The Enslaved Duet #1
Author: Giana Darling
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Blurb
It was the biggest day of my life.
I know most people say that about something joyous; a graduation, a wedding ceremony, the birth of their
first child. My situation was a little different.
Sure, it was my eighteenth birthday, but it was also the day that I was sold.
Sold to a man with hair like a crown of gold and eyes blacker than the darkest pits of Hell.
He bought me to own me, to control me, and to use me as a means to an end.
I was his tool and his weapon.
And through it all, somehow, I also became his salvation.
MY REVIEW
Where to begin? I am blown away!
This story started slow but intriguing and then
exploded into a suspenseful, steamy and titillating read I couldn’t get enough
of.
Captivating and enthralling, this book had me
ripping through the pages. I had to know what happened next. There were sharp
twists and turns that I did not see coming.
Simply spectacular and one of a kind. So much
more than I thought it could or would be.
“This is as give and take relationship, my
beauty. You give and I take.”
This is the story of Cosima, an
eighteen-year-old virgin who is sold as a sex slave, for a term of five years,
to Alexander Davenport, Earl of Thornton, to pay off her father’s debts.
Upon arriving to his estate, she is
indoctrinated into the BDSM lifestyle. He is her Master and she is his slave.
For a proud woman, this is untenable.
What does this Lord truly want with her? Will
she be able to submit to his every whim? She doesn’t have a choice and he
provides no answers.
I was lost to the story. It obliterated
everything I thought was going to happen. It put me on the edge of my seat not
daring to even guess at what would happen next.
I’ve never felt so much like I was at the edge
of a precipice while reading a book. This one, had me holding my breath fearing
how much worse it could get. Hoping it would get better.
This book pushed my boundaries and I was
uncomfortable at times. But, like our heroine, I pushed through and in the end,
it was more than worth it.
This story definitely has triggers and is not
for the faint of heart. It ends on a cliff-hanger that has me all but begging
for more!
I received an ARC of this book. All thoughts
and opinions are my own.
EXCERPT
I was locked in the dark but it was more than
an absence of light. It was the blackness of my own solitude, the quantum hole
at the center of my soul that was slowly sucking away at everything that made
me me.
I tried to write an encyclopedia of Cosima
facts to cement my sense of self in the chaos of night that had become my life.
Cosima Ruth Lombardi.
Born August 2nd 1998 in Naploi, Italia to
Caprice Maria Lombardi and Seamus Patrick Moore.
My favourite colour was wine red, captured in a
glass and held over rich, warm candlelight.
I loved poppies best of all flowers because
they reminded me of me in a way that was narcissistic but true. They were bold
as blood, stark against the softer colours of the traditional Italian
countryside. They demanded notice and received it. But their beauty was
short-lived and fragile as the thin silk of their petals. They fell to bits
within a week and scattered on the wind.
I felt very much like one of those black
centered blooms, falling apart with every breath I took without even one
witness to my dematerialization.
He wanted me like this.
Lost like decaying particles in a petri dish.
I didn’t have to hear his British accented
voice clipping the words into neat little explanations to understand why.
He wanted me broken.
A beautiful, hollow shell to break open and
f*ck into.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Giana Darling is a Canadian romance writer who specializes in the taboo and angsty side of love and romance. She currently lives in beautiful British Columbia where she spends time riding on the back of her man’s bike, baking pies, and reading snuggled up with her cat Persephone. She’s a lifetime athlete, playing and coaching basketball, soccer, field hockey, and softball, so she comes by her competitive spirit naturally. A born reader and self-proclaimed geek, she is enamored with mythology, history and all kinds of literature. Before becoming a romance novelist, she was a food journalist, a food blogger, a coach, a French tutor and the owner of a pie company. For the last few years she has been living all over Europe, mostly in her second home France, but she’s finally settled with the Love of Her Life in her hometown on an island off of Vancouver.
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