Title: Hunter
Author: Blaire Drake
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Born into blood, I was a mafia princess. Raised in hiding, I was a Californian sweetheart.
The day my father sold my thirteen year old body to pay off a five year old debt was the day my mother stole me in the dead of night. She protected me as she was supposed to.
My father may have been the king, but my mother was the queen.
The mafia blood was hers.
That was ten years ago. Now… the devil was on the loose.
Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso was my father’s right hand man and the boy I’d loved since I could tie my own shoelaces. He was always the most ruthless and the most deadly of all the children.
He’d thought I was dead until the day his assignment was given: Kill Adriana and Alexandria Romano. Kill the princess, and definitely kill the queen.
What he didn’t know was that the queen was dead, and the princess had taken her throne.
Blood didn’t lie. It smeared, distorted, stained. But it didn’t lie.
My father was going to learn the hard way that the empire he’d stolen belonged to me.
And so did Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso.
Hunter is a white hot thriller with an exquisite combination of danger, sex and intrigue.
I have a thing for dark, dangerous men—especially when they are tied to the mafia. It’s like my lady bits just spontaneously combust. And Hunter happens to be a perfect read for spontaneously combusting parts, panties on fire, and danger afoot! I feel like I was swept away into the perfect movie. Hot, hunky men. Strong, gorgeous women. Adventure. Guns. Blood. Oh, yessssss!
Anyone who’s ever loved and lost, or been betrayed, will understand Adriana Romano. She is sassy and strong and doesn’t lay her heart on the line for anyone. Revenge is a dish best served cold, or in her case, in the cold.
When you fall in love with your best friend at an early age like Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso and that love is ripped from you in a split second, your life is forever changed. Until the day you are summoned to kill the person you love.
I am not sure I’ll even be able to adequately articulate my feelings about this book. It’s movie magic, it’s fast-paced and intriguing. It’s the kind of book you start and don’t look up from until you finish it. Then you look around and take a deep breath. Then, you click back and hope for more. Because by the end, you crave more. Just more.
Now Gaige, Angelo… maybe? Baby? Please??
~ Review by Heather
Hunter is the second book I have read of Blaire Drake’s and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was dark and twisted, hot and sexy, and oh so good!
Adriana is a kick-ass heroine. She is a mafia princess who is feisty and sassy and doesn’t take shit from anyone. After being taken away from her home when she was thirteen, she has lived a good life. But she still missed her Hunter.
Hunter aka Carlo was the first boy she ever loved. He protected her throughout childhood and when she disappeared, he was torn apart. With nothing to live for, he became her father’s assassin. He was a monster trained to kill anyone and everyone.
“The boy I’d once loved was now a monster. Nothing more than a cold-blooded killer.”
So what happens when Hunter is sent to kill Adriana and her mother, the Queen?
“It was fucking wrong. I shouldn’t have a goddamn hard on over her. I was supposed to kill her…Not kiss her and get a boner.”
I loved Adriana and Hunter together! They knew to how to push each other’s buttons which was just hot. This story had quite a few twists and turns, and you never knew who was on whose side. I couldn’t put it down! I definitely look forward to more from Ms. Drake!
~ Review by Tiffany
“Staying, are you? Figure it's easier to kill me in my sleep?”
Once again, he rubbed his hand across his face. He said nothing.
“Trying to work out whose life is worth more, right? Mine is probably worth a lifetime of comfort for you. Kill me and everyone's happy, right? My pathetic excuse for a father gets to keep his empire and you're taken care of for life.”
He looked at me, and his expression was a little tortured. I was being harsh. I knew that. But I needed to be. It was easier to provoke him and be angry with him than give in to the horrible ache that had settled in my heart.
“Adriana...” Weak. The word was weak.
I wanted to ignore the indecision on his face, but I couldn't.
He was considering it.
He really was.
I scoffed quietly at him and grabbed the gun from the coffee table. His mask and gloves fell to the floor, but he made no move to pick them up. The safety was on the gun, and I held it out to him. “Here. Take it. I don't care, Hunter. I don't have much of a life here in hiding anyway.”
He didn't even look at the gun. His silvery gaze never left mine. I wished he would look away, because in that gaze, I saw the Hunter I knew. The boy who once ripped his favorite shirt to stem the bleeding when I fell and cut my leg, then proceeded to carry me home. The boy who offered to pee on my foot when I got stung by a jellyfish in Mexico on vacation when I was seven.
The boy I loved before I knew what love even was.
“You're weak, Hunter,” I whispered. Slowly, I turned the gun back to me and touched the barrel to my temple the way he did earlier. His jaw clenched when my thumb edged toward the safety, and when my finger moved to hook around the trigger, he moved.
He was like a lightning bolt. He came at me like a flash, snatched the gun from my hand, and dropped it on the sofa. It bounced but stayed on the seat, and then he turned on me with blazing eyes. “Don't,” he ground out, his arms tensing and looking even bigger. “Don't ever fucking put that to your head again.”
“Why? I was saving you the job.”
The words had barely left my lips when he pounced on me. It was deadly, the way his hands clasped my face and his mouth descended on mine. I staggered back into the wall, gasping at the ferocity of his movement. Shock paralyzed me as he kissed me harshly. His tongue ran along the seam of my mouth, and as I fisted the sides of his shirt, I bit his lower lip.
A low growl left his throat, but he didn't relent. He just kissed me harder. He kissed me until I was fucking spinning and could barely string two thoughts together. Until my whole body was alight with his touch and responding to his every movement.
He tasted like whiskey. The strong, rich taste that lingered on his lips was heady and only added to the intoxicating way he touched me.
And then... It hit me. He was touching me. Kissing me.
Twenty minutes ago, he could have killed me.
Blaire Drake is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author who wanted to think outside her box and write the kind of things that would shock even them. She loves taboo romance and pushing boundaries in her work. She also enjoys long walks on the beach at sunset, as long as it’ll be followed by a good, old-fashioned spanking right after.
DEAR PROFESSOR is her debut standalone novel, and her next book, PRETTY PORNSTAR, is also a standalone novel that promises to be equally as taboo and sexy.
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