PERFECT DRUG by Melinda Owens

Title:  PERFECT DRUG
Series:  Dark Knights in the City #1
Author:  Melinda Owens
Publisher:  Melinda Owens
Publication Date: 08.10.2021
Category /Genre:  Dark Romance, Suspense
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  A – near perfect
Received from:  Amazon purchase
Goodreads:  Perfect Drug
Completed:  12.02.2021
 
Publisher’s Description:
Charlie Delmonico is a fixer. It’s what he does for a living. He fixes all the city’s problems.

For a fee.

He wants to fix Amelia’s problems. Or use her for a fix, whichever works best.

Amelia works in the lobby of a building, until Charlie offers her a job she can’t refuse. Does she want to be fixed, though?

Or does she just want Charlie to see her? To know her?

When Charlie gets involved with a deal involving four other guys, to ruin the city’s leader of the underworld, Amelia gets stuck in the middle.

She sees his true colors, and it tears them apart.

Even though Charlie is her perfect drug.
 
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PERFECT is the first book in the Dark Knights in the City series.  This series will need to be read in order as there is an overlaying arc story concerning the ruin of Bascom Forrester, an underworld leader.
 
Charlie is a bad boy, but this is not a “bad boy romance.”  Charlie is not going to be redeemed into Ward Cleaver at the end.  He is who he has been brought up to be.  He is the deliciously naughtiest of men – in the bedroom and in his city.  As a good girl, I shouldn’t be drawn to him; I shouldn’t be intrigued.  I shouldn’t be craving a fantasy with him, but that’s what good stories are for!  I’m still a good girl, just like Amelia, but I have a new book boyfriend!
 
This story was great!  Suspense plus raw, gritty, emotional, dark romance.  Charlie would be the nemesis in any other story, but here he is finding the woman who completes him.  She sees all of him, not just what he projects to the world.  She accepts all of him, including what he projects to the world.  They are as Yin and Yang as two people could get, and yet they make as beautiful of a picture as a Yin-Yang symbol created from onyx and diamonds.
 
I absolutely loved this story and I look forward to continuing with the series…. I just have to know how Charlie and his cohorts ruin Bascom.  I have to know that they succeed. 
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Dark Knights in the City Series:
1.      Perfect Drug
2.      Strange Love
3.      Wicked Game
4.      Come Undone (releases 12.06.2021)
5.      Bittersweet Symphony (releases 01.17.2022)
Also from Melinda Owens:
·         The Secrets We Keep
 

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