Sunday, March 29, 2020

SHARDS OF LOVE by Michele Zurlo


Title:  SHARDS OF LOVE
Series:  Mercenary Hearts #3
Author:  Michele Zurlo
Publisher:  Lost Goddess Publishing
Publish Date:   07.27.2018
Category /Genre:  Romantic Suspense, Erotic
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC copy / errors excused
Received from:  Michele Zurlo
Goodreads link: Shards of Love
Date completed: 03.20.2020

Description from the publisher:
“I’d wanted the fairy tale, and somewhere along the line I’d forgotten that everyone in a fairy tale paid a price.”

All Jessica ever wanted was a family.

When the unthinkable happens, Jessica finds herself adrift in a sea of grief. It’s going to take everything she has to pull her life together and fight for the life she wants.

Warning: Bondage, D/s, rape (not romanticized)
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SHARDS OF LOVE is the fourth book in the Mercenary Hearts series and the sixth in the SAFE Security series.  

In a world that is facing a “new normal” every day, it is strangely comforting to experience the SAFE Security team as they wrap their heads around all that they did or didn’t do right, wrong, should have, could have, would have done differently.  

There are a lot of hard issues to read in this story.  I can’t.  I won’t write about some of them, because of the spoilers, but suffice it to say that boundaries weren’t crossed, but they were questionable in the aftermath.  Yes, I know that is cryptic, but I had to intrigue you – bwahaha!  No, in all seriousness.  There are things that happen that make you think.  What would you do in that situation?  How would you feel in the end?  Was he right?  Was she?  Given what they knew at the time, not the 20/20 of hindsight?

There is a reason Jessica and Jesse’s story is a trilogy.  Like most real relationships, it is very complex; it required time to tell all of the important growth as they went from lust, to acceptance, deep and abiding love.  That’s what this final book in their path was about.  Reaching the true depth of their love that is beyond lust and co-parenting.  It was also about finding the D/s balance that actually worked for both of them, because every couple is unique.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

SAFE Security Series: 
1.      Treasure Me
2.      Switching It Up
Forging Love (Mercenary Hearts #0.5)
3.      Drawing on Love (Mercenary Hearts #1)
Broken Love (Mercenary Hearts #2)
4.      Shards of Love (Mercenary Hearts #3)
Also from Michele Zurlo:
·         Bear Country
·         Blade’s Ghost
·         Catherine and the Spanking Room
·         Discovering Desires
·         Dragon Kisses
·         Irrepressible Force
·         Master Eddie’s Sub (Club Alegeria #2)
·         Master Jett’s Surprise (Club Alegeria #3)
Awakenings Series: 
1.      Letting Go
2.      Owning Up
3.      Serving Sophia
4.      Hanging On
5.      Two Masters for Samantha
6.      Time to Pretend
7.      Stepping Stones
8.      Surreal Neal (Hanging on #2)
9.      In Their Hearts (Two Masters for Samantha #2)
Daughters of Circe Series: 
1.      Torment
2.      Desiree
3.      Riley
Doms of the FBI Series:
1.      Re/Bound
2.      Re/Paired
3.      Re/Claimed
4.      Re/Defined
5.      Re/Leased
6.      Re/Viewed
7.      Re/Captured
8.      Re/Deemed
Kiss Me Series: 
1.      Kiss Me Goodnight
2.      Kiss Me by Moonlight
Safe Word: Oasis Series: 
1.      Yes, Justin
2.      By My Side
3.      Out of My League
4.      Wanting Wilder
5.      Mina’s Heart











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