Savage Love (Savage Trilogy 3) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review & Excerpt Tour
SAVAGE LOVE
Savage Trilogy #3
by Lisa Renee Jones
Release Date: April 21,2020
Genre: adult,contemporary, erotic, romantic, suspense
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date: April 21, 2020
The third and final book on the Savage Trilogy…
They say all is fair in love and war, but I really don’t give a damn about fair. In fact, when protecting those I love, fair is the last thing on my mind. Because they also say all is fair in love and war. Now that I’m back in Candace’s life, those who have used her to try to control me, may well put up a final fight, but they will not win. They will lose and badly.
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REVIEW:SAVAGE LOVE is the third and final instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult SAVAGE erotic, romantic suspense trilogy focusing on former Green Beret and Walker Security specialist Rick Savage, and architect Candace Marks. The SAVAGE trilogy is a spin-off from the author’s NAKED and Dirty Rich series with the appearance of several characters from the author’s Walker Security series. SAVAGE LOVE should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one SAVAGE BURN. Lilah Love and Kane Mendez from the author’s Lilah Love series cross over with the current time line.
NOTE:If you have not read books one and two, there may be spoilers in my review.
SOME BACKGROUND: Eight years earlier Rick Savage destroyed Candace Marks’ heart when he sent a ‘Dear Candace’ letter while on assignment overseas but what Candace never knew was that Rick Savage was recruited by a covert CIA black ops unit, a unit whose former members are now in prestigious and powerful places in the US government. When a debt is called in, Rick Savage must face the inevitable including the woman whose heart he destroyed.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Rick and Candace ) SAVAGE LOVE follows in the wake of an attempt on Candace’s life, and the continuing investigation into the people and persons targeting our couple including the possibility of Candace’s current yet former fiancé. While Rick calls in help from Walker Security, Candace must make preparations to face the man who has quite possibly ordered her death. With her father missing in the Middle East, and her fiancé making a run for political office, our heroine struggles with issues of trust, including the man with whom she is still in love. What ensues is the continuing rebuilding relationship between Candace and Rick, and the potential fall-out as best laid plans fail when an unknown combatant / assailant enters the picture.
SAVAGE LOVE is the culmination of three instalments focusing on the who, how and why of Rick’s disappearance and his estrangement from the woman he loves; on the political machine that is US politics; and on the power, control and financial gain of murder, espionage, war and love. Lisa Renee Jones pulls the reader into an impassioned and spicy story that will captivate and seduce.
One final observation, with the appearance of Lilah Love and Kane Mendez, I am hoping their particular part of this story continues in the next chapter of the Lilah Love series or has a resolution in another series. As I have not read the fourth instalment in the Lilah Love series, I do not know if any of the Savage Trilogy has crossed over to the other side.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Savage Hunger
Savage Burn
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
Hugging her close, I hold her like this moment is it, like this is the last time I might ever hold her again. I kiss her just the same, like I will never kiss her again. I’ve never kissed her with that kind of desperation before now, and not because I didn’t love her. I just always took for granted that tomorrow would come. And I always intended to come back, but I didn’t and now I know, shit happens. People die, tomorrow is not always guaranteed.
She knows this kiss is different, too. It’s in the way she kisses me back, the way she twists her fingers around my T-shirt. In the way she jerks back, parting our lips, searching my face. In the intensity of her green eyes when they meet mine, the sudden parting of lips, now swollen from my kiss, at what she finds, she orders, “Do not kiss me like this is goodbye, Rick Savage, damn you.”
She tries to dislodge herself from my grip but I hold onto her. “Don’t run.”
She gapes. “Run? Me? I’m not the one who ran.” I physically flinch with those well-deserved words, but she’s not done. “If you want to say goodbye, just say goodbye, Rick.”
“I’m not saying goodbye, Candace.” I catch her hair around my fingers and drag her gaze to my unguarded gaze. I let her see the torment in me. I let her see the guilt. I let her see the dark need in me that isn’t going away like I’m not going away. “This is not goodbye,” I repeat. “This is me making sure that you’re properly kissed, fucked, licked, and loved, the way you deserve to be.”
“It feels like goodbye.”
“No, and one day you’ll trust me enough to know that a dark night doesn’t take us there again. I promise you, you will. Soon.”
“How soon?”
“New York. It’s going to change everything.”
“Can we go now?” she asks hopefully, but we both know we can’t. We both know we have to see tomorrow out.
“I wish we could, baby. I wish we could.”
My mouth slants over hers, my tongue licking deeply, possessively and I make sure every answer she wants is right there in this kiss. I make sure she knows that I’m not fucking living another day without her. She moans into my mouth and when my hands settle on her spine, she arches into me. I rotate her toward the couch, pressing her against the back, my hands finding that soft smooth skin under her T-shirt.
Goosebumps lift on her skin and I tear my mouth from hers. “You have always been exactly what I need.”
“Am I?”
“Oh yes, baby. You are. I felt you even when you weren’t with me. Every day I was away, I felt you. I missed you. I needed the hell out of you.” I catch the hem of her shirt and toss it, my gaze lowering to her breasts, my fingers tracing the swell above the black lace of her bra, then finding her nipple through that lace.
She sucks in a breath and catches my hand. “Rick, I—”
“God, I love when you say my damn name…”
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.
In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling the bestselling DIRTY MONEY and WHITE LIES series. And will be publishing the first book in her Lilah Love suspense series with Amazon Publishing in March 2018.
Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on Twitter and Facebook daily.
