HANK and CIERRA
Oh my! This book is amazing! I absolutely loved Hank and Cierra. They manage to create interest, intrigue, suspense, make you sit at the edge of the seat, the push, the pull, the subterfuge, the truth, and the lies, all blend in beautifully to create this book.
Hank Manicini is an enigma. Throughout the book, it’s unclear who Hank Mancini really is. A businessman? The mafia? A villain? Or a hero? Because he is ALL of them.
He is obscenely rich, with unlimited resources, spies, and connections, and with him at the head, controlling it all with just a push of a button.
But he is still a man, who cares deeply for his mother, loves his brother, even allows his sister-in-law to sass him. He maybe a villain, larger than life, but is the centre of his family.
He is still a man who goes above and beyond to eliminate the worst of our civilized society, knowing that behind power and money, especially in elite circles, a lot of the times there is just filth and corruption.
Men who use the same power to make themselves seem, pure and upstanding, eliminating the victims of their heinous crimes.
The FBI is relentlessly gunning to implicate Hank in any manner. Find some proof, some evidence to make sure he goes to prison, and they are credited with his arrest. They have gone so far as to even plant fake evidence against him.
No doubt to save their own ass, in the crimes they have committed for elite sick men.
Their newest recruit is young FBI agent, Cierra, who they have assigned to go undercover to trip up Hank Manicini.
I think the higher ups in the agency are unscrupulous, sexist, misogynistic sickos. They go as far as to subtly, indirectly suggest to her, that she may want to ‘do whatever its takes’ to trip Hank Mancini and get the evidence.
Cierra is the proverbial rising star at the FBI. A profiler, who doesn’t waiver, keeps to herself, concentrating only on her work. She doesn’t shy away from a challenge, even goes up against her own bosses to prove her case, typically being asked out and being harassed and razed when she declines.
A woman, quiet, secretive, with a lot of baggage and her own agendas in wanting to be in the FBI. Loosing her parents to violent crime, and the killer not being found bringing criminals to justice had become her passion, also at the same time, searching for her parents’ murderer.
Cierra is a woman who hates corruption, lawlessness, and lives by the book. And Hank is a man who excels in corruption, unlawful and writes his own rules. Fireworks are inevitable.
Hank takes one look at her picture and falls. He knows her game, but he will still play the game, figure out her vulnerabilities and use them. Whether he keeps her or crushes her is all dependant on if she betrays him in the end.
I felt the moment her gaze landed on me it was almost like an electrical charge, like touching a live wire. I caught the slight flush and her faltering step from beneath my lashes as well.
Game on.
Their back and forth, the games they start to play, moving around each other, trying to trap each other, while keeping their lust and appreciation of each other at bay, not to mention the sparks that threaten to drown them in a fire so hot, it will scorch them inside out.
The book is so well written, the anticipation, the built up the sexual tension is off-the charts!
Whew! I loved every bit of it!
Mancini’s feelings are a jumble of insanity. He wants revenge from her for thinking of playing with him, knowing full well that he has ruined agents careers for messing with him, and his intrigue and lust of her.
Wanting to claim her, fighting his emotion feelings and at the same time, hating her enough to ruin her for trying to play him.
Good to know she wasn’t exactly comfortable with the deception. I’m still going to make her pay for it though before I fuck her to within an inch of her life.
Things were not as cut and dry as they appeared to be and as much as Hank Mancini grated on me the wrong way there was no denying he made me feel. Boy did he make me feel.
Hank, wants her. He likes her. Takes her out on dates, creating more and more opportunities for her to get close to him, but it’s nothing to do with the assignment now.
He burns her, creates havoc on her mind. She is warring between her job and her feelings., and he is going to steal her away from the FBI.
I think my mind left my body. Clichéd, I know, but true all the same. He consumed me, there was no other word for it.
I’d be damned if I’d let the FBI take anything from me, especially her. No fucking way I haven’t fought them this hard for this long to let them rob me of what might be the most important thing to happen in my life.
Hank has decided he wants her in his life, so obviously he is going to get it. Cierra is going nowhere. He’s going to show her the real him, the man behind the façade, and she is going to be HIS.
Cierra’s turmoil at her feelings for Hank and her promise to herself and her parents, is heart-breaking, but I’m just waiting for Hank to tell her what he does and I think its going to be EPIC when she finds out.
I understood fully the depths of her turmoil when she didn’t say a word to stop me, just laid her head against me as if she knew nothing was going to stop me from taking her.
It’s a cliffhanger guys!