This review is from 2016 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
Alana Albertson
Book ArchiveContemporaryEroticaNew AdultSuspenseMolten
Can Beauty tame her BEAST?
Isabella—Grady Williams is a national treasure, the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, America’s scarred superhero. With tattooed arms sculpted from carrying M-16s, this bad boy has girls begging from sea to shining sea to get a piece of his action.
When my father squanders away my college fund, I make a deal with this dirty-talking Devil Dog—I will pretend to be Grady’s girlfriend for the Marine Corps Ball, and my dad will write Grady’s war memoir.
Grady is fearless. Hell, this badass jumped on a grenade to save his fellow Marines! As much as I crave him, I refuse to allow myself to become addicted to a dangerous man who will detonate my heart.
Grady—Isabella Cuesta is an angel who can see beyond my mangled skin, a pawn used to repay her father’s debt, a woman who makes me feel like a man instead of a monster.
But I no longer believe in fairy tales.
She’s mine until our contract ends. I’ll take her hard and rough, listen to all her hopes and fears, lay down my life to protect her.
This beauty will never let herself love a dangerous man like me—a man who has killed, a man who runs towards gunfire, a man who never backs down from a fight.
But without her love, I’m not a man—I’ll remain forever a beast.
Publisher's note: This is a full-length, standalone novel. Happily Ever After. No cliffhanger. No cheating. As a bonus, this edition will include my Navy SEAL romantic suspense novel, Invincible, and Conceit, the first episode of my NAVY SEAL serial.
This story was a very unique play on Beauty & The Beast. Grady Williams suffers from PTSD after going through tragic events while serving as a Marine and struggles with recognition as a war hero. He meets Isabella at a party and it is an instant connection but both are battling internal conflicts with issues neither want to face or accept. Their journey together has hardships and many ups & downs but you fall in love with their fight and passion for one another. Alana Albertson does such an amazing job at conveying the reality of both their situations .This book sent me on an emotional roller coaster full of sadness and hope but what an amazing ride it was.
[June 2016]
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