LETHAL ABDUCTION (Lethal Legacy 3) by Paula Walshe-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 11, 2025

ABBY
What if love means war?

I tried not to fall in love. Love is dangerous, and I’d sworn off danger. And Dimitry isn’t just dangerous. He’s lethal. But somehow, he got under my skin.

I know anyone can be killed. Especially bratva warriors who protect what is theirs. I couldn’t let Dimitry die for my mistakes, So I left. And that was when my past came for me.

Dimitry doesn’t know why I left him. He doesn’t know that I love him. So he isn’t coming to save me. Nobody is. Because if they do, it will mean war.

DIMITRY
How do I choose between love and loyalty?

Abby wanted a normal life. One without the blood, violence, and loyalty the bratva demands. But the Bratva is who I am. Who I’ve always been. So I let her go. What choice did I have?

But the Bratva doesn’t feel like home anymore. And loyalty has started to chafe like a noose around my neck. Home was Abby, but now she’s gone. I can’t move on, Even if she isn’t coming back.

But what if she never really meant to leave? What if she was taken? Choosing Abby means betraying everything I thought I was. It’s a choice between my past, and the only future I’ve ever wanted. But I love her. And when it comes to Abby, there was never a choice.

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REVIEW: LETHAL ABDUCTION is the third instalment in Paula Walshe’s contemporary, adult LETHAL LEGACY dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is Dimitry Stevanovsky, and Abby Chalmers’ story line. LETHAL ABDUCTION can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Dimitry and Abby met in books one and two-Lethal Legacy and Lethal Alliance.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Dimitry and Abby) following dual timelines, LETHAL ABDUCTION focuses on the acrimonious relationship between Dimitry Stevanovsky, and Abby Chalmers’. Abby’s best friend Lucia / Darya met and following a dangerous courtship, fell in love with Bratva Pakhan Roman Borovsky but Roman’s dislike for Abby would set into motion another harrowing ordeal for our story line heroine. Abby, having already lived a life of torture and abuse, finds herself fallomg for a man she cannot trust but a man who is willing to give up everything for our story line heroine. Fearing the past would destroy the people she loves, Abby goes on the run, only to disappear without a trace, leaving a heart sick Dimitry in its’ wake but all is not as it appears to be, when Dimitry goes on the hunt for the woman he loves, and to take down the man who destroyed his life.

The richly layered world building is detailed, complex and gritty as we are up close and personal with the horrendous betrayal perpetrated on our story line couple. From the early years of Dimitry’s life in Russian, and his need to take down the people responsible; and Abby’s haunting abuse in South America, in the wake of obsession and madness.

The relationship between Abby and Dimitry begins as enemies to friends to lovers but Abby struggles with Dimitry’s lifestyle, as a member of the Borovsky Crime family, having experienced her own h*ll with the Cardenas Cartel. On the run, hiding in plain sight, Abby is always leery, distrusting and one step ready to bolt, but falling for Dimitry threatens all of Abby’s hard fought work to stay in the shadows. The $ex scenes are erotic and provocative.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, questionable and edgy secondary and supporting characters including the return of Roman and Darya., Mickey, and Pavel. We are introduced to Makari Tereschenko and Leon Volkov; Abby’s parents Peter and Susan Chalmers, numerous victims /survivors of human trafficking, and several members of the Cardenas Cartel. The requisite evil has many faces.

LETHAL ABDUCTION is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, obsession and tragedy, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is dramatic, dark and haunting; the romance is heart breaking , spicy and passionate; the characters are broken but determined and energetic.

Reading Order and previous reviews
Lethal Legacy
Lethal Alliance

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Reviewed by Sandy