Features four novellas by New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren. Each standalone story ends in a happily ever after.
WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL
Emily’s a pathological liar. When her life is at stake, will anyone believe her?
MAFIA CINDERELLA
One dress. One dance. Lucia has one chance to change her life–and the lives of her family.
BEDTIME STORYJessica is on the run when her car breaks … run when her car breaks down. A small town sheriff can’t be her knight in shining armor.
HEAVY EQUIPMENTCold. Rough. Merciless. The foreman of the construction crew is going to make her pay every last cent.
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This collection of 4 short stories was so easy to read and so hard to put down. It was nice reading short stories, and having them all in one collection. All four of the stories were completely different but Skye always finds ways to pull you in and hold your interest and make you want to find out more!! The stories were short but you still learned a lot about the characters and how they were able to save themselves or each other.
Who will save your soul: And Other Dangerous Bedtime Stories.
Who will save your soul? Skye Warren is the one person you can rely on to give your soul what it needs.
Every. Single. Time!
She will give you hard, rough, nasty, cruel, badass men who need the soft, sweet, sunshine of the right woman. She will make you smile, she will make you cry and at the end you will love her for every story she gives us.
Thank you Skye, for saving our souls.
I haven’t read a Skye Warren book so far that I didn’t like! This collection is no exception. The author brings us 4 short stories in a sinful package with a gorgeous cover!
The first novella, “Who will save your soul?”, is the story of Emily and Niko. I must say that the story turned out darker than I anticipated. Even thought it was short, I was invested in Emily’s life and wanted to see what really happened and what was to come for her. The second story, “Bedtime Story”, is the story of Jessica, a single mother running from the mafia. I enjoyed the fact that each short story has a mafia background. The third novella, “Mafia Cinderella”, was the one that I really wanted more chapters. I’ve gotten the novella way back through the author’s newsletter, but never gotten around to reading it. I’m glad that I did now! The last story, “Heavy Equipment”, was a story I really enjoyed and felt the shortest…
This collection includes dark and sinister bedtime stories to keep you company while in bed! The stories are so good, that you’ll want more. Finger’s crossed that maybe the author will expand some of them; I’ll definitely want to read them!!
Nothing is too much when it comes to Skye Warren’s words. This sexy, sinful and deliciously dirty collection of short stories is something you cannot miss! My favorite story was Heavy Equipment. Arrogant construction worker and foreman Asher is dominant, rough and sexy as hell. June Li is the innocent little Princess who is forced to get in the clutch of the big bad wolf. But is she really that innocent? We get to see the other side of her with the story! A scorching hot and forbidden story that packs so much !You get to experience everything Skye Warren excels in writing. The mind games. The delicious passion which is so dark and so good! I wanted the story to keep on going so that I can see more of the dirty deviant world of Asher and June.
My next favourite read was Bedtime Story. Jessica is running from her abusive partner, her traumatic past of poverty and sexual abuse and everything corrupt. Her son Ky is her only concern. She gets pulled up by the sheriff of Provence, Finn because of her erratic driving. Finn convinces her to spend the night in local police station for her safety and her rest. And that night turns out to be something special for both of them. Not just electrifying physical attraction. They form a soul deep bond. Finn has own dark past and Jessica had a dark life. Mafia, guns, human flesh peddling, drugs…they have seen it all and been burnt by the violence. But I love how their tangible chemistry formed very believably in a short span. So much that I cheered for them to have a new beginning.
This collection also has two other short stories. Who Will Save Your Soul that is about Emily, the rich but sad and troubled princess of a criminal family and Nick, the gardener aka thief.Emily and Niko’s story had promises but somehow it felt disjointed. It has materials for a much bigger story. The chemistry didn’t develop except moments of electrifying brilliance. The suspense took a large part of the story. And I feel I have so many unanswered questions! Mafia Cinderella is an interesting dark retelling of the fairytale. Again I felt the connection was formed too fast and too simply. This story can be a great read if the author transforms it into a full length novel! I want to see more of Sebastian Conti and Lucia.
Who Will Save Your Soul is an all inclusive feast for every Skye Warren fan. Every single story delivers sinful, heartaching and intense punches to my heart!
Received ARC for honest review
Skye Warren writes dark love soooo well!
I highly recommend this cluster of books.
Things you can count on from Skye…
1) excellent writing
2) extremely well developed plots
3) a dark edge
4) great character growth
If Skye Warren isn’t a go to, she should be!
These stories are phenomenal and suck you right in!
Highly recommend.
Skye Warren
This is a collection of 4 short stories, Who Will Save Your Soul, Bedtime Story, Mafia Cinderella, & Heavy Equipment. The stories do not intertwine, they are all separate short stories.
WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL
Emily’s a pathological liar. When her life is at stake, will anyone believe her? An incident happened when Emily was younger that she witnessed and her mom told everyone Emily was a pathological liar, just so people wouldn’t believe her. But now that she older – teenager will people start believing her? Or will they just believe the parents? A man has been working with the gardener taking care of the property. Emily has been watching him and realizes that he’s casing the house – possibly looking to rob them?
BEDTIME STORY
Jessica is on the run from her violent ex with her baby in the backseat when the car breaks down. A small town sheriff can’t be her knight in shining armor.
Jessica isn’t sure what to expect when Sheriff Finn, pulls her over in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere. She knows he must be corrupt or working with her ex to return her to him since she’s escaped.
MAFIA CINDERELLA
One dress. One dance. Lucia has one chance to change her life—and the lives of her family. But Sebastian Conti is no prince charming. Lucia has been a slave since she was 12 yrs old working in a textile plant. The two evil sisters who own the plant barely feed them and hardly cloth them. But, when Sebastian comes to look at the plant to purchase it, the sisters put Lucia out as a secretary and Sebastian is instantly taken with her.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
June has been raised as the good, obedient daughter, but she never expected to be sold to pay her father’s debts. Cold. Rough. Merciless. The foreman of the construction crew is going to make her pay every last cent. Asher comes to collect his debt owed – June. June’s father had a heavy debt to pay and never paid him. Asher takes what is owed to him. June never believe or realized her father would let her go so easily.
I did receive a free ARC copy of this book. I am freely leaving an honest review.
Who Will Save Your Soul? by Skye Warren is a box set of four novellas. This is a great set to if you are a fan of Ms. Warren’s writing. But it is also a way for you to taste her writing if you have never read a book by her. These are novellas so they are quick reads that are nice to have when you need a quick read to get a break in your day. I love this set of books, so I was happy to have this in my library. Here are the books that you will be getting:
Book 1 WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL
Book 2 MAFIA CINDERELLA
Book 3 BEDTIME STORY
Book 4 HEAVY EQUIPMENT
When I started reading I couldn’t put it down this books.Skye Warren is magnifysent and amazing writer.I cannot wait to read more of there books.Keep up the great work.You should definitely read this books.Can’t wait for the next book.
This author left me wanting more with these 4 stories! they were captivating, sexy and so intriguing!I had to read them in one sitting!
Who Will Save Your soul was exciting Emily and Nico have their own truths and lies that are dangerous but have no choice as they crave the one thing affection and love can they make it and tell the truth from the lies.
Bedtime Story will have Your heart fluttering as a single mom on the run is saved by a very handsome sheriff.
Mafia Cinderella oh I loved this one Lucia is fierce and determined to save herself but Sebastian has other plans. It’s exciting hot and dangerous.
Heavy Equipment This was a fast quick sexy hot read of Asher finally coming to claim whats his as a debt is being paid off and taking ownership of June in every single way possible. These two are explosive as Asher shows her some darkness with no way out. I loved it.
I enjoyed every single page of this book. Inside you will find four tempting and tasty tidbits flavored with an enticing combination of intense emotions, sizzling chemistry, suspense, heat and drama. I liked all of these short stories and I highly recommend this book to any romance fan that likes their books with some steam. I am electing to post a forthright review.
Who Will Save Your Soul
Short but intense story that gets you thinking. Young sheltered girl falls for the gardner but what is hiding behind the lies of her perfect life. Emily and Nico thrown together by circumstance, he has a reason to hide but will he be her saviour?
Bedtime Story
I adored this short retellling of Sleeping Beauty. A sweet story where Finn finds Jessica and Ky it almosty seems like fate guided her to theie protector.
Mafia Cinderella
Lucia may have been sold as a modern day slave but she hasn’t lost her fire and determination to escape and her capacity love. When the rich businessman turns up she sees her chance but he just sees her.
Heavy Equipment
A girl taken as payment for a debt . A man obsessed by one woman . A marraige destined to happen but will it be heaven or a plunge into hell.
Who Will Save Your Soul
Emily is a liar. That’s how she introduces herself. She’s 19 when she meets Niko. Together they fall in love, and she begs him to save her. This book is about a family that doesn’t love their child, but she finds it anyway on a small piece of land.
Bedtime Story
I loved Jessica and Finn’s bedtime story. It is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. I loved that Finn found her, and she in turn really found him.
Mafia Cinderella
I loved Lucia! She is strong, and she finds it within herself to know what to do! I believe I love this story the most!
Heavy Equipment
I love Asher and June. He takes her from her family as payment. He’s wanted her for so long. I love how alpha make he is.
Who will save your soul
This is a short, intense, angsty and sad story that ends up with a HEA. The young girl has awful parents, but finds a savior that comes to her rescue in the tower where she is kept prisoner.
Bedtime Story
This is a short story, a bit angsty. She’s running away and he forces her to take a break and rest. He’s a good man and she’s a young, beautiful woman with a baby. It’s an interesting twist to Sleeping Beauty’s story.
Mafia Cinderella
This is the story of a young, naive woman, who becomes a modern day Cinderella. There’s a sweat shop, whores, starvation and a handsome, wealthy and sexy man who saves her and her friends, who are like her family, as well.
Heavy Equipment
This is the last story in this book. It’s the story of a naive young woman who is sold to a man as payment for her father’s debt. It seems like it was bad at first, but then they were somehow able to work things out and get their HEA. This was my favorite story of them all.
The first story, Who will save your soul, was unexpected. Very interesting how it turns out, a little dark and surprising with a twist. I did find myself wondering what happened to his uncle, though.
Book 2, Bedtime Story, seems like a prequel to a book full of action. A girl on the run and a cop who helps her. They’re both drawn to each other and could save the other, one from physical dangers and one from the ghost that haunts him.
Mafia Cinderella is my favorite of the stories. I’ve read a lot of twists on fairy tales, a lot of spins on Cinderella, but none like this and I was into it from page one.
Oh but book 4, Heavy Equipment, was the HOTTEST. Dang! Dirty and sexy and delicious throughout. I like the way the main character June comes to embrace her new position in life so fully.
These a four very different stories but they all have the theme of a misused women saved by the least expected men. They are all set in or near Tanglewood and Heavy Equipment is a prelude to Overture with Blue and Samantha making appearances. They are all fascinating stories but my favourite was Bedtime Story which almost made me cry it was so sweet.
Oh my goodness! The 4 stories kept me awake until I was finished reading. I could not put this book down!
WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL
Emily and Niko. Emily just wants to be loved. She is labelled a “pathological liar”. But is she?
BED TIME STORY
Finn and Jessica. Finn is a sheriff who pulls Jessica over and brings her and her son, Ky, back to the police station to rest.
MAFIA CINDERELLA
Sebastian meets Lucia in a textile shop where she works but then they meet at the ball…oh my!
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
June and Asher. He takes June as a debt owed. And oh the sparks fly!
Who Will Save Your Soul
The despair oozes off the pages in this story. The shiny façade in sharp contrast to the mud and dirt. But the dirt is the cleanliness here, and Emily and Niko revel in it, and find their HEA away from the shininess and in the joyful dirt.
Mafia Cinderella
A quickie taking us from despair to possession. Sent into servitude, the would-be princess of the mafia is found, and claimed, by the one man who can elevate her to the status that should have always been hers
Bedtime Story
Jessica and Finn live out a modern-day sleeping beauty, where the sleep is replaced with ownership, and the saving is simply allowing a normal live to happen. To escape the only life she’s known, to run as far and fast as possible, means to take a chance on a fallen prince to keep her safe
Heavy Equipment
This was a deliciously decadent ‘sold for a debt read’! Asher and June waste no time on formalities, as the heat sizzles between them. We get their dirty, sexy, moments, and that inevitable HEA, as the emotions catch up with them. A quick read with a high handed, and completely possessive leading male – yes please!
Who will save your soul is an incredible collection of 4 delightful novellas written by the incomparable Skye Warren.
These 4 twisted fairytales are full of promise, passion and intrigue. They include; Who Will Save Your Soul, Bedtime Story, Mafia Cinderella and Heavy Equipment.
Heavy Equipment in particular sits in the Tanglewood world, where we learn more about Asher. Delicious!
These novellas are the perfect way to escape for a few hours into a world of bedtime stories with an edge of grit and all consuming emotions. Enjoy!
A bundle with 4 stories from my favourite author is just too much joy for my heart to bear 😀
Still, I bear it with pleasure.
It is so exciting to read her words in four different contexts. I admit my love for short stories, so this is a treat. A treat of dark pleasures indeed.
The first story features a little caged bird who yearns of freedom and a true life. Can the daughter of a dubious business man save herself? Are her lies a bridge to a new future or her death sentence? This story is really exciting.
Lush writing style for a gritty tale of liberation, corruption, and a bond of lust and need borne out of desperation. I loved the contrast between blue collar roughness and rich girl isolation, harsh greed and hypocritical conspiracies, submission and life-or-death bets. It’s dangerous and sensual and frightening.
Romance with a fairy tale twist is becoming a preferred treat for me. Especially because this story is based on Sleeping Beauty.
Bedtime Story tells about a young mother fleeing from a dark fate only to end up in the hands of a lonely knight in shining armor that shows her true kindness for the first time in her life.
This novella encapsulates the desperation of a woman with no hope in just a couple of scenes that were very intimate and heartfelt. The beautiful prose reflects the awakening of a woman under the fist of violence, and also the awakening of femininity to be free at last to express desire without the constraint of fear and pain. That sheriff in the middle of a deserted road felt both emotional and arousing. And the intimacy of the dialogues they share is captivating. Just one night together full of tragedy and hope, it’s beautiful.
Still, it was cut short in the end and felt a bit unfinished. Otherwise, it was quite a contradiction of sweet and dark, and very endearing. Loved it, too.
Mafia Cinderella
A dark rendition of the fable of the lion and the mouse. Here, the mouse is a damsel in distress who employs all her battered courage to strike a bargain with the powerful lion. And the price might be her body and soul.
This short story deals with very hard issues of abuse and slavery. A heroic justice comes about in the form of an unlikely saviour with deep lust and fair power, but also pictures a brave girl who seizes the opportunity to defy her harrowing circumstances and claim freedom. It’s exciting and brutal. I loved Lucia’s stand, her unread message, and the chance she gets to wear a dress. And that almost chivalrous ending that broke itself into a primitive mating. Wow.
Heavy Equipment
Intensely erotic and beautifully crafted. This little treat will appeal to your dark and naughty side.
A brutal man preys on a defenseless beauty whose father is indebted to him. What a frightfully delicious scenario this is, but only because we hope there is love at the end of the tunnel. Otherwise 🙁
In this case, the sensuality overpowers the imposition. The girl likes it all too much and takes pleasurable part in every step of her captivity, so that his harsh behaviour makes it less criminal and more fantasy. I’m not exactly into that kind of willing humiliation, but the scenario is beautifully and erotically narrated, craftily plotted to turn the bad into a sensuous awakening, the sacrifice into a reward. And there are layers beneath the darkness, so nothing is as it seems!
The dubious consent takes over a patina of provocation, and suddenly you start panting for the coarse, crude construction worker to defile the little exotic princess and make her moan for him.
It’s a surprisingly devious erotic tale that runs too short for its raw power.
So, my verdict is this bundle is worth your panting and sighing. Dark love will captivate you against your will or thanks to it 😉