TAKEN BY THE DUKE (Obsessed With Her #1)
READING AGE 16+
BLURB
VALENTINA
I was never meant to be tamed.
Fast cars, faster lies and courting danger at every turn, that’s what my life was after I was uprooted from the past that left me with nothing but nightmares and fear of the dark. Now, I race to feel free, dance under neon lights to forget the screams that still echo in my head.
And then he found me. Again.
I ran from him once but I should’ve known he’d come for me.
Asher S. Kingston doesn’t lose what he believes belongs to him — and somewhere between the lies, the danger, and the promise I made in desperation… I became his.
Now, I’m bound to the man who will save me from the demons of my past— or maybe destroy me — in exchange for his protection and a chance to find my brother, I will have to marry him and help him get his inheritance.
He calls it marriage.
I call it a deal with the devil. A farce where I have to obey him and to make the world believe how much I love him. An emotion, I swore to never indulge in.
And yet, every night his touch feels like salvation and ruin wrapped into one.
Every time his hands claim me, every time his eyes darken with that dangerous need, I feel it’s more than just a deal on paper.
With each day something changes between us and with each day I feel something I didn’t want to. With each day I know and see his obsession, the same one that grows inside me. And I know, he’s not just saving me anymore from the dangers of my past, he’s going to keep me. For himself.
And I know he will cross every line to make me his, even if it meant breaking me into pieces. And I’m beginning to wonder if I ever really escaped him… or if I was always meant to burn for him.
I should run. I should fight.
But the problem with playing with fire is—
You start to crave the burn. Become addicted to it.
And Asher S. Kingston has become my new addiction, a new high. A danger I want to court with my heart on the line.
[Related to Carter Brothers Series]
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THEMES:
Enemies to Lovers
Forced marriage
Childhood trauma
Virgin FL
Black
Betrayal
Dark Romance
Breeding Kínk
Found Family
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This book is related to the books:SCARRED KNIGHT[carter brothers series],and MARRIED TO A DUKE.
It's standalone but the main characters also appeared in other books.
Unfold
VALENTINA
I watched as his foot slipped on the mossy edge of the lake, and for one frozen instant I stared into those silvery eyes, wide and alarmed now, before he toppled backward into the water.
The sight made me laugh as he fell into the lake in his crisp suit and prince like look.
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