Hard Rules: A Dirty Money Novel by Lisa Renee Jones
Release Date: 9th August 2016
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Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
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The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family’s business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil.
Emily is consumed by Shane, pushed sexually in ways she never dreamed of, falling deeper into the all-encompassing passion that is this man. She trusts him. He trusts her, but therein lies the danger. Emily has a secret, the very thing that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret that could that destroy them both.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
As a highly successful corporate attorney, and potential heir to the family empire, Shane Brandon is a man who wields much power. Displaying little to no weakness, he exudes control and confidence in all things. Intent on protecting his family’s business becoming enslaved by corruption, he reluctantly inserts himself back into the fold of Brandon Enterprises.
The only chink in his amour is his mislaid loyalty to his wayward family. A chink they are readily willing to exploit. However failure is not an option and in order to succeed, Brandon must employ callous tactics that at times cut too close to the bone. It’s a murky world where extortion and blackmail are daily occurrences. A world where his unexpected ray of light Emily does not belong.
Lisa creates much intrigue with Emily’s character. From the outset we are aware there is more than meets the eye. There is a fragility to Emily’s character, which I found difficult to not become endeared to. Her past is unclear but her future involves the exposure of information that may aid the destruction of Shane’s plans. Shane describes her as: “My light in the storm of betrayal,” and I’ll be interested to see what will happened when the light goes out.
Hard Rules is a sleek and sexy read. Lisa Renee Jones sets about creating a seductive display of sex, power and deceit, in a world where the lines of good and evil are so easily blurred. It’s a novel which managed to ensnare me with it’s synopsis and kept my attention captured until it’s very last page. With many pieces in play, it’ll be interesting to see who the winners and losers will be.
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