A ruthless billionaire determined to get revenge.A woman with more to lose than her virginity.And a sensual game that will break them both.Gabriel Miller has thirty days to do anything he wants with her body. He can enjoy every inch of her, but he can never let himself fall for her. No matter how sweetly she surrenders.Author’s Note: THE PAWN AND THE KNIGHT is an exclusive duet including two USA … an exclusive duet including two USA Today bestsellers in the scorching hot Endgame series.
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Loved these two books, two characters, and the steamy, intriguing story line! If you’re looking for a scorching story this is it!
The Pawn was Hot, intriguing, with a lot of twists and turns that you won’t see them coming.. This is the beginning of the story of Gabriel and Avery. a story full of lies and hidden agendas that are keeping them apart. it seems like everything and everyone is against them including Gabriel with his back motives and past..
Avery is beautiful and has everything she needs except for the love and the attention of the person that she loves the most. she has been living in a lie, her father keeps her nearby under false circumstances until things get out of control and Avery will have to decide if she will put herself in the worst kinds of situations to save her father and the most precious memories she had her mother house..
Gabriel is strong, ruthless and controlling.. he has so much power people often are scared of him, whatever he says is what needs to happen. Gabriel has some debts to collect and he won’t stop at anything until he gets what he wants, no matter if that means owning and buying a beautiful lady to make his adversary to pay.
The Pawn is the beginning of the Endgames, in this first book we get to discover and learn more about each character and story behind, they have so many things to solve, so many secrets keeping them from finding out what really happened..
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The Knights is the continuation of the Endgame series, it gets more intriguing and twisted than before. The knight was when the most important part of the story happened, not only we get to finally understand many things about Gabriel and Avery’s family but also about the past that keeps hunting them and not letting them move forward..
The Knight was everything I expected, it had the angst, the lies, the twist and the whole mess that we were waiting for to finally see what was troubling these two in their lives and past.. we also get to meet a lot of secondary characters that will bring more clues and questions about what is happening around Avery and Gabriel.
The Knight really kept me on the edge at all times, not really knowing where the story was taking us, making us doubt and suspect about everybody but making the story even more enjoyable and even twisted..
looking forward to the final book of this series “The Castle”
I thought this story was well done, but it was darker than I was prepared for.
Totally gritty and completely entertaining. Enjoyed this series and the characters. Sexy and compelling from beginning to end.
First…these are books in a long series…they don’t tell you that.
Second…I don’t thunk it was mentioned that these 2 were originally individual books.
Very disappointed in how this series was marketed.
This book has both Book #1 – The Pawn, and Book #2 – The Knight.
In The Pawn, we have Avery James, who has been raised in upper crust society, she doesn’t know want or need. That all changes though after her 18th birthday. Her father has a fall from grace. Over night they seem to lose everything. Avery is now the care taker to her father who was beaten so badly the medical doctors aren’t sure if he will survive a year or two or just months. Avery has sold all the furnishings in the house to help pay bills and to feed her and her father. However, it never seems like there is enough money to go around. Avery has become quite lean on her already small frame.
Avery goes to a gentleman’s club that she knew her father was a member of. She knows she needs money and the only way to do it is by going to those who her father hung around before. Avery still has something that may help fetch a high price but she isn’t sure about it.
Gabriel Miller seems to be the Devil himself. Gabriel is the one at the gentlemen’s club who suggests the auction. Avery is taken back by his sheer size. She’s never met this man before and yet he is already trying to push his way into her life.
Avery and Gabriel do a dance of sorts. Him pushing her pulling, mainly in opposite directions. Avery wants to trust him but at the same time she can’t.
In The Knight, we have Avery and Gabriel doing the same dance. Gabriel told Avery to leave and she did. She’s at one of the shadiest hotels in town. That’s all she can afford. Avery rides on the bus daily and goes to visit her father in the hospital. For a girl who has nothing she seems to have common sense and knows how to do a few things. She’s trying to stretch out what little money she has, she barely eating and sharing the little food she does get with a homeless man named Will.
Avery finds out a few things about Gabriel. She knows he is responsible for her father’s business going belly up. He is the reason why she is now living in a horrible hotel. Harper one of Avery’s friends tries to comfort her and help her by being a true friend. Harper’s step brother isn’t pleased that she is with Avery. We have more plot twists and turns in book #2. Will Avery be able to be with Gabriel after everything she’s learned?
I did receive a free ARC copy of this book. I am freely leaving an honest review.
This my second Skye Warren ARC… When I signed up for this I thought this was something new from the author but its actually a trilogy called the Endgame Series that’s just being released as a boxed set… and as it turns out, I already have this series in my library for some time now… Aaaah, the bookworm life.
I can’t go quite into details because I don’t want to give anything away…
Gabriel Miller is a ruthless businessman and one of the most feared residents of Tanglewood… Avery James was Tanglewood royalty. She was the local princess who fell from grace… Life took turn for the worst and she found herself auctioning her virginity to the highest bidder in an exclusive gentlemen’s club called the Den. Of course, Gabriel Miller wins the bid, and she would be at his mercy for one whole month.
I’ve read all three books in the series… There’s just something about the whole innocent girl and broken, reluctant villain falling in love with each other amidst all the crazies… plus mix it up with over-the-top conspiracy theories and shady characters and you got yourself hooked like a junkie… like you’re indulging yourself in some kind of a guilty pleasure.
Dark romances aren’t really my kind of thing but I indulge myself from time to time because there’s just something about it that draws me in. I’ve read others that are darker, bordering on sick—I’m a dreamer and a romantic sap, so I tend to avoid those…
This series—the Endgame series, will definitely keep you on your toes. If you’re into psychological, dark romance… then this is the book to pick up next.
A virgin auction
A powerful man
Lust and power
Lies and secrets
Ms. Skye Warren sure know how to sew her magic words to one hell of a story.
A strong heroin. An Alpha dominant hero. A great plot. Brilliant story telling. Gabriel and Avery story definitly cemented my love for Ms. Warren’s books
The Pawn WOW!!The writing is absolutely flawless, it will keep you reading until the end craving what comes next .Gabriel is a very secretive puzzle to figure out but everything you want and need .Avery is a very desperate woman at the moment and will do anything she has to to survive not knowing the whole truth .
The Knight The second book in the Endgame series answers some questions but not all but still keeps you on your toes with what is going to happen next,it will pray on your last nerve.
Gabriel Miller could be Avery’s hero as she tries to unlock the truth about her family breaking down his walls just a little for him to only build them up again in his alpha/contolling ways.Maybe he does have a heart as he hads over control for Avery and bows before her and looses just a little of himself for that moment .Now the war begins as they will fight together I am hoping but who can say what will happen. This series deserves a million stars ,Skye is one brillant Author!!
OMG!! So freaking good!!! I loved everything about Avery and Gabriel’s story. Their story kept me on the edge of my seat with wanting answers to all of Avery’s questions. There is so much suspense and hotness that kept those pages turning. I absolutely couldn’t get enough of their story and these two books combined into one doesn’t end in this book. I am so excited that there is more to their story and I can’t wait to get my hands on The Castle.
I highly recommend that you read this book.
Happy Reading Everyone!!!
I don’t even know where to start with this pair of books. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. The base premise has been done before (auctioning virginity for money save the family home), but this story is so much more than that. Gabriel Miller is the type of character I love to find in a book. He is enigmatic, dangerous, and sensual. Avery is naïve but smart, which automatically makes her better than many other heroines in this type of novel. I particularly liked the references to mythology throughout the two books. The influence of chess in the story was fascinating to me. Not only does Avery realize that everything that happens to her is like a chess game, but the secrets and lies that are unraveled also move the larger story like a chess game. My only disappointment was that it was only two books of a trilogy, and I was left hanging (of course, I went and got the third so I can see how it all ends). This review was written based on a complimentary pre-release copy.
5 FABULOUS STARS!! I love this fabulous book, I could not put it down. Gabriel and Avery are perfect…..these two were so tough and I loved their connection. This story had it all from sexiness, ruthless, power, mystery, some humor and love. This author has become one of my favorites ever and a must 1-Click.
THE PAWN AND THE KNIGHT by Skye Warren are 2 books together that tell the angsty and steamy love story of Avery James and Gabriel Miller.
Their journey was full of many twists and turns, drama, angst, heartache, passion, power, mystery, heat , sizzle and romance. Avery was innocent while Gabriel was total bad…can these two even the other out? What is Gabriel’s plan for Avery and can Avery temper the bad out of Gabe? The feels and steam is off the charts in this read. Ms. Warren has another hit on her hands and I can’t wait for her next book/new series to come out.
My Rating: 4.8 stars *******
An Amazing Box Set
When I originally read The Pawn I could not put it down. I was so intrigued with the circumstances Avery was left with and how she must overcome the worst obstacles to survive.
This is Dark Romance true to its every form!
Continue with The Knight! Avery needs to find her way. Book 2 – The plot just gets better and better. I just fall deeper and deeper for Gabriel. He has his complexities but you know deep down there’s a heart. A heart for Avery?
Secrets, Suspense, Dark Romance!!!
THE PAWN AND THE KNIGHT by Skye Warren are the two books that tell the story of Avery James and
Gabriel Miller. Avery was left with nothing by herself when she found out what was kept from her after graduation. The only barging chip she has is herself which she goes forward to offer it to the notorious Gabriel Miller. Avery was sweet and innocent where Gabriel was the total male character that is bad and tries to fight the softness that Avery brought out in him. In these two books we see their relationship grow from something made out of a bargain into something so much more that neither could ever image. I am such a fan of Ms. Warren’s writing she takes you into her stories and you just want more…looking forward to the next book.
I read The Pawn and The Knight when they were released individually and this Endgame series is by far one of my very favorites from Skye Warren. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Hard hearted Gabriel Miller is owed a debt and he intends to collect, but as you can well imagine, nothing ever goes as planned. Avery is a resilient survivor and the king will kneel before his queen.
I love that the author stayed true to the characters personality and didn’t change them in the name of love. Was Gabriel a little less jagged by the end, yes…but he was still ruthless and commanding…I love how his presence just oozed from the pages of this story. Gabriel Miller is the one BBF by which all others are measured.
These two books make for a stunning combination, bringing the reader compulsive and intense reading. Skye Warren writes with such style and confidence, bringing her plot development and her characters to vivid life, that my focus becomes unwavering. The mythological references, the chess games, the intricate plotting augmented by excellent writing, the intrigue and betraryals, and the intensity of the relationship between Avery and Gabriel, the heat between them, building and building, make this a pair of books which will send you running for The Castle to get to rest of the pieces.
5 star. Excellent reading.
The Pawn and The Knight by Skye Warren
The Pawn
I was on the edge of my seat for the entire story, I expected nothing less!!!! The blurb for the book explains the circumstances, but what it doesn’t tell you is that you will feel every raw, stark and wild thought and experience Avery has. And you will, you will be on the edge of your seat, your heart will be pounding and brain will implode with every action, reaction and event that occurs.
This book is from Avery’s perspective, so you never quite get what is going on behind the scenes with Gabriel, but that won’t make you love or hate him more. You will regularly have both those thoughts with him, though you will marvel at his dirty ways, sensitivity and cunning at manipulating the situations to his liking
The Knight
I think I had a good abs workout reading this book, my stomach was clenched the whole time!! This isn’t dark like The Pawn, but it is full of suspense and wondering, what next, why that, and, wow, that was not what I thought, now what about….. you get the picture.
To say it wasn’t as dark doesn’t mean there aren’t some deep and emotional moments with Gabriel and Avery. It still is more charcoal than black, and definitely not pure lily white, but then again, there relationship will never be that.
With so much going on around them, and because of them, and to them, this is how they forge together in that fire, and are stronger because of it. We get more of their stories, some they didn’t know they had, and some that were inevitable.
So, this book doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, but the story does continue. Those of us who crave and HEA, we get a version of it here, but the fight, the battle, is still not done. I’ll be along for the more, because these characters need to have some semblance of peace in their lives, and I’ll follow them until they do!