Crave Me Roughly /Embrace Me Darkly (Dark Alliance .5 & 1) by Kira James-reviews

CRAVE ME ROUGHLY
(Dark Alliance .5) by Kira James
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, paranormal, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 17, 2022

For almost twenty years, he’s been watching me in secret. This dark, sensual, dangerous man who steps out of the shadows to help me when I need it the most. He won’t accept any payment other than a kiss. But it’s a kiss that sparks a dark desire in a secret, hidden part of me. And when he touches me, all I crave is the kind of dangerous passion that he offers.

Then I learn the truth—he’s not a man at all. He’s a vampire.

The love that burns between us is forbidden, but now it’s too late for me to turn back. Perhaps it always was. Because no matter how much danger stalks us both, I’ll sacrifice anything to keep him safe.

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REVIEW:  CRAVE ME ROUGHLY is the prequel novella in Kira James’ contemporary,adult DARK ALLIANCE paranormal, romance series. This is the introductory story line focusing on vampire Lucius ‘’Luke’ Drago, and twenty-five year old, attorney/prosecutor Sara Constantine.

Told from first person perspective (Sara), and third person (Luke) CRAVE ME ROUGHLY follows as Sara Constantine continues to search for the person(s) who killed her father. Approximately seventeen years earlier, Sara’s father was murdered, in a vampire-like killing. For as long as she can remember, Sara has search for information about her father’s death, often going in search of her own clues and information. The recent murder of four teens in a similar style to her father’s killing, has Sara searching for more information but our heroine suspects she has a stalker,a stalker who is about to claim Sara as his own. Enter vampire Lucius ‘Luke’ Drago. What ensues is the quick building relationship and proclamation of love, and the fall-out as the past has targeted our heroine for something she knows nothing about.

CRAVE ME ROUGHLY is a fast paced, quick read that reveals some of the background for the author’s upcoming series. We know very little about the main characters, their history or the who, what and why. CRAVE ME ROUGHLY is a tease, just enough to to leave the reader wanting more.

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EMBRACE ME DARKLY
Dark Alliance 1
by Kira James
Release Date: October 27, 2022
Genre:adult, contemporary, erotic, paranormal, romance

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Turns out I’m a good girl, who likes very bad boys. No, not boys. Monsters.

I don’t think much of it when I hook up with the brooding stranger making eyes at me from across the bar. Not until I run into him a second time… This time he’s an accused killer, and it’s my job to get him put away for good.

I soon learn there’s much more to this guy than meets the eye. For starters, he’s a vampire accused of murder—and he’s my first case as a prosecutor newly recruited into a top-secret judicial system that oversees the comings and goings of the city’s supernaturals. Not surprisingly, he’s telling me I shouldn’t waste my time focusing on him, when there’s a far worse killer still on the loose.

My head knows I shouldn’t trust anything he tells me, but my body still remembers the ecstasy it felt at his hands, and my heart is whispering that maybe I should take a chance and trust him.

But siding with the man I’m meant to convict will risk more than just my job. It could also end my life…

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REVIEW: EMBRACE ME DARKLY is the first full-length instalment in Kira James’ contemporary, adult DARK ALLIANCE erotic, paranormal romance series. This is the continuing story of ancient vampire Lucius ‘Luke’ Dragos, and prosecutor Sara Constantine. There is a prequel novella CRAVE ME ROUGHLY that reveals some of the background between Sara and Luke. EMBRACE ME DARKLY advances the series approximately three years.

NOTE: The Dark Alliance series was originally published as the Shadowkeepers Series but the new release has been extensively revised.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

SOME BACKGROUND: Twenty years earlier, Sara Constantine’s father Frank was murdered, in a vampire-like killing. Sara had searched most of her adult life for information regarding her father’s death but nothing and no one claimed to know what happened. Three years ago, Sara met a man and fell in love only to discover said man was a vampire, and in the end, neither one was able to remember the other in the face of wiped memories, and broken hearts.

Told from third person perspectives EMBRACE ME DARKLY following several paths, focuses on attorney Sara Constantine as she is tasked with prosecuting Lucius Dragos, the vampire accused of killing Judge Marcus Braddock. Sara is a recent hire at the PEC (Preternatural Enforcement Commission), a Division of Homeland Security, in the wake of a big win in the human courts. Her first assignment with the PEC is to prove the man with whom she is falling in love is a violent vampire who has yet to gain control of his evil side but all is not as it appears to be, and Sara finds herself at a crossroads, a conflict of interest ignored by both sides. Secrets reveal a war between the Therians and the vampires is on the horizon, and the killing of the judge is the precipice upon which the war will be declared, and Sara’s last case working for the human court is about to implode.

There is a large ensemble cast of supernatural characters and creatures-vampires, demons, hellhounds,Therians aka Weres; fairies, goblins and ogres. We are introduced to several including Half-demon, PEC Agent Ryan Doyle, gifted human Agent Tucker; siren and paralegal Blair; Lucius’ friend Sergius aka Serge; Ancient vampire and liaison to the Shadow Alliance Tiberius; Nikko Leviathan, the Direct of Division 6, Head of Violent Crimes: Luke’s ward,500 year old vampire Tasha; female vampire Caris; werewolf J. Frank Murray; and Shadow Alliance advocate Nicholas Montague.

EMBRACE ME DARKLY is a complex, detailed and intricate story of the supernatural, of the beast within that must be controlled. The premise is intriguing and angst filled; the romance is seductive; the characters are numerous, energetic, powerful and dynamic.

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Reviewed by Sandy