Mari and Lila did it again … they gave us an interesting and tense story jam packed with mystery, love and some really hot sex. ~ Kitty, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
While on the trail of a madman, Antonio Starabba finds something unexpected—the killer’s next victims, tortured, in pain, but alive.
Leila and Karl are both members of The Masters’ Admiralty, the same powerful secret society Antonio is sworn to defend as a security officer—aka assassin. Rescuing them means letting the killer escape, and once they’re safe, Antonio is overcome with a deep need to protect them, and takes them to one of his family’s villas to rest and recover.
As the weeks pass feelings develop between the three of them, but there’s a problem. The killer is still out there, eluding capture, and he’s made it clear that his next victims will be Leila, Karl…and Antonio.
While I had a small problem getting into this story, it was definitely worth getting through those beginning chapters to the end of the story.
Antonio, Leila and Karl were definitely a force to be reckoned with and they proved their love for each other even though they thought they would never be placed in a triad together. But, it became impossible to deny just how well they worked together and what kind of benefit they will be to the Master’s Admiralty if they are kept together.
Antonio was one broody man. I wasn’t sure if he protecting Leila and Karl out of duty or if there was more to it than that. I wasn’t sure if he loved his family or despised everything about them. But, in the end, it all became clear.
Even though Leila and Karl met under the most extreme conditions, you knew that, somehow, they would end up together … whether it be from Stockholm Syndrome or respect, the belonged together. Along the way, Antonio became just as important to them as each other and there was no denying that they all belonged together.
Without giving away any of this story, I do have to say that this installment of the Master’s Admiralty was one of the most gruesome that I have read. Both Mari and Lila have written wonderful, suspenseful stories throughout both these series but nothing as descriptive as this one. Boy do they have some interesting imaginations. Now, the problem that I had in the beginning of Pleasure’s Fury was that it was very “wordy” and this is something that I am not used to with these authors. But, as the story progressed, it became clear why it had to be wordy. We would not have understood what was going through Antonio’s mind, why Leila was the way she was and just where Kurt fits in to this menage. And, again, Mari and Lila did it again … they gave us an interesting and tense story jam packed with mystery, love and some really hot sex.
4.5 stars
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