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RELEASE DAY BLITZ: CONVICTED (CONSEQUENCES #3) by ALEATHA ROMIG

October 8, 2013

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Convicted (Consequences 3)

By: Aleatha Romig

Self-published

Release Date: October 8, 2013

Genre: Psychological Thriller/Contemporary Dark Romance

BLURB:

There were still lessons to learn and consequences for the truth!

When Claire Nichols met Anthony Rawlings, she didn’t know they had a past, or that he had plans for her future. Over time, the role of teacher changed—games became reality—and domination turned to desire. Despite an insurmountable history, Claire and Tony found their way back to one another.

Just when they seemed to have it all—love, respect, and the promise of a family—the game master exposed the truth. Claire’s world once again spun out of control. Unwilling to allow her child to suffer the consequences of an old vendetta, Claire fled…

At one time, Claire was held captive in an opulent mansion—then her incarceration was a cell inside a state penitentiary. Was her new prison—a tropical island—truly less lonely? Perhaps that was the game master’s plan, all along?

Who will save Claire from her oldest nightmare and her newest reality? Will it be Tony? Can he forgive her for leaving him—again? Harry? Will he utilize previously unknown connections to save the woman who infiltrates his thoughts? Maybe Phil? Will his devotion in keeping Claire and her child safe be rewarded?

As the cards are played—sins of the past, innocent victims, and truths are revealed. With compartmentalization no longer an option, is the reality too much? Could there be an even worse isolation?

With the game master dealing from a stacked deck, can this new high-stakes game possibly be won?

When it’s all over and their cards are on the table—SOME will discover their bets were too high—they have nothing left to lose—ALL will learn the crucial lesson—the most important rule—there are CONSEQUENCES for the TRUTH!

Aleatha Romig’s CONVICTED!

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Aleatha Romig is a bestselling author, who has been voted #1 “New Author to Read” on Goodreads July 2012 – Present! She was also #9 most followed author on Goodreads – July / August 2013.

Aleatha has lived most of her life in Indiana growing-up in Mishawaka, graduating from Indiana University, and currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of twenty six years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include exercising, reading and creating heroes/ anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!

Aleatha enjoys traveling, especially when there is a beach involved. In 2011 she had the opportunity to visit Sydney, Australia to visit her daughter studying at the University of Wollongong. Her dream is to travel to places in her novels and around the world.

CONSEQUENCES, her first novel, was released August 2011 by Xlibris Publishing. October 2012 Ms. Romig rereleased CONSEQUENCES as an Indie author. TRUTH, the sequel, was released October 30, 2012 and CONVICTED, the final installment of the Consequences Series, release today, October 8th, 2013!

Aleatha is a “Published Author’s Network” member of the Romance Writers of America and represented by Danielle Egan-Miller of Brown and Miller Literary Associates.

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Categories : Book Launch, Contemporary Romance, Dark and Twisty, Romance, Romantic Suspence Tagged : Aleatha Romig, Consequences Series, Contemporary Dark Romance, Convicted, Psychological Thriller

Break Her by B.G. Harlen

March 30, 2013

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LOTS AND LOTS OF DARK & TWISTY STARS FOR BREAK HER.

(Warning: Includes graphic depictions of rape, sex, and violence and is for readers over the age of 18 only.)

“Break Her” is one of those books that I am really not qualified to “review” because the writing is so amazing (Clue #1 as to the author’s identity!) so I’ll just stick to giving my humble opinion.

I read this book a few months ago and have been thinking about it ever since. To me, that is the hallmark of an excellent book. Here is the synopsis of the story, in which a woman wakes to find a dangerous stranger in her bed:

“Now your home has become your prison, and your body, a battlefield. How would you hold onto your sanity, your self-esteem, your very soul against someone determined to annihilate all three?

In the psychological thriller Break Her, one woman will find herself in this almost unthinkable situation, and one man will discover that he has finally come up against someone unlike any of those he has destroyed before.

On the surface, this intruder has all the advantages: strength, weapons, ruthlessness. The only way he can lose is if he finds himself responding to his victim on a human level. The only way she can win is if she rips away the protective lies she’s told herself, the hard shell of indifference she’s hidden in, and becomes again what she has not been since she lost everything that mattered to her, years ago. ”

Break Her is a very graphic story of the gripping psychological interplay between the woman and the rapist. (I refuse to call her simply “Victim” as some reviewers have done.) The rapist is very cunning and very strong. He is determined to destroy the woman not only physically, but emotionally as well.

He was decent looking. He probably had money. He could have sex any way he wanted any time he wanted. But he liked it this way.

The story itself is set over a period of an excruciating day and a half, within the physical confines of a house. The characters are not named by the author. Through a series of flashbacks, however, the woman’s past is explained in detail and other characters are introduced. I was hanging on every word, and reading furiously to reach the stunning conclusion of this book.

“You think you’ll wear me out,” he hissed, not using a question. “You think you’ll eventually satisfy me, and reach the end of this. But everything you do makes me want you more, deeper, impossibly more. I think I’m reaching a point I’ve never hit before. Like perpetual motion. Or nirvana. I’ll never stop.”

There are many questions raised by this story. What was the author trying to convey here? Well, first and foremost, I think it is a story of the woman’s fierce strength and will to survive. The author has written this book under a pseudonym so that we do not know the writer’s gender. Brilliant.

The author has ventured an opinion on the subject of rape in other forums that forgiveness allows rape victims to move on, and to separate themselves from what happened. The author has also questioned why rape is the only crime that seems to be an “open wound”, which gives men a huge amount of power to know that by this one act, they can potentially destroy a woman. Certainly the woman in “Break Her” does not accept the definition of rape as an “open wound” and in that sense, this book is very empowering.

“Break Her” is an incredibly gripping and yes, emotionally exhausting, story. It is very thought-provoking and will make you question what values you believe in. I could not put this book down. I can only hope that the author chooses to continue the woman’s story because I need more of this story.


Categories : 5 Stars, Dark and Twisty Tagged : 5 stars, B.G. Harlen, Break Her, Graphic, Psychological Thriller, Rape

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