Title: Sparrow & Hawke
Series: Birdsong Trilogy #1
Author: Nina Lane
Genre: Forbidden Romance
Release Date: February 22, 2022
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Darius:
My attraction to her is wrong. I’m like the serpent in the Garden of Eden targeting Eve. Corrupting her.
I understand the serpent, though. When you’ve seen the worst of humanity, taken the brunt of evil, you crave purity and goodness. You want compassion and courage, even when it comes in a girl far too young and innocent for the likes of you.
Nell:
He says I’m too young and he’s too experienced.
He thinks I’m pure and he’s ruined.
He swears I don’t know enough and he knows too much.
He walks away because I’m fragile and he’s broken.
I want him, even though he can’t want me…
But he does.
Renee’s Five Star Reivew
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is my first time reading a Nina Lane book and man have I been missing out. This is the story of Nell and Darius. Nell Fairchild is eighteen, in high school in her senior year and even though she lives with her father she tends to feel alone all the time. This poor girl has really been through it with things happening that make her guarded and untrusting. But then Darius Hawke comes back into her life after six years. Where he once was someone she knew he is now basically a stranger to her now. Where he once was familiar he is now a stranger and quiet unnerving to her. On the other hand she fascinated by him too. In the past he has made her feel safe and like she had some stability in a life that is very turbulent. To her he is still comforting and familiar but he also makes her feel things that she has never felt before. All it took was one look from him and her whole world turned upside down. It isn’t very long before she has a big old crush that she keeps a secret and this makes her feel like she is alive again and not the invisible little girl no one ever notices.
Darius Hawke is a world renowned award winning photojournalist who has traveled all over the world. But when he experiences something that is earth shattering he needs a place to unwind and get back to some normal things in his life and heads back to small town Greenville where he has close friends that are just like family to him. and Nell. He is so attracted to her and knows that he should never be feeling this way about her. She is way to young and innocent and he is just the opposite and consumed with darkness. But wouldn’t two souls that are broken maybe just be better together? You have to read to find out what happens but I loved ever single second of this book!!
Darius Hawke is a world renowned award winning photojournalist who has traveled all over the world. But when he experiences something that is earth shattering he needs a place to unwind and get back to some normal things in his life and heads back to small town Greenville where he has close friends that are just like family to him. and Nell. He is so attracted to her and knows that he should never be feeling this way about her. She is way to young and innocent and he is just the opposite and consumed with darkness. But wouldn’t two souls that are broken maybe just be better together? You have to read to find out what happens but I loved ever single second of this book!!
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EXCERPT
The bathroom door clicks open.
With a start, I turn.
He’s paused in the doorway, wearing a pair of loose flannel pants and white T-shirt that clings to his shower-damp torso. A towel is looped around the back of his neck, and his hair is so wet it glistens.
My gaze locks on his chest, the landscape of hard slopes and ridges visible through the thin cotton. Water drips from his hair to his throat and cascades downward in little waterfalls. I have a sudden urge to become one of those droplets, winding my way over his body.
A hot glow fires in a deep, secret part of myself.
Tightening my grip on my bag, I indicate the stairs. “I’ll…um, wait in the kitchen.”
“I’ll just be a few minutes.”
I hurry downstairs. My nerves are like little electrical wires. Part of me is aware that this new level of noticing Darius isn’t right.
But why does it feel so…momentous?
I imagine this is what a bird feels like right before flying for the first time—nervous, excited, and trembling in anticipation of the wild, exhilarating leap into the sky.
COMING SOON
AUTHOR BIO
Though she was born and raised in California, Nina Lane now lives in Wisconsin where the winters are freezing and the cheese is exceptional. Mom to two teenagers and a neurotic dog, she lives in two worlds—one world of laundry, driving, horses, Girl Scouts, and football, and the other of epic romances between hot alpha heroes and the women who bring them to their knees. Nina only cooks when she can’t avoid it (i.e., there are no frozen pizzas left), binge-watches serial TV whenever she can get control of the remote, and checks in about the weather daily with her meteorologist husband. She’s a fan of popcorn, actual print magazines, French Roast coffee, working out, and trying new things…especially if it’s food.
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