The first book in a new savagely intense trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Rick Savage, but they call him Savage and for a reason. He can make you laugh and then rip your heart out. No one knows that more than me, Candace Marks, the woman he left bleeding from the heart. I loved him. Lord help me, I’ve never stopped loving him.Now, I’m engaged to another man, a … another man, a brutal man I’m trapped into marrying, when to my shock, Savage returns home. Savage who I haven’t heard from in years. I want to hate him. I have ever reason to hate him, but I can’t. I still love him and I fear he will save me just to leave me bleeding one last time. He stirs my desires, a dark, delicious, and dangerous man destined to hurt me and leave me. This time I’m not sure I’ll survive.
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I have been patiently waiting for Savage’s story, and wow, I love it. I can hardly wait for the next book. I am hooked. I have loved his characters in the other books so I am so happy to be reading about him and Candace. I love reading to find out why he is the way he is. Him and Candace are great together. What a cliffhanger, excitingly waiting.
4.25 stars–SAVAGE HUNGER is the first instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult SAVAGE erotic, romantic suspense trilogy focusing on former Green Beret and Walker Security specialist Rick Savage, and architect Candace Marks. The SAVAGE trilogy is a spin-off from the author’s NAKED and Dirty Rich series with the appearance of several characters from the author’s Walker Security series.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Rick and Candace) SAVAGE HUNGER follows the second chance relationship between Green Beret and Walker Security specialist Rick Savage, and architect Candace Marks. Eight years earlier Rick Savage destroyed Candace Marks’ heart when he sent a ‘Dear Candace’ letter while on assignment overseas but what Candace never knew was that Rick Savage was recruited by a covert CIA black ops unit, a unit whose former members are now in prestigious and powerful places in the US government. When a debt is called in, Rick Savage must face the inevitable including the woman whose heart he destroyed. Enter architect Candace Marks. What ensues is the rekindling relationship between Rick and Candace, and the potential fall-out as the betrayal and power in the US government and military hits too close to home.
The relationship between Rick Savage and Candace Marks is one of second chances; a relationship previously destroyed by Rick’s need to protect the woman he loved, a woman who is now engaged to another man. Rick has never stopped loving Candace Marks but struggles with the possibility of having to kill someone Candace may know or love. Candace believes Rick is a stone-cold killer, a belief Rick allows in an effort to prevent his heart from breaking, once again but Candace has moved on with her life, a life that is now threatened by the man that she loves, and the man with whom she is currently engaged.
The secondary and supporting characters include Rick’s father; Candace’s fiancé Senator Gabriel Manning, and his assistant Monica; and her father General Howard Marks. We are reintroduced to security specialists: ex-Army Ranger Smith, and SEAL Team Six member Adam.
SAVAGE HUNGER is a story of family, betrayal, retribution and trust; second chances, friendships, and love. The premise is engaging and captivating; the romance is steamy, seductive and hot; the characters are colorful, charismatic and energetic. SAVAGE HUNGER is a fantastic and intriguing start to Lisa Renee Jones’ new SAVAGE TRILOGY.
Yay! Irreverent, sarcastic, lethal Rick Savage finally gets his story told! We’ve been waiting for Lisa Renee Jones to give us answers to questions about Savage for what seems like forever and she does. But those answers lead to still more questions. In addition we get political intrigue, dirty politicians, a potential hit list for a black ops team and some shocking revelations. I was utterly captivated and did not put the book down until I’d read cover to cover. Is it February yet? Because I NEED to read Savage Burn!
This book was everything that I expected and so much more. This has been one of my most anticipated reads of 2019 as Savage has always been one of my most favourite characters in Lisa Renee Jones books. Savage and Candace have a complicated history with many outside forces coming between them and secrets that they are both keeping hoping to keep the other safe. I cannot wait to see how this story end up and if my suspicions are correct, knowing this author I am WAY off base. I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book for an honest review.
We all have been waiting on Savage’s story and Lisa does not disappoint. Rick Savage is a man that goes by one name, Savage. Except when it comes to Candace. She calls him Rick. Because Savage to him means killer and he wants her to know she brings out the best in him.
Savage and Candace were engaged 8 years before he was deployed and decided he was not good enough for her. Candace has moved on after dying inside after Savage did not come back. Now is engaged to a politician and he is not such a nice guy and he is trying to hurt her dad. When the one man who her heart belongs to comes back in town.
Savage is given a job that takes him back to Candace. Now we have to see if he can keep from being the killer he is to keep her safe and the man he wants Candace to believe he is. This is a definitely a one click by.
There is way more to this story than meets the eye! SO much more. I never thought I’d ever make this statement but … holy balls, I am so glad we get a break ! Trilogies for the #win!
This book is #winning on all kinds of fronts! The cover is delicious, and it delivered deliciousness! I hate to use the title as a descriptor for this journey but … it’s gonna be savage ya’ll. I can feel it. Everything I have read so far points in that direction and I am one huge anxiety ball waiting for it to publish. The suspense of it all is killing me!!!
This is just the beginning so strap yourselves in and enjoy the ride … it’s gonna get bumpy!
My last 5 Star review for 2019! Savage is bringing it with his story! Elizabeth @ Carolina Chic’s Read
Savage’s story is one I have been wanting and waiting for for a long time and HE IS HERE! Just pick it up! I could not stop reading.
An amazing star to a new trilogy series! I am so glad Rick Savage’s book is here. I have been looking forward to his books for quite some time. Ever since he first made an appearance as part of the Walker Brothers Security team. We have seen snippets of him in several stories. Enough to understand he has a wicked sense of humor and is still pining after a woman he loves to this day. I was quite surprised and enjoyed seeing a very different side to Savage. “Rick” is a very carrying and passionate man from the one known as “Savage”. As you find out, no one knows him like Candace does. Before he went off to war he was a fun and loving man. He hasn’t had it easy with the kind of father he has. Candace thought he was her forever. Things happened that put her in danger and Rick thought the best way to protect her was to not return. Eight years later that no longer is true. Rick finds himself returning to his home own and face to face with the woman he still loves. Candace is still hurt by what happened, yet finds she still loves Rick. Rick has vowed he is not leaving her again. With the help of the Walker team they are determined to solve the mystery of why Rick has been asked by an old friend to collect on a debt owed and what it all has to do with Candace’s father and the man she was trapped into agreeing to marry. The passion Candace and Rick have is still there. The connection is strong. I can not wait to find out what happens next for Rick Savage. Such a complex and wonderful character.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
Candace Marks and Rick Savage used to be in love. She was planning on the whole shebang. Then he left her with a note and a heart shattered into a million tiny pieces. Now she’s in an unhealthy, unbearable relationship with nothing left to live for, when who barrels back into her life but the man who broke her all those years ago. Can Candace steel her heart against Savage? Not if he has anything to say about it!
When Rick and Candace were together previously, Rick knew he wasn’t good enough for her, knew that there were things in his life he didn’t want touching her and her goodness. So he left. Unfortunately, he broke her heart when he did so. But he’s back now and he’s got the skills (and the alpha tendencies) to protect her. If only she’d give him a second chance. She can work out her anger, work out her broken heart on him. He’s more than happy to let her…
I always love the author’s heroes, they’re usually alpha with big hearts, and Savage is certainly no exception. He’s exceptional – super protective, vulnerable inside, and alpha af. I loved getting his backstory, as heartbreaking as it is, and I loved seeing these two realize (admit) that they were still madly in love with each other. I can’t wait for Savage Burn now!
So the wait is over and we have Savage’s story and what a story it is. He has been an intricate part of several of LRJ’s books and he just got more and more interesting as they went along. He will drive you nuts most of the time but will endear you regardless. LRJ has given us little tidbits about Savage through other books and with this first book of his trilogy, we find out why he is the way he is.
Savage is contacted by a ghost from his past and reminded of a debt that’s owed. Little did he know that debt would bring new revelations and offer him a chance at redemption. But it won’t come easy.
Savage’s past is haunting and tragic. Because of others, he made a decision that changed his entire life and lose the love of his life. Once you find out his reason for his decisions, your heart will break for him and his lady love.
Candace has always been in the background throughout Savage’s parts in the other books. We knew there was someone he loved and left behind and now we get to meet her. The beginning of their story is so sweet and Candace is a character I cant wait to know more about.
This first book hooks you from the very first word and I’m desperately waiting for the rest of their story!
It is now time for Rick Savage to face his past and protect the innocents his choices left in unexpected danger.
Savage is approached by an old acquaintance from his Dark Ops days for one final favor. A favor he cannot refuse. He must kill someone in San Antonio, Tx. The name of the person is not given, but the fact that he must go to San Antonio implies the woman he has loved all his life will be in danger. Going back to where he lived and was happy with her is the hardest thing he has had to do. He walked away from her eight years ago to protect her. Now, he realizes he should have stayed with her and protected her with his life.
As he reconnects with Candace once again, both of them must face all the emotions from anger to lust that still are raw. She is in danger from all sides and so is her father. As Savage tells her he is there to help her through this, he also makes it clear he is never leaving her again. Candace is about to marry an unscrupulous man who is setting up his political career to run for president. She is his choice of the perfect wife. Not only will she be the right woman to represent him, but this will also allow him to control her father from spilling out his secrets. This man is dangerous and powerful. Only Savage with the help of the Walker guys will be able to solve this dilemma and save the day.
I am voluntarily reviewing this book. Thanks to the author for sharing a copy with me.
Rate: 4 / 5 stars
My first read by Lisa Jones and it did not disappoint my romantic suspense addict heart one bit. It was addicting, exciting and had me on pins and needles to learn more about what was really going on. Full disclosure, you won’t know almost anything reguarding the suspense plotline in this book, it ends in a major cliffhanger and it’s part one/three.
Savage Hunger is obviously, a romantic suspense, and also a second chance romance about two characters who have been apart for eight long years and now have the chance to be together again in the midst of the danger surrounding them and their loved ones. They still have a lot to work out about how they ended before, about who they really are and what is happening in their lives now.
Savage is addictive but also a bit annoying with his back and forth.. truth is he’s scared about putting the love of his life in danger but with all that is going on.. he just needs to give in and be there for Candance. These two are sexy and emotional and you just know that even though they were apart for eight years and a lot happened, they still love as each other as much as they did before.
I love the little bit where we got to see how they met and got together. That was such a meet cute. I cannot wait to see where life takes them in book 2. I feel like there’s so much yet still to be uncovered, secrets, lies, deceit. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride I’m sure and I’m looking forward to it!
5 Can I Make Rick Savage Mine Stars!!
Once again Lisa Renee Jones has written a book that is enthralling from the first page. Rick Savage is everything I was hoping for and he’s quite sarcastic and a little caustic in some of his thoughts. But, hey, it works for him. We really get a feel for how dangerous and savage he can be at certain points of this book. Especially when it comes to the woman that held and continues to hold his heart, Candace!
While he was responsible for breaking her heart, he wants nothing more than to put it back together again which is one of the things I love most about this book. It’s a beautiful second chance romance interweaved with a suspense novel. I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the proverbial shoe to drop but fanning myself at the heat between Rick and Candace.
But our heroine is a smart cookie and she’s not going to let this man back in too easily. He’s going to have to work for it and I just know we’re going to get all sorts of background on her in Savage Burn! I’ll be waiting over here tapping my foot for this book because holy stars the ending has my mouth hanging open…
Savage Hunger is a great start of a brand new trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. It’s a fiery, wild and entertaining page-turner that will have you begging for more! Very well written and characters you’ll love.
Rick/Savage and Jasmine may have a second chance but first, they must find a way to deal with other obstacles in their lives, especially her wicked and unwanted fiancé.
Loved it and can’t wait for book two!
Highly recommend!
Savage Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones is book 1 in the Savage Trilogy series. This begins Candace Marks and Rick Savage’s story.
Candace Marks and Rick Savage were in love. She had planned their lives out with stars in her eyes. Then he up and left her behind with just a note and a broken heart. Fast forward to now and Candace is engaged to a politician who has a nickname of “honest Gabe”. Candace doesn’t want to be engaged to this man but does it for her father.
A past nemesis from Rick’s time in the military rears their ugly head which ends up making him return back home 8 years later….returning back home and facing the woman that he never stopped loving; the woman that he hurt 8 years before. The chemistry between Rick and Candace is still intense and electric. Candace hasn’t forgotten the pain she went thru yet she still remembers the love she has for him.
Book 1 in this suspenseful, military, political, 2nd chance romance is phenomenal. There is so many twists and turns, layers woven into the story that it’s amazing to dig in and see who is good and who is bad. Loved the complexity of the story; the plot is fantastic and the characters are perfect. The chemistry is sheer perfection. I can’t wait for book 2 in this new trilogy by Lisa Renee Jones!
My Rating: 4.5 stars ********
Intriguingly suspenseful!
This is book one of a trilogy and will end in a cliff hanger.
Two lonely souls run into each other on a stormy night.
“My god, my heart is racing all over again. There is something about this man that I can’t explain. Something mysterious. Something broken. Something I can’t turn away from.”
The author gives us sweltering steam right from the start! But Rick Savage quickly demonstrates how flexible he can be and a charmer at that!
Candace is an aspiring architect with a prominent and imposing father many fear. But not Rick Savage. He swoops in and charms both Candace and her father. Both want him, one for love and the other for his skills. One will win and cause Rick to walk away from the other, making a mistake Rick will never recover from.
Candace fights against getting involved with another soldier, especially a green beret like Savage. He’s just another one who will walk away from her. It’s the life. But he charms her like no other.
“Because everything about you feels better than anything else.”
But after a year of living together, a year of pure bliss. Rick does what she’s always feared. He leaves for his tour of duty. Rick’s life turns ugly, so ugly he refuses to bring her down with him. Instead he walks away from her for good. Leaving them both with nothing but broken hearts and memories.
“I was a paid mercenary and she’s the angel that I have always known deserves better than the devil I’ve become.”
Eight years later he’s forced to return and face the consequences. Only to realize that this time he can’t walk away. Even if she’s engaged to another, he’s determined to prove to her, she belongs to him.
The author spins yet another twisted plot into the story. Rick’s latest assignment also involves Candace’s fiancé and her father, making us have to question… who the good guys are in this story and how can Rick possibly spare Candace from another broken heart?
This is an intriguingly suspenseful tale. I enjoyed the story and am eagerly waiting for the part two! I liked all the characters in the Walker Security Company and am hoping they each get their story told as well!
Savage Hunger is beyond sexy, beyond consuming, beyond stunning and Rick Savage is the Alpha of the year! Charged and consuming chemistry, with a shredded resistance after one kiss. No one does romantic suspense like Lisa Renee Jones and SAVAGE HUNGER show cases her storytelling at its best.
This is fast paced, smart, complex, and a scorching-hot romance that held me enthralled from the beginning to the cliffhanger ending, and I couldn’t get enough of Rick Savage and Candace Marks. I loved every minute of this thoroughly brilliant, intensely dangerous, emotionally charged and deliciously tantalizing tale. Beautiful writing. Intricate complex characters with a dark hunger for more growing inside them, that will have you begging for more!
Get ready for the familiar push and pull. The Princess and The Warrior, aren’t done fighting for forever yet. And they just might bring you to your knees trying!
Second chance romances have and always will be my favourites. There’s no need for getting to know one another, there’s always chemistry from the outset. Always chock full of enough fuel to start a five-alarm fire. I live for the crash and burn of a second chance. I thrive on the insurmountable odds being concurred. The past being burned down around the couple and the phoenix that will soar above, emerging from the ashes of its smouldering carcass.
Nothing could have prepared me for the impact of Rick and Candace. Avoidance and repression had been Rick’s drug of choice. He became a professor in the art of staying the heck away from his past.
That is until he’s forced back to where it all began. Knowing that he has no other choice than to face the only woman who had ever slain the savage beast thriving and devouring his soul.
Candace can handle herself, most assuredly knows her way around a gun, blame that on her upbringing if you will. She can kick butt and take names, she made one hell of an impact on me in the first few pages. She impressed me more than I can articulate. I love a woman who can be tough and then soft. She switches from one to the other like I flick through pages of a book. I could quite easily become her number one cheerleader.
Suspense, action and romance; what more could a gal ask for? As is typical for this author, the story hits the ground running. No build-up, just typical wham bang thank you, ma’am.
Questions, half-truths, and huge abandonment issues are only a few of the issues Candace
and Rick have to rebuild from. Candace takes no prisoners, forcing Rick to answer for his
past mistakes. He owns them all, open and vulnerable. Body as hard as granite with a heart
as soft as cotton wool. She owns him lock, stock and barrel and all she has to do is open her
heart and turn the key.
Heat and passion surround them. It’s almost as if they’re bathing in the flames of intensity.
But hold the phone; could this book get any better?
Oh baby I’m only teasing. I cannot wait to get the sequel in my greedy little hands. But wait!
Be prepared. This five alarm inferno ends on a cliff hanger. Be prepared to want to throw
your kindle around, instead take a moment and breathe. To do this would mean one sadly
upsetting thing. How would you read the sequel?
Thank you Ms. Jones for once again reminding me why I relish to read.
Ahh…Savage! So glad he finally got his chance to tell his story. What made him the man he is today. And who knew that this hard, unemotional guy was a softy. Well, only to the woman he has never stopped loving. Savage heads back to a place he only ever dreamed of returning to. And once there, his cold dark soul starts to melt. He sees, Candice. The love of his life.
Candice is heartbroken and has never been the same since Rick left. Sure, she went on with her life the best she could. But, when she spots Rick, she becomes angry! Not believing that he showed up after all these years. But the more she’s around him again, she starts to heal.
There’s something going on and it seems Rick and Candace are in the middle of it. Hopefully, these two lovebirds can get to the bottom of it. But we’ll have to wait until book two. Gah! And it wouldn’t be a great book by Lisa without a cliffhanger! Once again we have to live in suspense until the next book.
The Savage books are a new series. They cannot be read as a stand alone. Will need to read them in order. No need to read any of the other series first. But I’m glad I have because there are people in the Savage books that are from previous books.
Another Lisa Renee Jones book that does not disappoint!
I love the men of Walker Security but damn, Savage fits his name. Green Baert, protector, and is as hot as hades.
Holy hotness, Savage Hunger is filled with suspense, broken souls, and passion. I was looking forward to this series and once again, Lisa did not disappoint.
Rick Savage has made his share of mistakes. His biggest, leaving Candace even though he thought he was protecting her by staying away. Savage isn’t the type to take prisoners, he goes for the kill. He is ruthless, sarcastic, and yet when he comes to Candace his mind, body, and soul is hers and hers alone.
Candace had her heart broken by Savage once. She’s in a situation trying to protect her deployed father. She has never gotten over Rick. She is a strong fearless woman who does what she needs to do. Her passion for her career and those she loves is undeniable.
Savage and Candace have a chemistry that has survived time apart. They are each other’s one and only if they can let go of the past and survive the present. I love these characters. Candace’s tenacity mixed with Savage’s protective ways mix well together.
I highly recommend reading Savage Hunger. This is not a standalone. If you don’t enjoy reading cliffhangers, wait until the release Savage Love in April 2020. I’m looking forward to reading the next books in the series. I received an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine and were not influenced by the author or her promotional team.