Title: Translucent (Luminous #1)
Author: Erin Noelle
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Publication Date: June 22, 2014
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Synopsis
Sometimes you reach a point where you just can’t take any more – a breaking point some call it. The day I watched my husband murder the woman who was pregnant with his child, my point didn’t just break, it exploded like a magazine firing through the barrel of a fully-automatic AK-47. Literally. I am no longer his American Princess, nor am I his slave. Now, I’m a murderer in hiding. My name was Bryleigh Carter Oliveira and that was my story.
Translucent is one woman's story of breaking free, starting over, and learning to trust again through willful submission.
My Review
I was hooked on this book from the blurb! I was so tied up
in it I didn’t want to put it down!
Bryleigh Carterd was seventeen when she met the devil
himself Ismael. Bryleigh thought she found the love her life so young and was
ready to marry him. Just a week before their wedding EVERYTHING changed. Little
did she know that her husband had a secret life in the Italian Mafia. One day
she witnessed something so horrific and that was the turning point of her life.
“Start Over. Forget about everyone you care about and everything that’s
happened in the past. It’s your only chance to live.”
Several years later Bryleigh is in the witness protection
program and is now Blake Martin. She is trying to start over and live a happy life.
But with all the hell and demons from her pass, it’s by far not easy! She is in
a new place and starting a new job. When she lands a big project with Decker
Enterprises, Blake meets the CEO Madden Decker. Madden is instantly attracted
to Blake and he doesn’t hesitate to ask her out. Blake is thrown through a loop
and not sure how to respond to Madden. She doesn’t trust anybody and she is so
broken and has so many issues going on, but Madden ends up getting her to agree
to dinner.
I need to take a moment and gush over Madden Decker! OMG!! I
am not afraid to admit it, but I’m absolutely in LOVE him!! He is so sweet,
caring, and attentive when it comes to Blake.
He is also sexy, dirty and can be
a little dominant in the bedroom, but no complaints here! ;)
He is definitely
on my top favorite Book Boyfriend list!!
Blake is so shocked
how Madden responds to her. He is wanting to get know her more and wants to
help her and protect her. He knows she harbors a dark past but he doesn’t push
her.
“If you can find it in yourself to allot me the tiniest sliver of
faith, I will do everything in my power to help you break free from these
demons holding you hostage. I want you to willingly turn it all over to me-
your pleasure and your pain.”
He does exactly what he said he would. He fights and helps
her so much! You heart will just swoon over what lengths he goes for her.
Madden has introduced Blake to a life of freedom and happiness.
You can’t help
but be so happy for them! As I was getting towards the end I knew there had to
be some bad coming soon but I was not expecting it to end like that!
AHHHHHH!!!!
I need the next book like NOW!!!
This story was amazing! It was so raw and heartbreaking and
was dark in some areas, but then there was the beautiful love story that
transpired before your eyes. It’s also a story of surviving and finding love
and happiness again! It was EPIC! I must say your heart will break in two when
you see what Blake went through with her ex-husband. You will cringe and cry
and think OMG! There are a lot of WTF moments!
I highly recommend this book! Mrs. Noelle did a phenomenal
job with story and she leaves you wanting more!
★★☆ 5 Fabulous Stars ☆★★
Reviewed by Ashley Lenderman
TEASER
EXCERPT
Picking me up off the bed, Ish threw me over his shoulder and marched out of the hotel room, into the pitch-black night. Scared speechless, I didn’t make a peep as he strode into the small motel office and dropped me on the floor. The male front desk attendant that had rented me the room had eyes as big as saucers, obviously fearful of Ish and the scene unfolding in front of him.
“Did you give her a room to stay in?” he demanded.
The older man nodded, taking a small step backwards.
“Don’t you fucking move, Gramps, and answer me when I ask you a goddamn question.”
“Y-yes, I gave her a room,” he admitted in a cracked voice.
“Did she pay you with money, or did she fuck you for it?”
“She paid me with money, sir. I don’t run that kind of business.” The man looked down at me huddled in a corner on the floor, and then back up at Ish. “She never even offered that kind of thing.”
Ish stomped around to the back of the counter and held his hand out, palm up. “She wants a refund. She’s not staying here tonight.”
Trembling, the man opened the cash register and pulled out some cash, setting it in Ish’s hand. As he did, Ish grabbed hold of his wrist and twisted it behind his back.
“Please…please don’t hurt me,” the man begged. “I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong.”
“No, you probably didn’t, but she did,” Ish spat, his fiery eyes darting over to me. “Princesa, did you know you were doing something wrong?”
The growing sob that had built in the back of my throat escaped as I nodded and said, “Yes, I did.”
“Well, someone needs to be punished for your bad behavior to remind you not to do something like this again.”
“Punish me, Ish,” I cried. “That poor man has nothing to do with this. Please, let him go.”
He glanced over at the man he held in a tight hold, and then back at me before releasing an evil laugh that echoed loudly throughout the small room. “Sorry, Princesa, but I need you to be pretty for our upcoming wedding.” Then, without warning, he pulled a long-bladed knife from the leg of his pants and chopped the man’s hand clear off in one swing. I’m not sure who screamed louder, me or the man, but within seconds, it was only my high-pitched voice shrieking, because Ish took the knife and slit the man’s throat, killing him instantaneously. Dropping the bloody body, he stalked towards me, bent down to my level, and clamped his hand on top of my mouth.
“Quiet now, Bryleigh, before you alert anyone else and I do the same thing to them. You don’t want to be the reason anyone else dies tonight, do you?” he whispered in my ear.
Immediately, I stop screaming, knowing damn well he would do exactly what he promised. “Now, that’s my good Princesa,” he said, stroking my hair. “We should get out of here. I’m going to carry you to the car, and I expect you to be well-behaved.”
Lifting me from the dirty tile floor, he carried me like a baby out to his car and placed me on the passenger seat. Petrified of what was going to happen next, I sat as still as a statue as he got into the car and drove north, back towards Chicago. He said nothing the entire drive home, but once we were both inside the apartment, he threw me on the bed and stripped me naked. Turning me over so that I was face-down on the mattress, he yanked forcefully on my hips, raising them in the air. He held tightly onto my hipbones as he viciously thrust himself into my virgin ass—no warning…no lube…nothing. I shouted out at the intense pain, and tears immediately began to stream down my face, but he didn’t stop thrusting until he was buried completely inside of me.
Leaning over, with his chest pressed to my back, he said in low, spine-chilling voice, “Anytime you fuck up, Princesa, someone will pay the price, and I will make you watch as I administer the punishment. You need to see the consequences of your actions, so don’t fuck up again if you don’t want any more blood on your conscience.”
He then fiercely fucked me until he came deep inside my asshole. He pulled out, not saying another word, then showered and left. I cried until I couldn’t see, and passed out with exhaustion.
That was the only time I ever tried to run away, but sadly, not the only bloodstains on my hands. It was only the beginning.
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Erin Noelle is a Texas native, where she
lives with her husband and two young daughters. While earning her degree in
History at the University of Houston, she rediscovered her love for reading
that was first instilled by her grandmother when she was a young child. A lover
of happily-ever-afters, both historical and current, Erin is an avid reader of
all romance novels. In 2013, she published the Book Boyfriend Series, which
included books Metamorphosis, Ambrosia,
Euphoria, and Timeless, and recently published When the Sun Goes Down, a contemporary romance novel. Her books have been a part of the USA Today Bestselling list and the Amazon and Barnes & Noble
overall Top 100. You can follow her on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/erin.noelle.98, her blog @ www.erinnoelleauthor.com, and on Twitter
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