face and the light in his eyes. He believes they possess the ability to parent an innocent soul and it is his belief that shatters her resolve. In a moment where every dream changes and every aspiration is challenged, the two decide to walk hand in hand into the unknown – encased in only their love.

161 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2013

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Alannah Carbonneau

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Born and raised in Alberta, Canada, Alannah Carbonneau is only a short drive away from the Rocky Mountains that have a staring place in so many of her novels. With seventeen novels and counting currently available on Amazon, Alannah is not only a full-time author, but a full-time mom of two beautiful boys, and wife to an amazing man who always has her back. She lives in a rambling ranch house that needs way too many renos and has one too many cats, but she is happy and in love.

With a solid circle of friends and family, and a very manly, supportive husband who does his best to make sure his family is taken care of, Alannah’s novels feature manly men (sometimes they can be a LOT manly) and friend/family relationships weaved into the stories, because life is about a whole mess of people, and although this is fiction, the best fiction is sprinkled with sweet (and sometimes not so sweet) bits of reality.

Because she loves romance, Alannah writes Contemporary and New Adult Romance. Soon to be released is the Creekwood Valley Series that has ties to the reader beloved Donnelley Brother Series, where light suspense and romance weave to create titillating stories that not only steal your heart but keep you on the edge of your seat. She is the author of the highly rated Teach Me Series, an emotional read about love, life and lessons learned. Our Dark Design is a standalone erotic romance peppered with enough suspense to keep you turning the pages, and The Choice is an entirely unconventional standalone romance about three.

She is currently working on a Cross World Fantasy Romance Series for Adults she can’t wait to share with you, because this will feature hot men who are a little bit dominant and a lot protective who are head over heels in love with stubborn, magnificent women.

When Alannah isn’t writing or spending time with her three men, she can be found in her garden, or with a paint brush in hand. But no matter where she is or what she’s doing, you can bet that she’s thinking of a love story she can share with you.

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March 18, 2023
All Good Things Absolved is Fifty Shades Freed.

That's it. That's the review. Good night, everybody!



HA. I'm not letting you off that easy, Alannah.

In the previous installment, Olivia and Jace had just learned that constant, repetitive sex between a fertile woman and a fertile man occasionally results in fertilization. Being in her early 20s and never having discussed the matter with Jace before, Olivia doesn't feel prepared to raise his child. Jace tells her they're having the baby, dammit, and to hell with her reservations. His last girlfriend—I'm sorry, the bitch—had an abortion without asking his permission first, and he still has feelings about it. Besides, browbeating Olivia into giving up her home, her career, and her right to privacy was only the beginning. It's only natural that her reproductive rights follow.

I really, really didn't want to get into this in a Goodreads review, so I'll keep it brief. I planned my pregnancy very carefully. It came at a time when my husband and I felt financially and emotionally prepared for it. Our son is 18 months old now, and I'm still grappling with a lack of confidence in myself as a mother. And I'm 33. To foist that on someone 10 years younger than me, without so much as a "So, how do you feel about kids?" chat beforehand, because of his trauma, just puts the last nail in the coffin of Jace's redeemability.

No, wait. That was when he, who had suspected her pregnancy for weeks, scheduled her medical appointment with the OB/GYN without telling her which practice they were visiting.



You may be tempted to point out that he has unlimited resources, such that they could live like Edwardian toffs who only see their children for an hour at teatime and leave the rest to a proper nanny. But Olivia grew up that way, and she didn't like it. Jace thinks the fact that she wants to be a hands-on mother and cares about getting it right is proof that she's ready for it. It's not. As for his readiness to be a father... well, I'm not optimistic, let's just say that.



Don't worry, Olivia does want the baby deep down for realsies, so none of this matters. You know what does? The fact that she's got a case of the pregnant hornts and he's beating his meat in the shower instead of drilling her like a patch of unsullied Alaskan wilderness. That's also the fault of the bitch, who claimed his rough prenatal fucking caused her to miscarry before he found out that she aborted. In fact, sex during pregnancy is perfectly safe, unless your OB finds a medical reason for you to avoid it. But these two will go on to have it so often and so enthusiastically that you'd think Olivia's body wasn't changing at all. You'd also think they have nothing else in common.

Just a reminder: They have nothing else in common.

Enter the Savior. He's sent Olivia a diamond-studded black leather collar, as a symbol of how she's "gallivanting around like a bitch in heat" with Jace. Hey, Savior, you can get a decent-quality collar at Petco for a tenner. Are you trying to dress her like Zsa Zsa Gabor's dog or something?

Turns out Jace knows who the Savior is and in fact has "known for a while." He's Olivia's unfaithful ex-boyfriend, foisted upon her by her own family for rich-people reasons, and the son of the man who employed Jace's father's BFF. (Everybody got that?) Jace hated that guy and pulled his family's portfolio from their investment company, so the Savior is out for double revenge. His real name is Bryce Cane. Of course it is. Cane/Kane/Cain, like Hyde, is one of those surnames that immediately sets off the EEEEEEEEEEEVIL alarm for everyone who's ever read fiction before. It's the fastest way to warn the reader of incoming villainy without actually using the name "Antichrist."



Next we have the first of many plot beats shamelessly cribbed from Fifty Shades. In fact, let's start counting. The bitch, also known as Lexie, shows up at Jace's office the day Olivia is scheduled to write from there. Jace sends Olivia out of the room so he can deal with Lexie privately. Olivia gets jealous and weepy about it.



Lexie tries to convince Jace that Olivia isn't the woman for him. Then she tells him she's been getting letters from the Savior instructing her to keep Jace and Olivia apart. But Jace has made it this far assimilating Olivia into the Jaceborg, so he won't hear any of it. He gets Lexie thrown out of the building amid a hail of misogynistic slurs.

Jace and Olivia get married and fuck in the bedroom of his private plane en route to their honeymoon destination.



The Maldives, if you want to know. At least that's kind of inventive. Jace is unshakably convinced that the baby will be a girl, and he pledges to teach her the value of a dollar and what it means to work. It's good for children to understand these things. Not so good for a wife, though, apparently.

The honeymoon is interrupted by a call about a security issue back home.



Lexie has been found murdered. Jace only cares inasmuch as he's sure this is the work of Olivia's stalker. What becomes of Lexie's remains is unknown, but I have a feeling someone's going to take her to a taxidermist so Jace can make her watch as he rails Olivia. Forever.

Jace and Olivia's honeymoon sounds exhausting. All they actually do is eat and fuck, but every two hours in between, they make long, overwrought declarations of love to each other. My honeymoon was lovely and romantic, but if Mr. Jess kept finding excuses to monologue about life and vulnerability and the brightness of his soul, I'd have thrown him into the volcano we climbed. Just have a goddamn conversation like human beings! It's not that hard!

Then Jace tells Olivia that her stalker is Bruce McVillainson or whatever his name was. Olivia rejects this theory out of hand: He's a playboy douchebag who never cares about women. She's rightfully angry that Jace kept this from her as long as he did. Jace fucks her into forgiving him, warning her that she'll "never keep [her] body from" him.

Maybe this guy wants to kill Jace for stealing all his best lines.

One of Olivia's servers has intercepted another gift from Brett Satansburg: a blue butterfly encased in glass, much like the tattoo behind her ear. He reminds her that "all butterflies can be caught" and that he'll "clip" her "wings." Too late. She's basically back to being in a cocoon.

Back in New York, Jace takes Olivia to Long Island, where the beautiful coastal mansion he bought and had remodeled for them awaits.



They're still doing bondage in her second trimester. How does she have the energy for this? I could barely even bend down to put dishes in the dishwasher by the second trimester, and she's got the spreader bar on.

One of Jace's spies gives him the lowdown on Brent Vanderhole: He doesn't care about women until they dump him, and then he starts making with the stalking and the raping and the drugging. He keeps careful track of his targets' daily schedule so he knows exactly where to find them. Sometimes he can manipulate them into consoling him when he complains about "his seemingly perfect life, and his overbearing father." And as we've already seen through his letters, he insists these women belong to him in spite of their repeated attempts to get away from him.

Wow. A guy who would do all these things sounds just horrible, doesn't he? How could any woman ever bring herself to love and marry and bear a child with someone like that?

You can't see me, but I'm glaring at you until you admit I'm right.

Olivia goes to her old apartment to pick something up, only to find Brad Jerkowski waiting for her with a gun.



He tied Trisha to a chair beforehand.



He nearly torture-rapes Olivia, but after a protracted struggle and a whole lot of villain monologuing, she wallops him in the head with a stone elephant.

The climax of this series involves a depressed skull fracture by way of a stone elephant.

A. STONE. ELEPHANT.

I... I can't even... this is too good. This is simply amazing. If I ever get around to writing that novel I had in mind about a homeless woman struggling to survive Whitechapel while Jack the Ripper is on the loose, I'm going to have him change his usual MO and pour boiling hot cheese on her. That's how ridiculous this scene is made with the introduction of the stone elephant.

Brock Scumley gets 15 years in "Ryker's Prison." Nobody thinks this is good enough. Luckily one of Jace's goons has a hitman father in the same jail. Isn't that lucky?

The book ends with a happy family Christmas, followed by a nice hard fuck and yet another vow of everlasting love.



Between Jace and Olivia, you sickos. By now they've had two children, a daughter named Addison and a son named Hudson. Olivia's already pregnant with another boy, who I assume will be named Jackson or Emerson or Harrison or Mason or Tyson or Nelson or Orson or Wilson or Jefferson or Edison or Jetson. Either way, those will be three very fucked-up kids.

Now isn't it nice to know that if a guy follows you around everywhere, intrudes on every aspect of your life, makes you utterly dependent on him for your most basic needs, and insists on chipping away at more and more of your liberty for (allegedly) the sake of your own safety, all this can be yours?

Be grateful for your non-alpha-billionaire husbands, ladies. You're luckier to have them than you know.
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March 7, 2016
A Wonderful Finale for an Awesome Series!

Having read the first and second installments of this series, there were two major questions on the forefront of my mind. I want to know who the heck is Saviour? and can Olivia handle the life-altering news she received at the end of All Good Things Exposed?

If I said the characters grew on me far more in this book than in the first two books, would you believe me? I hope you do because, yes they did! I'll concede Olivia may have her moments of selfishness and her at-time capricious attitude gets the best of her. However, there are greater forces at work here, and she isn't entirely to blame for her abrupt and rash reasoning skills.

Jace Rush, oh how I love thee. He has wormed his way into my heart and I'm so happy with the methods of his madness. You need to put yourself in his shoes to understand the lengths he will go in order to take care of Olivia - now more than ever.

In this book Saviour's identity is revealed, and sometimes the people you least expect are those who hurt you the most. The writing in this novel was sound and honest, brief, and to the point.

And the one thing I love most about the ending to this trilogy? We get a Happy Ever After that has left me feeling happy and ultimately satisfied.

Well done, Ms. Carbonneau. Five Stars. Brava.
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218 reviews8 followers
July 31, 2014
Oh my word !!

I have finished this trilogy and I honestly dont have a single emotion to pin point how I feel right now! I have a mired of mixed emotions coursing in me - elation at reading such a wonderful story and also sadness that the story of Jace and Olivia has come to a close.

This series is one of my favourite erotica romance ones Ive read and I will most certainly be adding it to my "go back too" list for re-reading over again.

There is emotion and depth to the writing from this author and her descriptive words totally pull you into the world she has created and contained between the pages of this book.

I love a good hot sexy alpha male businessman that dominates in all aspects of his domain - this is exactly what you get with Jace Rush. However Alannah delivers a vulnerability in Jace that makes him raw and real.
Jace Rush has climbed the ranks of my book boyfriend's list for certain.

This trilogy is a 100% 5☆ read.

While it may be 3 books its one beautifully written story of two lost souls connecting and completing one another through raw love in the purest form.

Stunning writing from Author Alannah Carbonneau I look forward to more of her work.
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7 reviews
January 17, 2015
Omg I completely forgot to mark that I was reading it. Anyway, I read the whole trilogy and I REALLY LOVED IT!! <3
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765 reviews22 followers
January 16, 2019
50 shades to the very end, from the antagonist to the wedding, from the best friend to the kid. This is exactly what soccer moms are after if they couldn't get enough of the 50 shades, but also couldn't accept anything new. I guess we have Obama to blame for this complacent behavior.
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August 7, 2021
Still an okay book. Pretty good ending though
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August 4, 2021
The story is quite complicated. I read the second book at first then i go straight to the finale. I didn’t read the first book cause of my dumbass typo but I’m GLAD I DIDN’T READ IT CAUSE I READ FROM THE REVIEWS HERE THAT THE FIRST BOOK WAS VERY ANNOYING! I hate that this book have annoying bitches and separation but not too long tho. Like only for seven weeks. The guy is stubborn and also the girl too but the guy really wants her sooo bad. So possessive and alpha male kinda guy! So the whole book is hot too, no cheating and happy ending.

Trigger: accidents and depression.


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879 reviews
June 19, 2016
The conclusion and HEA of Olivia and Jace Rush's story. We celebrate the deep bordering on obsessive love between Jace and Olivia. They are better together than they are apart. The mystery surrounding the letters is resolved and although it was horrible it was a bit anticlimactic when it was all over. I was expecting another stay in hospital, big dramas with Olivia's family but it wasn't that at all... There was a hint to a story behind the last time Olivia wore a white dress as a child and it was again hinted in a confrontation with her ex but we never got that story.

Anyway this book was good... Just fell a little short of being brilliant.

To be honest I was expecting it to be darker than it was, all that talk of Jace being a monster was merely because he's into BDSM? Hmm ok... And what was the story behind his past with his father? The more I think about these books the more questions I have, and that's not a good thing. I don't need another book, these questions could have been answered in the books.. Oh well. Good reads though

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July 15, 2014
I've just finished the whole series and promised to give an honest review.

I loved this series! Stunning writing with believable characters.

I swear I totally thought this was going one way and it went in the complete opposite direction.

Millionaire heartthrob and a girl who won't back down I love it.

What a damn rush!!!! I'm blown away with how amazing this series finished. Completely shocked throughout I could not tell you I foreseen some of these outcomes. Bloody brilliant!!!!
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558 reviews
August 13, 2015
What a great ending to such a beautifully written series. The entire series had its ups and downs and had my emotions all over but I loved every minute of it. The love that Olivia and Jace have not many would understand but in the end it really didn't matter as long as they understood about the love that they had for each other. I couldn't have asked for more.
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December 22, 2014
brilliant fifnis to a brilliant book. Thumbs up to the author
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381 reviews
December 25, 2015
I liked this series. It had love and suspense, but I don't understand why she never finds out he we'd in the military.
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375 reviews6 followers
August 17, 2016
This was a great ending to Jace and Olivia's story. I loved this couple and am sad to see there story end.
370 reviews1 follower
August 16, 2018
Wrapped in a bow

I loved how this story was wrapped up. It makes me hopeful to follow the other characters storyline if there is one. Great suspence but an even better story line.
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