“What is it about us, angel? Is it that I make it hurt? Or is it that I make you like it?” Love isn’t easy for a man raised on hate. Plain and simple. When David took Lianna Mercier to destroy her, he didn’t know that he’d fall for her. A mistake he’d happily make again… because now she’s his entire world. But he’s not the only monster at her door. She’s still heir to a family name steeped in … monster at her door.
She’s still heir to a family name steeped in blood and violence, a criminal family that she’s too innocent to face alone, and they’re coming for her. He’ll die before he lets her go, because losing her will only end one way – with him eating a bullet.
The only problem is… can he even ask her to choose him after all he’s done?
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I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review.
Falling for the girl he kidnappped shouldn’t have happened, Especially not Lianna Mercier, daughter of the man he hated, and heir to a family name steeped in blood and violence. But now she is his entire world, and Liann’s is burning down around her. David may have lit the match and set her life on fire, but all he wants now is to keep her safe. With their future on the line…can he ever ask her to choose him after all he’s done.
This is the second book in this series to you need to read the first one before you do Inheritance or your going to be lost. This book is so good that it deserves more stars than are allowed. This story is nothing short of amazing and had me hanging on every single world that was written. If you love dark books you do not want to to miss this one or any Jennifer Bene book for that matter.
Intense and emotionally charged. I read this book over the weekend and had to let it digest before writing the review. While Destruction was dark on a physical level, Inheritance is dark on an emotional one. You will gain more insight into David and Lianna, yet still need to see where the next act of their intricate stage play will take them. Will their love protect them or will they be forced to choose… My heart is still pounding from the intensity of their feelings as dark and light intertwine to make a deliciously dark romance. Fabulous read!
Lianna and David were one intense couple in Destruction.
Now they are living together. Although Lianna’s world has crashed around her and David is still consumed with hatred of her family, they are clinging to each other. Their “game” of dominance and pain still a cornerstone of their relationship.
Ms Bene lets us see and feel the whirlpool of conflicting feelings, the desperate need, those two have for each other.
When a surprise visit escalates the turmoil of their relationship I felt right in the room with them. Scared, angry, feeling an all consuming rage, the dread of loss. Being set on a journey that could mean the ruin of their lives. And in the middle of that perfect storm they find their true meaning.
This is another excruciatingly beautiful story by this scary talented author.
What did Lianna really inherit after the destruction of her life,after the destruction of the person she thought she was?
What did David deserve after the destruction of Lianna’s life?
What he thought he deserved is not what he’s getting,thát’s for sure!
Lianna needs him too much to let him go….
And after all those revelations,she knows he has been the only one that’s been honest with her.
That knows the who,the how,and the what of her previous life.
But making him see,really see,that she chooses him and only him?
That could take a while,because all he can see is,that he’s too dark for her light.
And knowing who is coming for her,who is going to bribe her into doing the one thing that might prove fatal for that light?
The life they had before is gone,Destroyed.
But the Inheritance is a hope for a future,together.
The way there,is by communication and understanding.
Can these two halves of a coin,dark and light,make it work?
Can they find their Redemption,and come out of the fight for their love together?
I am more than ready to find out!
Oh, I needed this book! To inspire, quell, rationalize, understand, to see the light and it exceeded my expectations. The crazy train relationship continues! The protector, his obsessive nature and his beast will be reignited when additional family surfaces. Can she truly want, love or accept this man he is mess perhaps her other half of her own mess? Will hate consume and destroy the only light in his life? If you have the passion to hate do you then also have the intense passion to love. Consequences of Robert’s path of destruction leaves the heiress without an identity consumed by flames, who will she become?This continues for Liliane and David perhaps the start of something sinefully delicious. This S/M couple just may have a future if they can accept what society deems unacceptable. What an amazing continuation. Can’t wait to see what other skeletons are exposed and if his beast will resurface yet again.
This is the 2nd book in this amazing series and continues straight on from where Destruction ended. Lianna and David love each other, and their relationship grows from strength to strength, yet he is still on his continued path of vengeance against her family. Will they be able to overcome their own insecurities? This is a well written tale which is raw, gritty, and dark, with drama, suspense, and is an intense and emotional roller coaster journey throughout. I cannot wait to read the next book in this series, and I recommend.
I need to start by reassuring Ms Bene that all the angst, all the heartache, all the tearing at her hair, cursing at her keyboard and despairing at her first drafts was so VERY WORTH HER TIME AND EFFORT. In fact I would go so far as to say that all her suffering, all her emotion, bled into this work and made it SUCH an emotional read. Once started, it is one of those books that you just don’t want to put down until you’ve read every word. It’s way beyond the mere 5 stars available to bestow upon it.
David and Lianna are where they want and need to be, with each other. Yet everything is wrong. Instead of being left alone to rebuild her, their, life, outside forces are determined to hold them back and drag them down into the corruption that both are desperately trying to claw their way out of. I need to add at this point that Inheritance isn’t a stand alone book. It’s the second in a trilogy, Destruction must be read first to fully understand David and Lianna’s tale.
Inheritance is full of power, passion, and pain. So many times it slips back into the dark waters of David’s soul, leaving marks both physical and mental on the both of them. Yet that suffering and hurt are necessary, for there lays the path to light, hope and redemption. Lianna and David continue to burn up the sheets with their explosive, and ofttimes violent, chemistry. Theirs is a raw, visceral and twisted relationship but, as two sides of the same coin, they somehow make it work.
So much happens in this book, and yet in some ways not very much at all. It is very much a tale of personal growth, of accepting who you are but also realising that you can change that individual. Realising that the past doesn’t dictate the future. Acknowledging that the sins of the father do not need to be visited upon the son.
I loved every single minute of reading Inheritance, even when it made me cower away in horror. And it builds such a twisty, tangled web of love, suspicion, hope and distrust that will no doubt fray and shatter when they find their final Redemption.
As always this author never disappoints from cover to cover. David must either overcome the distrust her family invokes in him or lose her heart forever. They are so drawn to each other, it is impossible for them to be apart, but it may not stop Lianna from having to live without him. Another dark, amazing read that you can’t put down. An excellent blend of suspense, action, angst and real love and all the entaglements that entails.
The second book in the Fragile Ties series continues on with David and Lianna’s story and the turmoil they are going through over Lianna’s family in France and David’s desire to keep her save and protect her from the Faure family. He wants to protect her from the danger they present. However, if he keeps her from her family, he could lose her for good.
David only knows hate and his mind won’t change when it comes to the Faure family and Lianna’s father, even though he’s now gone. Lianna is drifting and feeling lonely, so when her uncle shows up, she has a hard time turning him away and wants more answers than what she has gotten from David. The only trouble is, she isn’t sure who to believe and she’s hurting David by speaking to her uncle.
I enjoyed this second part of the series but didn’t find it to draw me in like the first part, Destruction. While it has the intrigue, suspense and darkness of Destruction, it didn’t pull right in and draw my attention like the first book. With that being said, I still enjoyed the book and am looking forward to Redemption. I am actually excited to read Redemption. While the first part of the book didn’t pull me in and hold me prisoner to the book, the ending did. I am looking forward to reading how the Faure family will treat Lianna and David and if they are in as much danger as David seems to think they are. I give this book a 4.5-star review and recommend it to readers like mafia, suspense, danger, and dark desires. Ms. Bene knows how to write dark stories and this series does not disappoint at all.
The turn around in this story was fascinating to read as it happened. How can you hate a character so much then begin to like him even knowing what he did to her in the previous book. The author loves to create conflict and twists to her stories that are mind blowing. Once again I have to rethink everything I know about these characters and though they are known, it feels like a whole other story. I felt like I was the one he was playing with in this story. The author made every scene realistic which was frightening. Awesome writing!
This book kept me up all night. Every time I would say one more paragraph, it kept getting better and better. Angst, hate, secrets, lies, drama and really good. I’m ready for book #3 bring it on.
This is the continuation of Lianna and David’s story. Their journey continues with a series of angsts and struggles that could tear them apart. The emotional darkness will pull you in but soon you will be seeing and reaching for the light at the end of their tunnel. This series will not and can not leave you without feeling some intense emotions towards the characters and their stories. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us with the conclusion of this amazing journey. I honestly volunteered to review this story.
Holy crap…. the first book was dark and depraved and then comes the next story that is much lighter and filled with cracks of darkness waiting to creep thru. Just as you think happiness is finally coming to these two slightly twisted characters Jean-Luc comes slithering in. All is not as it seems and the next story hopefully will bring its own depravity.
I read and reviewed a copy of this book.
Inheritance is a deeply dark continuation of the relationship between Lianna and David, who we met in Destruction. Despite their harsh past, they are now living together and working out a life that satisfies each of their needs. David has been raised in darkness, while Lianna has led the life of an ignored, naïve, and privileged little rich girl. Watching these two damaged individuals struggle past difficulties to find their way is intensely satisfying.
Jennifer Bene has written a story that drew out my inner emotions and made me want to read more.
Oh wow, this second book brings you to your knees, as Lianna and David begin life after her father a new threat comes in the shape of the Faure family. At times I wanted to smack David for the way he treated Lianna especially when it was nothing she had done wrong, a very emotional read. I voluntarily reviewed this book.
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Darkness my old friend, so good to speak with you again. This take us back to two ruined souls who find balance in each other. Our anti-hero is black as night but he finds some redemption in this book that will carry them through the tough times ahead. Our heroines family is evil and manipulative and we’re all set up for a show down in Book 3. I absolutely love how carefully the author weaves the light and dark throughout the plot and characters. Masterful.
To say that I have been waiting for this book like I needed air would be an understatement. I have gone back and read Destruction several times so that I wouldn’t lose this story in the hundreds that I have read in between waiting for this story to continue. I fell in love with David and Lianna in the first book. Their story was truly destructive and based on revenge and hate. However, it grew into something more as I started to see the characters behind the mask that they wrote. So I patiently waited knowing that this author would give me the words when she could because there was no way that an author could let one of her “babies” not have a conclusion. And I was right.
Inheritance is different than the first book but different doesn’t mean bad. If anything, in this case, I would say it got better. There were still the demons in David and he was still the sadist who loved to inflict pain, but he also was better at knowing that it was finally okay to love and be loved. Lianna was no longer a means to an end but rather was “the END” being that he would truly die for her. Lianna, this time around had grown stronger. No longer ashamed that she craved David and his demons while still balancing that she wanted to discover more about herself and her family. I am intrigued by what is going to come with Jean-Luc and the Faure family. Knowing this author, she will keep me on my toes and will make me sweat it out until the very end.
I am holding my breath for the next and final book of this amazing trilogy.
Dark romance to take you past your limits
Jennifer Bene is the mistress of dark, dark romance, she isn’t only balancing on the knife’s edge of darkness, but takes you past your limits and makes you crave it.
Inheritance is the second book in her Fragile Ties series and you should definitively have read book one, Destruction, before delving into this one.
The whole begins as a revenge tale: David abducts and tortures Lianna because he holds her father responsible for the death of his mother and the ruination of his family. While he wants to use her to destroy her father and dismantle his business, he derives sadistic pleasure from keeping Lianna prisoner and inflicting pain on her and forcing pleasure from her. But he doesn’t manage to break her and it slowly dawns on him that she might be ignorant of her father’s machinations. So he tells her the truth and provides evidence that dear dad is a member of an international crime family and succeeds in turning her against her father. After he ends up taking a bullet for her during a botched rescue attempt, Lianna helps save his life and keeps quiet about his involvement in the events that led to the death of her father. And after he is released from hospital, she takes him home with her, because she wants to learn more about her father’s dealings and about his family and because she has come to crave David’s brand of torture.
So that is where they are at at the beginning of book two, Inheritance. Because of the exposure of her father’s criminal activities she is now under scrutiny from the FBI herself and her assets have been frozen and she is not allowed to leave the country. While she is fighting to prove her innocence and to reclaim her life, she is contacted by Jean-Luc Faure, her uncle and the head of the crime family. Jean-Luc is very undemanding and invites Lianna to visit the family in France. Since she has no other family left, Lianna feels compelled to explore the connection, even knowing what the Faures are. That she is getting entangled with the Faures is driving David crazy and he tries to keep her from having any further contact. But as much as Lianna likes being dominated in the bedroom, she is putting her foot down outside of it and David comes to realize if he wants to keep her in his life, he has to bend. And to make things worse, Jean-Luc miraculously manages to make all of Lianna’s problems go away, drawing her in further…
I really loved how the relationship between Lianna and David developed, how in some ways they were like a normal couple, while still retaining the darkness that drew them together in the first place. And I absolutely loved the glimpses of David’s domesticity, which made him endearing and all the more sexy at the same time. It seems like book three will see Lianna and David in France, and I can’t wait to discover how that turns out. Is it wrong of me to hope for a little more violence and sadistic bedroom games in the next installment?
An installment worth waiting for
—>>> David has spent all his life with his emotions on a slow-rolling boil until the moment he can wreak the revenge on the family he has been taught to hate, on the one person he has chosen to bear the brunt of his family’s destruction. But once he found Lianna, his views became much more than black and white, and he did not know how to deal with the grey portions of the emotions he was beginning to feel for his captive, as she became the one thing he realized he could not lose. After all this time, ironically, the one person he wanted to destroy became the one person he could no longer do without.
Lianna’s world has been been uprooted and thrown into chaos. Her father is gone, she’ll have to leave her home, all her finances have been frozen and is under the scrutiny of the FBI for her father’s dark deeds. So when family she has always been estranged from tentatively reach out to her, it is only natural that she has questions and reciprocate. But first, Lianna has to work through the bones-deep distrust, hatred, and fear that this gesture swells up in David, throwing what tenuous ties they have as a couple into further turmoil. Looking forward to how they move on together in the next book!