Review! Scandalous (Sinful Surrender Quartet #3) – Katherine Hawthorne

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Xander was my heaven, filling me with life.

After surviving my worst nightmare, Xander proved to be my hero once again, shielding me the best he could. Our peace is cut short, brutally destroyed when a vicious killer strikes too close to home, revealing devastating secrets that should have remained forever buried.

Sin was my hell, his desertion complete.

Cutting me out of his life with the cruelest words possible, Sin left me broken, my heart shattered in pieces. After weeks without him, his unexpected reappearance catapults me into a tailspin, torn between the fierce desire that never seems to diminish and my inability to trust him again.

I still wanted both but could only have one.

Ultimately, finding justice had destroyed us all, inciting a violent war in which there could be no winner. Two men, one accused of murder, the other seeming just as guilty, both withholding the truth. Caught between them, I was forced to choose, a heartbreaking decision that, in the end, was sure to ruin me.

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One thing for sure, I’m very glad I didn’t have to wait to find out what happens since I had the ability to read them back to back! The cliffhangers are killer (pun sort of intended) but this was a good third outing with these characters. Again I felt the men were a little overbearing for my taste but the solid romantic suspense element to the storyline was actually a stronger draw for me with this installment. As readers we are taken on an intense journey into the hidden world of human trafficking and sex slavery and how it fits into the central mystery of this series. Just when you think you have it all figured out, another twist completely changes things!

Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to R&R!