Exposed (Madame X #2) by Jasinda Wilder-Review, Excerpt & Giveaway

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EXPOSED (Madame X #2) by Jasinda Wilder-Review, Excerpt and Giveaway

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EXPOSED
Madame X #2
by Jasinda Wilder
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, erotic, romantic suspense
Release Date: March 1, 2016

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About the book: Release Date March 1, 2016

Everything Madame X has ever known is contained within the four walls of the penthouse owned by her lover, her keeper, the man who controls her every move and dominates her desires. While Caleb owns her body, someone else has touched her soul. X’s awakening at the hands of Logan’s raw, honest masculinity has led her down a new path, one that is as exciting as it is terrifying.

But Caleb’s need to own her completely knows no bounds, and he isn’t about to let her go. Not without a fight that could destroy them all…

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REVIEW: EXPOSED is the second installment in Jasinda Wilder’s contemporary, adult MADAME X erotic, dark romantic suspense series focusing on a woman known only as Madame X. The continuing story finds our heroine caught between the only life that she knows, and the man who calls to her heart. EXPOSED should not be read as a stand alone as the story line continues upon the events of book one –Madame X.

Some background: X is a woman who has no memory and no knowledge except for the previous six years, and in this, she relies on billionaire Caleb Indigo-a man whose control over Madame X is virtually master to a slave. Caleb is X’s rescuer, her confident, her protector, her master, and the darkness to her light.

Told from first and second person points of view (Madame X) EXPOSED follows X as she endeavors to break free from the only lifestyle she has known for the previous six years. Caleb Indigo is a man who controls every aspect of X’s life, but X has discovered that there is more outside of the four walls that have held her prisoner –there is freedom, and there is Logan-the man that will open her eyes and her heart to her past, her present and her possible future; and there is the truth.

EXPOSED is a startling, raw, twisted and revealing look at one woman’s struggle to set herself free from a man who regulates and holds dominion over her life. The tragedy that is X finds our heroine caught between two worlds, and two men who both profess their need for a woman who knows nothing about herself. The ‘love triangle’ aspect of the story line is a bit disconcerting as X is unable to let go of the ‘safety net’ Caleb has provided. The intriguing aspect of the unknown begins to build as X slowly recovers some of the memories from her past, and the darkness that lies behind the man who claims to have saved her life. Caleb’s control over X is methodical and relentless; there is evil behind his pursuit of X.

EXPOSED follows Logan and X’s developing relationship; a path towards a future that holds the truth of what was and what can be but Logan’s love for X may never be enough if X is unable to get free of the man who dominates every aspect of her life. Caleb’s capture, control and mastery of X’s life goes more than skin deep but into the heart and soul. Logan’s love may never be enough.

Jasinda Wilder’s EXPOSED is disturbing, aggressive, frightening and dramatic. The premise is incensing, stimulating and intoxicating; the characters are damaged, provocative, and charismatic; the $ex scenes are erotic, impassioned and intense. Jasinda Wilder will entertain the darkest recesses of your mind.

Copy supplied by the publisher through Netgalley

Reviewed by Sandy

excerpt

I wake sobbing.
Nightmares of sirens and flashing lights and a pair of cold cruel dark eyes staring haughty and inscrutable down at me as I am used like a receptacle. Nightmares of a perfect body pinning me to an elevator door. Sorcery, stealing my will, manipulating my desires, cool silk of a tie wiping my face. Rain cold and wet and windblown, shifting shadows and blood and pain.
My dream is pervaded by a voice: “Isabel, you’re okay. It was just a dream.”
Who is Isabel?
The voice is in my ear, soft and tender and warm. “I’m here, Isabel.”
Oh, it’s me. I’m Isabel.
I am Isabel; I have to remind myself that it is true.
I am lifted, cradled. I hear a heartbeat under my ear, feel soft cotton under my cheek. I am lying on top of him, as if he is my bed. His hands smooth in caressing circles on my back.
I cannot stop sobbing.
My eyes burn with hot tears, and I try to stop them, but I can’t. “L-Logan—”
“Ssshhh. It’s okay. I’m here.”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry—I can’t—can’t stop—”
“Don’t apologize, sweetheart. Cry if you need to. I’ve got you. I won’t let go.”
I can only cling to him and cry. My whole body shakes with shuddering, wracking sobs, as if a lifetime of pent-up tears are being ripped out of me wholesale.
I don’t know how long it lasts. Minutes? Hours? A measureless time of weeping. I think I have cried more in the last twelve hours than in all my life.
Eventually, I am able to breathe normally and the sobs and shudders fade.
I remain still, barely breathing now.
On top of Logan.
Aware of him, suddenly.
Completely attuned to every inch of him, stretched out beneath me. His arms around me, his chin tucked against the top of my head. His denim-sheathed thighs beneath mine, thick and hard. His breath on my hair. His hips nudging mine. My hands on his pectoral muscles, my breasts crushed against his sternum.
There is a shift then. A charge to the air. Electricity crackling.
And now, between one breath and the next, it is sexual, the way I’m lying on him.
I can’t breathe again, but for a different reason.
I can’t breathe for wanting him.
Needing him.
“Isabel . . .” he breathes.
“Logan—”
“I need you to get up,” he says, and it isn’t what I expected. “There are still some people working out there, and in a few more seconds I’m going to forget that.”
“What would happen if you did, Logan?” I ask. I don’t recognize the daring, the boldness, the raw hunger in my voice.
His fingers twine gently into my hair and pulls, tipping my face up to his.
It’s me, this time,
kissing him,
and kissing him,
and kissing him.
My fingers wrap around the back of his head, clinging to the nape of his neck, pulling him closer, pulling myself higher on his body, needing needing needing to be closer to him, to press my lips more completely against his, to taste him, to feel him. I breathe him. His hand, resting on my back, slides lower. I arch against him, press my body against his. There is no part of me that isn’t touching him. I pause to breathe, gasping against his lips. I want more of me to touch more of him. I want all of him, all of me, all of us.
I crave completion, of a kind only Logan can provide.
He feathers his mouth against mine, a teasing brush of lips against lips, heat of breath on tasting tongue.
“That will happen,” he whispers.
“Oh,” I murmur.
“Yeah, oh.” His fingers are tangled in my hair, applying gentle delicious pressure to my scalp, keeping my face tilted to his. “And now I can’t stop.”
“I don’t want you to.”
“I have to,” he says. “Or there won’t be any stopping at all.”
“Logan . . .”
“I want you. I need you. But Isabel, you deserve better—we deserve better—than on a couch in my conference room, with a dozen people on the other side of the wall.”

About The Author

Jasinda Wilder

 

Jasinda Wilder is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestselling author. She is a Michigan native and currently lives there with her family. Visit her official website at jasindawilder.com.

 

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