Prologue Reveal
Transparent
(Luminous #2)
by
Erin Noelle
(Luminous #2)
by
Erin Noelle
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Cover: Furious Fotog
Cover Design: HangLe
Cover Model: Michael Federico, Model Madness, LLC
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.
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~ Prologue ~
(“Something I Can Never Have” ~ Nine Inch Nails)
UNKNOWN
The
day I turned fourteen, I tortured a man for the first time. Strung him up naked
in one of my dad’s warehouses. Gagged him so I didn’t have to listen to him
scream like the traitorous cunt he was as I cut off a different body part every
ten minutes. Just as I’d watched it be done numerous times over the past couple
of years.
First
were his hands and feet, each removed with a single swing of the new sword my
father had given me that morning at breakfast for my birthday. I remembered how
proud he and my uncles were of my clean, precise form, insisting we all toast
with a shot of Baikal vodka after each strike. The alcohol boosted my
confidence and conviction, and by the fifth time I walked into the seedy back
interrogation room, illuminated only by a flickering fluorescent light
hanging in the middle of the cracked ceiling, I felt like The Man himself—invincible,
immortal, and on top of the mafia world.
Another swift swipe of my gold-plated sword,
and the man was no longer a man, anatomically speaking. And when I brought his
pretty bride in to see him one last time, I demonstrated all the ways he would
never enjoy her again, brutally fucking every hole her body had
to offer, all less than a couple feet from him. His eyelids were stapled open,
forcing him to watch as she abandoned their vows and trembled with release on
top of my teenaged cock while I viciously pounded in and out of her.
Then,
as my family members—both blood and sworn by oath—had their way with her in the
next room, I brought my blade to the cockless bastard’s throat and whispered
the words “Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned” in my native tongue as I sliced
him from ear to ear.
The
entire warehouse erupted in cheers and applause as the lowest associates in my
father’s brigade rushed in to clean up the bloody mess before our women and my
school friends arrived for the actual birthday party.
I
may have been born into this powerful family by chance, but I would die in the Brotherhood by choice.
That
was over eighteen years ago, and though I’m now third in line to rule one of
the most powerful organized crime rings in the world, a lot changes when a boy
becomes a man. No longer am I interested in spending time filleting the scum of
the earth or fucking tainted whore pussy. No. I don’t waste my time on that
shit any more. I’m saving my wrath for the day the man responsible for the
murder of my wife and my brother, as well as a handful of others in my family,
stands before me to answer for what he’s done.
And
with the Lord above and the Demon below as my witnesses, I swear once I get my
hands on him, Vincent Ricci is going to wish with every fiber of his being that
I was still that fourteen-year-old boy who didn’t know what it was like to have
the most precious thing in the world taken from him. A boy who didn’t know the
fierce agony and mind-controlling rage that comes along with losing the person
you love most.
The
boss of the powerful Ricci Family of Chicago may have been able to evade me and
my men for the last two years, but finally, I have the one thing he desires
most of all. The one thing that will make him vulnerable and careless and
irresponsible.
And
she is currently bound to my bed.
Staring
down at her as she sleeps soundly, knocked out from whatever drugs they gave
her, I can’t help but notice the resemblance of her to my Darya.
Porcelain
skin. Thick, dark lashes resting peacefully on her high, prominent cheekbones.
Rosy lips so full and lush they beg to be kissed. I’m almost scared to see her
with her eyes open. Will she have those same blue sapphires that can…
I
stand up abruptly from the bedside chair and step toward the window, peering
out at the waves as they lap relentlessly along the rocky Pacific Coast,
laughing at myself for the absurd thoughts. Now is not the time to think about
lashes or lips or eye color. Now is not the time to adulate over my
prisoner—this American Princess, as
they call her.
She
is only the means to an end.
Because
now is the time for revenge.
See
where it all began……
~
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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~ 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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