Title: Fatal
Series: Portland Street Kings #2
Author: Evie Harper
Genre: Contemp Romance w/ Suspense
Release: March 30, 2016
Goodread: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23761768-fatal
Mackson King’s past is a dark, horror-filled chasm that could swallow the toughest, most dangerous men. A member of the notorious Portland Street Kings, he’s impossible to intimidate—but he can be hurt. He learned that the hard way, thanks to her. Lana. The one woman capable of easing his nightmares, of soothing his demons, was the very woman who shredded his heart. She took away his torments, only to become one of them.
Born into a family who lost their way long before she arrived, Lana Scavello has carefully enforced a steely interior that shields her heart from harm. But that doesn’t mean she can’t cry, and she’s spared Mackson King more tears than he ever deserved. Finding Lana at her most vulnerable, saving her when she felt the most invisible, he burrowed beneath her defenses to carve his own personal door to her soul. Only to decimate it, along with everything she’d ever known.
Now, years later, fate has thrown the couple together once more. Pain, heartbreak and betrayal will explode to the surface, leaving both of them raw, aching, exposed. And that’s when their true love story begins…
Fatal Wounds – they can be inflicted both mentally and physically, and some go deeper than others, depending on who perpetuates those cuts.
For Lana, her father and her brother beat her down with their words and their actions, never seeing her as more than someone to berate and shred her confidence, so she cowered to them and their demands. But the deepest wound – the one that ultimately broke her until she had the courage to build herself back up for herself and no one else – was the love of her young life, Mackson,
Mack’s gashes are many due to how he grew up and the fact that he could only rely on himself until he found his true family with Slater, but when the one person who meant everything to him…the person who he believed in more than anyone else and thought believed in him just as much betrays him, Mack becomes someone else, allowing those wounds to solidify and mold around his heart.
5 years is more than enough time to allow hatred and darkness to build, so when Lana and Mack are forced together due to a war just waiting to explode between Lana’s brother’s gang and the Portland Kings, emotions run high and truths are exposed that rock everyone to their core, making both Lana and Mack wonder if they can mend a relationship that ended with a series of misdeeds, becoming a better version of what they were.
Evie Harper’s Portland Street Kings series is an intense and volatile ride that focuses on what happens when people learn to protect themselves and those they love by any means necessary. There’s a lot of bad blood between Lana’s brother’s crew and Slater’s, which puts Lana right in the middle, almost like a pawn in a twisted game – a place she refuses to be but nonetheless finds herself in due to her connection with both sides.
A lot goes down in a short amount time in Fatal, and even at the end of the text, there’s still plenty up in the air – situations that can end fatally for many involved. The mafia connection will need to be explored more in the stories to come because there isn’t a significant amount of insight provided but now that Della’s story is coming, I’m sure all will be revealed and the danger will only get more intense, which is saying something based on what’s already gone down in the series.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4 Poison Apples
Evie is an Australian author whose passion for reading lead her into writing. Evie spends her days writing heartbreaking, suspense filled love stories with happily ever afters. Evie’s characters are strong alphas with even stronger heroines who bring sexy sass to the relationship.
HOSTED BY:
Fairest Of All Book Reviews 