Published by Montlake Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Format: eARC
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Seraphine Dumont seems to have it all: she’s gorgeous, brilliant, and part of one of France’s most illustrious dynasties. But underneath the facade, Seraphine struggles to hold it all together. Besides grieving her adoptive father’s suspicious and sudden death, she also shares a tenuous role in the family business with Blaise, her in-name-only cousin. As tumultuous as their history is, he may be the only member of the deceptive Dumont family she can trust.
Seraphine is a temptation Blaise can’t resist. The torch he’s carried for years still burns. It’s his secret—a quiet obsession just out of reach. Until his brother demands that he spy on the increasingly cagey Seraphine, whom their father considers a dispensable Dumont outlier. But the more Blaise watches her and the closer he gets, the more he sees Seraphine may have every right to be suspicious. And she could be the next one in danger—from his own family.
As blood runs hot and hearts give in, Seraphine and Blaise have only each other. But can their love survive the secrets they’re about to uncover?
CHRISTINA’S THREE AND A HALF STAR REVIEW
Well….I think I set myself up on this one. What do I mean? I mean I think I was SOOOOO excited to read Seraphine’s story that I set the bar WAY TOO HIGH not only for myself, but for the author. So I’m trying to figure out if it’s really my fault or if I just wasn’t that in to the story itself. Sigh…..
Don’t get me wrong. This was still a good installation to the Dumonts series and I’ll still pick up the next one. But it felt…..different from the first in so many ways. Maybe that was the point and I’m completely missing it. Geez, I’m a idiot.
Still dealing with the loss of her father, Seraphine is more determined than ever to prove her suspicions about her uncle are correct. The problem is that her uncle is tied in to everyone and everything in Paris, and no one will believe her. So what does she do? She takes matters in to her own hands and investigates, trusting the one person she thought she’d never trust.
Turns out she was right not to trust him, and now faces another obstacle. Her cousin Blaise. Why is he an obstacle? Because they have some serious history that is way more complicated that most family issues. So here she is…again….having to trust, again. Can she? She doesn’t really have a choice.
Blaise hasn’t felt like a member of his family since….ever. In fact, the only person he’s ever felt knew him is the one person his father and brother want to destroy. Is the family name more important than doing the right thing? Is it too late to earn Seraphine’s trust again, especially after what they’ve been through? There’s only one way to find out.
There is a lot going on in this story. Not in a bad way, there’s just a lot of information to take in. Between Seraphine and Blaise’s past to the current investigation and drama, you’ll be pulled in enough to keep those pages turning. In fact, I found myself enjoying the flashbacks more than the current events (who knew). But despite my own confusing thoughts about this particular story, it’s still very much worthy of reading.
BOOK INFORMATION
Purchase link to all retail outlets: https://amzn.to/2WSyG9S
Disarm (Goodreads): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45693765
The Dumonts series (Goodreads): https://www.goodreads.com/series/257075-the-dumonts
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.
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