Release Date: April 22
When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He’d ride up on his white steed and break the curse I’ve been fated to carry since the day I was born.
Funny how things changed over time. How the fairy tale twisted into something far more crooked, darker than I ever imagined.
In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.
Lucian Blackthorne is as cursed as I am, and equally shunned by the locals, the fishers of men, who believe him to be the devil in the flesh.
Perhaps he is, with the way his amber eyes draw me in, ignite me like an infernal blaze. And the sins he whispers in my ear are as wickedly intoxicating as the man himself.
Yet, his touch is heaven and his will is my weakness.
He calls us forbidden, an unsalvageable tragedy, with no happy end. Maybe we are. But in this story, her's the one who needs saving.
He calls us forbidden, an unsalvageable tragedy, with no happy end. Maybe we are. But in this story, her's the one who needs saving.
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Keri Lake is a dark romance writer who specializes in demon wrangling, vengeance dealing and wicked twists. Her stories are gritty, with antiheroes that walk the line of good and bad, and feisty heroines who bring them to their knees. When not penning books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and their rebellious Labrador (who doesn’t retrieve a damn thing). She runs on strong coffee and alternative music, loves a good red wine, and has a slight addiction to dark chocolate.
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I'm Dumbfounded!! Seriously, I don't know what to say or think anymore.
Words are pitiful to describe the brilliance of Keri's work. My friends have been urging me to read her, but my tbr is taller than Jack's beanstalk and long story short, I got this arc and it blew my mind!!
“The way it’s haunting. Delicate. Perilous, yet somehow alluring.”
I'm a dark romance junkie and this book just spoke to me. It opened up its secrets and hidden messages one layer at a time. As I descended down floor upon floor of this labyrinthine plot, I got just sucked into the intrigue and savage history of Bonesalt in Tempest Cove.
“The world is filled with sadists and masochists. You either find pleasure in doling pain, or receiving it.”
Oh, There's pain alright. One that morphs into pleasure and one that echoes as screams in the shifting walls
The story oscillators between Isadora Quinn and Lucian Blackthorne's POV and that for me was a bonus point. It balanced the narration. Keri doesn't bind her imagination in defined boundaries and bravely ventures into the deeper, darker waters of psychological thriller trope. There's some scenes which had me cringing, but with a wide smile on my face b/c now I've found an author after my own heart. She doesn't shy away from lifting the gauze and showing the rotten wounds and scars mottled on Castle walls in the catacombs.
"What a wondrous place it must be inside his mind. A dark and wicked place, brimming with the bizarre and peculiar, just like the song."
The story is complex and tortuous, so many Tangled webs interweave, so many flies caught in them. As the pages turn the picture becomes larger and bloodier. I felt like the story was balanced on parallel realms. There's tangible truths right in front of the eye and there's imperceptible concepts of conjured up truths. It drives the characters mad and it drove me insane. The plot flips till the last page and some twists I had an inkling of, some completely stunned me stupid. At one point I gasped so loud, damn near scared my son!!
The characters are so multifaceted it was a delight to see them shine. Esp Lucian, who had me bowled over.
His contrasting behaviors made me admire him and fear him in equal measures. his abrasive nature hides beneath a cracked heart and a betrayed soul. To see him as an involuntary, floating participant in the heinous scheme of inheritence, it just wanted me to jump in salvage his tattered heart.
"She’s whipping winds and half-torn rooftops, treacherous waves and dangerous undertows,"
Isadora is the perfect Beauty to tame this Beast, but she gets mauled in the rescue mission herself. Isa's naive beauty is like a siren call for the Mad Hatter Black Thorne heir, hiding behind the thick walls of a castle built on blood and bones...much like a Beast. Her Beauty feeds his madness and lures the Devil in him.
"I should’ve known better than to get involved with a man like him—a deity of wrath and flames, when I’m nothing but a mortal, playing with fire."
Well crafted plot, precise and taut narration, well researched, fast paced, this twisted story will feed your dark cravings and leave you begging for more..
It's phenomenal story sketched in Grey shades of psychosis, paranoia, dementia and hallucinations. The book is chock full with a closet full of skeletons, an armoire of dolls, castle full of haunted noises and a cove drowning in rising tides, that will leave you with Goosebumps on your skin and hair standing on end...hold your thumping heart, lest it jump out of your chest and on to the scream filled pages. don't say you weren't warned!!!
5 stars for Le Petit Morte
Words are pitiful to describe the brilliance of Keri's work. My friends have been urging me to read her, but my tbr is taller than Jack's beanstalk and long story short, I got this arc and it blew my mind!!
“The way it’s haunting. Delicate. Perilous, yet somehow alluring.”
I'm a dark romance junkie and this book just spoke to me. It opened up its secrets and hidden messages one layer at a time. As I descended down floor upon floor of this labyrinthine plot, I got just sucked into the intrigue and savage history of Bonesalt in Tempest Cove.
“The world is filled with sadists and masochists. You either find pleasure in doling pain, or receiving it.”
Oh, There's pain alright. One that morphs into pleasure and one that echoes as screams in the shifting walls
The story oscillators between Isadora Quinn and Lucian Blackthorne's POV and that for me was a bonus point. It balanced the narration. Keri doesn't bind her imagination in defined boundaries and bravely ventures into the deeper, darker waters of psychological thriller trope. There's some scenes which had me cringing, but with a wide smile on my face b/c now I've found an author after my own heart. She doesn't shy away from lifting the gauze and showing the rotten wounds and scars mottled on Castle walls in the catacombs.
"What a wondrous place it must be inside his mind. A dark and wicked place, brimming with the bizarre and peculiar, just like the song."
The story is complex and tortuous, so many Tangled webs interweave, so many flies caught in them. As the pages turn the picture becomes larger and bloodier. I felt like the story was balanced on parallel realms. There's tangible truths right in front of the eye and there's imperceptible concepts of conjured up truths. It drives the characters mad and it drove me insane. The plot flips till the last page and some twists I had an inkling of, some completely stunned me stupid. At one point I gasped so loud, damn near scared my son!!
The characters are so multifaceted it was a delight to see them shine. Esp Lucian, who had me bowled over.
His contrasting behaviors made me admire him and fear him in equal measures. his abrasive nature hides beneath a cracked heart and a betrayed soul. To see him as an involuntary, floating participant in the heinous scheme of inheritence, it just wanted me to jump in salvage his tattered heart.
"She’s whipping winds and half-torn rooftops, treacherous waves and dangerous undertows,"
Isadora is the perfect Beauty to tame this Beast, but she gets mauled in the rescue mission herself. Isa's naive beauty is like a siren call for the Mad Hatter Black Thorne heir, hiding behind the thick walls of a castle built on blood and bones...much like a Beast. Her Beauty feeds his madness and lures the Devil in him.
"I should’ve known better than to get involved with a man like him—a deity of wrath and flames, when I’m nothing but a mortal, playing with fire."
Well crafted plot, precise and taut narration, well researched, fast paced, this twisted story will feed your dark cravings and leave you begging for more..
It's phenomenal story sketched in Grey shades of psychosis, paranoia, dementia and hallucinations. The book is chock full with a closet full of skeletons, an armoire of dolls, castle full of haunted noises and a cove drowning in rising tides, that will leave you with Goosebumps on your skin and hair standing on end...hold your thumping heart, lest it jump out of your chest and on to the scream filled pages. don't say you weren't warned!!!
5 stars for Le Petit Morte
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