Title: Complicated: A Tainted Love Novella
Author: Ghiselle St. James
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release Date: April 25th
Seven years ago, a secret had torn them apart, but their love always pulled them back together. Things have taken a turn for the worse, and once again, circumstances have brought them together. Can Rachel continue to hide behind her past, or will she stop running from the one man she would love forever? Can Marshall get his girl back, or will it always be a complicated cycle of make ups and break ups?
Oh my, what an amazing story. I loved Complicated: A Tainted Love Novella. This is my first time reading a Ghiselle St. James novels and it will not be the last. She really knows how to capture the reader. In the beginning I was thinking here we go again, another teenage love story but boy was I wrong. It was far more than your typical love story, fortunately for the reader we get to meet them when they were teenagers and fully understand the complicated side as the grow in age and love for each other.
There are two main characters, Rachel Wells and Marshall Keyes. I loved being able to read about each characters thoughts with each chapter. This was one reason why I fell in love with Rachel and Marshall. I loved being able to understand and feel each characters emotions and thoughts. I really felt like I was in the story following along with each character. I was happy when they were happy, I was sad when they were sad.
Rachel Wells, like Marshall Keyes, comes from high society life. Unlike Marshall, Rachel grew up with emotionally hardened parents. She never felt accepted, she always felt she had to prove her worth. You will understand why at the end of this book. Thankfully, she became best friends with Delilah Keyes who had wonderful loving parents and a really hot brother, Marshall.
Marshall Keyes was 5 years older than Rachel, he was in law school striving for greatness. It was love at first site when he saw Rachel. He fought to stay away from her, he knew it was wrong pursuing a 15 year old. But the night Rachel seduced him, all rules were out the window. He was hooked and was never letting go, he found his one and only love.
As we read on through their story, what great story doesn't have some bumpy roads and in their case, some car collisions. You will have to read for your self to find out the serious twists in their story. I will tell you, it left Rachel absolutely devastated and Marshall confused. Their relationship fell apart, they moved on in physicality but not emotionally. They were connected despite Rachel trying so hard to push away and forget. The reader is constantly rooting for Marshall to break down her walls and hold Rachel in his arms again.
The ending was devastating, major cliff hanger but it was so good I can not wait to read the next book in the series. You need to read Complicated: A tainted love novella. It is full of emotion, suspense, love, sadness, it is a complete roller coaster that you will refuse to stop reading because you are constantly wondering what is going to happen next. 5 Stars!
Tainted Love
The first in a new three book series from Ghiselle St. James: This is not a fairytale. This is not a story of a woman who is perfect. This is not the story of a perfect couple that sails off into the sunset. This is gritty. This is frustrating. This is heartbreaking. This is my story, hard as it may be to tell. ********** My name is Sullivan Beal – at least, that’s what I tell people – and I live life by my own rules. Most of my adult life has been spent hiding from my past. That is, until I meet HIM face-to-face. Ben Hayes is the demanding C.O.O. who is hell-bent on having me for himself. But, I’m wrong for him. I know it, the universe knows it. If he ever found out who I really am, how utterly tainted I am, he wouldn’t waste his time wanting me. There are things in my past that would destroy everyone in my wake. But Ben is relentless, trying to break down the walls around my heart that a messy past has caused me to construct. It’s a pity he doesn’t know…I am too tainted for love. “Love isn’t for me, and my kind of love is too tainted, too blemished to share with anyone.”
Broken Love (Tainted Love Book 2)
This isn't a perfect story. It's gritty, dark, frustrating but beautiful. Love isn't all hearts and flowers and bullshit declarations that are hollow and empty. If you love someone, you have to PROVE you're worth they're love. The road to happily ever after is paved with mistakes and horrible decisions...don't hold mine against me. The second in a three book series by Ghiselle St. James.
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Sullivan:
I have been captured by the only person I hate in this life; a person that I once foolishly loved. He is poison to me. Will I ever be free of him? Will I ever see Rachel again? Will I ever see my parents, my brother again? And Ben...will he ever know how I feel about him? So many wasted days I spent resisting him. A tear trickles down my face at that; because as I see Rick shaking that needle with a wicked gleam in his eye, I know this is the last time anyone will ever see me alive.
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Ben:
I've worked very hard to maintain this control I have, but in just a few weeks Sullivan Beal came into my life and toppled my carefully constructed walls, and for a moment I didn't care. Now that she is out of my life, I should be happy...but all I can do is think about her; how I miss her smile and how she made me feel free. I have to get her back. The love I have for her may not be perfect, but our relationship scarcely is. And that's what makes it perfect. She may be tainted with demons from her past that she holds close to her chest, but I will free her from them; because as frustrating as my sweet girl is...I'm in this for the long haul. She might be broken, but I love her anyway.
But one phone call...that dreaded phone call has me in a tailspin. Sullivan is kidnapped & it's a race against time to find her before he hurts her...
Or worse...
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