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Brook, a Denver socialite, seems to have a good life until she becomes a plant of a botched carjacking. In a matter of minutes, her life is perpetually altered. She is abducted, transported, and hold for days by 3 heartless group in a remote towering location. She escapes usually to finish adult barefoot, scarcely naked, and hopelessly mislaid in a Colorado forest during a commencement of a oppressive winter.
Lance, a male who has shunned society, lives like a hermit in a country cabin distant private from a complicated world. He likes his unique life. But his universe is about to be incited upside down.
Advisory: Contains passionate assault and oppressive language.
This book also has a messenger announcement that offers a opposite end to a story. See "Betrayed - Alternate Ending" by Wodke Hawkinson.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5035 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-08-12
- Released on: 2011-08-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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8 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
By M. Hovermale
Brooklyn, (Brook), has grown accustomed to her routines, her abounding husband, and her gentle approach of life. Behind a gated community's surroundings, she is protected and sheltered.
A incomprehensible errand to collect adult a book for her husband's trainer transports her to a universe in that she has had no tie or prior bearing before. A decrepit side of city with caricatures of a meanest arrange send her using behind to reserve and her car, though watchful within, a carjacker is interrupted by her black return. In moments, Brook's life is a vital nightmare. Now a prisoner, she endures a clearly constant humiliations that go hand-in-hand with a sourroundings she has been shoved into accidentally.
Lance is a male who has run from his past. He's found his isolated cabin and dug in with vigor. His mangle from multitude has been condolence from a memory he longs to forget. A imperishable approach of life and singular hit of a smallest arrange with a rest of a universe has been his shelter until Brook arrives unexpectedly, bruised, battered, and desperate.
I hold my exhale as Brook battled to survive, as Lance fought with middle demons, and lonesome my eyes, peeking out to examination usually a small some-more during a some-more heartless details.
By all rights, Wodke Hawkinson should be sitting in their particular dens with a good fat agreement with one of a incomparable edition houses. Their story is professionally told with an artistic palliate that draws a reader into a sourroundings they have spun. Not once did we feel mixed from a story by some incongruence or another. Everything fit and all was described with a brush of those that truly know how to spin a good yarn.
I rarely suggest this book and am happy we purchased it in paperback so that no battery-outage or dropping of technological gizmos will ever dispossess me of picking it behind adult to examination nonetheless again.
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
By Randi J. Canning
Within a initial few pages of Betrayed, we was hooked. The novel is a frightening story of Brook, a lady abducted by 3 terrible men, and a days of fear endured during their hands.
It also tells a story of Lance, a male fed adult with society, who has done a unique life in a wilderness. Eventually, Brook stumbles opposite Lance after evading a squad who hold her.
I appreciated a approach a author shifted from Brook's indicate of perspective to Lance's. It done a overwhelming contrariety between a savagery of Brook's knowledge and a pacific protected inlet of Lance's life, giving me time to locate my breath. Just when we suspicion we couldn't take any some-more of what was function to Brook, a subsequent section came along to give service from a tragedy by focusing on Lance's life.
I also appreciated a sheer disproportion between a scurrilous inlet of a kidnappers' discourse compared to a normal and infrequently really honeyed discourse between Brook and Lance.
This is an startling book; a investigate in contrasts that creates any changeable stage container some-more punch. The commencement is harsh, violent, and disturbing. But, once Brook and Lance meet, it turns into a proposal adore story. Although both characters onslaught with complicated romantic container and really tellurian flaws, they assistance any other find a trail to emancipation and healing. When Brook left a cabin to go behind to her father in Denver, we cried. we won't spoil a ending, though we will contend a book had a gratifying end with startling and heated plots throughout.
The book was well-written and expertly paced. With a striking passionate violence, a book is for adults only. It was an interesting story, one we couldn't put down, and we can't wait to examination some-more by this author. we give this book 5 stars for originality, content, and plot.
4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By beachbaby
Betrayed was a rarely romantic story. There is rape in this so reader beware! Lots of vividly minute outline not usually with a assault or Brook's wounds though also a towering view and snowfall. we could simply design all of a characters. Parts of this book were really heartless though other tools were simply touching. It was tough to put down since we kept wanting to find out what was going to occur next.
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First tagged "contemporary" by
see full specs tags: crime fiction(14), kidnapping(13), new york(10), imaginative(9), quirky(9), long island(8), romantic suspense(8), parrot(8), adultery(7), quirky characters(7), gay private eye(4), rape(3)
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