Review: another cracker from a fab series (stand alone)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
Mine To Crave, Cynthia EdenReview from Jeannie Zelos Book reviews.Cynthia is a prolific author, and yet oddly until reading the first in this series I'd never read any of her works...anyway – I love this series. Great blend of drama and action, plots that feel genuine, without becoming too detailed and boring as some suspense novels do to me, mixed with fabulous, realistic characters and some erotic, spicy, sensual sex scenes.Drake – we met him in previous books as a somewhat shadowy figure, though all three men, Drake, Trace and Noah are very close and always have each others backs. Drake is scarred as regards women, let down by a previous lady long ago who caused lots of problems, and even though she's now dead she's still causing grief for him. He runs a chain of casinos, very successful, and he's gone far beyond the promise he made to himself as a child when he had nothing. He's strictly a one night only, hot sex, no relationships man, but then he sees Jasmine one evening in his club and there's something that pulls at him however hard he tries to avoid it.Jasmine has had a bad past, and has lived on the edge of danger for some years now just trying to earn a living. Drake catches her trying to steal information from him, and wants to know who she's working for. She's not going to tell, she can't or she knows she'll be killed. They have a back and forth dance where they give in to the steaming attraction sizzling between them, and then something happens and Jasmine is either running off or taken by those who want to hurt/use her. Her enemies seem to be stacking up, and its hard to know who's behind each move.  Its a gripping journey through danger and betrayals, ghosts from the past affecting the present, and people who are not what they seem.As ever Drake enlists the help of Trace and Noah, against their advice he can't seem to let Jasmine go, and though she needs to leave she has problems going too....but the dangers start getting more and more real, coming from different directions and the action doesn't seem to stop. They're pulled together , sensational when they meet and yet as ever there are misunderstandings, and their individual pasts that have taught them not to trust shadow how they feel about each other. Its so hard to say anything without spoiling the story, but its full of surprises, and there's all the deep drama and emotion that I love so much. I enjoy suspense novels when they're like this, focussed very much on the main protagonists, with a very personal story running through and of course some hot and spicy sex :)It's priced at 1.86 for 280 pages on kindle, and one that will join the keeper files.Stars: Five. This would make a cracking series to read they way I love, back to back so I can follow the characters through.ARC supplied by Netgalley