Wicked Knight (Sins & Saints 3) by Faith Summers-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 4, 2024

My villain, my monster, my Wicked Knight…
Never make a deal with the devil.
It will blow up in your face.
Just like fire, you will get burned.
I signed a contract that was supposed to protect me.
Then it fell into the wrong hands.
His—Dmitri Valneko aka the guy who’s forbidden to me.
He was my boy next door.
Until the family feud that tore us apart.
I knew things would get harder the moment we started college.
And they did.

At Raventhorn University, home of the Knights, one of the most powerful secret societies, Dmitri is a god.
He’s a star athlete and an unrivaled heir to the empire.
He gets whatever he wants.
Including me.
Even when we’re supposed to be off limits to each other.

I should try to fight him. Our past is too dark and ugly.
I should try be free of his terms and conditions. But he wants to consume me.
If our parents find out we’re together there will be consequences I don’t want to face.

But…
One kiss and he has me melting in the palms of his hands.
One touch and I want him to keep me forever.
And every time we meet I know I won’t say no.

But what happens when dark secrets, including our own, begin to threaten our lives?
And our forbidden love.

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REVIEW: WICKED KNIGHT is the third instalment in Faith summers contemporary, new adult SINS AND SAINTS dark, erotic, Mafia bully romance set in the author’s Cruel Lies/ Cruel Promises world, as well as the author’s Raventhorn Academy and Dark Syndicate worlds. This is sophomore Dmitri Valneko, and Mackenzie Domachenkov’s story line. WICKED KNIGHT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

SOME BACKGROUND: Raventhorn University is a prestigious and time-honored private school for the family and children of the criminal underworld. The ruling secret society of Knights controls every aspect of the university including the lives and futures of the ruling elite.

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

Told from dual first person perspective (Dmitri and Mackenzie) WICKED KNIGHT follows the building but forbidden relationship between Dmitri Valneko and Mackenzie Domachenkov. A few years earlier the Valneko and Domachenkov families were destroyed by the death of Dmitri’s older brother Tommy, a death blamed on someone they knew. With the family at odds, a relationship between childhood friends Dmitri and Mackenzie was strictly forbidden but Dmitri wanted Mackenzie to claim as his own. Mackenzie knew that the possibility of a future with Dmitri would be stopped before it began but the young lovers wanted something that could end their lives.Struggling to keep their relationship a secret, Dmitri and Mackenzie battled between head and heart as threats of another nature turned deadly and dark.

The world building follows several pathways including the power of the ruling secret society as it takes aim at the Domachenkov family; and places the next generation in the direct line of fire. The past is slowly revealing a truth long buried and dead, a truth that will threaten our story line heroine.

The relationship between Dmitri and Mackenzie is a friends to forbidden lovers. Dmitri’s father refuses to accept Dmitri’s relationship with Mackenzie Domachenkov, and in this, past memories slowly surface as to what happened and why. Mackenzie finds herself often on the outside looking in, pining for a man she has loved from afar. The $ex scenes are intimate and impassioned without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters included the return of Lucian and Eilish, Kade and Isabelle; Aleksander Ivanov, as well as the introduction of Mackenzie’s father Adrian Domachenkov , and Dmitri’s father, chancellor of Raventhorn Maxim Valneko.

WICKED KNIGHT is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, dysfunctional families, desperation and love. The premise is dramatic, captivating and engaging; the romance is provocative and seductive; the characters are broken but determined and charismatic.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Vicious Knight
Devious Knight

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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.

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