Ruthless Creatures (Queens and Monsters 1) by JT Geissinger-Review & Excerpt tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 19, 2021
Five years ago, my fiancé disappeared. He left me with a wedding dress I’d never wear. Left me with the kind of scars that can’t be healed. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. All that remained were my broken heart and unanswered questions.
Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town.
Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Though I know he’s hiding something, I’m drawn to him like a moth to flame.
The intensity of our connection is addictive, unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, unable to resist.
But when I discover how he’s tied to the darkness in my past, I learn what happens when you fly recklessly into fire:
You get burned.
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REVIEW:RUTHLESS CREATURES is the first instalment in JT Geissinger’s contemporary, adult QUEENS AND MONSTERS erotic, Mafia, romance series. This is second in command Kage Porter, and middle school art teacher Natalie Peterson’s story line.
WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise including violence and BDSM sexual play, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspective (Natalie and Kage) RUTHLESS CREATURES follows the building relationship between second in command Kage Porter, and middle school art teacher Natalie Peterson. Five years earlier Natalie Peterson’s fiancé David walked out of her life the day before their wedding, and in the ensuing time our heroine struggled to move on with her life. Fast forward to present day wherein a dark and brooding sexy stranger moves in next door, and declares our heroine his for the taking. Enter Kage Porter, the man with whom Natalie will fall in love but everything about Kage Porter is built upon a secret and a lie, and in this, our heroine is a target and a pawn in a much larger game. What ensues is the building relationship between Kage and Natalie, and the potential fall-out when Kage reveals the truth.
Kage Porter is a man with numerous secrets, many of them he has reluctantly revealed to the woman with whom he has fallen in love but with that love comes threats of a different nature when Kage refuses to complete an assignment, an assignment involving our story line heroine. Natalie Peterson has mourned the disappearance of her fiancé for close to five years, and never thought she would fall in love with another man but something about Kage Porter draws Natalie like a moth to flame, a moth who is about to get burned in more ways than one.
The relationship between Natalie and Kage is predicated upon a number of lies. Kage reveals a little bit about the darkness that surround our story line hero but not enough to forewarn Natalie that her life as she knows it is about to come to a screeching halt. Kage Porter fell hard for our story line heroine, and in this, his love for Natalie could mean the end of both of their lives. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense with scenes of spanking, bondage, anal and oral $ex.
We are introduced to Natalie’s best friend Sloan; local police officer Chris; as well as several members of the Russian and Irish mob. Sloan’s story is next.
RUTHLESS CREATURES is an imaginative, fast paced, intriguing and wonderful story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance. The premise is dark, raw and gritty,; the romance is provocative, seductive and edgy; the characters are sassy, lively, spirited and dynamic. RUTHLESS CREATURES is an exhilarating start to the author’s QUEENS AND MONSTERS erotic, Mafia, romance series.
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Reviewed by Sandy
I recall my first impression of him when I saw him at the bar last night, how I told Sloane he looked like he walked off the set of Sons of Anarchy, and understand on a cellular level that the man sitting across from me is someone for whom the normal rules of society don’t apply.
I also understand that he’s dangerous.
And that he wants me but doesn’t want to.
And that I want him, too, but shouldn’t.
Because people who stick a hand too close to a lion’s mouth will come away with a bloody stump where that hand used to be.
The waiter arrives. Kage sends him away with a royally dismissive flick of his fingers, never taking his gaze off me.
When he’s gone, Kage says, “So your fiancé disappeared. And for the next five years, on every anniversary of what would’ve been your wedding day, you get drunk.”
“It sounds worse when you say it out loud. Do I need to be afraid of you?”
We stare at each other across the table. The silence is electric. If he’s surprised by my question, it doesn’t show.
He says softly, “What if I said yes?”
“Then I’d take you at your word and drive straight to the nearest police station. Are you saying yes?”
He hesitates. “Most people who know me are.”
My heart pounds so hard, I’m surprised he can’t hear it. “I want a yes or a no.”
“Would you believe me if I said no?”
I reply instantly, without thinking. “Yes. You’re not the kind of man who hides behind lies.”
He considers me in blistering, unblinking silence, slowly turning the cigar round and round between his thumb and forefinger. Finally, he says gruffly, “You’re so fucking beautiful.”
The breath I’ve been holding comes out in a rush. “That’s not an answer.”
“I’m getting there.”
“Get there faster.”
On his lips appears that faint approximation of a smile. “I’ve already told you I’m not a knight in shining armor—”
“There’s miles between that and what I asked.”
He growls, “Interrupt me again and I’ll take you over my knee right here and spank that perfect ass of yours until you’re screaming.”
Coming from anyone else, a statement like that—spoken in such a hard, dominating tone—would make me furious.
Coming from him, it almost makes me moan out loud with desire.
I bite my tongue and glare at him, unsure which one of us I dislike more at the moment.
He crushes his cigar in the ashtray, drags a hand through his dark hair, and moistens his lips. Then he shakes his head, laughing ruefully.
“All right. You want an answer? Here it is.”
He stares into my eyes, laughter fading, until he’s all hard jaw and thinned lips and smoldering hotness. “No. You don’t have to be afraid of me. Even if I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn’t.”
I lift my brows. “Somehow, that’s not exactly reassuring.”
“Take it or leave it. It’s the truth.”
The waiter returns, grinning. Without looking away from me, Kage growls at him, “Come over again when you haven’t been called and I’ll put a bullet in your head.”
I’ve never seen a man spin around and run away so quickly.
Feeling dangerously reckless, I say, “Since you’re in a truth telling mood, why did you pay for your house in cash?”
“To launder the money. Don’t repeat that to anyone. Next question.”
My mouth opens. For several moments, nothing comes out. When I manage to compose myself, I say, “Why would you trust me with something like that?”
“Because I want you to trust me.”
“Why?”
“Because I want you. And I suspect getting to have you requires a certain level of trust. I can tell you’re not the type who sleeps around. Next question.”
God, my heart is beating so, so fast. So fast I can barely breathe. Also, I think I might have whiplash.
I say, “Are you always this…”
“Direct? Yes.”
“I was going to say contradictory. Yesterday it seemed like you hated me. I’m still not sure you don’t.”
His voice drops. “Yesterday you weren’t under my protection. Now you are.”
His eyes are hypnotic. His voice is hypnotic. This man is putting me under a spell. “I’m pretty sure I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you believe you’re safe with me.”
My laugh is faint. “Safe with you? God, no. I think I’m in more danger around you than I have been with any other man before in my life.”
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A former headhunter, J.T. Geissinger is the author of more than a dozen novels in contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense.
She is the recipient of the Prism Award for Best First Book, the Golden Quill Award for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, and is a two-time finalist for the RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America®. Her work has also finaled in the Booksellers’ Best, National Readers’ Choice, and Daphne du Maurier Awards.
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