What happens when your boyfriend loves you but his split personality hates you? For a while, it seemed like Winter, Bones and Reginald might be able to strike a balance with their strange relationship. But having sex with Reginald while Bones pretended not to be there is harder than they imagined–especially for Bones who is inadvertently developing chemistry every time his other personality … personality makes love to her.
But when that chemistry gets out of hand, Reginald–who Bones considers his brother– suddenly disappears, leaving Bones devastated and hating Winter for causing it.
Enter the X Factor–
With Reginald missing, the imbalance in Bones’ mind takes yet another turn, allowing X out to play–the part of him who knows things about Bones that even Bones doesn’t.
Stuck in Bones subconscious, X is only able to live when Bones sleeps. But X has too much revenge to “Execute” and not enough time in his 4 hour window to work. But with Reginald gone, X finds he has more power, and strikes a deal with Pretty Winter.
Wanting only to fix what she broke and put Reggie and Bones back together, Winter agrees, even if she has to play the whore to do it. But that’ll damn well change when Bones figures out two things–that he’s falling for Winter– and that X exists.
****NOTE****
The mental disorders in this story are fictionally constructed to drive the story. They are not intended to hurt, ridicule or judge anyone suffering from any form of mental illness.
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At this point I really don’t know what to say. This is such an emotional rollercoaster of a book. It is an intense, psychologically powerful drama filled character study of two lost souls trying to find their way in each other. It is romantic in a very sweet and endearing sense wrapped up with sexual needs, desires, and wants that are used as a form of affection and acceptance. Not to mention dominance and power. Power over others and ones self. I have laughed and cried and only put this series down when necessary. Bones had me from the word go.
WOW! I’ve reviewed this book for United Indie Book Blog. I could not put down the book. I had to keep reading until the end. This is the third one from this series. Definitely had alot of twists and turns. When you think you figured it all out. BAM!!! And it takes a different turn and completely blow your mind. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series. I need to know what will happen with Bones and Winter. Keep up the awesome work Lucian! I highly recommend this book. A MUST READ!!!!
Addicting
The more I read the harder it is to put these books down. Lucian keeps giving you these twists that are a messing with my mind and then he gives a hell of a cliffhanger. Absolutely love this series.
ONE OF THE GREATEST STORIES EVER!!!
Lucian Bane has blown it out of the water with this one. I had to keep stopping to breathe, to calm down, to absorb it all.
His description of how “X” feels in his body, the reactions to Winter, but has no recollection as to why he reacts as such. You understand those feelings … when you felt strongly about something but aren’t sure why, your subconscious may have been remembering.
As you read, your mind seems to be split in two. You think “X” may be alright, seems to have an affection of Winter. While Bones is trying everything to drive her away. Then “X” reveals another side and you must take a step back in your thinking and Bones steps forward and your mind flips the other way!
Winter has this self-deprecating idea that she is an uneducated, wrong side of the tracks female. She is anything but. She will come to see that she is Bones’ salvation.
This story makes you realize that all of us have these other personalities when adapting to given situations just not manifesting into separate identities.
There is a subtle feature that resonated with me. There are no chapters one, two, etc. just the next chapter and the next chapter and so on … I see that as how we live our lives … each day becoming “the next chapter” not two, three, four. It gave me the feeling of walking through their lives with them as opposed to an account of it.
As they move along, you get the sense they are building a bridge, but at the same time the bridge is falling away behind them … will they move fast enough before it falls out beneath them?
And then BOOM …. one of Mr. Bane’s infamous, jaw-dropping revelation endings!!! What will this information do to Bones and …………. Who is “Z” !??
The tangled web that is Reginald Bones just twisted deeper, spiraling into another realm of psychological and sexual thriller. A true master story teller, Lucian Bane brought this third installment in the series to a whole new level. Adding the dimension of a third personality, determined to bring Bones down with the truth and unlock the secrets of his past.
Winter and Bones have a deep hatred for one another. Their guilt and pain over Reggie drives them to a dark place that doesn’t seem either will ever get past. Yet with the entrance of X, Winter finds this deep need to protect and love Bones in a way she didn’t think was possible. Bones, seems to see that their is more to Winter, and he feels things for her that he has never felt about another woman. Each character equally, tormented and tortured, reaches their breaking point, only to realize they only have each other to trust and lean on.
One of my fastest reads ever, the words fly from the pages and etch into your mind. So many eloquent, tense, erotic and gut churning moments make up this incredible story. The very end will leave you stunned, breathless and beyond words!!
10 stars!!!!