Callous Love (New York Underworld #5) by Charmaine Pauls is NOW LIVE!
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Tropes inside you'll love:
⚡ Enemies to lovers
🖤 Morally gray antihero
👶 Secret baby
👑 Strong heroine
☠️ Touch her and die
⏳ Second chance
🚫 Forbidden love
🐺 Possessive and protective hero
💔 Betrayal
🔥 Revenge
✨ Redemption
https://bit.ly/4ttNF8M
Tropes inside you'll love:
⚡ Enemies to lovers
🖤 Morally gray antihero
👶 Secret baby
👑 Strong heroine
☠️ Touch her and die
⏳ Second chance
🚫 Forbidden love
🐺 Possessive and protective hero
💔 Betrayal
🔥 Revenge
✨ Redemption
Blurb
He can never know about the life we created in a bed of lies, because the man I called my lover is the monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list.
I know what it’s like to be used. Dante ruined me for the sake of his revenge. He destroyed me for his selfish gain without thinking twice.
What he doesn’t know is that we created something pure and innocent in that bed of lies. We made a new life, one I have to hide from him at all costs, because the man I called my lover is the cold-hearted monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list. He left me with no choice but to run.
For five long years, I’ve been hiding, barely surviving, always outsmarting the men who hunt me while Dante’s ghost stalks my shadows and haunts my thoughts. And now that he’s caught a whiff of my scent, he’s like a bloodhound on my trail.
He’s out to finish what he started. I’m the last obstacle standing between him and the fortune he stole from my family. But this isn’t a fairy tale, and I’m not that girl anymore. I decide how my story ends.
Note: Callous Love is the second book in the Callous Duet and concludes Tatiana and Dante’s story. Callous Desire must be read first. The duet is part of the dark mafia romance New York Underworld series (Books 4 & 5). You don’t have to read the other books in the series to follow this duet. The story contains violence and scenes not recommended for sensitive readers. Reader discretion is advised.
He can never know about the life we created in a bed of lies, because the man I called my lover is the monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list.
I know what it’s like to be used. Dante ruined me for the sake of his revenge. He destroyed me for his selfish gain without thinking twice.
What he doesn’t know is that we created something pure and innocent in that bed of lies. We made a new life, one I have to hide from him at all costs, because the man I called my lover is the cold-hearted monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list. He left me with no choice but to run.
For five long years, I’ve been hiding, barely surviving, always outsmarting the men who hunt me while Dante’s ghost stalks my shadows and haunts my thoughts. And now that he’s caught a whiff of my scent, he’s like a bloodhound on my trail.
He’s out to finish what he started. I’m the last obstacle standing between him and the fortune he stole from my family. But this isn’t a fairy tale, and I’m not that girl anymore. I decide how my story ends.
Note: Callous Love is the second book in the Callous Duet and concludes Tatiana and Dante’s story. Callous Desire must be read first. The duet is part of the dark mafia romance New York Underworld series (Books 4 & 5). You don’t have to read the other books in the series to follow this duet. The story contains violence and scenes not recommended for sensitive readers. Reader discretion is advised.
MY REVIEW
When Callous Love begins, it doesn't start off right where cliffhanger left us. No, it gives us a glimpse into the past, and continues revealing the layers that make up Tatiana's complicated, but strong personality and the events that shaped her into the woman she is in her present. She and Dante have a lot of obstacles to get past, and I was on edge as each page took me closer to the end and there was still a lot of unrest between them.
Dante finally has his Tiana back, but he also has a lot of guilt for the things he's done, is still doing, to her. The one thing he does know, is that she's his, and that people will pay for what was done to her. There's still the matter of the thing he wants that she knows the location of, but is it as important as it was? His family just might end up being more important than everything.
What a ride Tatiana and Dante have taken! Their journey is dark, twisty and suspenseful, and in the end, I was finally sold on them as a couple. I have to admit I was still doubting Dante almost until the very end, he's definitely on the black end of the morality spectrum. But like most of Charmaine's MMCs, he does have one redeeming feature among all his alphahole anti-hero vibes - and that's his feelings for his family. But for all of Dante's dark energy, Tatiana is his opposite. She (and Noah) is my favorite part of their story. She's so strong, had gone through so much, but emerged even stronger. Tatiana and Dante's love is undeniable, they took a lot of punches, and finally, finally got the happiness they went through so much to find.
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