A stand-alone dark sensual romance
“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” – Hannah Gadsby
Revenge is a deadly weapon. But it takes a special kind of vengeance to make a woman kill without remorse, to laugh without mirth, to challenge without thought. Kidnapped at seventeen, held captive and then forced into the world of crime, Nishani Scott Callahan defines … Callahan defines fearless.
Back with her family eleven years later and ready for normalcy, fate strikes another blow. Abducted on her honeymoon, she’s severely assaulted. Fierce determination sees her escaping straight into the headlamps of a stranger’s vehicle.
Billionaire Colton Black is hardcore. A man who treads a fine line between good and bad. He’s got no time for love, until a rough pearl with dark hair and deep blue eyes lands in his lap, badly beaten and missing a chunk of her memory. Saving her means risking his guarded privacy, but her feistiness when she awakens catches him completely off-guard.
Equally unprepared, Nishani can’t fathom this ferociously controlled man who appears to reach past her scars to touch her fractured soul.
Will he be her salvation or her ruin?
For the reader who wants to delve beyond the average romance.
Trigger warnings: Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping & Graphic Language, Sex and Violence.
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I still don’t know whether to give this book 4 or 5
This book is about a girl named Nishani who’s been kidnapped at the age of 17 and held captive, used and drugged until she escaped. Since escaping she promised herself to get revenge on those who did this to her.
When I started reading this book and I was barely a few pages in I was about to give up, only because of how the book starts. Dark and torturing which I don’t really like. Fortunately the writer wrote the first few pages so well, that I wanted to know how it’ll end up! So I kept reading…I’m happy I did that!
Mostly I really liked the story (surprise, surprise) and then the characters around. The book kept you addicted to it and the characters made it so easy to fall for them and experience what they did.
The main character Nishani was a girl who became cold hearted, because the circumstances made her and also she didn’t believe in love and seek only revenge/vengeance.
The guy called Colton is a high-ranked person and respected, because if you thought about crossing him; you’d be long dead. Highly protective over his family and business. And future Nishani’s crush.
Another one is Rex, he’s Colton’s brother and Nishani’s soon to be “brother”. He’s really sweet and caring.
I disliked the beginning but at the same time I think it was unnecessary for the story to start that way, so we could understand what she was going through and what happened.
Overall the book kept me busy and me like-y it! There were bits and pieces that I kind of expected but it didn’t bother me at all. I honestly enjoyed when I knew I was right…it made me feel like a side character.
I finished the book 2 days ago and for the first time I really didn’t know how to write a review about this one.
I highly recommend to read this book if you don’t mind dark, little twisted, a little more sexy story with even more sexier characters.
A Stranger’s Affection” by Charlene Namdhari is a tale of one Nishani Scott Callahan who was kidnapped at 17….drugged & abused …until eleven years she later escaped her tormentors …then on her honeymoon she is brutally assaulted …and literally running into Billionaire Colton Black…a intensely private man …a man few would fare to cross …Yet who loses his heart to this hard-bitten vengeance seeking woman …whose broken nature calls to his own. Will these two destroy the demons who haunt them …and find their HEA?!? Read & See!! An extremely compelling read. Much enjoyed and Highly Recommended. I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Copy of this book.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
“She grinned. Payback was a bitch and its name: Nishani.”
—>>> Warning that this story may contain possible triggers for you – please read the whole book description before diving in!
A seventeen-year-old girl’s worst nightmare comes true for Nishani one night, forever changing the course of her life and the innocence of her soul. How she finds herself in the care of Colton Black, a man who fights every instinct he has that nevertheless still pulls him towards her, while she slowly recovers from her latest horrific ordeal is a journey for two broken souls. Inevitably, they are two people who need each other…and love, too, in order to finally heal.
Nishani’s brashness and spirit is called even more to the forefront whenever she encounters Colton, making her irresistible to him. But like calls to like, and he knows that what she shows is just the tip of the iceberg of what she has gone through. This new-to-me author brings an engaging, dark romantic suspense, with many twists, slow-building heat, and drama.