Dirty
Promises
By Karina
Halle
RELEASE
DAY: Sept 15
Blood. Sex. Revenge.
Being king comes at a brutal
price.
Drug lord Javier
Bernal has sliced and diced his way to the top of the Mexican drug trade,
presiding over the country's largest cartel. But his rise to power comes at a
brutal price: the death of his sister, Alana. Devastated and wracked with
guilt, he turns away from his new wife, Luisa, forcing their marriage into a
steady decline. But it isn't until she's pushed into the waiting arms of
Esteban Mendoza, his right-hand man, that Javier realizes everything he's lost.
And it isn't until he
learns the truth about Alana, that he realizes everything there is to gain.
Blood will spill.
Cities will burn.
Heads will roll.
Because Javier will
stop at nothing until he gets what he wants.
And what he wants is
raw, ruthless revenge.
**Dirty Promises is the third and final book in the Dirty Angels Trilogy.
While the other two books - Dirty Angels and Dirty Deeds - can be read as
standalones, it is recommended you read at least Dirty Angels before reading
Dirty Promises.
All my life, I thought
I could operate under my own code of morals and ideals. It was no different
than most, I supposed. The cop who has to shoot someone in self-defense. The
soldiers that go to war and raid villages in the name of freedom. Everyone
makes excuses for what they do, because they believe in it. Because they
believe they are in the right.
I had always thought
of myself as a somewhat civilized, almost classy, narco. I at least wanted to
bring purpose and grace to what I did. I didn’t believe in killing mercilessly.
I believed in mercy, in forgiveness, in giving people second chances. I
believed in letting people go after I got what I wanted from them.
I believed that to
snitch was an outrage, that even though we were dealing and fighting and
killing to be in a billion dollar industry. I believed that religious
celebrations were to be respected. I believed that family came first. I
believed that women and children would not be harmed.
For a moment, I
thought that perhaps I had lost my mind. Never mind the needless, senseless
deaths that were already at my hands over the last few months. Never mind that
I had broken promises to others, to myself. Dirty, filthy promises. It was then
and only then that I knew I had lost who I was. That every moral fibre that I
based myself on was threadbare and I was close, oh so close, to losing all
sense of myself forever.
It scared me. I
watched Luisa leave the room and though I was reeling from her own words, the
callous ones that reached deep inside me and left a scar, I knew I might have
damaged her beyond repair. I could heal myself in time, but could she? Would
we?
I didn’t think so.
Before picking up the Dirty Angels Trilogy, I hadn’t read
anything dark from Karina. Only her
contemporary romances. These books
literally blew me away. I might be a
little late to the table with this one, considering everyone has been telling
me to start these books for a long time!
From the first book I read from Karina, I knew she had a
gift of writing and it is very, very clear that is not just one genre. It moves across multiple ones. She captivates from the very start, and it
has you flipping the pages until the very end.
So in Dirty Promises, which is the last installment of
the Dirty Angels Trilogy, we see Javier and Luisa ruling the most powerful
Cartel in Mexico. He is slowly
unraveling, distracted, racked with guilt, and a lot of pain. This is causing a strain on his relationship
with Luisa.
While he’s busy not paying the attention to his ‘dynasty’
something is happening and someone is going to try to make a play for Javier’s
position.
Just when you think you know the depths of depravity
these characters will go to, you will be completely surprised that it doesn’t
stop there. This book was very dark and
twisted, and might not be for everyone, BUT I loved it. You will not find hearts and flowers in this
book, you will find cruelty, brutality, and LOYALTY.
So where are all of my dark romance lovers at? This series is for you. You will not be disappointed!
Karina Halle is a
former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky, Racing the
Sun, The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20
other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British
Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine,
hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented
by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Atria
Books/Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.
Hit her up on
Instagram at @authorHalle , on Twitter at @MetalBlonde and on Facebook. You can
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