Review: Fast-paced, sexy, emotional and tender
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
A fast-paced, sexy, emotional and sometimes tender romp through the damaged psyche of two men who complement each other through their own flaws and deep desires.Dominic Scotto is heartbroken, having walked in on his lover with another man. A man he'd thought was out of his boyfriend Wes' life for good. Then things get even worse. He's knocked unconscious and wakes up bound to a chair with what looks a psychopath ready to carve him up.Smoke is an assassin--a very well-placed, well-respected assassin, but still a killer. And Dominic is his next target. Smoke wants some answers from Dominic about his father's empire and he's no averse to using violence and coercion to get them. But the son of the father has nothing to give. Instead he has to watch as he's slowly cut and sliced by Smoke in his efforts to draw out what he wants to know.Then things get a little...awkward. Smoke begins to realize that Dominic isn't all that averse to the torture he's inflicting, and in fact, it's having quite an effect on the young man. From that point on, things spiral out of control, certainly out of Smoke's as he struggles to come to terms with the conflicting feelings he has for Dominic.It's gritty, sexy and violent in some parts, as the two men face each other down, both with their own needs and desires, hot passion flaring and taking over as the walls each have built around themselves come tumbling down.The book is written well, the characters fleshed out so that you get to understand them and what makes them tick. If you fancy a bit of violence, cruelty, family drama and justice, ending with the culmination of these two men finding each other again, then you'll love this story.Reviewed by Susan Mac Nicolfor TheRomanceReviews.com