Title: TIED DOWN
Series: Nailed Down #2
Author: Chelle Bliss & Eden Butler
Publisher: Bliss Ink, LLC
Publish Date: 06.12.2018
Category /Genre: Romantic Suspense
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing: book received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Chelle Bliss (as an ARC gifted copy)
Tour by: Bare Naked Words
Goodreads link: Tied Down
Date completed: 06.03.2018
Description from the publisher:
Cara Carelli is a silver-tongued
mafia princess, master manipulator, and the only woman I’ve ever loved. But
she’s also smokin’ hot and my ex-wife.
When Cara led me straight into a
trap and pleaded for my help, I couldn’t say no. She thought she had the upper
hand, but this time, I was in control and planned to make her beg.
They say all’s fair in love and war
and turnabout’s fair play, but what starts out as a wickedly seductive ploy
turns into a twisted game of the heart.
Tied Down is the second full-length
book in the Nailed Down series by USA Today bestselling author Chelle Bliss and
Eden Butler.
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TIED DOWN is the second book in the
Nailed Down series, but they each could stand completely on their own. On the other hand, Kiel is Kaden’s brother
and they do show up in each other’s stories.
You just don’t have to know one story to understand the other.
I’m going to start with the
elephant: for anyone who has an issue
with cheating – let’s call it a matter of semantics. Let’s face it, they’ve been married for the
past five years, but not together. He’s
been living the life of a single man and while not directly addressed, I had to
reconcile that in my own brain. What did
it for me was remembering when my own ex left me. The healing began when I started calling him
my “ex.” After being crushed, you move
on. That’s what he thought he was doing.
Once I reconciled that, then I had
to figure out a way to quit calling her “the bit**” in my head, since she
caused all of the heartache with her childish princesses antics. Well, isn’t that the point! She was a child. She is a (mafia) princess. She needed to realize a marriage is TWO
people, not ‘All for One (her).’ I thought
she needed a smack upside the head a few times.
Ultimately she got it, figuratively speaking.
When they reunite, the anger and
hatred was intense, but so was the simmering passion. I was spell-bound; turning page after page to
get closer and closer to their HEA.
Instead there was obstacle after obstacle!
Their story may have had some sweet
times. It definitely had a lot of sexy
sexy SEXY time. Mostly it had bite my
lip to keep from laughing, to keep from groaning, or to keep from yelling times. It was
aggravating, frustrating, suspenseful, and hopeful. I live for the hopeful and that’s what makes
me love this book. It was simply –
amazing!
My
final note:
I loved the theme of family ties winning over anything and anyone
else. You may have noticed from some of
my other reviews that I love Disney movies.
This particular theme made me think of Lilo and Stitch. [OHANA PIC]
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A nice bonus: If you purchase the paperback from
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Note: while I was given this book as a gifted ARC,
my opinions are my own and are given freely.
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Nailed Down series:
1.
Nailed Down
2.
Tied Down
3.
(there will be more!)
Also from Chelle Bliss:
·
Mend
·
Misadventures of a Speed Demon
(coming soon)
·
Owned
·
Top, Bottom, Switch
ALFA
Private Investigations Series:
4.
Guilty Sin
Filthy
Politics Series:
1.
Dirty Work
3.
Dirty
Defiance
Love
at Last Series:
1.
Untangle Me
2.
Kayden: The Past
Men of Inked series:
1. Throttle Me
1.5 Throttled
2.2 Resisting
2.3 Rebound (Night
Shift Anthology)
3. Resist Me
4. Uncover Me
5. Without Me
6. Honor Me
7. Worship Me
Takeover
Duet:
1.
Acquisition
2.
Merger
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Also from Eden Butler:
·
Crimson Cove
·
Fall
·
Infinite Us
·
I’ve Seen You Naked and Didn’t Laugh
·
Platform Four
God of
Rock Series:
1.
Kneel
2.
Beg
Seeking
Serenity Series:
1.
Chasing Serenity
1.5 Behind the Pitch
2.
Finding Serenity
3.
Claiming Serenity
4.
Catching Serenity
Shadows
Series:
0.5
Swimming in Shadows
1.
Shadows and Lies
Thin Love
Series:
1.
Thin Love
1.5 My Beloved
2.
Thick Love
3.
Thick & Thin
3.5 My Always
KIEL
Her hair was thick lush, and I
twirled it between my fingers, using it to guide her head to the left as I
licked a path along her neck. “You taste exactly like I thought you would.
Sweet.” I nibbled at the dip beneath her throat, then up to her ear.
“Succulent.” Teeth tugging on her lobe, I released the smallest growl. “Hot.”
“Ah…”
Legs was a beautiful woman, and
despite how my mother had raised me, despite what I knew was right and wrong, I
was about to f*ck her in an empty bathroom at the JFK airport. It made no sense
to want this woman, but I did. She reminded me of…
“Antonia!” I heard, and the woman in
my arms broke away from me, pushing me back against the wall like she wasn’t
supposed to be anywhere near me.
“I…”
Two oversized men stood in the
center of the room, stoic and stern, but neither of them had called her name.
The sound of clicking heels met us from behind those men, and they broke apart,
moving aside, and the clicking got louder.
Cara stood in front of us, looking
fierce. More beautiful than I’d ever seen her, but she paid no attention to me.
She glared at Legs, her face tight with anger. “I told you to get him here,”
she said, taking two more steps that put her right in front of us. “I never
said you could try to f*ck my husband.”
Tension moved between my shoulders
at the sound of her voice, and that feeling I’d had all day burned inside my
gut like a virus. Cara moved her head, gesturing for Legs to leave before she
faced me. There was something cool and detached in her features, and just that
look was warning enough. I should have bolted for the door.
F*cking hell, I should have listened
to my brother’s warning.
But I hadn’t, and just then, Cara
faced me, keeping her features stern and her eyes dull.
“Hi, Kiel,” she said, reaching out a
hand to adjust my tie. “Welcome home.”
Thank you
for
hosting this tour.
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