Cruel Sanctuary (Wages of Sin #1) by Tara Leigh-Review, Excerpt & Giveaway Tour

CRUEL SANCTUARY
Wages of Sin #1
by Tara Leigh
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 25, 2019

They say New York City is the Devil’s Playground.
They’re wrong.
This city belongs to me.
And so does Aislinn Granville.

She is a pampered politician’s daughter.
A decorative ornament,
raised to smile and nod and do what she’s told.

Except… she doesn’t. Not with me. Ever.

In this city full of thugs and thieves, I’ve kept Aislinn safe.
From my enemies.
From me.

Until now.

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REVIEW: Aislinn Granville is a politicians daughter in New York City. She left her lucrative job at a political consulting firm to help her father (James Granville), a Manhattan district attorney running in the next election for mayor. Her and her father do not have the most amicable relationship but since it is her father she agrees. Knee deep in the campaign and it is brought to her attention that her father and his chief of staff (and her sometimes casual lover), Chat Lytton are not necessarily the men of moral that she had previously thought.

And now with a private conversation recorded and about to be leaked to the public, it’s a PR nightmare that even she can’t fix. That’s when they call in Damon King…

Damon King is always a last resort. Most who know of him, consider him the boogeyman of Manhattan. “Rumor has it, he’s a fixer in the same way the devil is.” When James Granville and his chief of staff get too greedy with their ambitions and start crossing the wrong people, specifically the Los Muertos cartel, things begin to go down hill – quickly. But Damon King has a price.

Will the price be something that James Granville will freely give? And will Aislinn ever fully understand what it means to be protected by Damon King.

Aislinn is a strong willed, strong minded, all business woman. She left her cushy job to join her fathers campaign – despite the fact that they have a strained relationship. Her whole world collapses when she finds out her father isn’t the moral man she believed him to be.

In fact he is on the take, just like every other crooked politician in New York. At first, Aislinn doesn’t believe that her life is in danger but as that quickly changes and is brought to light she finds sanctuary in the one man everyone else fears. She turns to the devil himself to protect her. And protect her – he will.

Damon King is the thing nightmares are made of. He is mysterious, lethal and completely under the radar, a boogeyman as they say. He was once a Wall Street broker but a deal gone wrong ended him up in prison. While there he swore to a cellmate to look after and protect Aislinn Granville. He has always been watching over her from a far. But now he can protect her the way she should be. But having her in his home proves to be quite a distraction. He soon comes to realize that she is not the pampered princess he thought her to be. He thinks he knows everything about her, but he doesn’t. She has secrets and darkness in her past. And she trusts him.

I absolutely loved this book, read it in two sittings. I loved everything about Damon. He was dark, and at times evil, but you knew there was good in him. I really enjoyed Aislinn’s character from the beginning of the book. She wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. She walks the walk. She is a powerhouse in and of herself, but what she truly needs is a powerhouse of her own. One that will allow her to let down her guard and take the reins for once.

The relationship between Aislinn and Damon is erotically wonderful. It pulls you in, you want more for them, you want them to open themselves to one another. And when you turn to the last page – you know you truly dared to dance with the devil.

I can not wait for book two in the series, and I highly recommend.

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Reviewed by Erin

“Put me down.” I keep my cool, making the demand as stiffly as if I’m asking him to pass the salt.But my show of composure crumbles as he angles his head to look at me. Barely an inch separates the tips of our noses. I stare, entranced by the fine scar that marks his left eyebrow. I want to kiss it.

“Or what?”

“Hmmm?”

One corner of his mouth tics up, his eyes flicking away from mine. “You look damn good in my arms.”

I follow his stare and am met by our reflection in the bathroom mirror. I blink, taking in the sight of my naked body held against King’s broad chest, the tanned, inked forearms I’d practically drooled over earlier now wrapped around my back and behind my knees.

I am naked. King is dressed.

There is something indecently erotic about our image. I look like the heroine of an old Harlequin novel—a down on her luck maid or secretary about to be ravished by her big, bad boss. A powerless woman soon to be stripped of her virtue.

I know what it’s like when a man overpowers a woman. When he uses force to take what’s not his. To hurt and abuse and terrorize.

And I know that this isn’t that.

It may not look like it, but I have the power in this situation. Damon King came to me. First at my apartment and now in his. He broke down two doors tonight.
I may be naked, but the only reason he’s touching me is because he knows I want him to.

Emboldened, I look away from our reflection and directly into King’s eyes again. Leaning in, I brush the tip of my nose against his. “Kiss me.”

I’ve barely pushed the words out when his lips are on mine. The taste of him is an explosion inside my mouth. Smooth and potent, but with a hint of mint. As if he swilled some of that Balvenie from his bar and then sucked on a peppermint candy.
He kisses like a conqueror. Stealing my breath along with the last of my reservations.

He kisses like a king. Staking his claim, demanding his due.

Tara Leigh is a multi-published author of steamy contemporary romance. A former banker on Wall Street, she graduated from Washington University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, but she much prefers spending her days with fictional boyfriends than analyzing financial spreadsheets. Tara currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with her husband, children, and fur-baby, Pixie.