The Italian's Twin Consequences

The Combe Family Scandals #1

by Caitlin Crews

Geheimen & schandalen
Schandelijke geheimen, verboden verlangens... verlossende liefde?

Deel 1
Oké, hij had die prins niet moeten slaan, dat weet miljardair Matteo Combe ook wel. Maar die man heeft zijn zus verleid! Helaas dreigt Matteo nu de leiding over zijn bedrijf te verliezen, tenzij hij een cursus agressiebeheersing volgt bij Sarina Fellows. Wanneer hij deze koele en beheerste psycholoog ontmoet, voelt hij zich direct tot haar aangetrokken. Maar een affaire is natuurlijk uitgesloten...

Sarina heeft zich vast voorgenomen zich niet te laten intimideren door de arrogante Matteo. Had ze zich nou ook maar kunnen voorbereiden op zijn ongelooflijke sexappeal! Hoe onverstandig het ook is, ze kunnen allebei niet anders dan één nacht lang toegeven aan hun verlangen. Dan ontdekt ze dat ze die nacht een schokkend gevolg ze is zwanger...

Genres: Harlequin, Romance, Harlequin Presents, Contemporary

186 pages, Paperback

Published April 4, 2019

About the author

Caitlin Crews discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve, in a bargain bin at the local five and dime. It involved swashbuckling pirates, grand adventures, a heroine with rustling skirts and a mind of her own, and a seriously mouthwatering and masterful hero. The book (the title of which remains lost in the mists of time) made a serious impression. Caitlin was immediately smitten with romances and romance heroes, to the detriment of her middle school social life. And so began her life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times, thus creating a fire hazard of love wherever she lives.

Caitlin has made her home in places as far-flung as York, England and Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised near New York City, and fell in love with London on her first visit when she was a teenager. She has backpacked in Zimbabwe, been on safari in Botswana, and visited tiny villages in Namibia. She has, while visiting the place in question, declared her intention to live in Prague, Dublin, Paris, Athens, Nice, the Greek Islands, Rome, Venice, and/or any of the Hawaiian islands. Writing about exotic places seems like the next best thing to actually moving there.

She currently lives in Oregon with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.

Reviews

[Ivy H]

I'm jumping on my "high horse" because I'm about to write a review that some women might find very objectionable.

Now, as I've stated clearly on my profile page, I prefer to stay away from issues that involve controversial social and political commentary - especially when it leaks into the ultra sensitive area of gender relations.

But, unfortunately, I cannot stick to my own policy when it comes to this specific novel. That's because this novel is all about an important controversial subject that's very worrisome to me, personally.

There's a current trend, among a clique within the radical 4th wave feminist group, to spread misandry ( man hating ) and propaganda that caters to demonizing heterosexual men who are good looking, "alpha", very successful and rich. It's worsened after the Harvey Weinstein scandals - so much so that people the world over are worried about how the MeToo movement seems to have become a mutated form of its original self. The word that's being used currently, in the radical feminist echo chambers within Twitter and Facebook, is: Toxic Masculinity.

I loathe that term ! I think it propagates unnecessary hate and gender divisions that a healthy society doesn't need. Even the actress Emma Watson, a self confessed feminist, has said publicly that this rampant "man hating" isn't healthy. All men are not like Harvey Weinstein and while rape does occur, it is not the norm and "toxic masculinity" is not systemic. Many of us have husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, friends and cousins who are wonderful, productive heterosexual men. I've seen far too many posts, articles, YouTube videos etc in cyberspace that use "toxic masculinity" to justify conditioning little boys to behave in a more "feminine" manner. Heterosexual men are being made to be ashamed of themselves for crimes that they themselves have not committed.

Isn't it right that we stand up for them and say that "Toxic Masculinity" is not the norm, but the exception ? There are also many horrendous and criminal women in the world but we don't see heterosexual men jumping on a bandwagon and using the term "Toxic Feminity", even though it exists in psychology books. One only has to look at a couple of seasons of that docudrama Snapped to see that there are women just as devious, calculating and evil as the Harvey Weinstein's and Bill Cosby's of the world.

This fight against the "patriarchy" has taken on a life of its own. I need to say that I'm not against women earning their rightful positions in the world. I salute the first wave feminists of the late 19th century and I have a lot of respect for the tough, badass second wave feminists of the '60's, '70's and '80's. Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today; without them, none of us would be where we are today...

But in recent years, I've become increasingly disillusioned and cynical about the 3rd and the current 4th wave radical feminists because their agenda is so extremely militant, divisive, single minded and not inclusive of women like me, who espouse more conservative beliefs and are reluctant to participate in their collectivist campaign against the dreaded "patriarchy".

For those of you who will argue that I'm being mean and nasty to certain members of my own gender, I have one key example of their double standards to present, before I deal with the review:

1. Radical feminists were quick ( and rightly so ) to campaign against Bill Cosby when it was publicized that he'd drugged women and taken advantage of them. But why were they so suspiciously silent recently, when the female rapper Cardi B admitted, and laughed about, the numerous men she'd drugged and robbed when she used to be a stripper-prostitute ? If we're fighting for true equality, then why weren't they critical of her criminal actions against her male victims ?

I'm gonna get off my high horse now, because nobody likes to be preached to. But the point I'm making is this: the world will only prosper if all genders can stop fighting and realize that we can only move forward if we cooperate, stop using identity politics, endless power plays, SJW rantings and respect each other. I know it sounds cheesy but that's the way I feel. I love men because the men in my family ( except for my adulterous paternal grandfather ) are wonderful, strong, upstanding, protective and hardworking men.

I didn't enjoy this novel. It rubbed me the wrong way because I don't read Harlequin Presents to immerse myself into a storyline that seeks to explore controversial current issues. HPlandia is my escape from those unhappy things. But, I've chosen to give it 2 stars because it's well written and the heroine eventually realizes that her misandry is emotionally unhealthy and that she's wrong to be so aggressively determined to destroy all successful heterosexual men who she's asked to evaluate.

The heroine Sarina, is a biracial psychiatrist ( Caucasian and Japanese ) who's been hired to "assess" the H's suitability for his post as CEO of his family's conglomerate. She's a self confessed misandrist ( man hater ) whose sole aim in life is to destroy successful men in powerful positions:

Sarina didn’t need to destroy him, necessarily. But she thought of men like Matteo as big, blown-up balloons, and as it happened, she’d set herself up to be the perfect, pointed pin. She’d been popping overweening male egos professionally now long enough to have quite the reputation for taking masters of the universe down a few pegs, to the mortal men of questionable moral character they usually were beneath all the bluster.

This is the heroine, Sarina:



The author did add the tiny disclaiming comment that Sarina didn’t hate men, as many had accused her. She hated bad men who abused their power and those vulnerable to it. But, it was just a drop in the bucket when compared to the numerous instances where she openly gloated and was proud of being a misandrist. At the end of the novel, when she admitted that she'd been too zealous in her desire to pop "overweening" male egos, I wondered if there were any men who'd been innocent victims of her hatchet job version of professional psychiatric evaluation. We never get the answer to that question...

The H Mateo, is an Italian-English billionaire who got himself into a predicament after he punched the guy who'd gotten his younger sister pregnant. The sister Pia and the guy who'd been punched are gonna be MC's in a future novel. Mateo's board of directors hire Sarina to evaluate the H's competence to be the CEO of the company.

This is the H, Mateo:



What bothered me the most about this heroine is the fact that she seemed too combative, emotional and a little unethical. What kind of neutral psychiatrist would say this to a client, at the start of a session ?

“Why, for you, Mr. Combe.” She made her voice light. Very nearly airy. “It’s your opportunity to be a better person. Once you learn how to give up control, you might find that you don’t have to struggle with concepts like toxic masculinity.”

She's clearly the type of psychiatrist who does her diagnosis in a very narrow minded manner. She never attempted to look at the incident in question, from a truly neutral perspective. She blew it out of proportion and made it seem like the H was an aggressive thug with no impulse control who is unsafe to be out in society and therefore unsuitable to be the CEO of his own company. Her entire analysis of his behaviour was one based solely on a radical feminist perspective.

The most annoying part is that she never attempted to deny her hidden agenda:

“I did not expect confidentiality,” Matteo replied. “But I did imagine you would pretend, at the very least, to get at the truth. Instead, you have made it clear that your mission is to destroy me.”

He waited for her to deny that, but she didn’t.

She's not even emotionally qualified to handle her job. She's got the relevant academic qualifications but she lives an isolated life and the H is perceptive enough to see this:

“It turns out I have a fascination for psychology,” he said instead. “For example, I cannot help but wonder why a woman who lives such a lonely, empty life imagines that she should set herself up as a world-renowned expert on the very emotions and relationships she lacks? I should as soon declare myself an authority on literature. I’ve read a book, after all.”

She's so caught up with her own power to destroy men that she even gloats to herself about it:

Dropping by unexpectedly on her various subjects was one of her favorite tricks. Backed into a corner, powerful men either rose to the occasion or, like Matteo, responded badly.

The use of the word "tricks" is quite telling. It tells me that this woman is not a good psychiatrist. She's too confrontational and enjoys winding up her male clients just to get an expected response, since she knows how men usually behave in set circumstances. But she's unlucky in this instance because the H out maneuvers her in the most awesome power play in the story !

She visits him at his office and literally climbs him like a tree during a torrid make out session. It goes without saying that she's acting in an unethical and unprofessional manner because when she's around him, all she can think of is sex...



They don't have sex but the H, who's been apprised of her negative evaluation report to the colleague who wants his job, video tapes their torrid embrace in his office. Sarina's such a hypocrite that she would've ignored and hidden her own unethical behaviour while ruining his career, without feeling a smidgen of guilt for fully participating in their make out session.

It's only when the H apprises her of the situation and tells her that he's the one holding the trump card, that she finally begins to accept her own culpability. He lifts up a mirror to show her that she's not a very nice person and that she's obviously lacking in integrity:

“Your reputation depends on your ability to move through the corporate world like a shark, taking down your prey swiftly and with prejudice. But how will you do that when everybody knows you might also fling yourself at your quarry in a romantic fervor?”

There was no leverage here, but Sarina kept trying to find a way out.

“Let me guess, you’re going to pretend that you’re not blackmailing me…but you’ll require demeaning and disgusting sexual favors to make certain of it.”

“So you can martyr yourself on the altar of my lust, content to think me the monster you imagined me when you walked into my villa in Venice? I think not.”

He uses the tape of their kiss to blackmail her into changing her biased report that would've destroyed his professional image in the eyes of his board members. I wasn't too fond of him for doing this but I'm an equal opportunity type of person when it comes to justice and I think the guy did the only thing he could do, in order to prevent this woman from doing a hatchet job on him.

They eventually have sex after a little semantic bantering about the meaning of "virginity". She's so filled with self loathing after their torrid night of hot sex that she runs off without saying goodbye. Sarina literally believes that she has betrayed herself just because she engaged in a normal healthy session of sex. Maybe this woman needs some therapy herself from Dr. Phil, because she has too many issues that need to be addressed. But perhaps I should refrain from joking about it, just in case anyone reading this accuses me of pandering to the "patriarchy" by referring to a male therapist. LOL.



The secret babies trope doesn't come into play until the 75% marker in the story and the resolution of the romance is very rushed. The H is the one who admits he loves her first and I couldn't understand why because she's not a very likable ( far less lovable ) person. He's not exactly a prince himself, but I did prefer him because I believed him to be a nicer human being.

The heroine's rationale for her radical man hating was based on what one man had done to her best friend Jeannette. Jeannette's experience had been awful and tragic but the heroine was unable to put it into the right perspective and see that all men were not like the guy who'd ruined her friend's life. Sarina chose to go into her specific field of psychiatric consulting just to seek revenge on men in the corporate sector who reminded her of this villain. At the end of the novel, she herself admits:


“The only forever I know is a revenge fantasy,” she confessed.

I didn't believe in their love until the tiny epilogue because I couldn't understand how and when they had fallen in love during the time when he was being evaluated by her. The epilogue ( which isn't a separate chapter ) is set ten years in the future and they're the happy parents of 4 kids. The heroine is a warmer woman, who's more content, no longer bitter, angry and abrasive. As for her professional life:

She continued her practice, shifting away from the corporate clients to focus more on women in need of healing, not revenge.

I didn't like this novel even though I understood, from a cerebral perspective, what the author was trying to do with the subject matter. It wasn't romantic in the least, especially to a reader who doesn't see men as the enemy. I think a good penis is hard to find and a good, hard penis is even better ! LOL. This novel is proof, once again, that Caitlin Crews is a hit or miss author for me. It's obvious that she's an author who likes to experiment with new tropes and ideas. Her previous novel My Bought Virgin Wife had been so much more enjoyable. I am looking forward to reading the next two novels that deal with Mateo's siblings.

Safety: No cheating, no OW, no OM and both MC's are celibate during their 3 month separation.

[Aou]

Ms. Crews loves to write controversial books a lot. Some of my friends hated h and I see their points. It was really annoying to use of the term of 'toxic masculinity'. I think h was the caricature of a strong, intelligent woman. She did not define herself as one but some readers may have perceived her like a feminist. I want to assure you that she was not! But this is Harveyland so there are lots of illogical rules and superficial assumptions about alphas and feminists and relationships and motherhood etc. Thus my expectations are lower than usual. 😉
I don't like MCs, especially h but I have to congratulate the author writing an annoying book about a susceptible topic. 😏

[iamGamz]

Sweet baby Jesus! This book was awful.

I hated both characters. I found them both obnoxious and self centered. The h spent years grieving her friend who died because of a horrible ass of a man. (The friend should have pressed charges for what he did to her).

The h was so angry that she spent years destroying the lives of powerful, wealthy men and called it doing good. She ruined lives. Not all men are complete a-holes! (Ok. Most of them are at some point or another, but she took it to the extreme).

The board of the H’s company wanted him out of the company because he punched a prince who knocked up his baby sister. He did it at his father’s funeral, in front of all the paparazzi. So they called in the h (she’s a psychologist) to evaluate him and remove him as CEO of his company. Ballsy bastards.

I literally had to drag myself, page by page, through this book. I stopped so many times I can’t even count. I actually stopped reading and did laundry and baked bread. Un-freakin-heard-of! I will let my family starve if I’m immersed in a good book. (This is why there’s take out!)

I finished it. Dusted and done. Never will read it again. Wish I read the other reviews before I bought this dud. Don’t do what I do. Avoid this mess!!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

2.5 stars
This woman was out for revenge on all rich arrogant men. She met her match. Sounds like a good plot. But it was boring.

[lily]

I love secret baby stories but .... this one was a waste of time, the h was cold negative and annoying, the H was just ok nothing special .....boring

[Sona]

This book was added automatically to my list. Sorry Ms. Crews I am not a fan of your writing style. I read two chapters and I think I am done.

[Maria Rose]

The Italian’s Twin Consequences by Caitlin Crews is a sexy and passionate revenge themed ‘unexpected pregnancy’ romance.

Dr. Sarina Fellows vowed to her deceased friend that she would take down the man responsible for her death and she did. Since then, she’s been on a revenge mission to make powerful men pay, an all consuming cause that has resulted in her losing parts of herself in the process. That all changes when she sets her sights on the takedown of CEO Matteo Combe.

Matteo doesn’t regret the physical altercation he had with his sister’s partner at their father’s funeral but his board of directors thinks the shocking display of masculine violence doesn’t suit Combe Industries. Accordingly, they’ve hired Sarina to do a psychological assessment of Matteo’s temperament to see whether he should still be in charge. But Matteo has no plans to abandon his family legacy. When the attraction between them causes Sarina to abandon her principles and engage in a steamy embrace, one that Matteo has caught on video, he uses it to blackmail her. He’ll release the tape, and show the world that she’s not the tough man-hater she appears to be unless she agrees to give the board a positive assessment of him. With no choice but to agree, it’s not long before their passion simmers over again and Sarina ends up pregnant – with twins! Will her plans of revenge give way to the healing power of love instead?

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A copy of this story was provided by the publisher for review.

[Tonya Warner]

Matteo Combe is being forced to submit to a psychological eval due to his conduct at his father's funeral. Punching a prince in the face in front of the world has consequences. Dr Sarina Fellow's is only doing her job when she interrogates Matteo. She knows his kind and has brought bigger men than him to their knees.

Slow, boring and pretty obnoxious story. Super hard to follow.

[Se Mcgregor]

Truly awful.

[Amelia Shania]

This book annoys me so much. I just want to slap Sarina everytime she comes up in the story. What a b*tch, the fact that she is a doctor did not help. If this happen in real life, people's life could be ruined just bcs of some b*tch biased prejudice notions. Another thing that annoys me is that I want to skip this book but I want to know matteo more, esp since I read pia's story. Ugh.

[Ishara]

Ugh. I really disliked this book. Sarina has to be the least likeable heroine that I've encountered in a HP in a long time. As for Matteo... he wasn't that great either. Let's hope the second book is better.

[Emily Pare]

The long and winding courtship was met with a short and abrupt ending. The heady dialogue wasn't convincing me there was chemistry, until he took our heroine to his secluded villa. I found this one harder to get through and put it down a lot before finishing it.

[Ann]

Another good story by Caitlin Crews.

[Isa Centeno]

Lo que me quedó y parafraseo:

*Él le quita su virginidad*

Él: ¿Te duele?

Ella: No, te dije que la virginidad era un concepto patriarcal (Obvio si le dolió a la pendeja, que deje de joder).

*5 doritos después cuando él la encuentra embarazada y le pide explicaciones de por qué no se molestó en decirle*

Ella: No te dije porque me chantajeaste, me coaccionaste hasta que finalmente me llevaste a la cama y me quitaste la virginidad usando mi vulnerabilidad en mi contra.

Él: No lo recuerdo así, tú fuiste quien me tocó primero y dirigió todo. Además, tu misma dijiste que la virginidad era un concepto patriarcal por lo que no hay cabida para la vulnerabilidad.

Yo: Muerta de risa porque él tiene razón 😂

[Andy Febrico Bintoro]

Modern Romance May 2019: Book 1-4
You could read this book for free on Google Play Books or Amazon Kindle, provided by HarperCollins UK.

The story was a flat one for me, a typical rich boss fall in love with his employee. The man and the woman already fall in love and need a "small trigger" for both to spend the time together for life. Need something different.

[Cecelia Bechtel]

She’s the most antagonistic psychologist I’ve ever seen and the therapy sessions are completely insane 😭 what do these two people have in common other than the fact that they have children together?? Was worth the hour and a half it took to read and the dollar price, but probably not much more.

[Reading]

The third star is for the author writing the heroine as the hot mess emotionally

[Calysta]

Disappointing, too much humiliation of the woman, too little of value in the man. I regret having read this series

[anisa fitri zakirah]

The pregnancy came at almost end of the book, so the title doesn't represent the story much. The heroine had a strong mind, and she didn't easily fall for him. I like this this kind of heroine, she had some characters in her, whereas some stories have the heroines without any character at all, and people love them. I expected this story to have higher rating, but the people that read this book just hate women with characters and attitudes.

Anyway, the hero blackmailed the heroine because she was payed to be his psychiatrist and to find somethings wrong about him so they could take him down. I don't wanna blame the heroine for wanting to take men down because those men were assholes, trust me, if I could I would've done the same to both men or women. Those men she had taken down were assholes for all we know, if you defend those men, you are just as bad as them. Just saying.

However, the hero was a jerk at first but he was actually nice. He only wanted to protect his sister, i mean any good brother would've. And he wanted to stay at his company because it was his legacy. So a little bit blackmail is okay, it didn't hurt anyone, only a little of the heroine's feeling, but she was fine with it at the end. Wtf is wrong with that? It even opened her eyes to let go and to get over her guilt and grief over her bestfriend. Like seriously, imagine you at her place. Her bestfriend died because of an asshole, who didn't have any gut to face the consequence of his OWN action. He didn't want the baby so he wined and dined her and made her have a miscarriage which led her to commit suicide. If my bestfriend was in the same position, the man would regret the day he was born. So I don't get why people hate her LMAOOO. Anyway I'm not a feminist. Period.

[Raffaella]

This was fun, especially for me, since when I read the psychiatrist behaviour I was appalled. She is supposed to be a therapist not a person who wants to destroy men for revenge. She lets her emotions drive her, instead of using them to understand what inside her is triggering them. Ok, not everyone who reads this book is a psychologist bu believe me, it's quite common to have emotions when you are interviewing a patient (not client!!!!) but it's also natural to analyse them to help and not to cause a damage to this person. This supposed doctor is a woman with strong prejudices towards powerful men that she views as potentially dangerous, so she is hepling the hero's board to take him off his CEO position. He blackmails her and he also kidnaps her so she will tell the board members he's perfect for the role. They fall in lust and have a ONS, then she runs before he wakes up. After pining for her for months, hero accidentally meets her one evening and surprise surprise she's pregnant, with twins. He kidnaps her again, but he's so in love with her that eventually they marry and have several babies (4 it seems...) Nice and cute story, I had to laugh at the very unlikely doctor but the sexy psychiatrist that falls in love with the sexy client is so a clichè and it was fun anyway... Nobody's hurt :-))

[Mattie]

I did not like it, I didn't like the characters, the writing style or the plot.

As for the characters I was not impressed at all. I disliked the heroine, she was a feminist and would use words like "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchal construct". She was very cold and actually came across as a mean person deep down, with what she did to men for years (getting men CEO's, Executives etc fired), deeming them bad and deserving of it because of what one man did to her best friend years before. With how she approached analyzing the hero, I don't believe she gave the other men she analyed a fair shot. He had to Blackmail her in order to not lose his company, she was determined to give him a bad analysis.

The hero wasn't the worst, but he wasn't all that memorable in my opinion, he was just there and did some things like Blackmailing heroine and then not chasing after her for 4 months after she left him.

The connection between the hero and heroine did not feel very strong and it did not feel like they were in love by the time their story stopped in their present time and then flash forwarded 10 years. However 10 years later they definitely come across as in love, with 4 children. P.

[DKC]

After reading Ivy H.'s excellent breakdown of this book, I feel vindicated in my decision to return it to Hoopla forthwith! Got as far as "patriarchal" and "toxic masculinity" and realized I was going to be pissed off all through it -- so first chapter was enough for me. I'm sad, too, as I was looking forward to Matteo's story.

Maybe the author was trying to shed some light on those women who feel that every man is a bad-man-in-waiting, and perhaps that was the point, but I don't know of any guys who would be genuinely attracted to such a caustic, demeaning person, who masquerades as "professional" and a "psychiatrist" at that. They might bang her, but they wouldn't stick around and be love-struck!

What next, Harlequin? Are you going to encourage authors to write enemies-to-lovers stories between C19 opponents? Really? Are we dredging into the morass of current social commentary for love story ideas? No bueno! If that starts happening, I'll have to write my own romances for entertainment...(insert Krusty the Clown sigh here)

[Claire]

As an avid reader of Caitlin Crews romance novels, I was surprised to feel nothing but irritation and a fierce dislike for the 'heroine'. The good doctor who should definitely NOT have been authorized to carry out evaluations of any kind, psychological or otherwise, due to her emotional, narrow-minded discrimination against men in power. Granted, the author took pains to define the type of men Dr Fellows went after but the heroine's attitude towards those men was decidedly far from objective especially when dealing with the hero. I like a formidable take-no-prisoners female character as much as the next girl but this wasn't it... Misandry and Misogyny are just two sides of the same bad coin.
That being said, the romance between the two MC's was repressed at best with any significant character development coming at the final chapters of the novel.

[Glenna]

I’m surprised that this didn’t get higher ratings. The heroine is strong minded! But this is a Harlequin love story and that’s where you have people changing and growing. The H got his own back believe me. When the h didn’t tell the hero about the baby there were physiological reasons that she had to admit to before she could have her heart open up. So too did the H. I enjoyed the book! And was pleasantly surprised!

[Cynthia Patterson]

Buttercup

A really good story about a family lost in years of drama. Drama that left a lasting affect on it's children. Both main characters had to over come a lot of baggage from their last to come to truly love each other. To build a great future with each other. Great story. Look forward to reading more by this author.

[Maddy Matos]

It took me a while to warm up to Matteo and I didn’t get his coldness or her bitchy attitude. But by chapter three Matteo was growing on me. He’s Italian rich and had a cold hearted upbringing by childish drunken rich parents. She had issues too but boy oh boy when these two collided it was spectacular.

[Lindseyrenee]

what was this book

I guess the world needs a brutal takedown of a woman whose feminism has arguably turned to misandry, but it certainly didn’t need to be from this MMC or this author. Yikes.

The resolution on this is so incredibly abrupt, and if you think the epilogue will help, then I hope you’re hungry…for NOTHING. It’s like 2 paragraphs.

[Cheryl]

Not the greatest book! The female lead spends too much time still mourning a friend who died years earlier. Guilt is an awful thing.

[Geraldine Sadiku]

An unusual blackmail romance with revenge and a few twist along the way makes for a brilliant read.

[Michele]

ok story but not enough dialogue.