Title: Shadows & Lies (Shadows, #1)
Author: Eden Butler
Genre: Romantic Suspense | Mystery
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Author: Eden Butler
Genre: Romantic Suspense | Mystery
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Synopsis
One lie can change your life.
A web of lies can destroy it.
Neil Ryan was a good Navy SEAL. He was an even better detective, but when an unmarked envelope lands on his desk, long-buried secrets are resurrected and Ryan questions everything he thought he knew about justice, including who killed his mother.
Alex Black is a distraction Ryan doesn’t need—she’s loud, obnoxious and a common thief, but her eyes are haunting, her lips irresistible and Ryan happens to love her filthy mouth.
Alex is also the only one able to help Ryan find the leads he's missing. She's the only one who can lead him to the one person who has the answers he seeks, but following her could cost Ryan everything.
Secrets get told, lives get wrecked and in every shadow, the truth is hiding.
MY REVIEW FOR SHADOWS & LIES:
More Neil Ryan, is most definitely- not a bad thing!! Eden sure knew what she was doing when she started this series. While most of her books have been strictly romance, this one leans more toward the suspense of the story, than the romantic relationship in it. And believe me, that is most certainly okay. Ryan and Alex, are quite literally- from two opposite ends of the spectrum. They're not two people that you would ever imagine to be together, nor would you ever think to even try to pair them together. But they totally work.
Ryan, in all of his protective bad ass ways, is the one man who seems to have Alex's best interest at heart. He's the one person who isn't trying to use her for his own personal gain, but instead wants to help her just as much as she can help him. They have a completely equal partnership- no one really comes out better than the other, and I think that's why they work so well. He doesn't solely classify her as a criminal, and she doesn't only think of him as a former cop.
And, while there isn't a ton of steamy scenes in the book, it does not take away from the awesomeness at all. The scenes that are there, have plenty of steaminess to give the visualization of the intense desire of these two. So, you really don't miss too much. The real story is about their characters, and the continuation of the mystery behind Ryan's mother's death and Dot's disappearance.
I'm definitely looking forward to getting more from this series, and commend Eden for this amazing book!! 4 stars!!!
Ryan, in all of his protective bad ass ways, is the one man who seems to have Alex's best interest at heart. He's the one person who isn't trying to use her for his own personal gain, but instead wants to help her just as much as she can help him. They have a completely equal partnership- no one really comes out better than the other, and I think that's why they work so well. He doesn't solely classify her as a criminal, and she doesn't only think of him as a former cop.
And, while there isn't a ton of steamy scenes in the book, it does not take away from the awesomeness at all. The scenes that are there, have plenty of steaminess to give the visualization of the intense desire of these two. So, you really don't miss too much. The real story is about their characters, and the continuation of the mystery behind Ryan's mother's death and Dot's disappearance.
I'm definitely looking forward to getting more from this series, and commend Eden for this amazing book!! 4 stars!!!
“I’ve never seen you cruel before. Didn’t know you had it in you, Boy Scout.”
“You know, lady,” there was a hum in my voice I didn’t recognize. Alex had put it there with just the low dip of her gaze, “you got all these ideas that you know me. You don’t.”
“Ditto.”
Her eyes moved with the shake of my head, following the slow nod, the moment becoming something tactile, obvious as the heating air between our bodies that dampened our skin. Two looks, two held breaths and something had shifted. Hell, who was I kidding? It had started, brewing, way back, the second I grabbed her arm, stopping her from taking that wallet. It simmered when she snuck onto my balcony asking for my help. Now it crackled—that attraction, the symmetry in the breath that mingled between her mouth and mine.
“Alex?” It was only her name falling from my mouth that moved her gaze off my lips, a small glance that was all the answer she’d give me. “I’m not a fucking Boy Scout.”
There are times when you can’t think. Those are the clustered moments when the energy, the zing of the moment you’re in breaks apart any awareness you have. There is no logic in the swell of sensation or the liquid heat that drives one body closer to another. It’s the feel of warmth, the hope of touch that pulls you in no matter what your brain tries to make you understand about right and wrong, friend or foe. I wasn’t supposed to touch Alex Black. I wasn’t supposed to see her as anything but a mission. I was supposed to find her stalker and keep her safe.
But I had always done what was expected. Seems she had to, as well. The difference was that my expectations fell on the side of justice. Hers ran along the tracks of corruption. Both meant we survived however we could.
I didn’t think about the case or what had brought her to me in the first place, and what kept her coming back to me. I reached for her because I knew that’s what we both wanted. I touched her because she let me and once I had her against my chest, felt the smooth brush of her fingers on my neck, sensation shattered judgment.
The last sound I heard before I kissed her was the strangle of laughter falling into a moan. Hers, not mine. Alex was a woman—beautiful, sensual, parts that went in and out just like they’re supposed to, but she did not kiss me like any other hesitant, docile woman I’d ever touched.
She touched me like she was still hungry, like the meal we had just shared had not filled her. Like nothing would.
When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden edits, reads and spends way too much time watching rugby, Doctor Who and New Orleans Saints football.
She is currently living under teenage rule alongside her husband in southeast Louisiana.
Please send help.
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