“Cold Cole Heart”–Review

I am vengeance. I am rage. I am death. And…

I am coming for her.

Cold Cole Heart is a dark romance story of Cole Heart, a former Navy SEAL who had spent four months as a prisoner of war in Egypt. Four months of physical, mental, and sexual violence, including starvation, had taken every ounce of Cole’s sanity. He vowed to take down Anta, the self-proclaimed queen of Egypt, who thrived on punishing him and having his men killed. But Cole made a mistake. Instead of slowly punishing her like he wanted, he killed her in an instant.

A decade later, Cole is no longer the same man before those months as a POW. His PTSD has left him with anger and vengeance. He had already tortured and killed five women who all apparently resembled Anta. Now he’s down to one more. When he finds woman #6, he promises she will pay.

What Cole doesn’t know about Natalie, the sixth woman, is that she knows trauma just as much as he. After her mother died, she was all alone, but then her cousin, Alan, offered his home to her. She felt so welcomed, felt she finally had some family. Until one night, when Alan’s true colors emerged. But now Natalie is Cole’s prisoner, his version of Anta. While Cole promises he’ll kill her slowly, like the way Anta slowly tortured him, Natalie tries to figure him out, almost fearing him yet feeling drawn to him.

I’ve read K. Webster’s Pretty Little Dolls series and really enjoyed it, and I finally got around to reading this excellent standalone. The storyline drew me in, and there are plenty of intense moments. One scene in the middle of the book made me look away and cringe for a bit because it was too graphic. Still, I read on, especially because these two are so messed up, and I needed to know how far they were going to go. I didn’t expect that plot twist later in the story, either, but I think the author did a good job. Dark romance fans ought to indulge in this one. Brace yourselves! Feel free to post your comments. Happy reading!

Warning: This story contains graphic physical, mental, and sexual violence.

About the author: K. Webster is the USA Today bestselling author of nearly 70 romance books in many genres, including contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance, dark romance, romantic suspense, taboo romance, and erotica romance. For more info, click here.

“One Dead Girl”–Review

Good evening, bloggers, and Happy New Year! I hope everyone is well. Lately, I’ve been a slow reader, but I’m happy for having the opportunity to read One Dead Girl. I just finished it, earlier, so here’s the description:

Eighteen-year-old Sita is a ghost, although she has no idea how she died. Her new afterlife consists of her attachment to her grieving boyfriend, Ash. Sita may be a ghost, yet she learns she has no choice but to follow Ash throughout his daily life, or haunt her killer. But she doesn’t know who the killer is.

Every day she watches Ash grieve, Sita tries to connect with him, all the while thinking back to their life together, about a future they had planned. While Sita works hard to hold onto him, Ash’s beautiful co-worker, Emma, enters the picture, posing a threat to what Sita no longer has. As time passes, Ash starts to feel the possibility his home is haunted, thanks to Sita’s presence. Will she ever know who killed her? If she does, what will become of her ghost?

This story had quite a few surprises I didn’t see coming. With all the people in Ash’s life who weren’t exactly fans of Sita, I wondered what their deal was. Poor Ash was overwhelmed with grief, yet no one was helping his cause. But as I got closer to the end of the story, it all changed. When I read the ending, I said, “That’s messed up.” For fans of supernatural fiction, pick up this copy. Feel free to post your comments. Happy reading!

*Thank you to the author, Kristen Tru, for this review copy! You can find her Instagram.