Darker Than Love

Anna Zaires · Charmaine Pauls

Jan 2020 · Grey Eagle Publications

About this eBook

500+ PAGES OF "CAPTIVATING" AND "UTTERLY CONSUMING" STANDALONE ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS ROMANCE

Once upon a cold, dark night, a Russian killer stole me from an alley.

I’m dangerous, but he is lethal.

I escaped once.

He won’t let me do it twice.

 

The revenge is his. 

The betrayal is mine.

But so are the lies to protect the ones I love.

 

We’re cut from the same twisted cloth. Both merciless. Both damaged. 

In his embrace, I find hell and heaven, his cruelly tender touch destroying and uplifting me at once.

 

They say a cat has nine lives, but an assassin has just one.

And Yan Ivanov now owns mine.

Ratings and reviews

recently had the pleasure of reading this book. I liked it. I usually love anna zaires work but this one I liked. I feel like it was not compelling enough. not dark enough. I guess it's the influence of the other author. having said that I'll definitely recommend

I thought that this was an absolutely stunning read. Everything about this book was perfect. From the tension and danger fueled story line, to the complex characters. It is all well crafted and thought out. Even the title was perfection. What Yan and Mina share is so much more than the simple descriptive tag of love can describe. It is dark and intense, hot and sweet, brutal and yet tender. It is not just a joining of hearts. It is a joining of hearts, minds and yes, even souls. It is finding that one person that can see you. The you with all those broken pieces, the jagged wounds you carry inside and out and the ugly that you hide and ignore and try so desperately to pretend simply doesn't exist. The whole you, the real you and still not flinch away but embrace it and most importantly help you to embrace it also. This is not a rainbows and kittens romance. It is raw and sometimes violent with its passion and its emotion. It is a book that keeps your nerves stretched to the breaking point and furiously searching for every and any spare moment to just read even a few more words. Even with a migraine I had to try to keep reading (Yes, it is just that addictingly good!) Witnessing these two closed-off, flawed characters open up and find love was really beautiful. They stole into my heart and left me swooning and I truly believe they will do they same to you.

A little dark, a lot of danger and plenty of emotion, this book kept me captivated from the first page! ’Ours is not a sweet romance. It’s larger than love. Darker than love.’ When Mina overhears a conversation she should not have, she finds herself in a dangerous situation. But after a night that she’ll never forget, she’s on the run. Months later and she’s now the prisoner of the man who both terrifies her and excites her. Mina was an incredible heroine. Her past has left her isolated on the inside and as a result she’s a total bada--. When Yan forces himself into her life the ice wall that she’s built around her soul begins to thaw and we start to see what she’s truly made of it. Yan is the type of anti-hero that I love. Even as he walks on the darker side of life, he’s completely possessive of Mina. If you enjoy a hero that will threaten a man simply for looking at his woman, you’ve found him in Yan. He doesn’t deal with gentler emotions but as time passes what he feels for Mina along with his burgeoning concsience makes this dark hero impossible not to adore. While this is considered a dark read, it doesn’t consume the story. There’s a fine dance that takes place between Mina and Yan and within those steps is where the darkness presents itself. I couldn’t get enough of it! ’It’s devastation and reverence all in one, an explosive mix of dark lust and beautiful passion. It may be wrong, unconventional, but that’s how it is between us. However twisted, this is who we are when we become one, and I’m already greedy for more.’ This is filled with danger and excitement as well and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. The plot is multi-layered, just the way I like it, so don’t expect your cut and dried dark thriller. This isn’t it. This is fresh and original with characters that will pull you in even as they live life in a gray area. Overall, this book is freaking amazing and I can’t recommend it enough! Kudos to the person that came up with the idea of this collaboration!

About the author

Anna Zaires is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of sci-fi romance and contemporary dark romance. She fell in love with books at the age of five, when her grandmother taught her to read. Since then, she has always lived partially in a fantasy world where the only limits were those of her imagination. Currently residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima Zales (a science fiction and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him on all their works.

Charmaine Pauls was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She obtained a degree in Communication at the University of Potchestroom, and followed a diverse career path in journalism, public relations, advertising, communications, photography, graphic design, and brand marketing. Her writing has always been an integral part of her professions.

After relocating to Chile with her French husband, she fulfilled her passion to write creatively full-time. Charmaine has published novels as well as short stories and articles since 2011. Two of her short stories were selected for publication in an African anthology from across the continent by the International Society of Literary Fellows in conjunction with the International Research Council on African Literature and Culture.

When she is not writing, she likes to travel, read, and rescue cats. Charmaine currently lives in Montpellier with her husband and children. Their household is a linguistic mélange of Afrikaans, English, French and Spanish.