Hearts in Darkness AND Forever Freed by Laura Kaye
HEARTS IN DARKNESS by Laura Kaye-a review
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Re-RELEASE DATE: May 2013
Two strangers…
Makenna James thinks her day can’t get any worse, until she finds herself stranded in a pitch-black elevator with a complete stranger. Distracted by a phone call, the pin-striped accountant catches only a glimpse of a dragon tattoo on his hand before the lights go out.
Four hours…
Caden Grayson is amused when a harried redhead dashes into his elevator fumbling her bags and cell phone. His amusement turns to panic when the power fails. Despite his piercings, tats, and vicious scar, he’s terrified of the dark and confined spaces. Now, he’s trapped in his own worst nightmare.
One pitch-black elevator…
To fight fear, they must reach out and open up. With no preconceived notions based on looks to hold them back, they discover just how much they have in common. In the warming darkness, attraction grows and sparks fly, but will they feel the same when the lights come back on?
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REVIEW: HEARTS IN DARKNESS is the first published novel by author Laura Kaye and her most recent re-release of a stand alone novel. If you like a fast paced, one of a kind romance story with a quick friends to lovers to love premise HEARTS IN DARKNESS is the perfect read.
The premise focuses on Makenna James and Caden Grayson who are trapped in an elevator- no light and no power. Over the course of four hours Makenna and Caden play a game of twenty questions and learn more about one another than many couples who have dated for weeks. And in those four hours Makenna will learn that there is more to Caden than just tattoos and piercings. The man is a walking canvas of therapeutic ink and scars.
Hearts in Darkness is a fast paced, interesting storyline where most of the events occur in a four hour time period in the confines of a powerless elevator. Laura Kaye pulls the reader into the story using creative detail so that we too must feel our way around to understand the emotional turmoil and anxiety of being trapped. Like our couple, we are blind to the visual description of the characters and must slowly uncover the possibilities of what is to come.
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Reviewed by Sandy
FOREVER FREED by Laura Kaye-a review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release July 4, 2013
A heart can break, even one that no longer beats.
I stalk my new neighbors, a single mother and her child, drawn by the irresistible scent of their joy and love. I crave their blood, starved for some healing respite from my ancient guilt and grief. Now to lure them into my grasp.
But they surprise me. Little Olivia accepts me without fear–talking, smiling, offering innocent affection that tugs at my long-lost humanity. Her mother, Samantha, seeks me out when she should stay away, offering sweet friendship, and tempting the forgotten man within me. They lure me instead.
Ah, Dio, Lucien, run and spare them while you can..
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FOREVER FREED is a stand alone paranormal storyline by Laura Kaye. The premise focuses on vampire Lucien Demarco, a human woman Samantha Sutton and Sam’s daughter Olivia.
Lucien is a vampire who has fallen in love. Samantha is a human female, with a young daughter, and it is through Sam’s daughter that Lucien will first begin to lose his heart.
Living for decades, feared and ignored by humans, Lucien is overcome with emotions when one small young child opens her heart and her mind to a man who believes he is incapable of ever finding or being in love. With his immediate connection to Olivia, Lucien is overcome with need when he begins to believe that Samantha is the woman for him.
The storyline is told from Lucien’s POV. We learn about the loss of his first family; his entry into the world of the vampire; and the current vampires out for revenge for a crime against one of their own.
Lucien is a likeable character and a reluctant vampire. He is the ‘almost’ perfect boyfriend/mate/lover. His concern is for the safety of Sam and her daughter, but his presence in their life has made them a target for revenge.
The writing and storyline premise are simple. This is not a psychological drama or a study in the paranormal. Forever Freed is a sweet storyline of one vampire’s need to love and be loved and the woman who has opened his mind to a possible future. But it is also a story of forbidden love and the extremes and pressures of what one vampire will do to keep the people he loves safe from harm
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Reviewed by Sandy
The bedroom door had barely clicked behind me when Samantha grabbed and shoved me toward the bed. I fell backward, and she was on top of me, clawing at my clothes and ripping off her own. Whatever had been going on with her all day was now clearly finding a release.
With a groan, she reached a hand down between her legs and worked herself as she devoured me. When I realized what she was doing, I moaned and gripped her shoulders and rolled on top of her.
My fangs and release shot out at the same time. I growled and in a blur turned my head in search of my biceps. I missed the tender skin of her shoulder by a hair as the urge to bite down became irresistible.
