Readers looking for a quick read full of grit and edge of your seat action will get all that and more with this steamy and suspenseful tale of opposites attracting. Keep reading to get a tempting taste of Up in Flames by K.E Osborn, along with my impressions of it, then add this first installment in the Baton Rouge Bachelors Duet to your bookshelf too!
An inferno.
That’s what my life became the second I laid eyes on her.I’m ruthless, calculating, cold-blooded. Second in charge of an underworld establishment that men fear and the elite strive for membership—there’s no room in my world for an innocent like her.
The Baton Rouge Bachelors run this town. Politicians, celebrities, and high society are known to use our services. But make no mistake, the Bachelors are cruel, brutal, and malicious.
You need something done, we will do it—for a price, of course.
But the women who stand beside us need to be hard. Cunning. And just as heartless as we are. So when I meet Makaylie, and she is anything but, I know I must protect her from my vile world at all costs.
Even if it means I have to watch everything I have worked for, everything I have built, go up in flames.
From K E Osborn, USA Today bestselling author comes...
The Baton Rouge Bachelors Duet.
An opposites attract spin-off from the NOLA Defiance MC Series, but you don’t need to read NOLA Defiance to enjoy this duet. The alpha hero has ‘touch her and I will unalive you’ vibes, with a great supporting cast that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
MY IMPRESSIONS OF THIS BOOK:
Opening the cover will find this a story of star-crossed lovers amidst a gritty and dangerous backdrop that readers are introduced to with this being the first part of the Baton Rouge Bachelors Duet. It's a story with a very complex hero, one who is romantic one moment and unstable the next, which keeps readers on edge and waiting to see if he'll explode. The heroine is very much his opposite, a sweet and inexperienced young woman who's drawn to the good/bad dichotomy but getting tired of the secrets.
Cain Barrington is second-in-command of the Baton Rouge Bachelors, his role being to keep everything in control...by brute force if necessary. There's another side to him though, a sweetly romantic side that was drool-worthy to see. It's this side that appeals to Makaylie Rayne, an awkwardly innocent young woman who brings out the best in Cain. When they're together they're combustible in scenes that were erotically-charged. Out of the bedroom though is where the problems are arising as Cain's secrets and lies are wearing on the couple's connection. Makaylie is starting to doubt Cain and his mood swings are like a time bomb waiting to go off. These two are at a standoff, wanting to be together but knowing that their togetherness might not be good for them or others.
From the first page to the last, this was a book that was gritty and suspenseful, with danger constantly just around the corner. Makaylie was Cain's sweet secret, someone he clearly loved and who he was desperately trying to keep unaffected by his world. He was a character that was larger than life, a bad man capable of good for the right person and I was drawn to him against my will. With each turn of the page though the danger accelerated and Cain's world was on the cusp of consuming Makaylie in a heart pounding cliffhanger that has me waiting impatiently for the fallout from the first part of this duet!
My rating for this is a B+
*I got this book from the author for review in exchange for my honest opinion.
AUTHOR INFO:
With a flair for all things creative, USA Today Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She's entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.
K E Osborn comforts herself with tea and Netflix, after all, who doesn't love a good binge? Explosive. Addictive. Romance.
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