Shane Brandon wants to change the family business dealings,
he wants to be legit. No more lies, no more corrupt
dealings living only by his own HARD RULES. He has a
problem his own brother likes the crooked life and doesn't
want to change. Into this world walks Emily Stevens, a
woman of sweetness and light, a light that Shane Brandon
desperately needs.
Emily finds herself immersed into a world she has never
expected to find herself in. She is falling deeper into the
darkness that is Shane and isn't sure what she will do. She
has secrets that could not just pull them apart but
demolish them so completely there will be no going back.
HARD RULES is a sexy, hard hitting read that will leave
you wanting the next in the Dirty
Money series. Shane is
a solid character, a good guy and prominent lawyer and I
enjoyed watching him work to straighten up the world he was
brought back into. He has an uphill battle before him
considering part of the family likes the status quo. Emily
was suppose to be a once and done but something keeps him
coming back to her. The added tension is, of course, the
secrets that belong to Emily, we get into Shane's problems
throughout the book but Emily is hiding something. The
moments between Shane and Emily are steamy, in fact that is
the biggest saving grace for this book. I did find her just
a bit irritating at times as she seemed to be a wishy-washy
because she keeps talking herself in and out of her
relationship with Shane but would end up right back with
him. I wanted a little more grit in the girl and knowing
her secrets might have had me a little more pro-Emily.
I am afraid that though I enjoyed this book very much, as I
do many of author Lisa Renee Jones' stories, at times it
seemed to drag. It could be that the pace was slower due to
the extra world building and character plotting for this
new series. I am hoping that the next book will cover a bit
more of Emily's life and maybe give her a backbone. For
those who prefer the completed story line and no
cliffhangers I must note that HARD RULES ends abruptly with
the very interesting line of "And HARD RULES number one is,
no more lies."
Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules,
the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively
sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times
bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
How bad do you want it?
The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass,
Shane Brandon is ready to take his family's business
dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother,
Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies,
deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull
the company back into the light, the darker he has to
become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only
stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only
thing anchoring him between good and evil.
Emily is consumed by Shane, pushed sexually in ways she
never dreamed of, falling deeper into the all-encompassing
passion that is this man. She trusts him. He trusts her, but
therein lies the danger. Emily has a secret, the very thing
that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret
that could that destroy them both.
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