When Ryle is not in the throes of a jealous rage, his redeeming qualities return, and Lily can justify his behavior: “I think we needed what happened on the stairwell to happen so that I would know his past and we’d be able to work on it together,” she tells herself.

Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. Hoover’s ( November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.Īt first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. To save her new (and old) friends, as well as her House, Ada will need to exercise all her ingenuity and ruthlessness and play the political game like the thing she least wants to be: a von Hasenberg.įast-paced space opera, filled with daring rescues and blaster fire, thrown into high gear by the passionate romance between the lead characters. The ship isn't the only thing with secrets: Loch's mysterious past threatens the highest levels of government. The three of them pull off an audacious theft of Richard's ship-and discover that it has technological secrets that could change the balance of power for everyone. When Loch is captured, Ada rescues him with the help of her new ally, a fence named Veronica. As they evade his men and plan a way to get off-world, Loch and Ada start to trust each other-something that comes naturally to neither of them. Together, they escape Richard and make it to a frozen backwater planet, but Richard pursues. But when her jilted fiance, Richard Rockhurst, intercepts the bounty hunters' ship, Ada must ally with Loch whether she trusts him or not.

Loch's personal magnetism draws Ada even as his violent reputation makes her wary. But when she's captured by bounty hunters eager to claim her father's reward, Ada meets their other prisoner: a dangerous murderer named Loch.

Using all her von Hasenberg training-a skill set that includes hacking, combat, and social manipulation-Ada ran. Two years ago, Ada von Hasenberg, fifth daughter of the powerful von Hasenberg House, fled the life her father arranged for her: a political engagement to a rival House in order to spy on her husband-to-be.

Mihalik debuts with the first book of a science-fiction trilogy filled with high-tech action, political intrigue, and steamy romance.

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