From USA Today best-selling author Trisha Wolfe comes one of her most darkly intense thrillers.To hunt a killer, I search the darkest corners of Seattle. As a private investigator, I comb through the seediest organizations to locate my prey.There’s a monster roaming the streets, and his blue, stone-cold eyes are all I see when I close mine. That he lives haunts my waking hours. Through the storm, … Through the storm, I watched him murder a man. I saw his evil. And when the moment strikes to exact my revenge, he steals the only witness to his crime.
Me.
In his cellar, I unravel every dark and twisted secret; the sordid mystery that entangles both our lives. When the storm passes, and the dark chamber has heard our confessions, which one of us will survive the truth?
Note: Cellar Door was previously a part of the USA Today best-selling Wanted Anthology. It has since been revised for this edition.
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3.5 Stars
Luke Easton and Makenna Davies are both after vengeance for crimes that took away someone they loved. There are twists and secrets that need uncovering. There are also truths that need to be told and beliefs that need to be readjusted. Luke and Makenna are both likeable characters, and I admired how determined they were in their personal pursuits for justice.
Cellar Door is a mystery/suspense story with just a tiny bit of romance thrown in.
OMG what a read!!! This was my first book by Trisha Wolfe and I absolutely loved it! Cellar Door is captivating, dark and twisted. The revenge and retribution sought out by both Luke and Makenna make this story so titillating that you will not want to put the book down. The twist in the revenge is Makenna seeks her revenge against Luke; the monster responsible for the death of her partner both at work and outside of work.
The characters in this plot are so great and well written and the story is brimming with action! I thoroughly loved the vengeance they both got at the end! I loved this dark thriller and it won’t be the last I read of this author!
Holy heck, this was some dark, twisted stuff! I enjoy a dark read occasionally, and I know I haven’t read enough to really know what’s out there, but this story just rocked that dark little spot in my heart. Although it’s the disturbing-ness of it all that brings out the dark.
A cop witnessing a murder should be an easy case to solve. But that’s not true for Makenna. She was labeled as being unstable and lost her job. For the last six months she’s been on the hunt for the murderer and she’s just about to catch him when things take a dark turn and she finds herself shackled in a cellar.
Luke is a monster. He admits it, embraces it, and utilizes it to fulfill his agenda.
”I’m not a bad guy. But I’m not a good guy either. I’m not out here at night protecting innocence, or punishing evil doers in the name of justice. I’m not that charitable. There is justice, and then there is vengeance. They’re not interchangeable.”
He has never hesitated to kill before but when he comes face to face with Makenna, he decides she will make the perfect bait for the next step in his plans. But as he works towards that end, he pushes Makenna in emotional ways that makes her question everything she thought she knew before she was captured.
Wow! These characters absolutely astounded me! Both struggle with their own definition of right and wrong. I never knew which way this story was going to go. There was never a feeling that everything was going to work out because this is not a white picket fence romance and Makenna and Luke do not experience the whole over the top falling in love thing. This is raw and gritty and so very real in all its complications.
*I hold my hands out in surrender. “Do one stupid thing…”
“And you’ll kill me?” The challenge in her squared shoulders makes my pants tighten.
I swear, she is either stirring a deviant fiend within me, or this woman is infection my cracked brain. Maybe a bit of both.*
Like the twists and turns of a labyrinth, this story took me to a place I never saw coming while offering me surprising tidbits along the way. I was constantly on the edge of my seat, constantly trying to jump ahead and predict the outcome, and constantly shaken by each new revelation.
I am absolutely recommending this book to anyone who likes their romance with a little bit of a dark twist.
Revenge is a dish best served cold in the cellar… Vengeance is the core of this book. But what happens when when a man who has been meting out his own brand of vengeance against the guilty parties world collides with a woman who is out for justice. Two people who start out on opposing sides learn their quests may having something in common and learn that a fine line between vengeance and justice.
Even though this is novella size it was still a fully fleshed out story that held you captive till the very last sentence.
Two people seeking vengeance when their paths cross. Are they trying to revenge the same thing? Many twist and turns. This book will keep you at the edge of your seat.
Cellar Door is off the charts brilliant. Trisha Wolfe’s mind is beyond intriguing to me as she masterfully crafts a story that kept me on the edge of my seat with each turn of the page. The way she continues to combine the very best in mystery with the most unexpected kind of love is like nothing else I have ever read.
What starts as an investigation into a client’s husbands extra-curricular activities becomes a battle for Makenna Davies’s own life. At the hands of one Luke Easton she is, of course, desperate to escape. But at the same time gets caught up in his web of vengeance and sees her prior life as a Detective crumble in ways she never saw coming.
I don’t how she continues to to do it, but somehow Wolfe has me siding with the assumed villain once again. Luke’s past is the why of his actions and it seemingly makes all the sense in the world and I want nothing more to join him in his quest for justice. I fully understand how Makenna finds him both attractive and vulnerable and becomes determined to ease not only her own pain but his as well. And I will just say that there is a great deal of satisfaction, a bit on the deliciously twisted side, that I felt at the story’s conclusion. Being appalled at my love of how everything turns out is one of the joys of reading a Trisha Wolfe book. She makes the most wrong kind of actions and thoughts somehow feel right. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Talk about riveting. Cellar Door will keep you glued to your e-reader and your heart will be beating rapidly as the story unfolds and all the jagged pieces fall into place.
Originally read as part of the Wanted: An Outlaw Anthology, Cellar Door deserves nothing less than 5 stars!!!
Dark hearts rejoice, Luke Easton is a dream come true. Hellbent on vengeance, he’s hardened himself to where only the end matters, until Makenna becomes a complication. She’s strong and weak all at the same time and she’s seeking her own justice. Easton is determined to make her see the truth in the lies she holds so dear. This one held me captive from the very first page.
This book was everything and more that I love from this amazing author.
She amazes me every time I read a new book of hers.
This book gripped me and kept me guessing from the start. Like all her books I sat there going “Did I just read that”?
The Cellar Door hides many secrets. Some will be exposed to the light, others will be sealed in darkness forever.
Vengeance and Revenge meet up in this stellar story of two souls seeking to right the horrors of their past, only to find that not everything is as it seems. And neither is this story. In true Trisha Wolfe fashion, she delivers a thrilling story with complex characters that refuse to conform and will have you rearranging your definition of right and wrong.
Part thriller, part romance but entirely and ingeniously twisted!