Item: Craving
Rating: 1.00
Author: danielleackleymcphail

by Helen Hardt

After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend's ranch on the Colorado western slope. Her humiliation still ripe, she doesn't expect to be attracted to her friend's reticent brother, but when the gorgeous cowboy kisses her, all bets are off.

Talon Steel is broken. Having never fully healed from a horrific childhood trauma, he simply exists, taking from women what is offered and giving nothing in return...until Jade Roberts catapults into his life. She is beautiful, sweet, and giving, and his desire for her becomes a craving he fears he'll never be able to satisfy.

Passion sizzles between the two lovers...but long-buried secrets haunt them both and may eventually tear them apart.

I didn't care for the constant cursing and I didn't completely buy how the relationship went from nice to meet you to hard-core sex with barely a stop in between, but the reason for my score is that the author did not give a complete story. There is half a book here and the need to pick up the next one to have a complete story. I have no problem with a prolonged story line across a series, but each book in the series should have some closure by the time the last page is read, even if everything isn't completely wrapped up. Don't give me half of a book and then expect me to buy any of those that come after it.

Craving (Steel Brothers Saga, #1)

by Helen Hardt

Reviewed by Danielle Ackley-McPhail on Jun 5, 2018

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