Published by Self-published Genres: Romantic Suspense
Format: eARC
Hostage by Skye Warren & Annika Martin
Publication Date: January 30th, 2018
Genre: Romantic Suspense
I never knew when he’d come to me. Only that he would.
I’d never even kissed a boy the night I met Stone. The night I saw him kill. The night he spared my life. That was only the beginning.
He turns up in my car again and again, dangerous and full of raw power. “Drive,” he tells me, and I have no choice. He’s a criminal with burning green eyes, invading my life and my dreams.
The police say he’s dangerously obsessed with me, but I’m the one who can’t stop thinking about him. Maybe it’s wrong to let him touch me. Maybe it’s wrong to touch him back. Maybe these twisted dates need to stop. Except he feels like the only real thing in my world of designer labels and mansions.
So I drive us under threat, until it’s hard to remember I don’t want to be there.
Until it’s too late to turn back.
HOSTAGE is a dangerous standalone romance by New York Times bestselling authors Skye Warren and Annika Martin. It’s set in the same world as PRISONER, but can read separately!
Renee’s Five Star Review
The night I met Stone I have never kissed a boy, yet I watched him kill a man. That night he spared my life. That was only the beginning. I never know when he would come to be but just that he would. He turns up in my care again and again, dangerous and full of raw power. Drive he will tell me and I have no choice . He is a criminal with burning green eyes, invading my life and my dreams. The police say he is dangerously obsessed with me, but I am the one who can not stop thinking about him. Maybe it is wrong to let him touch me. Maybe it is wrong to touch him back. Maybe these twisted dates need to stop. Except he feels like the only real thing in my world of designer labels and mansions. So i drive us under threat, until it’s hard to remember I don’t want to be there. Until it is too late to turn back.
I loved this book. I loved the story. It is so much more than a story with dark undertones. It is the story of revenge, love, betrayal, and most of all learning to trust someone when the whole entire world all your life has seemed to be against you.
Brooke is just turning sixteen when the book begins and she is at her birthday party. A birthday party that really should never be happening but is so that her family can keep up the pretense of being super wealthy and hiding the fact that her dad’s business is suffering and they are broke. Needing some air Brooke ends up outside and witnesses a man getting the crap beat out of him by Stone. Stone is shocked to see her there and really shocked when she yells at him to stop. He has no choice but to take her and kill her too. He can have not witnesses. You see, Stone is on a mission. He has a family of brothers who have along with him, lived through things that now young boys should ever be exposed to. Now it is their turn to take revenge and to make sure that no other boy in the town they live in ends up in the basement for years and years being used and abused in ways that cracked my heart wide open. However, for some reason Stone develops quickly a soft spot for Brooke and makes up a lie for her to tell of why she disappeared and he lets her go. However, as the years go by he shows up on occasion and just can not seem to let Brooke go. She is his new obsession and Stone is not one to not get what he wants. Brooke, though while terrified of Stone starts to develop feelings for him and here is where the story takes off and holds on to you so hard that you will not want to put it down. There are secrets flying around and a part of this book that had tears running down my face. Hostage is an absolutely beautiful story of some seriously broken people and you do not want to miss this book.
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Excerpt:
It’s him or me. It’s stand here and let a man die, or do something—for once in my life, do something that’s not wearing a dress and smiling and getting it all wrong.
So I run out there. I watch myself do it, like a movie almost. “Stop it,” I yell.
The attacker just keeps on, a dark storm, all fists and fury. My presence means nothing to him. My words don’t touch him. It’s as if I’m yelling at thunder.
My heart beats out of my chest. I’ve risked everything, come out in the open, but it’s not enough. I stamp my foot to get his attention, crushing gravel beneath my mother’s Louboutins.
“The cops are coming,” I say.
The man stills and looks up. It’s a shock when it happens, even though I’ve been trying to get him to see me. His eyes seem to blaze into my chest, hot and bright.
Breathless, I back away.
He stands, leaving the man in a groaning, whimpering heap.
I retreat slowly, showing him my phone, as though that might protect me. “Cops are coming,” I say again. A lie. I couldn’t punch in the code.
He’s coming at me, expression unreadable. He’s a few years older than I am—late twenties, maybe.
My back hits something hard. The van.
He keeps coming. I try to spin and run, but he grabs my arm and slams me back into the van. “Where do you think you’re going, little girl?”
I stare up at him, panting.
His warm breath is a feather on my nose; the heat in his eyes invades me. He grabs my hair and tilts my head back, forcing me to stare into his face, as if he’s trying to read my eyes.
A moment later, he looks up at the night sky. He seems almost wolfish, and I’m conscious, suddenly, of my bare neck so close to his snarling mouth. I wonder if he’s staring at the moon. It’s like he’s going to howl or something.
Then I get it. He’s listening for sirens.
“You’re a little fucking liar.”
Meet the Authors:
Skye Warren:
Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance such as the Endgame trilogy. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.
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Annika Martin:
Annika Martin loves fun, dirty stories, hot heroes, and wild, dramatic everything. She enjoys hanging out in Minneapolis coffee shops with her writer husband, and also likes birdwatching at her bird feeder alongside her two stunningly photogenic cats, especially when she should be writing. She’s heavy into running, music, saving the planet, taking long baths, and consuming chocolate suckers. She’s worked a surprisingly large number of waitressing jobs, and has also worked in a plastics factory and the advertising trenches; her garden is total bee-friendly madness and her most unfavorite word is nosh or possibly fob. A NYT bestselling author, she has also written as RITA award-winning author Carolyn Crane.
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