“Intensely sensuous, wrought with emotion, and so well written that I absolutely could not put it down!” ~ The Romance ReviewsRough is a sexy new adult romantic suspense with a strong-and-silent-type hero…I’m a cautionary tale. A statistic. A victim. A single teenage mother from the poor part of town. Most of the time I’m too busy working and struggling to care what people think. Survival … what people think. Survival doesn’t come easy.
I have a dark secret, a pressure valve, a rare moment just for myself. On these nights I visit a club. There I find men who give me what I need. Men who aren’t afraid to take what they want.
Men like Colin.
But he takes more than a few stolen hours. He demands more than my body. He wants my heart and soul–my happily ever after. I never thought I’d be Cinderella. I never thought a man that rough could be my prince.
“This is a book you MUST read if you like gritty, edgier romance that makes you think as well as turns you on.” ~ Cari Quinn, USA Today Bestselling Author
Author’s Note: ROUGH is a dark new adult romantic suspense novel in the Chicago Underground series. This part was previously published in Giving It Up by Amber Lin.
Books in the Chicago Underground series:
1. Rough
2. Hard
3. Fierce
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She needs therapy not a relationship. She moves in with a stranger. There was no comedy it as all tragedy. I felt for her but in the way you do for a train wreck of a person. You can watch them be given a chance at something good but then you watch that click of self destruction and boom there goes their life. Instead of talking and trying, Allie just does. She makes decisions and then gets the consequences. She could have opened an honest dialogue with Colin, but instead she feels like he won’t listen to her so she gives him what she feels he wants. But she has a messed up view of the world where people have to be used for something. All Colin wants is to take care of her. He just wants her to feel safe. He just wants to love her. So instead of just letting him in, she exchanges things and then doesn’t understand why he’s unhappy.
Rough – Chicago Underground Book 1 – Skye Warren
It is rough! Allie’s life has been rough to be sure. Left alone while her father drives long haul trucks, she has two friends. She thought she could depend on both of them, turns out she could only depend on Shelly. The other friend rapes her and leaves her and then she finds out she is pregnant. She is kicked out of her home and she knows she only has one person to carry on for, that little baby that will arrive shortly. Thank goodness she has Shelly, without Shelly she doesn’t know what would have happened to her and baby Bailey.
Enter Colin Murphy, he was a “date night” pick up, or so she thought. Having sex with Colin wasn’t like the other “date nights” but she had her life. She had her job, she had a place to live and she had Shelly and Bailey. She thought that was all she needed. It ends up maybe she does need more.
I’m not the first one to praise short books but in this case and because it was Skye Warren, it does make sense to me. She is setting the stage, the stage for what I have no idea, but I have come to understand that sometimes this is how it has to be for a story. The beginning in book 1, the middle in book 2 and then the end. We know who the 4 big players are as characters in this story now, Allie, Shelly, Colin and Bailey. Believe me a 20 month old can provide the right comedy relief when needed and she is a big part of this story.
Book 1 of 7
This book is part of a series that spans a family that has ties to the underground world of Chicago. It is a dark, New adult Romance that contains some suspense and lots of rough sex. Rough has a cliff hanger and is a emotional story that is so raw that it makes your chest ache and takes your breath at the same time.