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CRUEL LIES (Cruel Secrets Duet 1) by Faith Summers

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 27, 2021

He’s my villain, my monster, my forbidden path…Caspian Ivanov and I come from the same dark world.One where the Bratva and the secret society reign.And, he’s the son of their ruthless leader.

“I’ll destroy you.”

That’s the last thing he said to me.It was on the night of the Reaping.Hard to believe we were ever best friends.His vengeance is, however, the price I pay for keeping a secret I shouldn’t have kept.A secret that ripped our families apart.It made us forbidden to each other.That’s when he became the viperous devil.

Breathtakingly beautiful but with a cold black heart.Like any snake, he wanted to poison me.When our paths collide at Raventhorn University, I stay away from him.What I don’t expect is to become his obsession.Or to be forced to become his wife.Except, we might not get to say I do.

Because someone wants me dead.

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REVIEW: CRUEL LIES is the first instalment in Faith Summers’s (Khardine Gray) contemporary, new adult CRUEL SECRETS dark, erotic, Mafia duet focusing on Mafia/Bratva heirs Caspian Ivanov, and Willow Raventhorn.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Caspian and Willow) covering several years in the life, CRUEL LIES follows the friends to enemies, acrimonious relationship between Caspian Ivanov, and Willow Raventhorn, heirs to their father’s Mafia control. Years earlier, Willow’s parents were murdered, and Caspian’s mother supposedly died by her own hand, leaving Willow and her sister in the care of extended family and friends. In the aftermath, Willow revealed a secret that labelled her persona non-grata in the eyes of the boy she once loved. Fast forward a couple of years wherein Willow’s sister tries desperately to save the life of our story line heroine but the resulting fall-out would find Willow locked up in a psychiatric hospital, fighting for someone to believe her story. Upon her release, Willow enrols at the exclusive Raventhorn University for the children of the connected criminal underworld, and a secret society of ‘Knights’, where she will come face to face with the boy she once loved, a young man who struggles to stay clear of our story line heroine. What ensues is the building but tempestuous relationship between Willow and Caspian, and the fall out as Caspian’s ongoing seduction of Willow is about to place our couple in the direct line of fire.

Caspian Ivanov, not only lost his mother, but his brother as well. As the new heir to the Ivanov family, Caspian is forbidden to contact our story line heroine but Caspian is unable to stay clear of the woman who has stolen his heart. Willow has struggled in the years since the death of her parents but years spent under someone else’s control pushes Willow to withdraw from family and friends. Starting college means a new start to life but the past refuses to let go, and in this Willow finds herself the target of some powerful people. As the soul heir to her father’s business, Willow will be forced to marry , a man she does not love, by the people in charge of the secret society.

The relationship between Willow and Caspian is a friends to enemies to frenemies relationship in which their college reconnection is forbidden , and the threat of retaliation is real and deadly. Best friends as children, Willow and Caspian’s lives will be turned upside down, and the aftermath will see Willow losing not only her parents, her sister but her best friend as well. The $ex scenes are impassioned and intense.

There is a large ensemble cast of energetic and powerful secondary and supporting characters including Caspian’s brother Zak, their father Aleks, and their cousin Thorne; Willow’s friends Lucian Sokolov, and Eilish; Willow’s guardians Adrian and Elaine; Bratva heir Dorian Belkov.

CRUEL LIES is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family, friendships, and relationships; hatred and love. The premise is dark, gritty and heart breaking; the romance is seductive; the characters are broken, desperate and lost. CRUEL LIES ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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CRUEL PROMISES (Cruel Secrets Duet 2) by Faith Summers

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 21, 2022

Our vicious past dragged us into a whirlpool of dark secrets.

The villain isn’t supposed to be the hero.
Willow was always mine.
So, I’ll become whatever I need to be to save her.
Including breaking the oath I made when I became a Knight.

The oath is our life and our death.

But she is my path to redemption.
My obsession.
My love.
My wife.
I’ll walk through the fires of hell to protect her.
And the sky will rain the blood of our enemies.
I won’t stop until I get what I want.
Even if it kills me.

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REVIEW: CRUEL PROMISES is the second and final instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, new adult CRUEL SECRETS dark, erotic, Mafia, bully romance duet focusing on nineteen and eighteen year old, Mafia/Bratva heirs Caspian Ivanov, and Willow Raventhorn. CRUEL PROMISES should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one CRUEL LIES.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Caspian and Willow) CRUEL PROMISES picks up immediately after the events of book on in which Willow learns her fate and destiny at the hands of a secret society of ‘Knights’. As the heir to her late father’s business and fortune Willow quickly learns the ‘Knights’ have taken control, of not only her money, but her autonomy as well. Forced to marry a man she doesn’t love, Willow will discover that enemies will become friends, and friends will become enemies in a game of power and control, murder and revenge. As Caspian Ivanov goes in search of the truth, our ‘anti’ hero can no longer trust the people he once called family and friends, knowing the reach of money and power is greedy and long. What ensues is the building but contemptuous relationship between Caspian and Willow, and the potential fall-out as the truth reveals a more sinister darkness than they could have ever imagined.

The relationship between Caspian and Willow is acrimonious at best. Willow and Caspian had been childhood best friends but a family secret pulled Caspian out of our heroine’s life, forcing Willow to struggle with what happened on her own. Marrying Caspian has always been Willow’s fantasy and dream but forced to marry a monster meant the turmoil of a broken heart, and the possibility of losing it all. Caspian Ivanov had never stopped loving our story line heroine but life took a dark and dangerous turn for our story line ‘anti’ hero. Barely surviving the abuse and torture years before, Caspian turns his pain outwards, in an effort to protect the woman with whom he has fallen in love. The $ex scenes are aggressive and intense, with dubious and questionable consent.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of powerful and determined secondary and supporting characters including Caspian’s father Aleksander Ivanov, and his cousin Thorne; Willow’s friends Lucian Sokolov, and Eilish; Willow’s guardians Adrian and Elaine. The requisite evil has many faces.

CRUEL PROMISES is a story of power and control, money and influence, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, love and acceptance. The premise is dark, disheartening and twisted but felt a little bit rushed; the characters are haunting and tragic; the romance is dramatic and provocative.

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Reviews by Sandy

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

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Ruthless King (Dark Syndicate 6) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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Ruthless King (Dark Syndicate 6) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 30, 2021.

The truth hurts, but lies can kill…

I offered to do anything to save my father’s life when he was captured by the devil he owed a debt to.
A three-million-dollar debt.
So, I became the devil’s spy as I entered the lair of the Cartel King to take a job as a live-in nanny for his niece.
My orders were simple.

All I needed to do was this:
Get close to the Cartel King.
Be his to do anything he wants me to do.
Make him trust me enough to tell me the secrets his enemies need.

Do that, and I would save my father.
I just never expected to fall in love.
Or that Alejandro Ramírez would be the first man to heal my broken soul.

When he discovers the truth, I may wish I’d died instead of making that deal with the devil.

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REVIEW:RUTHLESS KING is the sixth instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult DARK SYNDICATE dark, erotic, age gap, Mafia romance. This is forty-eight year year old head of the Ramirez cartel Alejandro Ramirez, and twenty-five year old nanny Lucia Ferreira’s story line. RUTHLESS KING can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Alejandro and Lucia) RUTHLESS KING follows in the wake of the abduction of Lucia and her father William Ferreira. William Ferreira owes millions of dollars to the mob, and Lucia is about to pay the price for her fathers transgressions. Alejandro Ramirez is the current head of the Ramirez Cartel, and needs a nanny for his one year old niece, and Lucia is ripe for the picking but what Alejandro doesn’t know is that Lucia has been tasked with uncovering any and all information about our story line hero, a man who is falling for his niece’s nanny. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Alejandro and Lucia, and the potential fall-out as betrayal against Alejandro comes from within including our story line heroine.

Lucia Ferreira doesn’t want to spy for the man known as El Diablo but her father’s life hangs in the balance, and Lucia is forced to gather information against the man with she will fall in love. Alejandro Ramirez lost everything approximately one and half years earlier, instantly becoming a single father to his two week old niece in the wake of her parents murder but Alejandro has spent the last few months desperately searching for the people responsible never realizing that the answer to his vengeance is the woman with whom he will fall in love.
The relationship between Lucia and Alejandro is an age-gap romance wherein Alejandro hires Lucia to be both nanny and a woman to warm his bed. From the outset their mutual attraction is palpable but Lucia knows that if her secrets are revealed, her life will be forfeit, along with the life of her father back home. The $ex scenes are intimate, seductive and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters many of whom we have met in previous story lines. We are introduced to several of Alejandro’s security and members of the Ramirez Cartel, as well as Lucia’s father William, and the housekeeper/ former nanny Estelle. The requisite evil has many faces.

RUTHLESS KING is a story of betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, power and control, trust and obsession. The premise is heart breaking and emotional; the romance is captivating and provocative; the characters are broken, desperate , charismatic and lost.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Ruthless Prince
Dark Captor
Wicked Liar
Merciless Hunter
Heartless Lover

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Reviewed by Sandy

Raw heat is still streaking through my body just from the mere handshake.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect man. 

Eyes the shade of a crow’s wing are locked on mine, and full symmetrical lips quirk up into a mercurial smile.

His face is all angles with high exotic cheekbones and a chiseled jaw you’d find on a storybook prince. The bright morning sun shines over his skin, making it look like the sun kissed it that color bronze. 

The gray streaks in his beard, hairline, and temples only serve to highlight his beauty and strength in what I can see of the rest of his body. As if to highlight that his perfection came with age and he’ll look even better and better, and sexier, the older he gets. The silver hoop in his ear tames him a fraction, adding to his style but also conjuring the image of a pirate in my mind. It gives a glimpse of the conquering cartel king he is. 

Of course, I was given a picture of Alejandro Ramírez before coming to this ill-fated interview. So, I already knew he looks like a seamless blend of Antonio Banderas and my all-time favorite Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui. 

Alejandro is what they would look like if they were one person. 

The lucid image makes me wonder if I really am stuck in a fucked-up rendition of a dark fairytale. One where he is the prince and I’m the villain, or maybe everyone is the antithesis to good in this story. 

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

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Deceptive Vows (Blood and Thorns 3) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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Deceptive Vows (Blood and Thorns 3) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 15, 2021.

What kind of happily-ever-after do you get when you’re forced to marry a monster?

A monstrous Bratva leader who bounds your wrists and promises to break you.Mikhail Dmitriyev is a beautiful devil with a villainous heart and a thirst for revenge.The choices he gave me when he stole me away from my home with an army of men were very clear—marry me or die.

I chose to marry him and live.But there’s one small problem with his grand plan to reign Armageddon on the Mexican Cartel.I’m not the woman he thinks I am.I’m not the cartel princess he thinks he took to make his enemies bow to him.

When my captor finds out my secret and realizes he married the wrong woman, love won’t be enough to save me.And neither will his obsession.

Deceptive Vows is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering.

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REVIEW:DECEPTIVE VOWS is the third instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult BLOOD AND THORNS dark,erotic Bratva romance series. This is twenty-eight year old Mikhail Dmitriyev, and nineteen year old Natalia de Leon aka Adriana Alvarez’s story line. DECEPTIVE VOWS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. There is a slight cross over with the author’s DARK SYNDICATE series with the cameo appearances by Eric Markov (Heartless Lover-Dark Syndicate 5).

WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Natalia and Mikhail) DECEPTIVE VOWS follows in the aftermath of the obliteration of the Alvarez Cartel, leaving Natalia de Leon aka Adriana Alvarez alive, and her body guard clinging to life. Years earlier, the Alvarez Cartel abducted, tortured and murdered Mikhail’s sister, and in the years following our hero sought his revenge. Fast forward to present day where a few months earlier Mikhail’s mother was murdered, leaving Mikhail struggling to survive. Enacting revenge against the Alvarez Cartel, Mikhail sets his sights on taking control by first taking the only daughter of Raul Alvarez. Enter Adriana Alvarez aka Natalia deLeon. What ensues is the building but acrimonious relationship predicated on mistaken identity between Natalia and Mikhail, and the potential fall-out as Natalia’s secrets are revealed, and the remaining members of the Dmitriyev family are targeted from within.

Natalia de Leon was nothing more than a slave to the Alvarez Cartel, and a handmaiden to the princess Adriana Alvarez but an attack against the Cartel leaves Natalia as one of the sole survivors, and a case of mistaken identity, finds our heroine assuming the role of the Cartel princess. In an effort to take control and assume the top position, Mikhail Dmitriyev kidnaps and marries our story line heroine only to discover that betrayal from within forces Mikhail to reconsider his future options.

The relationship between Natalia and Mikhail begins as a forced proximity, mistaken identity, imprisonment of our story line heroine. Mikhail and his father have plans to take control of the Alvarez Cartel by staking a claim on Adriana Alvarez. Natalia knows that once her true identity is revealed, there is nothing saving our heroine from her immediate demise. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic, aggressive and intense with some questionable issues of consent.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including the appearance of Eric Markov (Heartless Lover 5). We are introduced to Mikhail’s father and Pakhan of the Baranov Bratva Sergei Dmitriyev, a man whose life is nearing the end; Sergei’s sister Sophia, and Mikhail’s half-brother Ivan; Natalia’s ‘bodyguard’ Jose Diaz, caretaker Aleksander as well as several members of the Mexican Cartel.

DECEPTIVE VOWS is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, murder and blood, dysfunctional family, jealousy, hate and love. The premise is dark, haunting and raw; the romance is unconventional, and dramatic; the characters are tragic and impassioned.

I will add that Deceptive Vows seems more at home with the Dark Syndicate series than the Blood and Thorns series, as B&T is currently labelled a duet.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Merciless Vows
Merciless Union

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Reviewed by Sandy

“Your marriage to me will seal the deal on my control of the cartel. That’s the easy way to conquer your father’s empire without rebellion. But I could do it the other way. The harder, hellish way where I kill you and reign hell on Mexico. So, princess, your choices are marry me, or die.” 

My mouth goes dry, as if someone has stuffed it with sand. 

Marry him or die? Those are my choices. 

They both sound like the same thing to me. 

Like death. 

It’s just that one might prolong my life a little longer. 

“What’s it going to be, princess?” 

“I don’t want to die,” I choke out. 

 “I didn’t think so.”

Jesus. What did I get myself into? 

He’s going to marry me thinking I’m someone else. 

This is not a man you mess around with. 

What will he do to me when he discovers I’m not the Cartel Princess. 

I’ve gone from the fear of being placed up for auction to getting ready to marry a Russian mobster. 

How the hell did that happen?

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

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HEARTLESS LOVER (Dark Syndicate 5) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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HEARTLESS LOVER (Dark Syndicate 5) by Faith Summers

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 16, 2021

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…
For a man like me, that thing is darkness.
The darkness from my past never ended my life.
It darkened my heart and flowed through my veins, fueling my hunger for revenge.
That’s why I accepted the job to protect her.

Her: Summer Reeves.
The beautiful angel who became an asset to me when she saw something she shouldn’t have seen.
The job should have been simple.
Protecting her meant getting closer to catching the man who betrayed me.
I learned long before I joined the Bratva that you have to be heartless to be strong.
Except, she was the wild card I never saw coming.

From the moment her lips touched mine, she became the exception to my rules.
That was the moment I claimed her.
I didn’t care that she didn’t belong in my world.
Or that belonging to a man like me was her worst nightmare.
I always get what I want.
She’s mine to protect.
So when death comes to take her, I plan to fight to keep her.

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REVIEW: HEARTLESS LOVER is the fifth instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult DARK SYNDICATE dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is thirty-one year old, CEO of Markov Tech, and Obshchak in the Voirik Brotherhood Eric Markov, and twenty-four year old, former actress Summer Reeves’ story line. HEARTLESS LOVER can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Eric and Summer) HEARTLESS LOVER follows in the aftermath of the murder of Summer’s twin Scarlett, a victim of mistaken identity while visiting her sister in Italy. As Summer was the intended target, and witnessed the murder of her beloved sister, our heroine heads back to America where she will find herself the prisoner of Eric Markov, the Obshchak in the Voirik Brotherhood. Eric needs information about a man from his past but using Summer will place her in the direct line of fire. What ensues is the acrimonious but building relationship between Eric and Summer, and the potential fall-out as both of their paths collide in a battle of revenge.

Summer Reeves back story is heart breaking and dark, and with it reveals a spiral from which Summer struggles to recover. Finding herself a prisoner of a man who is heartless and cruel, Summer battles between head and heart as each encounter begins to tear down the wall she built years before. Eric Markov has lost everything and spent five years in absolute h*ll. Determined to take down the people who all but destroyed his life, Eric will use any means necessary, including our story line heroine.

The relationship between Eric and Summer begins when Summer is abducted by shortly after her arrival back home in California. Eric’s attraction to Summer is immediate, and with it some questionable motives and ambiguous consent. Summer’s past continues to control her present, and with it, Eric’s interest becomes problematic for our story line heroine. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense but I struggle with the use of a certain four-letter word.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Eric’s right hand man Borya, bodyguard Oleg, housekeeper and cook Lyssa, Pakhan Aiden Romanov, Dominic D’Agostino and Alejandro Ramirez, Eric’s sister Olivia, and Summer’s father John Reeves. The requisite evil has many faces.

HEARTLESS LOVER is a story of betrayal and revenge, power and control, secrets and lies, abuse, murder, seduction and love. The premise is dark, gritty and heart breaking; the romance is impassioned and aggressive; the characters are energetic, broken but healing.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Ruthless Prince
Dark Captor
Wicked Liar
Merciless Hunter

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Reviewed by Sandy

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

Dive in and enjoy her naughty page-turners.

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ORIGINAL SINS ( Dark Odyssey 6) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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ORIGINAL SINS ( Dark Odyssey 6) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

ORIGINAL SINS
Dark Odyssey 6
by Faith Summers
Release Date: July 30, 2021.
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, erotic, Mafia, MFM, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 30, 2021

What is the price of living…

My father dealt his last blow to control my life on my eighteenth birthday.

He crushes my dreams when I’m told I have to marry a man I loathe.

Intent on saving myself from a terrible fate, I do the one thing I can to get the money I need to escape.

Enter the virgin auction and agree to do whatever my owner wants for thirty days.

I just never expected to be owned by two of the most dangerous men I know.

Both work for my father in the criminal underworld, but they don’t know who I am.

I’m their dirty little secret no one must know about, and they are mine.

But then all hell breaks loose when we get found out.

That’s the moment I truly have to worry about escaping.

Original Sins is Dark Mafia Ménage Romance in the Dark Odyssey Series. The events are set prior to Book 1( Tease Me), but can be read as a complete standalone.

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REVIEW: ORIGINAL SINS is the sixth instalment and prequel in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult DARK ODYSSEY dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is eighteen year old Evangeline ‘Evie’ Ricci, Georgiou Giordano, and Henry DuBois’ story line ORIGINAL SINS can be read as a stand alone as it sets the stage for the Dark Odyssey series.

WARNING: ORIGINAL SIN is a dark, erotic, story line with graphic violence and MFM scenarios that may be triggers fore more sensitive readers.

Told from three first person perspectives (Evie, Georgiou, and Henry) ORIGINAL SINS follows the forbidden relationship between eighteen year old Evangeline Ricci, and thirty year old Georgiou Giordano and Henry DuBois. On her eighteenth birthday Evangeline discovered that her father, Donatello Ricci, had arranged to marry her off to Peter Marino, his violent and abusive right hand man. Desperate to escape but no money at her disposal, Evie’s cousin Cordelia arranges for Evie to participate in a ‘virgin auction’ where she will meet her future-Henry DuBois and Georgiou Giordano, a future that is about to spiral out of control. As Peter makes a claim and threats against our storyline heroine, Evie basks in the short time she spends with Georgiou and Henry. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Evie, Henry and Georgiou, and the potential fall-out as betrayal and vengeance threaten to destroy everyone she loves.

Henry and Georgiou have no idea as to the true identity of our story line heroine, all they know is that both are falling for a woman who calls herself Evie Montrose but secrets are about to reveal that there is more to Evie than they could have ever imagined. Deception and betrayal are about to place Evie and her father in the direct line of fire, and it will take the love of two men to save our story line heroine.

The relationship between Evie, and Henry and Georgiou is begins as a business transaction wherein Henry and Georgiou outbid all other contenders for our heroine’s virginity. Desperate to escape a future with a man she does not love, Evie agrees to one month wherein she will equally fall in love with both Henry and Georgiou. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic, and intense.

ORIGINAL SINS introduces the history and development of the $ex club Dark Odyssey, as well as the partners whose stories were told in books 1-5. We are introduced to Evie’s father Donatello Ricci, as well as her cousin Cordelia, and Donatello’s right hand man Peter Marino. The premise is intriguing, captivating , gritty and twisted; the characters are energetic, dynamic and determined; the romance is erotic and seductive.

Reading Order and Previous Review

Tease Me
Taunt Me
Trill Me
Tempt Me
Take Me

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Reviewed by Sandy

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

Dive in and enjoy her naughty page-turners.

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Merciless Union (Blood & Thorns 2) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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Merciless Union (Blood & Thorns DUET 2) by Faith Summers-Review & Excerpt Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 19, 2021.

Everything changed overnight.
Truth became my enemy, and the sting of betrayal dragged me into a web of lies.
I’m damned if I fight to live and damned if I die.
Both will be dangerous for the child growing inside me.
I can’t trust Lucca to save us.
Love is a myth we shouldn’t have explored.
He was always my enemy.
Love just made me forget and blinded me to the truth.
The cruel hand of death is the only answer when doom takes over.
I don’t know if I’ll survive, or if death will bury me along with the sins of the past.

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REVIEW:MERCILESS UNION is the second and final instalment in Faith Summers’ (aka Khardine Gray) contemporary, adult BLOOD AND THORNS dark, erotic, Mafia, romance duet focusing on soon to be twenty-five year old Italian Mafia princess Aria De Marchi, and twenty-eight year old, Bratva assassin Lucca Dyshekov. MERCILESS UNION should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the cliff-hanger of book one MERCILESS VOWS.

WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise and content, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

NOTE: If you have not read book one, there may be spoilers in my review.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Aria and Lucca) MERCILESS UNION picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one MERCILESS VOWS. Lucca Dyshekov’s compound came under attack leaving Lucca fighting for his life, and Aria a captive of the men in charge. Struggling to survive but barely holding on, Aria battles between head and heart as secrets from the past begin to reveal betrayal at every level including from the man with whom she is falling in love. As Lucca makes plans to rescue his wife, he will discover that the deception and dishonesty knows no boundaries, as most of his life has been predicated upon a lie. What ensues is the rebuilding relationship between Lucca and Aria, and the potential fall-out a our couple find themselves in the direct line of fire, without the ability to trust anyone including those once thought to be family and friends.

MERCILESS UNION, like Merciless Vows, is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and revenge, power, control, greed and obsession, hopelessness and love. Faith Summers pulls the reader into a dark, gritty, raw and untamed world of organized crime-the greed and fight for power; the sickness of some people as they fight their way to the top. The premise is edgy, startling, dramatic and intense; the romance struggles in the face of secrets and lies; the characters are passionate, heart breaking, broken yet strong.

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I can’t stop moving. Lucca was shot. My heart tumbles in my chest with panic and desperation with every hurried step I take.
“It’s not what you think,” someone who sounds like Jon, Lucca’s best friend, answers. “I’m so sorry, Lucca. You were like a brother to me, but you dug too deep.”
Marylin and I stop short when we see Lucca lying on the ground with blood pouring from his stomach. That’s bad enough. However, the sight of Jon standing over him with his gun aimed at him in one hand and a metal bar in the other makes my blood boil. That answers the question of how the men got on the grounds.
“Lucca!” I scream, and my eyes lock with his silver ones.
In that split second, as I look at him, memory hits me as clear as the image of him lying before me.
I remember the day I first met him. It was at music class. I heard him playing the piano. I was seven, and he was ten. He was playing that song that unlocked my heart.
Clair de Lune.
He offered to help me with my piano lessons so my mother would allow me to play the violin.
That was the moment we began. That was the beginning of our unexpected journey and an unexpected friendship that has lasted my whole life, even though he might not have always been with me. My accident might have robbed me of memories of the magic we shared, but I feel it.
That’s the first memory I’ve had of my childhood that wasn’t locked in a dream.
As the horror hits me that I’m watching him die, I try to get to him. Marylin holds me back, but I try to get away so I can save him.
“No, Aria, we have to get out,” Marylin urges.
“Lucca!” I wail.
“Go!” Lucca shouts to me, and his eyes roll back in his head.


 

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

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Merciless Vows (Blood and Thorns 1) by Faith Summers-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 21, 2021

When I was sixteen a gypsy fortune teller told me my future held darkness and death.
She was right.
But what she didn’t tell me was the devil himself would rise from hell in the form of Lucca Dyshekov and take everything from me with a gun held to my head.

He’s the Bratva assassin they all call Merciless.
On our wedding day, he taught me real monsters aren’t the ones who hide in the dark.
They’re the ones who stare you in the face and steal your soul.

On a quest for revenge, he takes me and unearths secrets from the past that will cause a war.When death lies on the horizon the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend.
In this instance he’s my husband.The real question is when he finishes uncovering the truth, will he keep me or kill me.

••••••

REVIEW:MERCILESS VOWS is the first instalment in Faith Summers’ (aka Khardine Gray) contemporary, adult BLOOD AND THORNS erotic, dark, Mafia romance duet focusing on soon to be twenty-five year old Italian Mafia princess Aria De Marchi, and twenty-eight year old, Bratva assassin Lucca Dyshekov.

WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Aria and Lucca) using present day and memories from the past, MERCILESS VOWS follows the enemies to lovers relationship between soon to be twenty-five year old Italian Mafia princess Aria De Marchi, and twenty-eight year old, Bratva assassin Lucca Dyshekov. Two and half years earlier Aria De Marchi lost her mother, and she herself almost died, leaving our heroine in a coma for close to six months. Upon awakening, Aria is suffering with retrograde amnesia, and presently is unable to remember any of her earlier life. Sold to Lucca Dyshekov for sins of the father, Aria soon discovers there is more to her history, family and new life than she could have ever imagined. Both hating and growing to love our story line anti-hero, Aria slowly begins to recover her memories, memories that threaten everything she ever knew about her life, years ago. What ensues is the building but acrimonious relationship between Aria and Lucca, and the potential fall-out as Lucca is targeted, and betrayal rides high on the list of suspects.

Aria De Marchi doesn’t remember anything prior to her ‘accident’ almost three years earlier. The death of her mother weighs heavily on her mind but her father’s sins are about to place Aria in the direct line of fire, as she becomes a pawn in a bigger game of the Mafia vs the Russian mob. Lucca Dyshekov lost his entire family years before, but the death of a friend pushes Lucca over the edge. When Lucca gets information about his past, from the Mexican Cartel, Lucca sets out to take down the people responsible but betrayal from within finds Lucca fighting for his life.

The relationship between Lucca and Aria begins as a business arrangement, payment for sin, by our heroine’s father. Aria is an innocent, and knows nothing about her father’s life, but with the return of her memories, Ari begins to suspect that her father is not who he pretends to be. Lucca struggles with both his attraction to, and need to destroy our story line heroine but as their relationship grows, Aria’s love for Lucca is tested when Lucca discovers the truth. The $ex scenes are dramatic and intense, and not without some question of consent.

We are introduced to Aria’s father Raphael De Marchi; Lucca’s foster-father, of a sorts, Damien Mikhailov; Pakhan Grigori Ivanov; Lucca’s right hand man ad security specialist Jon, and Alexei; psychiatrist Dr. Belmont; as well as Lucca’s housekeeper Marylin.

MERCILESS VOWS is a story of betrayal and vengeance; family and deceit; secrets, lies, brutality and the truth. The premise is dark and gritty; the romance is aggressive and intoxicating; the characters are broken, powerful and hostile. MERCILESS VOWS ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

We stare at each other for what feels like forever, and my nerves spike with every second that passes.
The way he looks at me makes me uncomfortable. It’s with an air of fascination that makes me wonder if it was he I lost my virginity to.
Annoyingly, the thought sends a shiver of arousal through me, and the weight pulls on my core.
There’s an attraction between us I don’t want to accept, especially after last night. And this morning.
Yet, as I stare at him, I can’t help but wonder how we would have met if my father didn’t know I knew him.
How close were we?
I have so many questions, ones I feel he won’t answer,
“Go on, Printsessa,” he urges with a cocky smile that should be as illegal as he is. “Ask me. I don’t want my bride’s head to explode with all those questions she has swirling around in there.”
Him calling me his bride makes me cringe.
“Why do you want to marry me? What sort of business benefit is there in marrying me?”
“Business benefit?” He inclines his head, and his hair drifts over his shoulder. The fading sunlight captures the lighter hints of brown in the dark mass of wild hair.
“You don’t love me, so don’t play with me. Tell me the truth. You’re marrying a woman who has no memories beyond the last two and a half years. I think I deserve some explanation.”
He looks like he’s considering it. When he sets his shoulders back, my hopes rise.
“You fit in with my plans,” he answers.
“What plans?”
“Those don’t concern you.”
“How don’t they concern me? You have access to my whole life. This is wrong. You know it is.”
“Right and wrong are shades of gray that people manipulate to take whatever form they want. This is mine.”
I shake my head. “I don’t want to marry you.”
“You don’t have a choice, and if I were you, I wouldn’t create problems. Your father wasn’t joking when he told you to do as you’re told. You need to. If you don’t create problems, you won’t have a problem with me.”
He touches my cheek, and my body instantly betrays me.
The memory of his face comes into my mind, along with a kiss—the one from last night and another from before. That was the one I dreamt about.
“Where do I know you from?”
“I told you, you shouldn’t try and remember me.”
“Why? You’re the only thing I remember,” I confess, and as the words leave my lips, I regret it. I don’t think I should have told him that.
“Is that so? How unfortunate for you.” He backs away.
“You said you wouldn’t hurt me.”
“I guess I must have lied.”


 

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

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She should have run away from me when she had the chance…

I was on a mission of retribution and vengeance:find my son then make my enemies pay for kidnapping him and killing my wife.

Then I met her.

Olivia made a big mistake when she tried to trick me.

I’m the leader of a blood-thirsty brotherhood.

In the Bratva the rules are simple:

An eye for an eye.A tooth for a tooth.Enemies will always be enemies.

Try to fool me, and you pay with your life.
Except this beautiful angel managed to enchant me.

So I make her my prisoner.A captive at the mercy of my desire.

One taste and I don’t want to let her go.One taste and I want to make her mine.

When danger comes knocking, our fates crash together.Locked in a web of deceit and betrayal.

Tangled in secrets and lies.I thought I had nothing left to lose.

Until my enemies take her.Love has no place for a dark soul like me.

But I’ll walk through the fires of hell to get her back.

••••••••

REVIEW:MERCILESS HUNTER is the fourth instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult DARK SYNDICATE dark, erotic, crime world, romance series. This is thirty-six year old, Bratva Pakhan of the Los Angeles Brotherhood Aiden Romanov, and twenty-six year old Olivia Markov’s story line. MERCILESS HUNTER can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion. MERCLIESS HUNTER is the introductory storyline to the next arc of the series.

NOTE: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Aiden and Olivia) MERCILESS HUNTER focuses on nine years after the destruction of Aiden’s life. Having ‘betrayed’ the Order Aiden would lose not only his wife but his infant son to an attack and fire that left so many dead. Fast forward to present day wherein a young woman set about to seduce our story line hero in an effort to locate her missing brother Eric. Enter Olivia Markov, and the woman with whom Aiden will fall in love. Olivia’s brother has been missing for close to five years, presumed dead in car crash, but Olivia suspects her brother is alive and is desperate for Aiden’s help. Olivia is an abused young woman who’s fiancé is deadlier and more evil than anyone could have imagined, and our heroine goes from one captor to another as she seeks to find the brother she has always loved. What ensues is the tempestuous relationship between Olivia and Aiden, and the potential fall-out as their time together comes to a close, and Aiden seeks revenge for betrayal at the highest order.

Aiden doesn’t do relationships having lost the only woman he would ever love. Olivia Markov is a broken young woman, who has sold her life to another man in an effort to protect the family she loves but secrets and betrayal run darker and deep, and Aiden is about to discover what he once thought was lost, may be alive and well. The Markov family lost everything and in the ensuing years, our heroine finds herself a prisoner and slave to a man who seeks to control everyone and more.

The relationship between Olivia and Aiden is predicated upon a lie as Olivia hopes to seduce our hero into helping locate her missing brother but with the help of his ‘brothers’, cousins and friends, Aiden will soon discover that all is not as it appears to be including the woman with whom he is falling in love. The $ex scenes are aggressive, dominant and seductive, and not without some questionable acts of consent.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including syndicate leader Massimo D’Agostino (Ruthless Prince 1), Dominic D’Agostino (Wicked Liar 3); Aiden’s cousin and Sovientrik Maksim, and bodyguard Ilya; Olivia’s fiancé Jude Kuzmin, her friend Amy; mob wife Percephone Falcione.

MERCILESS HUNTER is a story of power, control, betrayal and revenge. A tale of family, friendships, relationships and love. The premise is raw and twisted; the romance is aggressive, edgy and provocative; the characters are dramatic, tragic and intense.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Ruthless Prince
Dark Captor
Wicked Liar

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Reviewed by Sandy

“Where do we go from here? Where do we even start?”
That is the real problem. What do we do with this information?
“My best guess is that our next move should be to go to L.A. and find a way to see what Aiden Romanov knows,” Amy replies.
“But who can go?” Mom rasps. It’s another good question.
“I was thinking I could—” Amy begins but I cut her off by raising my hand.
“No. If your next words were to go to L.A. then it’s a no,” I answer and Mom nods.
“We are not putting you in any more danger,” Mom agrees.
“I don’t know what I would do if something happened to you,” I say. “Please tell me Jude won’t know you helped us.”
“No, he won’t. My contact works outside the realms of everything, and that’s why I didn’t use any of my devices at work or at home. He will never know.”
“Good. I think that’s it. You should stop helping now.”
“I can’t just stop helping. What are you going to do?” Her brows pinch and the worry I saw earlier in her bright green eyes intensifies.
What am I going to do?
That’s such a good question.
Eric’s in captivity, and if I marry Jude, the same fate awaits me. Marrying him will be the anchor to my hell.
I will be in captivity, and what do I think is going to happen to Mom?
If Jude can threaten my life so easily and tell me fucked up shit about not wanting something to happen to me after the wedding, what do I really think he’ll do to my mother?
If he can make my brother disappear for five years, can I be foolish enough to think worse won’t happen to me?
This is just the tip of the shit and…I have a really bad idea.
An idea which takes residence in my soul with each passing second. “I’ll go,”I say and they both look at me as if I’ve just lost my mind.
It’s laughable because I wonder the same.
Have I gone crazy?
Do I really think I can save Eric and change things?
Stop Jude?
Find Aiden and do what?
I have no plan and I’m just me.
Olivia Markov.
There’s nothing special about me.
But I’d sure as fuck prefer to walk in the valley of the shadow of death, in the lair of beasts, than sign my life away to Jude Kuzmin.
“No,” Mom blurts. “Olivia no.”
“Then what? What should we do? Leave things as they are? Leave Eric to die in captivity? You want me to marry Jude so he can accidentally kill me, then kill you?”
“Olivia it’s dangerous.”
“Don’t you think I know that.”
“Olivia, I have to agree with your mother,” Amy says. “Aiden Romanov is a very dangerous man, and we have no idea what the newly found Syndicate members are like.”
“You’re telling me this, and you were offering to go?”
“Eric is my friend. I just want to help.”
“You have babies.”
“I know, and I… I just feel bad I can’t do more.”
“You’ve helped enough.”
“But we’re stuck. How are you even going to escape? There are guards everywhere, and they’re with you twenty-four seven.”
And if I escape Mom’s dead. There must be a way around this.
When I think about yesterday when I saw Jude and the way he treated me I shudder inwardly.
He wants us to focus on that fucking wedding, and every time the word is mentioned I feel like I want to die.
I close my eyes and the thought of the wedding stirs an idea in my mind. An idea that just might work. My eyes snap open and I look at Amy and then at Mom.
“I think I might have come up with something. Something that will get me to Aiden Romanov.”

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

Dive in and enjoy her naughty page-turners.

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