Surviving the childhood trauma of his parents' untimely deaths in the early skirmishes of World War I, MΓΌmtaz is raised and mentored in Istanbul by his cousin Ihsan and his cosmopolitan family of intellectuals. Having lived through the tumultuous cultural revolutions following the fall of the Ottoma
At Peace
β Scribed by Kristen Ashley
- Publisher
- Kristen Ashley
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 318 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Violet Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal madman. During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her neighbor to turn the music down. And that's when she meets sinister, scarred, scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan.
She wants to deny it, but Violet can't beat back the hunger she feels for Joe so she gives in again and again. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi's hunger, breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.
Even though Violet had only one man in her life, she's sure Joe is giving her the signals and Vi decides she's ready to take a second chance at life and, maybe, love. But Violet doesn't know the dark secrets in Joe's past, secrets so soul-wrenching, they've drained him dry. With nothing left to give, Joe's determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet's heart.
Crushed by Joe's betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter what signals he gave, Joe was not...
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