Sometimes, we lose ourselves in the devastation of love. But sometimes, we find ourselves there, too.ROMEAvery Capulet. The forbidden fruit. The apple of her Daddy’s eye. The newly-minted Queen of California’s criminal underworld. And now, the missing girl nobody can find. I know where she is, though. Kneeling before me, tears spilling from her eyes as the last bit of her dignity bleeds from her. spilling from her eyes as the last bit of her dignity bleeds from her.
I don’t want the pound of flesh that the girl who betrayed me delivers, but I don’t have a choice.
Avery Capulet. Moaning underneath me, as pain merges with pleasure, skin to skin as we do what we can to survive. In the dark, in the wild, we’re like animals. I try not to love her. I try so damn hard.
But the war waged inside my heart was won a long time ago, by a girl who should have known better than to trust a man like me.
AVERY
Rome Montague. The boy from my past. The man in my nightmares. The dark, secret lover who makes me feel things I never knew I could feel.Love and pain can both drive you insane. I fight, and I fight, until all I can do is surrender. Be pulled under. Submit, until I barely recognize myself.
Rome Montague. When he looks at me, I forget the lies that destroyed our past. When he makes me come apart underneath his touch, I forget where we are, and that a faceless enemy pulls our strings like marionettes.
The outside world beckons bright, teasing us with mirages of safety and respite.
But the light of day is a cruel lie.
Because once we find a way out of the dark, we both realize that our nightmare has only just begun.
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Avery Capulet and Rome Montague’s twisted mafia tale finally continues in book two of the Violent Kingdom series. There’s a recap in the beginning as it’s been a while since book one was released to help you get right into this twisted dark story. Taken on her 20th birthday by the XO killer. Locked away with Rome, her father’s enemies son. Will Rome and Avery be able to survive the torture and madness their captor creates? Will they ever be found? This is a extremely violent and very dark, captive story. There are major triggers including rape so be warned. As much as love dark romances there were some scenes where even I was like O.M.G! That’s all I’m going to say as to not spoil anything but, What A Wild Ride! If you love twisted, dark suspense novels you need this book! This ends in another jaw dropping cliffhanger as there is one more book to come. Told in dual POV.
This was so much more in depth compared to Vicious Prince. A lot more of character/story development as well as the continuing view points from Avery, Rome and Elliott. The ending I totally wasn’t expecting and LUCKILY we have about a month till the finale Violent Reign comes out! I can’t wait to see how this all ends!
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