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293 pages, Paperback
First published August 9, 2016
"It's time for some rules?"
"Rules? What rules?"
"Hard rules. And hard rule number one is, no more lies."
"Blood divides as easily as it unites, especially when money and power are involved".
"She's my light in the storm of betrayal."
“I drink my coffee the way I see the world. Hash and brutal. And I drink my booze with a smooth kick, the way I try and face my adversaries.”
“I see it in your eyes.”
“Back to my eyes,” I say.
“Yes. Back to your eyes.”
“Stop looking.”
“I can’t.”
Those two words sizzle, matching the heat in his eyes…
“She’s a drug I could easily call an addiction when I don’t have addictions, and at a time I’d be nothing but poison to her. That’s a problem for her and me.”
She was strong, but also sweet and soft in all the ways this life, and my family, has made me hard.
HARD RULES was an extremely interesting & exciting & sexy romantic-suspense-mystery... Run to your nearest amazon to find out if there will be a HEA yet!!!
❝Yes and please. Remember those words and my name because I'm going to make you say them over and over again.❞
"Blood divides as easily as it unites, especially when money and power are involved."
“Who burned you, Emily?”
I blanch but recover with a quick, “Who says anyone burned me?”
“I see it in your eyes.”
“Back to my eyes,” I say.
“Yes. Back to your eyes.”
“Stop looking.”
“I can’t.”
"We are one in this moment, two people lost and found in each other, both of us fighting a battle the other understands in ways no one else can."
“Say nothing or tell me everything, but don’t lie to me.”
I don’t wanna be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. —Frank Costello
The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family's business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil.
Emily has a secret, the very thing that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret that could that destroy them both
"It's time for some rules?"
"Rules? What rules?"
"Hard rules. And hard rule number one is, NO MORE LIES."