My name is Ellie Winters, and I’m one of those unfortunate women you hear about on the news—but you never think my fate will ever happen to you. Not that I blame you for believing that. Honestly, I thought the same thing, until I became a statistic, a missing person who was assumed dead. Wrong place, wrong time.
Except…I’m not dead. Not yet. I was kidnapped, shackled, beaten, and deprived of … deprived of the basic necessities, and pretty much left to find a slow, painful demise. I’m hanging on, but just barely. I’m not even sure what I’m waiting for since there’s no hope for me, nobody waiting for me. I had finally given up, resigned myself to my inevitable death…when the one man who could make me want to live again finds me more dead than alive. After so many months in captivity, I’m lost, hopelessly damaged. Is it even possible for me to come out of the darkness and into the light again?
Zane Colter challenges me to live again, laugh again, live my life again. But I’m not sure if I’ll ever be the same woman I was before I was held captive by a madman. Yet, he doesn’t give up, and I couldn’t ignore the white-hot passion that sizzled between the two of us.
He’s everything I’ve ever wanted, everything I’ve always needed.
Tender–but stubborn.
Logical–but understanding.
Sweet–but hot, demanding and possessive.
As we fall into each other, both hungry for a passion we’ve never known, I wonder if I can be what Zane needs when I’m struggling to find myself again.
And when I’m finally healed, I’ll have a choice to make: Do I try to hang onto him forever, or will letting go be my only option?…
Disclaimer: This book is not suitable for children and young teens. 18+ only.
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4 Star Review Billionaire Undaunted: Zane ( The Billionaire’s Obsession #9) by JS Scott
Audio Review
This book starts off a tad dark and may not be to everyone’s taste. Both the author and narrator were new to me so I went into this story blind.
I felt that the narrator Elizabeth Powers did a great job. Particularly as the book starts off with Ellie being kidnapped and giving up all hope of being rescued. She managed to convey a great deal of emotion as she told the story and I found myself invested.
This was a hot and passionate story filled with angst and emotion. The chemistry between Zane and Ellie is scorching and this added to what was a gripping story. The flames almost jump off the page as you read. I loved how they were friends that morphed into more.
Can Ellie recover from her ordeal and create a future with Zane or is she destined to be lost and lonely? Will Zane overcome his past?
JS Scott once again did a great job with this story and the characters. It kept my interest from start to finish.
Am n the process of reading this book. When finished i will look n 2 getting the others n this series from this author.
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An amazing story that pulls you in from the beginning with characters that you immediately love. A true romance that has been building before we even get to their story.
Perfect…a true romance!
Ellie what he was doing to her friend, and knew she had to do something, but before she had a chance he kidnapped her.
Ellie remember hearing Zane’s voice but thought it was a dream until she wakes in the hospital and sees him, he won’t leave her side.
With Zane giving her no choice but to head to his home she lets him know that when she thought she was going to die, she thought of her regrets, one being kissed so she was left breathless.
Zane has had feelings for Ellie, but never acted on them due to circumstances, Zane wants to give her a lot of things but start with leaving her breathless, letting her know he’s doing it for him as well, he needs to protect her and help her heal.
Ellie has never had to lean on people for support and with everything that went on, doesn’t want to rely on Zane, he was her childhood crush, but Zane’s making it hard not to accept his help and the only one she feels comfortable with after what happened.
Zane realises that he made a mistake not acting when he always knew that Ellie was if for him, but he knows after what she went through he was fighting for what he wanted, and it was her.
Ellie has a long road to recovery, but Zane stays by her side, making sure she has everything she needs and continually fulfilling her regret to be ‘kissed so passionately that I could forget the rest of the world and come out of it breathless’.
I am a one clickaholic when it comes to the Billionaire series by this Author. I don’t even read the blurb. If it’s up on pre order, I click. I have been hooked since the series began with Simon Hudson in The Billionaire’s Obsession. Oh yeah, he’s mine. I get completely lost in these books and this one is no different. It’s a brand new story filled with love, romance, sex, danger, super intense moments. Is it just me or are these books becoming more wicked? wickedly good of course but you know what I mean. There is more danger, more intensity. I always say, ‘God, I loved that book’ and then another comes out and I keep thinking it’s better than the last one when in reality they are all brilliantly done, it’s just a new story with new characters we have been dying to read about.
Zane Colter a man that doesn’t give up and thankfully he never gave up on Ellie. Zane is not only Ellie’s hero, he’s mine and probably many more readers feel the same way. The guy could claim me any day of the week. I know, I’m already spoken for with Simon but hey, he has Kara. Anyways moving on. This story I found it to be very emotional. There were times when my heart almost broke for Ellie and Chloe even Zane. The struggles of moving forward after everything that has happened to them is hard to overcome. Zane is not about to give up, he will do anything for Ellie to be happy and feel safe once again.
Just when you think life can be good again given time and help from support of family and friends life throws another curve ball at Ellie and the Colter family. It’s a very intense situation to say the least. Zane fears the worst that Ellie will put herself in danger. Tate and Marcus hatch a plan that no one wants to be left out of. All for one and one for all.
Imagine having all the alpha males in one room. It makes my skin tingle, LOL!! Sorry I just can’t help it, as much as I was drawn into the story and bad things were happening, I couldn’t help but think boy I would love to be in that room right now with all those hot, strong alpha men. One thing you can always guarantee with the Billionaire’s they know how to claim a woman. They will not rest until the words ‘you are mine’ are spoken. The billionaire series completely blows me away every time. I am so thankful that I started this amazing journey.
Thank you Author J.S Scott for another fabulous read. You have developed your characters so well I feel like they are a part of my life, or is that wishful thinking? Either way as always I look forward to the next instalment.
I highly recommended to all lovers of Romance. If you haven’t ever read a book by this Author then you are seriously missing out. Thousands and I mean thousands of readers sit in anticipation for a new release and it’s worth every waiting day.
This book was absolutely amazing. This is Zane and Ellie’s book. This book picks up where Billionaire Unbound (Chloe) left off. If you haven’t read any of this series you definitely must. I have always loved Simon from the 1st Billionaire’s Obsession, but I think that Zane just took the cake. Amazing job J.S. Scott.
Zane Colter is nothing if not tenacious and finding his sister’s missing best friend becomes all consuming. Using science to nail down her approximate location, he searches until he finds her in a remote cabin. Ellie Winters didn’t ask to be kidnapped and traumatized. Once rescued and finally regaining most of her health back, she’s ready to reclaim her life. One problem, Zane is not really willing to give her up that easily. Hiring her as his PA seems the perfect solution. Falling for her boss or his PA shouldn’t be in the cards but it happens to both of them.
This is the ninth book in the series and as usual the author doesn’t disappoint! This is Zane Colter’s book one of the Colter brothers. He’s the brilliant scientist that has been helping to search for his sisters best friend that suddenly one day disappeared. Even when everyone gave up hope. He never did and neither did his sister.
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Ellie Winters worked for James only a few days when she went missing and left everyone wondering where she could have gone. Why would she just leave and disappear without a trace. She didn’t come from money and working for Chloe’s ex was a job regardless of how horrible he was to work for and she didn’t understand exactly how psychotic the man truly was. However she’d learn all too soon.
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Zane never stops even after seven months of searching for Ellie and James deciding dying was the way to go before facing charges for what he’s done to Chloe. He leaves a horrifying note confessing he took Ellie and she’ll die before ever being found. With a new determination Zane does everything in his power to find her before that can happen.
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Zane has always been attracted to Ellie unlike any woman and Ellie has always found him handsome and breathtaking. Once he finds her and saves her from death, he’s not sure he can ever let her go.
Zane & Ellie’s Story Is About Hope & Healing After Living In Captivity.
This is the ninth book in The Billionaire’s Obsession series. Books one through five are centered around Tampa, Florida. Book six is a bridge between The Sinclairs series and this series, but it also shifts the series to Colorado. Here the series continues in Colorado with Zane Colter and Ellie Winters. Ellie is Chloe Colter’s best friend from childhood. She first appears in book eight in the series, Billionaire Unbound – Chloe’s story.
The Colter family is well-known for their good looks, genius IQ’s, and billionaire status. Widow Aileen Colter runs the family’s Rocky Springs Resort. Her late husband Russell had died in the 1990’s in an incident while traveling in the Middle East. The oldest sibling Marcus took over for his father, overseeing most of the Colter Corporation’s vast holdings and is often away on business. His twin Blake is a US Senator, sometimes referred to as the cowboy senator in reference to his cattle ranch. Zane works as a research doctor in biotechnology out of Denver. Chloe is the baby sister. Nearly thirty, she has just graduated from vet school.
Tate Colter and Lara Bailey find love in Billionaire Untamed. In their suspenseful story, an ex-SEAL meets his match in a tough as nails FBI agent.
Billionaire Unbound is Gabriel Walker and Chloe Colter’s story. It is a best friend’s little sister story with a serious tone. Gabe and Chloe’s story is about surviving and thriving following domestic abuse. Leading into the current book, Chloe’s ex-fiancé is James admits to kidnapping Chloe’s best friend Ellie over six months ago, just before he commits suicide. Ellie’s whereabouts are unknown.
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This book picks up soon after Gabe and Chloe leave on their honeymoon, which is just over seven months from the beginning of their book – Billionaire Unbound.
Ellie Winters, roughly thirty, comes from a much different background than Chloe Colter, but that didn’t stop the girls from becoming best friends over twenty years ago. They had both been conscious of their curvy figures and insecure in their body image, over which they had bonded. Chloe’s older brother Zane had been a loner, too. He was brilliant but disorganized. Ellie and her organizational skills had come to his rescue more than once in school. She never saw much of him since he left for college, but she has had a secret crush on him for years.
While Ellie was raised in a good family, they never had much money. Her father had died a number of years ago and her mother had remarried and moved to Montana. But when Chloe went away for ten years to pursue her dreams of becoming a vet, Ellie stayed put in Rocky Springs. Without complaint she gave up on the idea of going to college in order to get a job and help support her mother. She doesn’t make a lot, but she is fiercely independent and has never relied upon anyone for help. At Chloe’s insistence, though, she had started a new job working as an office manager for James. Chloe believed that Ellie’s organization skills would relieve some of his stress. It was only one week into the job when Ellie realized that James was the devil, and by then it was too late.
Zane Colter, thirty-two, has always been a science geek. Despite the popularity of his three brothers, Zane went through school as a loner. He is blunt and most of his conversations revolve around complex scientific issues. Small talk just isn’t his thing. He can easily lose himself in his work, and his life outside of his lab reflects that fact. He is an utter slob and has no idea how to cook, but his lab is run in good order. Zane breezed through school and got all sort of degrees, including a medical degree, but his focus is on research. Finding cures and saving lives is his life’s mission. He is CEO of Colter Laboratories and works out of the Denver offices where most of the research takes place.
The success of Zane’s company in combination with his personal wealth mean that despite his nerdy ways, he doesn’t have difficulty attracting the attention of women. But he fears that women want him for the wrong reasons, and experience has made him insecure. There is one woman that has had his attention since high school, but it always seemed wrong to act on his feelings for her since she was his little sister’s best friend. But when Ellie went missing seven months ago, all those concerns went out the door as he turned his focus to finding Ellie and bringing her home.
Zane and Ellie’s story is about picking up the pieces after living in the face of evil. Zane, who lives inside of his bubble, snaps into action when Ellie goes missing. Ellie is kind and sweet, but stubborn when it comes to accepting Zane’s help. She is not afraid to stand up against him and the couple’s banter is fun. They are both laid back and have a great work ethic. It is wonderful to see the geek transform into the hero and the “chubby girl” turn out to be the woman of his dreams. Following several family crises, it wonderful to see the Colter family pull together. They earn a well-deserved happy ending. The epilogue leads into Blake’s story, as Marcus pulls him into a mysterious crisis.
Some details in the series do not line up perfectly from book to book. Here, Tate is once again the youngest brother. Going off of Billionaire Unbound, Ellie disappeared almost immediately after starting her job as James’s office manager the second week of January. Here it states she had only worked a week before being kidnapped. That puts her rescue in mid to late August, but her rescue occurs during a snowstorm and the holidays are looming. Three to four months are thus skipped, which makes following ages a little difficult!
Trying to picture the family and their ages can be tricky. Based on facts pieced together here and in the previous Colter stories, here is a summary of the approximate ages of the Colter kids as this story begins: Marcus and Blake, twins – roughly thirty-four, Zane – thirty-two, Tate – thirty-one, and Chloe, twenty-nine (and a half).
Zane plays hero to Ellie, who miraculously survives seven months of captivity and abuse. Their story is one of hope and healing. It is a light, quick read. The story is well-written and plot-driven. The characters are well-developed given the length. The story is written in first person. The POV alternates between Zane and Ellie, with bits in Gabe, Tate, and Blake’s POV’s. I rate this book 4.5 stars.
Zane has rescued Ellie from a very traumatic kidnapping. She would have died if he hadn’t been so persistent and refused to give up after months, like most other people did. But something drove him to keep going, and it paid off. He found her, just in time. But now his protective instincts go into overdrive, and he’s determined to help Ellie get back her life, but he also wants her to be his. Ellie has always been independent, and not had a lot of men in her life. After Zane rescues her, she’s determined to get back her life and independence, but Zane is someone she’s been attracted to for a long time….her best friend’s brother. Sparks definitely fly between these two, but the small, tender moments are just as strong. Zane and Ellie are perfect for each other, they just need to admit it to themselves. Scorching chemistry abounds, making this a sizzling read.
The stories keeps getting better and better. Ellie is Chloe’s friend and her disappearance was mentioned in the previous book. It’s nice to get updates of Chloe, since both she and Ellie suffered from the hands of her terrible ex. Having people like Zane and Chloe is the best gift Ellie could ever have. There story is heartfelt with painful experiences but there is also an abundance love, passion and loyalty.
Zane was so sweet with his devotion to Ellie. I loved the plot. I’ve I had one complaint it would be that Ellie talking through what happened to her and express her feelings about it with Zane was just glossed over. In the story Ellie keep talking about her therapy session with the online therapist but normal details were explored I love all of the books in the series so that small little complaint didn’t alter my review. Until next time y’all happy reading.
Zane was sure he knew Ellie was still alive even though she had been missing for months and presumed dead and he finally found her, barely alive and brought her back. This one was something else. I have been binge listening this series and I started this one and just couldn’t stop it until it was done. These two were made for each other. That is all I have to say about it, other than you cannot miss this one!
Ellie is missing and Zane is looking for her and in this story you find out if and how he finds her. I love reading what happens and the journey they go through I recommend this book!!!!!
Audio Review: Billionaire Undaunted: Zane (The Billionaire’s Obsession #9) by J.S. Scott (Author), Elizabeth Powers (Narrator)
There were moments that I wanted to walk away, but my heart refused to let me. Scott continues to push through boundaries with inspirational stories that break a heart, even as they uplift the soul. There’s a thin line between love and hate, but James proved himself to be psychotic. Billionaire Undaunted is an up close glimpse into the eyes of evil and the will it takes to survive it. Zane is a breath of fresh air in a journey that is somewhat overpowering. He refuses to let the darkness steal his sunlight. A ray of light that once shone so brightly and with his personal touch, finds the strength to gleam again. WOW is too weak of a word to describe the emotions Zane and Ellie evoke. This story continues to haunt my heart, even after I’ve reached the end.
Thanks for the great read