Beauty and the Beast as it’s never been told. Riddled with bullets and left to die in Thailand, Wolfe is medivacked to the USA. He survives, recovering from wounds no man should be able to heal. Months later, his perplexed doctor lowers the dosages of his medications and Wolfe begins to change. His powers awaken. Kiara, his nurse at the rehabilitation village, thinks she only has to hand him … she only has to hand him over to Russian intelligence agents to save her parents from punishment. It won’t be that simple. Kiara isn’t safe.
The kidnapper becomes the victim.
When free of drugs Wolfe becomes ferocious and animalistic in his desires and actions.
What if a man who is almost an animal could command you to do anything he wanted? And you couldn’t resist…
Kiara may be taken past the point of survival.
Be careful who you dare to betray.
WARNING
This is a dark romance and written to be disturbing.
You’ll find some graphic scenes of violence and sex within these pages, plus a smidgen of horror. Though the ending may be sweet, this is a very kinky, twisted, and dark story.
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I really recommend reading this, but I also think it’s best read AFTER the Dark Hearts Trilogy
“We’re never free. We can only dare to run the line between destruction and glory.”
Whilst Wolfe is technically a stand alone story, it is set in the same world as the Dark Hearts Trilogy. These books contain a LOT of background that helps set the scene for this one and Wolfe actually features in the final book of the series. I know from having read Used (a short story set in this world), before any others, how important that world building is.
Please don’t read this expecting a standard dark romance, that isn’t what you’ll get from Cari Silverwood. She likes to challenge the reader, provoke deep thoughts, mess with your head and provide lots of hot and kinky fun too. You also have to be prepared to read between the lines and look for the subtle clues. All of this is topped off with a whimsical and sarcastic humour that usually appears at the most inappropriate of times.
Some mornings, I half expected to wake and find a thorn barrier growing out there, or a for a little red riding hood to wander in and join us for breakfast.
I had the Wolfe already.
Wolfe and Kiara are an absolutely adorable couple. He might be verging on mad, somewhat evil, able to manipulate both her mind and body and with a very dubious history but there is also a massively sweet, kind, charming and loving man under the rough and ready exterior. Despite so many reasons to hate this man, there was just something about him that stole my heart. (And no Ms Silerwood, it wasn’t the size of his cock – though it did help!)
Kiara is a good person caught up in a bad situation and trying to keep those she cares for safe. Before long Wolfe becomes one of those she cares for. She loves his gentle side, she loves his dominant side, she even quite likes his sadistic side, though the monster within somewhat scares her. I loved how she twisted the interpretation of his ‘commands’ in order to disobey whilst not disobeying – you’ve got to love a clever and devious woman!
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I touched the band-aid on my neck. That word made us seem like some old married couple, and that was as far as you could get from the truth without catching a train.
With outside forces determined to consign Wolfe to experimental history, and the beast suppressing drugs running out, is there a future for this pair? Added into the mix are a handful of mysteries and some shocking discoveries. A few loose ends are left just that, loose. However this fits perfectly with the whole theme of ‘what matters is not who we were, but who we are now’.
It had a very different feel to the rest of the series, strangely I found it ‘gentler’ even though this time the hero WAS the bad guy. There was less forcing and less, for want of a better word, ‘mind-raping’. Unlike the majority of mesmers, Wolfe wanted Kiara to chose the darkness, not just force it on her.
My suggestion? Come join the journey into madness.
This book has stunned me. Can a book be analytic and objective at the same time? Because with the amount of dark content (all consensual) multifaceted connection I felt in this story it is making me lose my perspective to sanity. This book was one of the best. Thank you Cari Silverwood for making me feel this way.
Wolfe was a creation of a top secret scientific experimentation. He was rescued from Thailand critically wounded with injuries so severe that improving was magic. But he recovered from injuries that should never have healed. Kiara was a nurse who was coerced and manipulated to keep an eye on Wolfe. When she was said to break Wolfe out of the hospital and hand him over, Kiara struggles with the change and intention of Wolfe’s behaviour. Wolfe has two personalities – one animalistic and the other gentle and caring. He can mind control any woman. When Kiara was mind controlled she realises she likes it but it can be brutal and dangerous. She is a victim and adept person in her relationship with Wolfe. Their sex is a chaos of varying feelings. I really like it when inopportune sex time comes. Sometimes the unpredictableness is thrilling and in this case deviant.
This is a dangerous, twisted dark romance with depravity and disturbing content. There are few lose ends which the author kept it that way, keeping it vague. And there is a HEA so we can be satisfied and happy. I recommend this to the dark lovers of romance.
Edit: Read this book after The Dark Trilogy series. We may have much better background description.
Another great read by LK Shaw. What I loved about this book is that Josie is a Domme and Miles is the sub. You don’t see to many book with a female domme, so this a bit different. It changes the whole dynamic in the relationship.
Both are great characters and Miles his struggles after killing a man are realistic, It was good to see how that storyline developed in the book.
When i finished the Dark Hearts trilogy,i really wanted to know what happened to Wolfe….even though his part was a small one,it left a need….a need to know this tortured soul wasn’t as dark as he seemed to be. The man Kiara sees,the real man underneath the savage…..Cari shows us in a way only she can who Wolfe is and who he becomes to Kiara. Loved it!
“Awesome and creepy. All at once.”
I read this book after Cari Silverwood’s “Dark Hearts” trilogy, in which the eponymous “Wolfe” makes an appearance. This book works well as a stand-alone, but you’ll have greater appreciation of the world Cari has wrought if you read “Dark Hearts” first. And they’re great books.
This is a dark read. Triggers abound. Horror and graphic sex and violence. Brilliantly written if these are your jam.
Wolfe is the bad guy but he’s a good person. Kiara finds herself on the wrong side of the law for reasons beyond their control. Together their story has shades of Beauty and the Beast and of Marvel’s Wolverine and Kilgrave characters wrapped up in a mystery/romance/road movie. And it’s very good. Much recommended.