Review
Translucent
by
Erin Noelle
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Release Date: June 22, 2014
~ Synopsis ~
Sometimes you reach a point where you just can’t take any more – a breaking point some call it. The day I watched my husband murder the woman who was pregnant with his child, my point didn’t just break, it exploded like a magazine firing through the barrel of a fully-automatic AK-47. Literally. I am no longer his American Princess, nor am I his slave. Now, I’m a murderer in hiding. My name was Bryleigh Carter Oliveira and that was my story.
Translucent is one woman's story of breaking free, starting over, and learning to trust again through willful submission.
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~ Excerpt ~
Meet Bryleigh Carter…
Picking me up off the bed, Ish threw me over his shoulder and marched
out of the hotel room, into the pitch-black night. Scared speechless, I didn’t
make a peep as he strode into the small motel office and dropped me on the
floor. The male front desk attendant that had rented me the room had eyes as
big as saucers, obviously fearful of Ish and the scene unfolding in front of
him.
“Did you give her a room to stay in?” he demanded.
The older man nodded, taking a small step backwards.
“Don’t you fucking move, Gramps, and answer me when I ask you a goddamn
question.”
“Y-yes, I gave her a room,” he admitted in a cracked voice.
“Did she pay you with money, or did she fuck you for it?”
“She paid me with money, sir. I don’t run that kind of business.” The
man looked down at me huddled in a corner on the floor, and then back up at
Ish. “She never even offered that kind of thing.”
Ish stomped around to the back of the counter and held his hand out,
palm up. “She wants a refund. She’s not staying here tonight.”
Trembling, the man opened the cash register and pulled out some cash,
setting it in Ish’s hand. As he did, Ish grabbed hold of his wrist and twisted
it behind his back.
“Please…please don’t hurt me,” the man begged. “I didn’t know I was
doing anything wrong.”
“No, you probably didn’t, but she did,” Ish spat, his fiery eyes darting
over to me. “Princesa, did you know you were doing something
wrong?”
The growing sob that had
built in the back of my throat escaped as I nodded and said, “Yes, I did.”
“Well, someone needs to
be punished for your bad behavior to remind you not to do something like this
again.”
“Punish me, Ish,” I
cried. “That poor man has nothing to do with this. Please, let him go.”
He glanced over at the
man he held in a tight hold, and then back at me before releasing an evil laugh
that echoed loudly throughout the small room. “Sorry, Princesa, but I need you to be pretty for our
upcoming wedding.” Then, without warning, he pulled a long-bladed knife from
the leg of his pants and chopped the man’s hand clear off in one swing. I’m not
sure who screamed louder, me or the man, but within seconds, it was only my
high-pitched voice shrieking, because Ish took the knife and slit the man’s
throat, killing him instantaneously. Dropping the bloody body, he stalked
towards me, bent down to my level, and clamped his hand on top of my mouth.
“Quiet now, Bryleigh,
before you alert anyone else and I do the same thing to them. You don’t want to
be the reason anyone else dies tonight, do you?” he whispered in my ear.
Immediately, I stop
screaming, knowing damn well he would do exactly what he promised. “Now, that’s
my good Princesa,” he said, stroking my hair. “We should get
out of here. I’m going to carry you to the car, and I expect you to be
well-behaved.”
Lifting me from the dirty
tile floor, he carried me like a baby out to his car and placed me on the
passenger seat. Petrified of what was going to happen next, I sat as still as a
statue as he got into the car and drove north, back towards Chicago. He said
nothing the entire drive home, but once we were both inside the apartment, he
threw me on the bed and stripped me naked. Turning me over so that I was
face-down on the mattress, he yanked forcefully on my hips, raising them in the
air. He held tightly onto my hipbones as he viciously thrust himself into my
virgin ass—no warning…no lube…nothing. I shouted out at the intense pain, and
tears immediately began to stream down my face, but he didn’t stop thrusting
until he was buried completely inside of me.
Leaning over, with his chest pressed to my back, he said in low,
spine-chilling voice, “Anytime you fuck up, Princesa,
someone will pay the price, and I will make you watch as I administer the
punishment. You need to see the consequences of your actions, so don’t fuck up
again if you don’t want any more blood on your conscience.”
He then fiercely fucked me until he came deep inside my asshole. He
pulled out, not saying another word, then showered and left. I cried until I
couldn’t see, and passed out with exhaustion.
That was the only time I ever tried to run away, but sadly, not the only
bloodstains on my hands. It was only the beginning.
~ Review ~
This is the first book in the Luminous Series and WOW this
book was AMAZING!!!! This is not your
everyday, boy meets girl, they have their struggles and run off into the
sunset. Oh it starts that way, Bryleigh
and Ish, a young couple caught up in each other until the ugly horrific truths
of the man you fell for a revealed and you see he is nothing short of a
monster. Running off into the sunset….NO….Running
for your life!
When we meet Blake she is a shell of the girl she used
to be. Forced to start over in a new
place with a new name constantly looking over her shoulder out of fear. Making a new start and keeping a low profile
is her only focus, something to keep her mind off of the past she is still
running from. Her position at JDT
Graphic Designs will fill her days until she can retreat to the small apartment
and the safety of its walls.
That is until a business meeting turns her world upside
down in the form of Madden Decker. The
no nonsense business man who doesn’t do relationships since his heart was
broken. But one look at Blake and he is
drawn to her. He sees something in her
more than her beauty and he is determined to win her over at any cost.
Using his business relationship on more than one occasion
to turn things in his favor, Madden and Blake begin spending time
together. He notices her
self-destructive behaviors and her nightmares and wants nothing more to heal
her and make her his own. Revealing very
little about her past until necessary, Blake realizes that when she’s with
Madden she feels safe and because of that she lets her guard down and starts to
let him into her closed off heart.
But could that end up costing her…..her life?
The scenes described within the pages bring the
horrific, violent and degrading nightmares of Blake to life. I was scared for her and felt her pain and fear that she lived
with before fleeing her past. A wolf in
sheeps clothing describes Ish to a tee.
His little or no regard for life has you shuddering as you turn the
pages.
I was happy for Blake when she found some level of
happiness in being with Madden. All of
her attempts to dissuade him failing. She
thought all of horrible things that have happened to her and that she had lived
through would send him running from her without looking back.
This story will definitely take you on an emotional
roller coaster but it is definitely worth the ride. The end will leave you with the floor falling
out from under your feet. If you are anything like me, I was like,
OH NO!!! You CANNOT do this to me Erin Noelle!!! But she does and you can bet that I will be
waiting very impatiently to get my hands on the next installment Transparent,
releasing this Fall.
~ Rating ~
Get ready for ...........
Transparent
(Luminous #2)
by
Erin Noelle
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Editing: Kayla Robichaux
Release Date:
October 15, 2015
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~ Synopsis ~
Her elusive past didn't worry me,
Her heartbreaking scars never made me cringe,
And her haunting demons only made me a stronger man.
But the day Blake Martin was stolen from me,
I was scared to death.
Prepared to do anything necessary to get her back,
Little did I know it just might cost me my life.
My name is Madden Decker, and this is my story.
~ About the Author ~
Erin Noelle is a Texas native, where she lives with her husband and two young daughters. While earning her degree in History at the University of Houston, she rediscovered her love for reading that was first instilled by her grandmother when she was a young child. A lover of happily-ever-afters, both historical and current, Erin is an avid reader of all romance novels. In 2013, she published the Book Boyfriend Series, which included books Metamorphosis, Ambrosia, Euphoria, and Timeless, and recently published When the Sun Goes Down, a contemporary romance novel. Her books have been a part of the USA Today Bestselling list and the Amazon and Barnes & Noble overall Top 100.
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