Merciless Hunter (Dark Syndicate 4) by Faith Summers-Review Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 10, 2021
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.
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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
Copy supplied for review
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.
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