From USA Today Bestselling author KL Donn comes the fifth book in the Adair Empire, a dark romance series.Beast, monster, boogeyman. Carver Rivers has been called many things in his lifetime & accused of even more. With single minded focus, he’s the one you want on your side. To fight your battles. Unfeeling and cold Carver grew up battling for freedom, fighting to become the well-known … freedom, fighting to become the well-known killer he is now.
Meeting Meadow Riley, Lilith’s sister, obsessing over her, he never anticipated what fear felt like. A fear so deep, so deadly it consumed him.
After believing the Empire’s enemy is dead, they’re shocked to find Meadow is missing and in need of a dark knighted savior. After finding her, Carver’s desires grew deeper and he longed for the innocent girl to accept the monster lurking beneath his skin.
Meadow aches to be loved as passionately as King loves Lilith. She yearns to be someone’s home, their safety. When Carver steps up claiming his need for her, will Meadow be strong enough to accept their intense desires or will Carver find himself fighting for something he never thought he would?
Love.
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The Adair Empire is a dark, graphic, romance series, with more triggers than I can list. Proceed with caution.
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Ahhh how I love this series. I adore how the men of the Adair Empire go from lethal to soft, loving and protective for their women. I fell in love with King when I read the first book in this series and I fall for each one of the others as their book comes to life.
I have waited for what seems like forever for Carver to have his story and I am not in the least bit disappointed. Carver has always been the darkest of all the knights for me but I feel he is also one of the most innocent, (if any of these boys is innocent!)
Meadow was very innocent in that she had led a protected life but quickly learned she craved the dark side of Carver as much as he craved her innocence. Their love has so much passion.
This book is filled with danger, torture, kidnapping, love, passion and death and it has all the feels that make it a love story.
Oh and King (swoon) in the preview of Gasping for Air. What man, except one that loved his woman like King loves Lil, would even think to do what he did during the delivery of their child! Ahh I can’t wait but I guess I have no choice.
Holy freaking hotness. Carver and Meadow are beyond hot. Can I have one just like him to go pretty please?
Carver is a hard man and believes he doesn’t have much of feeling do to his past. Ever since he spots Meddow Lilith’s half sister he knows he wants her. But as I said before Carver is a dark man and Meddow is light. Will she be able to accept his dark side and will he be able to find who is out to get his women. I am beyond excited to read the next book!!!
I have never made a secret of the fact that I absolutely love this author! This series has quickly become my favourite of hers, every deliciously dark character and their ladies embedding themselves into my heart and soul.
I thought I was prepared for Carver. His darkness sweeps across every book in the series but it isn’t until this one that you get to see his true darkness and it should scare the shizz out of you……what I wasn’t prepared for was the moments of tenderness, his internal struggle to calm the beast within so as not to scare Meadow away. Tears! Reduced to tears! ALL THE FEELS!!
‘She’s my beauty, and I’m her beast. I’m made to protect her
from everything but me.’
This man!! Honest to God, I think KL finally broke me with this book! Seriously! And that ending?!! *I will just be over here, rocking in the corner, muttering to myself!
Seems like I have been waiting for this book for forever. I have loved Carver since we met him in King. KL Donn didn’t disappoint with this book! Carver is so much better than I hoped for! It’s no secret that Carver is my favorite in this series with his carving skills.
Carver is a dark, disturbed, alpha who is loyal to those he calls family. With his knife, Mercy, he is to be feared.
Meadow is a young woman trying to live her life after everything got tipped upside down.
I love the chemistry between Carver and Meadow. He’s so dark and she’s so innocent, the saying “opposites attract” strikes again!
I can’t wait for the next book in this series!! I’m not sure what KL can do to my emotions that she hasn’t already, with this series it’s like I’m a hormonal teenager with how quick they change!
We’ve all awaited for when the beast would be unleashed and for Lilith give her blessing for him to carve out his path of vengeance. Well it’s here and he isn’t holding back.
Carver will grab you by the throat and wring out of you every emotion you have felt and ones you never imagine you would ever feel. I’ve never felt this much flurry of emotions as I have with reading Carver. This story is amped to a-whole-nother level that honestly you have to read it to fully understand.
The give and take, the struggle and triumph of this book alone, is enough to make my head spin. But, reading the series in order, we as readers understand this build up could only build so high before everything crashed and rained hellfire down. That is how Carver’s book is in the arc of the storyline!
There’s one book left and ground left to cover… Are you ready?
This is the story I have been waiting for and it has far exceeded my expectations. Carver is devastating beautifully told even with the dark parts thrown in he’s a man on a mission and that mission is Meadow and what Carver want he gets. Meadow who we met at the beginning of the series is not as naive as you would expect she see’s the darkness in Carver and except it because she knows he would never hurt her. This book has me in my feelings every book in the Adair Empire is ruthless, merciless and so dang on good that I wish it can go on Forever. Carver is no exception and I can’t wait for what’s next!!!!!
KL Donn you are amazing. Outstanding job on the Adair Empire series.. I love Carver and Meadow’s story. And I love how Meadow loved Carver’s twisted love. But girl you do not end a book like that and expect us to wait patiently for the next book that was just mean lol… I’m so loving this series.
This series continues to blow my world apart. All of these men when they find their other half will stop at nothing to give her everything she could want or need and Carver is no exception. The level of patience that Carver shows while waiting for Meadow to be ready for him is amazing considering how scared most people are of him. Meadow has her world shattered when she is brought into the Adair Empire’s world and she tries to move forward by going to school, with a new shadow that is. Meadow and Carver are an amazing couple, completely perfect for each other and so broken is certain ways. Thank you again KL Donn for this amazing group of people and the world they call theirs!
I was so waiting for Carver’s book and it it was everything I hoped it to be.
Omg Carver is the darkest of them all.
Meadow was sweet but craved Carver’s darkness.
Loved it so much. Don’t want this series to end, but I’ll be waiting anxiously for the final book.
When I started this series I want sure about it, I’m not one for the bad guy usually it takes a very particular type to intruige me. But KL has managed to not only make me love each and every book, but I’ve also fallen in love. Not sure I fell in love with the characters she expected, but to me the women of these books are the true draw cards beautiful in their power and acceptance of love and what their man brings.
And Meadow is no different. The characters in this story are the strongest aspect, because as much as you love the story you read on for the characters. Now give me book 6. I need more.
From the moment he saw her, Carver, enforcer and torturer for the Adair Empire, knew that Meadow belonged to him. As Lilith’s half sister, she’s off limits for now, but that doesn’t stop Carver’s obsession. He’ll do anything to make sure she is safe and happy even if he can’t have her yet.
Meadow’s world is torn apart by Lilith when she learns her step father had a family he abandoned prior to her and her mother. All she wants is to go to law school and bring justice to those who need it most. But her associations with the Adair Empire have made her a target and only Carver and the rest of the Empire can rescue her and eliminate the threat. Will it be enough to draw Meadow in to Carver’s world or will she walk away to escape his harsh reality and create her own?
Book 5 in the Adair Empire, Carver:Past Lies cannot be read as a standalone.
I’ll be honest that Carver’s character has intrigued me since the beginning of the series. He really is a blood thirsty killing machine and barely reigned in by King Adair. I wondered how he could possibly have any sort of relationship or show a woman any sort of caring when he has seemed to be focussed only on killing and the torment his favorite knife Mercy brings enemies of the Empire. He’s completing obsessed with Meadow, watching her from afar, although he does try to give her the space she needs. I was a bit shocked to see him capable of the gentleness he had with her, although he also brings his dark side and dominance to the table as well.
Meadow is sweetness and light. She harbors bitter feelings to Lilith and the Empire and really is not ready to be a part of it. When events force her in and she’s kidnapped by an enemy of the Empire, she knows Carver will save her. She just isn’t ready to be a part of his world. As he world continues to shatter, however, she finds herself needing the safety only he can provide her. She is willing to embrace his darkness and give herself over to him in all ways.
While I enjoyed Carver, I feel like this book lacked a bit of the depth the other books in the series had. The plot didn’t flow as easy and seemed to almost pack too much suspense and action into the book, leaving less time for the author to really develop Meadow and Carver’s characters and relationship. I will say that I absolutely loved the teases of what is to come in the next book . . . the build up between Dimitri, Daniel and new character Danika Vashchenko will have readers screaming for more.
Fans of the series will adore Carver and Meadow as KL Donn continues her walk on the dark side with the Adair Empire. 4 stars.
This series just keeps getting better with each book! I am so sad that it’s almost over. Carver was everything I expected plus so much more. He has taken the place of my favorite in this series so far. I loved Meadow and I think they are the perfect balance for each other. Never thought I would see a soft side of Carver even when he found his woman. You just can’t help but get sucked in to the storyline of this series and all of the characters. Each book makes me more and more anxious for the final book. I have a feeling that Grasping For Air is gonna knock me on my ass and I for one can’t wait.