Welcome to the Den… Seven years ago, Niklaus “Red” Volkov was offered an opportunity, one that would give him the ability to even the score with the Albanian mobsters that had tortured him for days and took the life of the only girl he’d loved. But that gift came with strings… Molded into the perfect soldier, Niklaus joined an elite group of mercenaries, loyal to a mysterious man known only … mercenaries, loyal to a mysterious man known only as The Kingmaker. He willingly paid the price for means to fulfill the vendetta that plagued him each day.
Vengeance was all he knew…
And death was all he lived for…
Until it wasn’t…
Until her…
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This book is for the ones who love the bad boys, the Mafia guys, the men with black souls but soft hearts. For those that love women who are strong, independent, and stubborn. For the reader looking to find steamy, romance, and emotion packed.
Wow! What a great start to this brand new series.
The story has amazing characters as they were all so love-able and intriguing and the plot was filled with tons of drama,romance and suspense.One thing we love about a story like this is all its moving parts and all the complications that arise from Mafia Crime Families warring between the families fighting for power right down to the assassins needing to do their jobs all among the craziness.
Regan and Red had amazing chemistry and we loved seeing a glimpse of what was below the surface of Red’s armor when he sparingly chose to let us see it.We loved that Red was a completely different person around Regan and she him.
Regan we found her to be a care taker, one who puts family first, one who puts her own dreams on hold all because circumstances change, she was smart and clever,sexy and one who cares and forgives because she has such a big and generous heart.
I love Red and all his broken-ness not that we love anything that he has endured but, even though on the surface he seems unfeeling,distant,hard,scary he is capable of love and feelings because you just have to see him with his brother’s son Sasha to see that there is hope that one day he will let go of the pain, bitterness,resentment and finally be free of his demons and fully open his heart up and allow himself to be happy once again and to be loved. My heart broke for this character for all that he endure at the hands of others.We also have to say that we first met Red/aka Nicklaus in Mischa & Laurens story and having done so we loved him even more this time around because we got to know what he was truly capable of and even though he will never forget what happened to him and those that played a part he was still able to carve out some sort of friendship/forgiveness with Luca and Mischa.
Luca is still one bad*as and we just loved him in this story and of course we loved seeing Mishca and Lauren once again as they are one of our favorite couples.
This was an awesome story for us and we can’t wait to read the rest of the series.This author is still fairly new to us and we have to say we are so loving all her works.
loved it.
From the brutal start of torture and death this is not your typical story, but after many years of hardship love conquered all including the Russian Bratva, Irish Mob, secret assasins and foreign covert operatives. Yep, all in one story!
I enjoyed this book. It was an intriguing page turner that is definitely worth a read. I didnt expect alot of what I read and that’s always nice. My only criticism is that I would have liked more to the sex. While the writer is obviously talented in the story arc department, I felt the story lacked some punch during the intimate moments. I was expecting hot and steamy, but got tempid and boring, which was disappointing for these characters, who obviously have alot of heat between them. Still worth the read!
DNF. This book has 2 unattractive characters and the story doesn’t make sense. The heroine works as a waitress in an awful restaurant for next to nothing, then later we find out her family owns a ‘failing’ restaurant – why doesn’t she work there? The hero if you want to call him that is awful – he keeps dumping her for no reason other than his poor moral character and she keeps taking him back. I got 50% through and just quit reading. And I read everything all the way through, even the most awfully written stories, if there is a good story-line, interesting characters and or great hot sex. This one doesn’t even have great hot sex to redeem it. Bad.
Good concept and characters. Terrible editing.