Collateral (Collateral Damage #1) by Natasha Knight-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 23, 2019

Gabriela

Stefan Sabbioni showed up in my bedroom on my sixteenth birthday. Uninvited, he stood in the shadows smelling of whiskey and death and wrapped a broken, blood-crusted necklace around my neck.

I thought he’d strangle me with it.

That night, he left a message for my father. He said he’d be back to take something precious.

I never delivered that message, though. I wonder if things would be different if I had because now, two years later, he’s back. And he’s not hiding in any shadows.

He’s come to make good on his promise.
He’s back to take that something precious.
Me.

Stefan

Marchese is the manipulator of my family’s tragedy. I won’t just bring him to his knees. I’ll bury him for what he did.

Taking his daughter is only the beginning. I’ll do it knowing I’m starting a war. I’ll do it knowing my enemies will become his allies. They’ll stop at nothing to destroy me and he’ll stop at nothing to get her back.

I’ve never shied away from war, though. I’m not one to play nice and I don’t share my toys. I’ll demolish you if you touch what’s mine.

And she is most definitely mine.

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REVIEW:COLLATERAL is the first instalment in Natasha Knight’s contemporary, adult COLLATERAL DAMAGE dark romantic, mafia suspense duet. This is head of the Sicilian Sabbioni family, twenty-nine year old Stefan Sabbioni, and eighteen year old Gabriela Marchese’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Stefan and Gabriela) COLLATERAL focuses on a payment for a debt. Two years earlier Stefan’s brother Antonio was brutally murdered, and Stefan is determined to make everyone pay starting with Gabriela Marchese, the daughter of his enemy, and the woman he is hoping to destroy. Young and naïve, Gabriela has always been the pawn in her father’s game with family, friends and business acquaintances, and now Gabriela has become collateral damage in the most dangerous game of all. When her father signs over her life to Stefan Sabbioni, our heroine battles between head and heart going from one ‘prison’ to another. Her life no longer her own, our heroine begins to reflect on what has happened and why, believing she can no longer put her trust in any man.

Gabriela Marchese is immature and naïve, and her actions and emotional outbursts breed contempt with our story line hero. Unable to accept her current consequences, Gabriela begins to search for clues, looking for a way to escape. Friends will die; lives will be threatened as Gabriela seeks help from a dangerous source. Stefan Sabbioni only knows that vengeance is his to inflict following the grisly murder of his older brother. ‘Taking’ Gabriela Marchese is only the first step on his road to retribution but falling for the young beauty was never in the plans.

The relationship between Stefan and Gabriela is acrimonious and tempestuous. There is no romance, no love, only Stefan’s thoughts and desires to make Gabriela his own; and Gabriela’s need to escape her ‘gilded cage’.

We are introduced to Stefan’s cousin and right hand man Rafa, as well as his housekeeper Miss Millie: Gabriela’s father Gabriel Marchese, and Gabriela’s best friend Alex Romano.

COLLATERAL is a character driven story of family and betrayal; revenge and retribution. There are plenty of hints as to past behavior and events including the death of Gabriela’s mother, and her brother’s debilitating situation, hints that barely scratch the surface of what happened and why. The premise is intriguing and captivating; the characters are desperate and broken; the romance is virtually non-existent. COLLATERAL ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, Natasha Knight specializes in dark, tortured heroes. Happily-Ever-Afters are guaranteed, but she likes to put her characters through hell to get them there. She’s evil like that.

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