The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. Mom’s hospital bills. My baby brother’s tuition. My tuition. Rent. Electricity. All of it on my shoulders. And I had just lost my job. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an … envelope in the mail. No return address. My name on the front, my address. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Enough to let me focus on classes. There was no name on the check, just “VRI Inc.,” and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. No mention of repayment, interest, nothing… except a single word, on the notes line: “You.” Just those three letters.
If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it?
I did.
The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. It too contained a single word: “belong.”
A third check, the next month. This time, two words. Four letters. “To me.”
The checks kept coming. The notes stopped. Ten thousand dollars, every month. A girl gets used to that, real quick. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom’s hospice care paid for. How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you’re desperate? You don’t. I didn’t.
And then, after a year, there was a knock on my door. A sleek black limousine sat on the curb in front of my house. A driver stood in front of me, and he spoke six words: “It’s time to pay your debt.”
Would you have gotten in?
I did.
It turns out $120,000 doesn’t come free.
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I was not sure about this book when I read the summary. I’m glad I read it! It’s a very different story line but thoroughly enjoyable. Lots of mystery and tons of heat. In the end, I loved the characters and read the entire series.
Kyrie was a struggling college student. She lost her job and these checks started coming . She worried about using the checks but she did. Who was this mystery benefactor. She will soon find out. Roth would finally come clean but that’s when she felt the bottom had dropped out. Will she see past the truth, believe in her heart and the love she …
I wanted to love this book, but the story just didn’t grab me. I did love the characters and the air of mystery surrounding Roth, but the story became monotonous after a while. After learning about the secret, it felt rushed to the end. I enjoyed the book, but just wasn’t in love with it.
An original story of an often overused trope. Written in a way that speaks to both characters, I could not put this down. Vivid, steamy as hell and romantic with a touch of intrigue. I quickly bought book two but this could be read as an standalone.
Love love love this book
#bookreview #jasindawilder .
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Title; Alpha
Thoughts; I loved it, it’s an easy read of an typical ‘smutty’ story
Kyrie can barely make it every month and when a check arrives without an sender… she decided to make good use of it… but she knows nothing good can come from it, no money like that could be free of an price or counter …
The author did a great job of making such a mysterious story so interesting. I listened to it all at once. Could stop. I was so invested the characters and what would happen next. I knew there was a twist. I kept waiting and she didn’t disappoint. This book keeps you on your seat. Of course the story isn’t over…on to the next book
An intense beginning with deep tension and mystery, but the author dropped the ball near the middle of the book. I started skipping pages of lovemaking, and Valentine Roth (the mystery billionaire) was too perfect for me (including his name).
But that said, Jasinda Wilder is a sophisticated, skillful author. I’ll read her stories in the near …
HOW TO FIND OUT WHO SOMEONE IS IF BLIND FOLDED:
Step 1: touch their face
– smoothish = young
– a little rough = adult
– somewhat wrinkly = late adult
– very wrinkly = run
Step 2: feel their hands
– callused = works hard and find out where the calluses are may show what type of work they do
– smooth = run because they don’t do shit… in a few …
For my first read with Jasinda Wilder, I couldn’t have picked a better book. We start with a mystery, then move to payback, go on to fear/attraction and then comes the sex! I could not put this book down. There is something terribly dark that winds its way through this entire story and even when that is discovered the quiet and beautiful power of …
Beautifully Intense & Perfectly, Paradoxically Superb… “Alpha” by Jasinda Wilder was recommended to me by a colleague well versed in my love of dark and moody love stories. At first I was skeptical given the cover and description blurb and chalked it up as being just another bdsm dom/sub story. But wow was I wrong, completely, irrevocably …
Couldn’t even finish the book, most of the writing was terrible and it was literally just non stop sex with a billionaire. Not sure what I expected but some kind of plot line would have been nice. If you’re just into it for the sex scenes this may be your thing though..
I LOVED this book. Definitely kept me wanting more.
Great author, good read!
I loved this book, except that I now have to have to read the next one.
Great read
Very romantic and unpredictable!!
This book took me back to my childhood with Beauty and the Beast. And while we all loved the story of Belle and the Prince as children most of us can agree in adulthood that their relationship was not a healthy one. Neither is the one scripted in this book.
Their relationship is founded in obsession and control in a way that is just …
I love Jasinda Wilder’s Badd Brother Series but this was a bit much for me. Extremely steamy and sexual with hints of fifty shades.
Though I’m usually not good at figuring out the ending of a book, this one I figured out fairly early on and, I’m sad to say, I kept reading. I know it’s just a book, but the story is terrible, twisted and very dark. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.