The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
Sebastian Vaughn is haunted by the ghost of his dead lover.
After coming face to face with everything he lost, he’s on the run with a deadly assassin who’s on the verge of insanity. What else are you meant to do when the biggest ghost from your past stares you right in the face? Go with the flow, or die trying.
Xavier Blood never thought he’d fall in love, let alone work for the good guys.
Mercy Reid held him together during the darkest time of his life and now she’s an agent alongside him. Working Black Ops for the British government means two things. No accountability and no association. Get caught and you’re dead.
Their first assignment puts them on the trail of Vaughn, the assassin who saved his life, and the last living man who took everything from him, Jaques Lafayette.
The stakes are high, trust is a hot commodity and someone’s going to die.
Only time will tell whose blood will paint the world red.
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Review
Amity Cross’ Royal Blood series is made up of a collection of books that are well written, suspenseful, complex, and character and plot driven. Xavier Blood, the main character of the series, is quite the anti-hero, but in Love Like Blood, readers see the deprogrammed freed man with a bit of a conscience that he’s become with Mercy’s help, and it gives us hope that Vaughn will be able to get his Lorelei back even if the situations aren’t exactly the same.
Truth, revenge, and new beginnings are the main subjects of book 5. Lorelei needs answers, and she needs to figure out who she is now not who she was five years ago with Vaughn or even two weeks ago as the merciless assassin that she had been programmed to be. But as Lorelei struggles through the effects of getting her memories back, she doesn’t know how to go from a nameless killer to a woman who once had a life very different from the only one she can remember with a man she feels a connection to but can’t quite understand why.
All Vaughn wants to do is love and save Lorelei, but he’s not the one who can truly help her – the only one who can is the one who’s been through a similar torture, X, and due to the set of circumstances that brought all of them together, trust is not something they all feel towards each other, especially now that X and Mercy work for a branch of MI6.
Love Like Blood is divided into two parts – Blood Lust, the first one, deals with the aftermath of Lorelei’s decisions and her thirst to make those pay who had any hand in turning her into what she had become as well as Vaughn’s attempts to bring out the old Lorelei – the one he loved and never stopped.
In Love Like Blood, Vaughn and Lorelei and X and Mercy come together to put an end to the people responsible for the darkness that has consumed their lives for so many years, and regardless of the dangers or the fear of duplicity, they all work for a new beginning – one that won’t come easily, but one they’re willing to put everything on the line in order to get that chance.
One book remains in the Royal Blood series, and X and Mercy’s future has to be its topic because at the end of Love Like Blood, it’s unclear what path they plan to take, which means readers are in store for one more journey into the double dealings and darkened environment that surrounds a man who’s been changing ever since he made the decision to love Mercy instead of kill her and the woman who’s responsible for bringing X into the light, even if it’s still in edges of darkness.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 Poison Apples
Amity Cross isn’t her real name. That’s no secret.
She is the author of wicked stories about rock stars looking for redemption, gritty romances featuring MMA fighters and dark tales of forbidden romance. She loves to write about screwed up relationships and kick ass female leads that don’t take s**t lying down.
Amity lives in a leafy country town in southern Australia and can be found chained to her desk, held at ransom by her characters.
Don’t send help. She likes it.
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