Book Description:
This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger.
Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her.
Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish.
Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her.
One hour before I said I do--I vowed I'd never shed a tear over her death.
But the minute we were pronounced man and wife--I knew.
I'd only use my gun to protect her.
I'd give my life for hers.
I'd cry.
And I would, most definitely, lose myself, to a dying girl---a girl who by all accounts should have never been mine in the first place.
I always believed the mafia would be my end game--poisoning my heart, while it claimed my soul. I could have never imagined. It would be my redemption.
Or the beginning of something beautiful.
The beginning of her.
The end of us.
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Empire (#7) ~ releases 31st May
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars
“I’ll love you…until we both
shall live.”
This is a series that I have had on my radar for an age.
Unfortunately, when I discovered it I was already so many books behind I couldn’t
find time to go back and catch up and because I am a bit anal I like to read in
order. However, a friend of mine said, you need to read this book and it can be
read as a standalone, nothing was catching my attention on my kindle so I
downloaded and dived in. Five hours later with my emotions all over the place I
was stunned into silence. What a book, I seriously adored this book, everything
about it and now I have to try to put into words why you should read it too.
“Her marks were for love; mine
were for death. She thought it was hilarious; it just made me feel like a bit
of a monster.”
For me, what made this book was the heroine Andi. Andi was
the best heroine I have read about in a long time. Too many books these days
have weak women and Andi is anything but. She is emotionally and mentally
strong and physically she can dump a trained assassin on his ass. But more than
her inner and outer strength was her character, she was infectious, she was
contagious, she brought light to the pages and to everyone around her, you
couldn’t help but smile when reading about Andi. Her propensity to love and see
the best in everyone was utterly infectious and you couldn’t help but love her
in return.
In truth, Andi had nothing to smile about, she has Leukaemia
and is staring death in the face. Her family want her dead and to protect
herself, she is marrying into the Italian mafia, to a man that doesn’t want to
either, but a man that will protect her with his life none the less. Andi was
the daughter of the head of the Russian Mafia, he had connections everywhere
and having a daughter in the FBI was more than embarrassing, that embarrassing
her life was expendable.
“When I said I’d protect you with
my life, I meant it. So stop being such a damn martyr and for once in your life
let someone save you.”
Both Sergio and Andi had worked for the FBI and between the
FBI wanting them dead and Andi’s father these two had a mountain to climb just
to stay alive. Sergio was quiet and aloof but there was no denying his strength
and power, it oozed from very page. He was quite the enigma but as Rachel Van
Dyken weaves their story the real Sergio slowly makes his way to the surface.
With a woman like Andi by his side Sergio has no choice but to thaw, with Andi’s
demeanour and bright outlook on life and love she had the capacity to melt even
the most frozen of hearts and Sergio’s was positively arctic.
“She smelled like lilacs; her
skin was perfection; her laugh was warmth. And I was screwed.”
This book had the best dialogue I have read in a long long
time. With a woman literally fighting for her life you would expect the book to
be dark and relatively depressing but Andi is seriously hilarious. She lets
nothing faze her, her positivity, her sense of humour, just everything about
her makes you smile from ear to ear. As much as I cried while reading this book,
I laughed even harder, sometimes I had tears from both mixing at the same time.
Yes, it is emotional but at the end of the day enlightening at the same time.
“Don’t encourage the communist.”
Sergio, I adored him. He was hard to warm up to in the
beginning, but he had his reasons and soon even his cold heart began to thaw in
Andi’s presence. Sergio really stepped up to the plate and took his job of
protecting Andi extremely seriously, what he didn’t expect though was to fall
in love. But really…this was Andi he was protecting, he never stood a chance.
The chemistry between these two was palpable, Sergio’s hesitance and reticence
to put himself out there oozed from the page but Andi has stolen his heart
before he even knew it was missing. This was a beautiful love story from
beginning to end.
“And yet, there I was, facing a
fear, doing something I swore I would never do. Hell, I would have rather died.
So yeah. It was love. Because it couldn’t be anything else.”
Rachel Van Dyken delivers a heart breaking yet heart-warming
story that will have you laughing and swooning while still heaping suspense and
intrigue into the mix. This was a story that I couldn’t put down and a story
that held me captive from first to last page. A story where I was so
emotionally invested in this couple and this group as a whole that I lived and
breathed every word, every scenario and experienced every single emotion along
with them. This is a story that will leave you stunned into silence as you
appreciate what you have just read and will just leave you wanting to be a
better person and make a difference. Live life, be an Andi.
“I’m exactly where I want to be. I
just never knew it…until now.”
I cannot wait for Empire that is scheduled for release on 31st
May and continues Sergio’s story, after all, this man is that good he deserves
two books, however with regards to this book, this chapter in his life is
complete. Now I have to go back and read all the others. This family, these
brothers are infectious and now I fear I won’t be able to get enough of them.
Amazing job Rachel Van Dyken, you nailed this one and this is one story and two
characters that I will never forget.
“I was your punishment.”
“Wrong…you were my gift.”
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