The Pawn by Skye Warren
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Recommendation
Skye Warren is one of the most talented dark romance writers I’ve ever read. She never fails to turn the most distressful situations into the forbidden fantasies you don’t want to admit to having. Hot forbidden fantasies. The Pawn is no exception. Avery James’s tribulations bring her to Gabriel Miller, whose brand of salvation is not kind and gentle, and may not be salvation for Avery at all. His brand of hotness, though, is very right, in a scary, domineering alpha kind of way. I cannot wait to see what happens next when I get my grabby hands on The Knight. It is worth the wait for Gabriel Miller.
Excerpts
"Let's get one thing straight," he says, his breath gentle against my forehead. "I bought you. You're mine. You go where I say, when I say. And you do whatever the fuck I tell you to do."
"Here's the thing about owning a virgin. For as long as I don't fuck you, I still own one."
"You don't taste sweet," he says, pausing. "You taste like I'm fucking dying and you're the only water around. You taste like goddamn air."
Publisher synopsis
"Sinfully sexy and darkly beautiful, The Pawn will play games with your heart and leave you craving more!" – Laura Kaye, New York Times bestselling author
The price of survival…
Gabriel Miller swept into my life like a storm. He tore down my father with cold retribution, leaving him penniless in a hospital bed. I quit my private all-girl's college to take care of the only family I have left.
There's one way to save our house, one thing I have left of value.
My virginity.
A forbidden auction…
Gabriel appears at every turn. He seems to take pleasure in watching me fall. Other times he's the only kindness in a brutal underworld.
Except he's playing a deeper game than I know. Every move brings us together, every secret rips us apart. And when the final piece is played, only one of us can be left standing.
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THE PAWN is a full-length contemporary novel from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren about revenge and seduction in the game of love. It's the first book in the brand new ENDGAME series.
Review published December 6, 2016