The Duet is complete!
Thornes and Forgiveness, the all-new intense and fiercely emotional second book in the Twisted Legacy Duet from bestselling author CoraLee June is available now!
Determined to save my mother from her disastrous marriage, I sold my pride for a second chance with Hamilton Beauregard. I ached for him, but my heart refused to forgive.
Hamilton broke me. He betrayed me.
He made me fall in love with a lie.
While trying to figure out my feelings, we all had to navigate my mother’s toxic sham of a marriage and her husband’s deteriorating façade. My stepfather was dangerous. Deadly. During a tragic moment of weakness, his evil bloomed to life, and someone died.
Hamilton is the only way I’ll survive.
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Excerpt
“You want a goodbye, Hamilton?” I asked as the pain in my chest cracked and all the disappointment flowed out with a vengeance. What even was the truth anymore? Did he care about me? Did he think I wasn’t worth the effort?
He clenched his teeth, the move making his defined jaw harden into a sharp line. “I want a goodbye, Petal.” My heart cracked. I felt cheap. Used. I was done. Done with all of it. Done with the Beauregards. Done with the blackmail. Done with my mother’s guilt. My insecurities. I was done with him. Hamilton then choked out words that softened the blow. “I want you to live your life, Petal. I want you to be happy without me.”
I wrapped my legs around his middle and rolled us both over. Pressing him into the mattress, I shrugged out of my sleep tank and clawed at the soft fabric of his shirt. He quickly tore it from his body while kicking his boots off to the ground. “Fuck you, Hamilton,” I whispered before scraping my teeth along his chest. I savored him. I fought with him. My fingers undid the button to his pants, and he slid them down.
“Love you too, Petal,” he said in a reverent tone, his voice so soft that I almost didn’t hear it. It was the most tender sound. “I bet you’re drenched. You still want me. Even when I hurt you, your pussy aches for me.”
Shame filled me. This was some sick kink for Hamilton. He liked knowing he could still have my body after destroying my heart. I raged.
I groaned. “I want your cock. I want your goodbye. I want to get off so I can kick you out of my apartment and out of my life.”
We undressed like each scrap of fabric between us was a weapon. He bucked, I pressed him into the mattress. I lined up my sex with his and watched his lips part as I slowly slid down and began riding him. With him fully inside me, he groaned low and slow. I bent over to whisper in his ear. “Enjoy it while you can, because I’m done.”
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
The Twisted Legacy Duet is complete, and it was fantastic! Thorns and Forgiveness is crazy, it’s twisted, it’s emotional, it’s intense. Much like Vera, I equally loved and hated Hamilton at times! Thorns and Forgiveness is not a standalone; it is the page-turning conclusion to Bastards and Scapegoats, which needs to be read first.
While I felt that B&S was very much Vera’s story, we get a lot more of Hamilton’s side in T&F. The dude is messed up! Broken, vulnerable, and messed up! What started out as a revenge plot to expose his corrupted dad and brother turned into something so much more when he fell for Vera along the way. He is miserable without her, but can’t be WITH her in order to protect her. Of course, that doesn’t last very long, and Vera and Hamilton work together to bring down his wicked family.
There are so many twists and turns in this book. And my heart broke for Hamilton. All that he went through at the hands of his dad and brother, and how desperate he was for a place where he felt like he fit in. The Beauregard family is seriously messed up, and it’s a wonder that Hamilton had a shred of decency in there!
If you read B&S, then you know what you want out of T&F. And I felt like I got the conclusion I was looking for when it came to Vera and Hamilton’s love story. It’s sexy and spicy, full of lust and love, and an incredible thread of these stubborn soulmates being perfect for each other.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
About CoraLee
Coralee June is an international bestselling romance writer who enjoys engaging projects and developing real, raw, and relatable characters. She is an English major from Texas State University and has had an intense interest in literature since her youth.
She currently resides with her husband and two daughters in Dallas, Texas, where she enjoys long walks through the ice-cream aisle at her local grocery store.
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