Bane, the highly-anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by L.J. Shen is LIVE
Bane
Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.
Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.
Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.
Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.
Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.
Jesse Carter
Hot as hell, cold as ice.
I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.
She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.
She is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her oil tycoon stepdad.
More than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.
Little does she know, I have the f****** teeth for it.
Caroline's Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This book was freakin' fabulous! Loved! Loved! Loved!
"I was nevered distracted, never deterred, and never jealous. So, imagine my surprise when I found myself being all three at once."
Roman 'Bane' Protsenko needs money for a business investment. When an opportunity too good to be true lands in his lap, he can't help but question what the catch might be. The catch? Turns out to be someone he saw years earlier, who evoked momentary alien feelings in him. Years later, she has the same effect on him. However, she's no longer the happy-go-lucky girl he once saw. She's broken, damaged and reclusive. And, it's his job to drag her back to life.
"I wanted him to fix me. To cure me. To hold me. To make me laugh. To make the pain go away."
Jesse Carter used to be one of the popular girls. However, during her senior year, she went through a horrific experience and became a pariah. She basically closed herself from everyone and became The Untouchable. When the infamous, brash Bane forces his way into her life, she's stunned by her own reaction to him. She doesn't understand what the town's manwhore wants with her. However, he makes her laugh. He makes her feel. He's always there when she needs someone to have her back. Is it any wonder that she begins to fall for him.
"Maybe love was about breaking so the person you cared for would feel a little more whole."
This was a fantastic story! It was raw, painful and passionate.
Bane is crude and crass, and is willing to do anything and anyone to get ahead. However, underneath his long hair, beard and tattoos is a softer guy who can barely stand to look at his own reflection. His involvement with Jesse begins a journey for himself, as well as her, where he learns that his beginnings do not dictate the man he is today, or in the future. I loved how Jesse pecked at his armour and his conscience, and what he was willing to do to make her smile.
"Alone I was empty. With Roman, I burst at the seams."
Jesse is a decent girl. Circumstances in her life veered out of control making her a victim. I loved how Bane's presence in her life woke her up; brought out her sassiness and her happiness. I enjoyed how he made her feel so desirable in spite of her history.
Their chemistry was tangible and undeniable. They were super sexy together *fans self*
A book friend said that she thought this novel surpassed the first novel in this series, "Vicious" - and I'm almost inclined to agree!
EXCERPT
Bane Then. A liar. A con. A godless thief. My reputation was a big wave that I rode, one that swallowed everyone around me, drowning every attempt to fuck with what’s mine. I’d been known as a stoner, but power was my real drug of choice. Money meant nothing. It was tangible, and therefore easy to lose. See, to me, people were a game. One I’d always known how to win. Move the rooks around. Change the queen when necessary. Guard the king at all fucking times. I was never distracted, never deterred, and never jealous. So, imagine my surprise when I found myself being all three at once. It was a siren with coal black hair who robbed me of riding the biggest wave I’d seen that summer. Of my precious attention. Of my goddamn breath. She glided from the ocean to the beach like nightfall. I crouched down, straddling my surfboard, gawking. Edie and Beck stopped beside me, floating on their boards in my periphery. “This one’s taken by Emery Wallace,” Edie had warned. Thief. “This one’s the hottest masterpiece in town.” Beck had chuckled. Con. “More importantly, she only dates rich bastards.” Liar. I had all the ingredients to pull her in. Her body was a patch of fresh snow. White, fair, like the sun shone through her, never quite soaking in. Her skin defied nature, her ass defied my sanity, but it was the words on her back that made my logic rebel. It wasn’t her curves or the way she swayed her hips like a dangling, poisonous apple that warranted my reaction to her. It was that tattoo I had noticed when she swam close to me earlier, the words trickling down the nape of her neck and back in a straight arrow. My Whole Life Has Been Pledged to This Meeting with You Pushkin. I only knew one person who went gaga over the Russian poet, and, like the famous Alexander, he was currently six feet under. My friends began to paddle back to shore. I couldn’t move. It felt like my balls were ten tons heavy. I didn’t believe in love at first sight. Lust, maybe, but even that wasn’t the word I was looking for. No. This girl fucking intrigued me. “What’s her name?” I snatched Beck’s ankle, yanking him back to me. Edie stopped pedaling and looked back, her gaze ping-ponging between us. “Doesn’t matter, bro.” “What’s. Her. Name?” I repeated through a locked jaw. “Dude, she’s, like, way young.” “I will not repeat myself a third time.” Beck’s throat bobbed with a swallow. He knew damn well that I didn’t mess around. If she was legal—it was on. “Jesse Carter.” Jesse Carter was going to be mine before she even knew me. Before I even knew her. Before her life turned upside down and her fate rewrote itself with her blood. So here was the truth that even my lying ass wouldn’t admit later on in our story—I wanted her before. Before she became business. Before the truth caged her in. Before the secrets gushed out. I never did get to surf that day. My surfboard broke. Should have known it was an omen. My heart was going to be next in line. And for a small chick, she did one hell of a fucking job obliterating it.
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About LJ Shen
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
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