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Synopsis

SLATER
For over a decade I searched for her.
She disappeared a long time ago.
But I never gave up.
Seeing her again, it was the only thing that kept me holding on for so long.
Clutching onto the small chance that she might know who I am when I found her again.
If I found her again.
It was always a big if.
But I wasn’t going to rest until I got answers, alive or dead, I would find her.
I needed to know what happened to the girl who took my heart when we were younger, and kept it for well over a decade.
She owns every single piece of who I am.
Nobody else has ever come close.
And now I’ve found her.
And she’s lookin’ at me like she doesn’t know who I am.
Like I wasn’t her first kiss.
Her first boyfriend.
Her first love.
Her first heartbreak.
The man who took her innocence.
The man who destroyed her, and caused her to run.
The man who spent ten years trying to find her, because of one pathetic, pitiful mistake.
I ruined her.
And now she has no idea who I am.
Not a single damned clue.

ELLIE
I don’t know who he is.
And yet something about him seems strangely familiar.
I know nothing of who I am.
All my memories are like hazy nightmares. I don’t know which ones are real and which ones are fake.
I don’t even know my own name. I don’t know anything about my past.
I only know that for the last ten years, I’ve been Raven.
Only that isn’t my real name.
But that’s what he called me.
The monster who owned me.
The monster disguised as a saint.
A monster I finally escaped.
And now there’s him.
Slater.
A man who claims to have spent the last decade searching for me.
His Ellie.
He claims I’m the love of his life.
He’s desperate for me to remember him.
But I don’t.
Even though when I look into his eyes, I feel strangely at home.
Like he’s the missing piece of who I am.
But can I trust him?
Can I trust the man who claims to love me, and yet is telling me he’s the reason for my hell?
Who is telling me, it is him, who destroyed me.
Is he a bigger monster than the one I just escaped from?

 

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Review

4.5 fantastically intense stars!

Love this book! A broken man, a girl with no memory, and a super-intense second-chance-romance with a twist, this book held me captivated from first page to the last, and I could not put it down!

I signed up for the blog tour for this book, loving the idea of the story, but at the time I didn’t know it was part of a series. When I found out I’d be diving straight into book #6, I was seriously twitchy as I’m usually obsessive about reading series in order. But this book easily stands on its own, and though there are other characters introduced that have clearly had their stories already told, there are no spoilers for their books, and at no point did I feel like I was missing out on anything. It’s actually made me want to go back and read the whole lot of them, so I’m really glad I picked this one up.

Ellie has just escaped ten years of captivity and torture at the hands of a psychopath. She doesn’t know the man who took her, or where she was held, only that he called her ‘Raven’. Now she is back ‘home’ where she belongs, but she has no memory of her life before her captivity, or even who she is. She’s just starting to get her life back on track when three bikers appear on her doorstep, one of them declaring that he is the love of his life and that’s he’s been looking for her all this time.

Slater Knight is the man who fell to pieces when Ellie was taken from him. For ten years he has searched for her, all while losing pieces of himself along the way as he descended into hell, drowning in guilt, fear and anger. And now she’s back and their reunion is nothing like he was expecting.

I needed to know what happened to the girl who took my heart when we were younger, and kept it for well over a decade. She owns every single piece of who I am. Nobody else has ever come close.
And now she’s lookin’ at me like she doesn’t know who I am.

Ellie is understandably terrified. She has no clue who she is, who Slater is, or who she can even trust, and she has no guarantees that her memory will even return. And when she discovers that the man who took her is still looking for her, she’s scared for her very life. The Police can only do so much, so she turns to Slater, his family, and their MC for protection, and Slater is only too willing to step in and be there for his girl.

“I lost her once, I’m not goin’ to fuckin’ lose her again.”

I love the set-up for this book, and Jewel hits you with the feels from the very first moment. I could feel Ellie’s fear, I could feel Slater’s heartache, and I was right there with both of them through every stage of their story.

The book is written in alternating chapters between past and present, so we get the fantastic YA/NA romance which began at their first meeting when she is 17 and he is 21. Slater lives with his father and his three fabulous brothers, and when foster-child Ellie moves in next door, she is pretty much adopted into his family and the relationship between them is just gorgeous. But the connection between Slater and Ellie is unique from the very beginning, and I loved watching their open honesty with each other as their friendship/infatuation effortlessly shifted into all-consuming love.

The moment I laid eyes on her. She was mine. She was always fuckin’ mine.

In the present, Slater is trying hard to be respectful and keep his distance from Ellie, but he’s a man who has been destroyed by her absence, and who finally has his whole life back in front of him. It’s a heartbreaking situation he’s in as he wants nothing more than to claim his girl back, but he knows he needs to be patient, and I could feel the intensity in every single encounter.

“Do you…do you think I’ll remember?”
He meets my eyes. “Fuckin’ hope so, darlin’.”

Slater is so amazing. How can you not fall for a man who loves so deeply and so devotedly? His torment literally drips off the page as he holds nothing back in his fight for Ellie. He lets her know exactly how he feels, he pours his heart out over and over again and his possessiveness and protectiveness is shiver-inducing.

“I’m the one who searched. I’m the one who broke. I’m the one who lived in fuckin’ agony for ten years. So, I’m the one who will end this for you. Who will fix it.”

“If you think I don’t need you, Ellie, you’re so fuckin’ incredibly wrong. I’ve needed nothing but you for every waking second since you left. I’m never goin’ to be the same unless you’re in my world, because fuck, you are my world.”

And through it all, Ellie struggles to figure out her life, how to fit these new pieces into the life she was just beginning to reclaim, and how to reconcile the feeling of safety and ‘rightness’ that she feels with this man who she can’t even remember.

I really want to know what Slater Knight meant to me.
And I won’t stop until I find out.

But the shadow of the past is looming over her, and Slater has a devastating truth that he is wrestling. Their heartache is not over yet, and as danger looms ever closer, they’ll have to trust the strength of their connection to get through it all.

This is a beautiful, beautiful story, and I was glued to my kindle as it all played out. There are ups and downs, heartache and horror, and a whole lot of sweet moments as Ellie is reintroduced into her old life. Her relationships with Slater’s brothers, in particular, is beautifully written, and I loved seeing how much they all meant to each other as they all gather around to be there for her. The MC aspect of the story is minimal – they are a part of the club, but there’s no real club ‘business’ to speak of, more that they are a bunch of protective badasses who have each other’s backs. So I wouldn’t call this a full-on MC book, but the general themes of family and brotherhood are definitely there. This is Slater and Ellie’s book through and through, and it’s a wonderfully intense love story with all the feels.

Such a great read, I loved it.

4.5 stars.

An Advanced Reader Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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Author Bio

Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She’s been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell’s Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over five novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future.

 

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