I mean it, Sweetheart, you come out to the desert with me, my word is law.AmayaOne careless mistake and my life as I knew it was over.I left a single window open and a world of pain and terror drifted in with the night breeze. I came to Cole Monnahan for protectionBut now he’s the thing I fear most.He’s a private military contractor: shrewd, ruthless, and ice cold.He’s also drop dead sexy and … ruthless, and ice cold.
He’s also drop dead sexy and dirty as hell
And he’s got a set of obscene rules that he requires me to follow at all times.
He demands my complete obedience and he treats my body like he owns it.
I shouldn’t let him desecrate my flawless skin with his filthy hands
I shouldn’t let him inflict his wicked discipline on me.
I should find someone safer
I should forget all about him and his f*cked up rules.
But I just can’t seem to utter the word ‘no’ when I’m with him.
And if he doesn’t save me
He’s going to be the death of me.
Cole
I’m consumed with my desire to devour this little peach.
She’s so ripe for the plucking.
Naïve, spoiled, and reckless with pouty lips that look like sugar sweet rose petals and legs that go on for days.
When this little fool burst into my office demanding my protection, she made the biggest mistake of her life.
Oh I’ll protect her from her ghosts and ghouls, but only if she follows my rules.
She needs to be taught how to behave and she needs a man with a strong hand to teach her.
I’ll show her how to beg, how to scream, and how to wrap those pillowy lips and endless legs around me and take me all in.
She thinks that she can tame me with her charm.
But she’s never met a man like me.
She doesn’t know what I’m capable of and she can’t see the depth of my depravity.
I’m going to feast upon every square centimeter of her flesh and I won’t stop until there’s nothing left.
But I never expected her to poison my mind like this.
She’s playing a dangerous game.
And if it continues we’re both going to be the losers
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Well, Cole Mannahan (owner of Dark Horizons security firm) is the last bachelor of the 3 former Green Berets who served together & then worked together. Since losing Eamon to Carmen (Crimson Bayou) & Graves to Grisella (Silver Sands), Cole has truthfully felt & been adrift. Unsure if he wants to keep Dark Horizons, sell it or shut it down, he’s not feeling the burn to do what’s needed to bring in urgently needed funds to keep it viable. But he knows he doesn’t want to do any other missions himself. But then SHE, Amaya, shows up with her odd makeup, her ‘up yours’ attitude & a God awful UGLY thing she calls a dog.
Having been attacked & nearly raped in her home she comes to Cole as a last option after fruitlessly attempting to get the police & 2 other security firms to find her stalker &/or protect her until they do.
Again, Ms Voss wrote a suspenseful romance with sparkling humor & nicely steamy sizzle. I again loved her snarky heroine (a total shock for me as I normally do NOT care for snarky heroines) & how at times Cole, a battle hardened lethal emotionally icy Green Beret could be so darn CLUELESS when it came to Amaya’s emotions/reactions.
I was totally cracking up when Cole freaks after he & Amaya get snuggly & feeling content after a ‘steamy sizzle session’ so he leaves for the day to get away from her & ‘think’:
“I guess I had been kind of unfair. That morning, I was absolutely certain that Amaya was intentionally manipulating me. That she was somehow using her feminine wiles to distract me from work & force me to obsess over her.
“I’d spent the entire day trying to figure out how she’d done it & I reached a conclusion: she hadn’t. She looked cute, she seemed to like when I f****d her, & she made me breakfast.
“That was hardly Rasputin level manipulation.
“I had maybe, possibly overreacted.”
The vast majority of this one is again focused on the H/h & their possible journey to love & a relationship beyond Cole protecting Amaya from her unknown stalker/attacker. The reader is given little snippets related to the suspenseful angle of the story but mainly we are kept delightfully focused on Cole & Amaya’s rocky & emotionally antagonistic interactions. And oddly, as in charge of her life as Amaya is, the few times Cole takes complete control of her (a spanking, some light bondage, initiating s*x) not only does she like it, it calms her mind & removes a huge weight off her shoulders.
And Cole, who can NOT EVER relinquish control, is finding he is becoming more & more attracted to, focused on, interested by the quirky L.A. woman that entered his increasingly lusterless life.
If a reader wants a brave but realistic & smart mouth heroine who doesn’t hold back any of her opinions, a tough lethal Hero who needs his life to be brightened & romantically challenged, hot bursts of steamy sizzle, a suspenseful background mystery, wonderfully sparkling dialogue & two characters that both make your heart ache & happy, that you CARE about: Read this one. I, for one, GREATLY enjoyed this one & look forward to more by this author.
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Yes the waiting is over now we have Cole’s (owner of Dark Horizons security firm) Storyline I was excited to grab and read this one. The characters did not disappoint and the storyline was amazingly developed I did not want to put it down.
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Bad Lands is the second book in the Dark Horizon Captives series by Sonora Voss which focuses on Amara, who obtains Cole’s security help to protect her after she experiences a home invasion, and Cole, who agrees to protect her if she follows his rules. This book has complex characters and a suspenseful plot with humor, and a tumultuous relationship with sizzling chemistry.
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The main character is worried about a stalker but then gets upset when the bodyguard she spent a fortune on takes away her phone and tells her she can’t post on social media. Stupid girl. Then I read this line: “That was cool, I didn’t blame him, I was hot and totally way out of his league.” That’s when I quit reading.
Amaya is terrified and seeking a bodyguard. She meets Cole when she is frustrated and having trouble finding someone. He doesn’t seem to want to help her either but she’s desperate to feel safe again. When Cole decides to help and she signs the contract its the beginning of something neither bargained for.
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This is a new to me author and I was not able to put this book down until I finished. I loved the story and the characters. A hit for this author.
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This is the 3rd book in the Dark Horizons series. following Cole and Amaya story. Having lost some of his best guys to love Cole needed a change of direction for his company and first order was no more personal security jobs. that was until Amaya walked in his office having a stalker that attacked her and turned her world upside down. Only it turns Coles world upside down too, taking Amaya to his family ranch it soon becomes clear that he wants to do more than protect her. Well written with a great in depth story.
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