By: Maya Banks
Releasing
August 23, 2016
Avon
Avon
A mesmerizingly sexy tale of a strong, brilliant woman who encounters the one man who makes her lose all control.
#1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks continues her suspenseful and sizzling Slow Burn series with this fourth book—a mesmerizingly sexy tale of a strong, brilliant woman who encounters the one man who makes her lose all control.
Eliza Cummings fought free of a monster who terrorized her when she was an innocent teenager and helped put him away for good. She took a job with Devereaux Security Services and devoted every hour to taking down the very thing she’d nearly become. No one, not even those closest to her, know her darkest, shameful secrets. But now the killer has been set free on a legal loophole and it’s only a matter of time before he comes for her. Eliza's only choice is to run and lead the monster away from the people she loves.
Wade Sterling has always lived by his own rules, a law unto himself who answers to no one. He’s never professed to be a good man, and he’s definitely not hero material. Wade never allows anyone close enough to see the man behind the impenetrable mask—but one woman threatens his carefully leashed control. He took a bullet for her and the result was more than a piece of metal entrenched in his skin. She was under his skin and nothing he did rid himself of the woman with the courage of a warrior and who thinks nothing of putting her life before others.
But when Wade sees a panicked and haunted Eliza he knows something is very wrong, because the fool woman has never been afraid of anything. And when she tries to run, the primal beast barely lurking beneath his deceptively polished façade erupts in a rage. She may not know it, but she belongs to him. This time, Eliza isn't going to play the protector. She was damn well going to be the protected. And as long as Wade breathes, no one will ever hurt what is his.
Eliza Cummings fought free of a monster who terrorized her when she was an innocent teenager and helped put him away for good. She took a job with Devereaux Security Services and devoted every hour to taking down the very thing she’d nearly become. No one, not even those closest to her, know her darkest, shameful secrets. But now the killer has been set free on a legal loophole and it’s only a matter of time before he comes for her. Eliza's only choice is to run and lead the monster away from the people she loves.
Wade Sterling has always lived by his own rules, a law unto himself who answers to no one. He’s never professed to be a good man, and he’s definitely not hero material. Wade never allows anyone close enough to see the man behind the impenetrable mask—but one woman threatens his carefully leashed control. He took a bullet for her and the result was more than a piece of metal entrenched in his skin. She was under his skin and nothing he did rid himself of the woman with the courage of a warrior and who thinks nothing of putting her life before others.
But when Wade sees a panicked and haunted Eliza he knows something is very wrong, because the fool woman has never been afraid of anything. And when she tries to run, the primal beast barely lurking beneath his deceptively polished façade erupts in a rage. She may not know it, but she belongs to him. This time, Eliza isn't going to play the protector. She was damn well going to be the protected. And as long as Wade breathes, no one will ever hurt what is his.
Eliza Cummings is the hard core Alpha women of DSS
(Devereaux Security Services), Eliza has fought hard for her well deserved
position in the company as Dane's partner. But when the evil man, whom used
mind control to use Eliza as a pawn and a cover, while he torched and murdered
other women, is released from jail,
Eliza knows that she cannot allow him to live, but also
doesn't want to get anyone in her life caught up in her mess, so she says
nothing to know one, even when Wade Sterling gets in her face about trying to
get out of attending their friends art exhibit, Eliza doesn't crack, even
though he is the one person she has feeling for…its just a shame he hates her.
Wade Sterling is obsessed with Eliza Cummings, but she just
brushes him off, even after taking a bullet for he. But Wade is alarmed when
Dane asks him to check on her before her impromptu "vacation", and
finds her packing a huge arsenal. But she refuses to tell him what is going on,
and Wade is shocked to see fear in Eliza's eyes! And despite her pleading and head start, Wade
goes after Eliza. After all he is not going to allow Eliza to give up, even if
she doesn't feel like she deserves to live, after what she has done.
WOW! Maya Banks continually blows me away with this Slow
Burn series! And even though it is a romantic suspense based book, I absolutely
love the psychic abilities angle to these books; The author manages to write it
in such a way that these psychic phenomenon is acceptable.
If you have read any of the other Slow Burn books before,
you would have met both Eliza and Wade's characters. Now when it came to Eliza,
I would never have thought that she would have had such a devastating past; but
it doesn't surprise me that she is determined to protect her friends! Wade's
character was a bit of a mystery, but you can tell he honestly cares and wants
to protect Eliza and for that, you can't help but love him. Now don't worry,
you also get an update on all of the other DSS couples, even though they don't
feature as heavily in this book.
The writing is detailed, clean, smooth and everything I have
come to expect from Maya Banks. The plot is well thought out and detailed and I
think the author has managed to capture the true human nature of the public,
with how they treat Eliza's character, even though she was just a teenager when
this happened to her.
Once again Maya Banks has truly blown me away with the whole
Slow Burn series, but especially with With Every Breath! And I hope that this
series never ends.
I give With Every Breath 5 stars!
“Baby,” he whispered,
watching as her eyes became cloudy and then shiny with tears when he murmured
the endearment. As though she mattered to him. Didn’t she understand she was
the most important thing in the world to him? No, she didn’t. Not yet. But she
would. “Lay your burden down. It’s time to let someone carry it for you.”
He’d said it before
but this time it seemed to really register with her and hit home. For a brief
moment there was a spark of hope and so much yearning in her eyes that he
automatically squeezed her tighter in his arms.
She wanted to
lean on him. He’d seen that in her eyes right before defeat registered and with
it her loss of hope. She truly believed that no one could help her, even if she
wanted it. How to make her believe in him? How to make her believe that there
was nothing he wouldn’t do for her, to alleviate the pain and guilt in her
eyes, to permanently remove those bruising shadows?
Maya Banks is a multiple #1 USA Today and New
York Times bestselling author whose chart toppers have included erotic romance,
romantic suspense, contemporary romance, Scottish historical romances. She is
the author of the Breathless Trilogy, the Surrender Trilogy, the KGI novels,
the Sweet series, and the Colters Legacy novels.
She lives in the South with her husband and three children and other assorted babies, such as her two Bengal kitties and a Calico who’s been with her as long as her youngest child. She’s an avid reader of romance and loves to dish books with her fans and anyone else who’ll listen!
She lives in the South with her husband and three children and other assorted babies, such as her two Bengal kitties and a Calico who’s been with her as long as her youngest child. She’s an avid reader of romance and loves to dish books with her fans and anyone else who’ll listen!
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