This highly anticipated dark romance novel from Tillie Cole is now live! It's not available on all retailers yet, but I'll share more links once it is! You can see my review for this book here.
Title: Raze
Author: Tillie Cole
Age group: Mature new adult
Genre: Dark contemporary romance
Release date: 30th December 2014
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23262621-raze?ac=1
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Purchase Links will be available once the book is live!
BLURB
To take back life, one must first face death...
One man stripped of his freedom, his morals...his life.
Conditioned in captivity to maim, to kill and to slaughter, prisoner 818 becomes an unremorseful, unrivaled and unstoppable fighter in the ring. Violence is all he knows. Death and brutality are the masters of his fate.
After years of incarceration in an underground hell, only one thought occupies his mind: revenge...bloody, slow and violent revenge.
Revenge on the man who lied.
Revenge on the man who wronged him.
Revenge on the man who condemned him and turned him into this: a rage-fueled killing machine. A monster void of humanity; a monster filled with hate.
And no one will stand in the way of getting what he wants.
One woman stripped of her freedom, her morals...her life.
Kisa Volkova is the only daughter of Kirill ‘The Silencer’ Volkov, head of the infamous ‘Triad’bosses of New York's Russian Bratva. Her life is protected. In reality, it’s a virtual prison. Her father’s savage treatment of his rivals and his lucrative and coveted underground gambling ring—The Dungeon—ensures too many enemies lurk at their door.
She dreams to be set free.
Kisa has known only cruelty and loss in her short life. As manager of her father’s death match enterprise, only grief and pain fill her days. Her mafia boss father, in her world, rules absolute. And her fiancé, Alik Durov, is no better; the Dungeon’s five-time champion, a stone-cold killer, the treasured son of her father’s best friend, and her very own—and much resented—personal guard. Unrivaled in both strength and social standing, Alik controls every facet of Kisa’s life, dominates her every move; keeps her subdued and dead inside...then one night changes everything.
While working for her church—the only reprieve in her constant surveillance—Kisa stumbles across a tattooed, scarred, but stunningly beautiful homeless man on the streets. Something about him stirs feelings deep within her; familiar yet impossibly forbidden desires. He doesn’t talk. Doesn’t communicate with anyone. He’s a man beyond saving, and a man she must quickly forget...for both their sakes.
But when weeks later, out of the blue and to her complete surprise, he’s announced as the replacement fighter in The Dungeon, Kisa knows she’s in a whole lot of trouble. He’s built, ripped and lethally unforgiving to his opponents, leaving fear in his wake and the look of death in his eyes.
Kisa becomes obsessed with him. Yearns for him. Craves his touch. Needs to possess this mysterious man...this man they call Raze.
EXCERPT
Alik
wrapped his arms round my waist and pulled me to his damp chest, the impact
robbing me of my breath. He held me in place by the back of my head.
“You’re gonna make the
perfect wife, Kisa. I’ve
been wanting you in my bed, sleeping beside me, for too fucking long. I hate
sending you back to your father every night, not being able to fuck you for
hours, tying you to the bed, making you scream, making you bow down to my every
command… fuck you until you
can’t walk. Been
wanting to fully own you, to possess you, to release you from the Pakhan’s grip and have you
under my complete control…
for too fucking long.”
“Soon, baby,” I soothed.
Alik
loosened his grip on my hair, his harsh blue eyes losing their anger for the
briefest of moments.
“Yeah,” he replied. Slapping me hard on the
ass, he pressed a bruising, owning-me kiss to my swollen lips. Alik swiftly
broke away and, walking back to his bedroom, shouted over his shoulder, “Serge is
downstairs. He’ll
take you to church.” I relaxed but
stiffened when he ordered, “Only
after you change. Don’t
you dare go out looking like that. I’ll seriously lose my fucking shit if you do!”
“I won’t. I love you, baby.
Always,” I blurted. This stopped Alik in his
tracks.
He
turned, jerked his chin, a flicker of a smirk curling his upper lip, and he
said, “Myshka, I love you too.”
My
shoulders sagged with relief at his show of affection. I calmed. It was during
these tender moments that I glimpsed the small amount of humanity in Alik. These were the
moments I cherished. Even as children, Alik was uptight, always angry, always
wanting to inflict pain on others; he frequently did on other kids. His papa
had raised him to be this way. I understood it; it was how Brava men had to be raised. But years of fighting and
killing in The Dungeon had hardened him to the point where the kinder side of
his personality grew weaker and weaker, the dark steadily and surely blotting
out any light that remained. In this Bratva life, and with what Alik did for a
living, it was essential he be this way. However, I wished his softer side
would linger a little longer.
It
was stupid of me and, to others, inexplicable. But I loved Alik in my own way,
well, as much as my shredded heart would allow. I wanted him to have peace. He
was so tormented…
so dark inside that I just wanted to help ease that.
Lost
in Alik’s light, beautiful
smile, my heart soared, floating on a loving hope that I would see some good in
him, that
I’d finally got through to him, but
my reverie soon dissipated when, as always, his brief moment of gentleness was
overwhelmed by harshness.
Alik's
insane desire to possess me came to the fore as he warned, “Anyone even looks
at you tonight or even speaks to you, you tell me. And act appropriately. Don’t speak to men… only Father Kruschev. Don’t want my woman
looking like a whore. ”
I
nodded dutifully. His eyes narrowed as they drank in my body. “Wear something that
covers you, all of you. I don’t wanna have to
kill some fucker for staring at your tits. You’ve got to think about these things,
Myshka. When you’re
my wife, when I own you completely, there’ll be no mistakes. I’ll whip you into shape soon enough. You’ll be an example to
all the Bratva wives.”
“Okay, baby,” I whispered in trepidation.
Alik
ran his teeth over his bottom lip, eyes leaden, his cock hardening and bulging
under his towel.
“Get out of here,
Kisa, before I fuck you against that wall and make your papa even more pissed
at me for being late.”
AUTHOR BIO
Amazon & USA Today Best Selling Author, Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7074846.Tillie_Cole
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