Bane, the highly-anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by L.J. Shen is LIVE!!!

This was the best book of 2018 so far!!! I loved this couple and you can not miss it!!!

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Bane

Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.

Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.

Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.

Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.

Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.

Jesse Carter

Hot as hell, cold as ice.

I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.

She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.

She is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her oil tycoon stepdad.

More than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.

Little does she know, I have the f****** teeth for it.

 

Review

“My Whole Life Has Been Pledged to This Meeting with You”
  

Oh my God, I do not know how to explain it, now I'm sitting, looking at the screen, thinking what to write to describe all the mixed feelings I have and can not think of anything, I have no words to do justice to the story of Bane and Jesse, my heart is full with their emotions and their scenes, with their dialogues, with everything that they made me feel.

L.J. Shen surpassing herself again and creates an epic, poetic, unique, and completely unbeatable story that left me with an epic book hangover.

Bane is a captivating journey, sexy, raw, that catches your heart, squeezes it and does not let go, that will leave you breathless and that takes the anguish to a new level. A heartbreaking and emotional story, but at the same time so beautiful, absolutely unforgettable.

The characters are so complex, different, and intriguing but I could not get enough of them. Jesse, my dear Jesse, is a heroine not very typical, so unique, broken, shattered, but at the same time so brave, strong and so real, a girl who suffered a hell and returned completely transformed. I fell completely in love with her. She's my new favorite heroine of Mrs. Shen.

 “Snow White waited for the prince. You’ll be the one saving yourself in this story.” 

Bane, my problem boy, lives under his own rules and questionable moral, is a real bad boy, sexy as hell, rude, but despite everything I was completely and absolutely in love with him. He won my heart and replaced Dean in him.

Both characters are so unique, they wrapped me in their story and made me feel so much, my heart suffered, wept, laughed and loved with them. All their scenes together were so perfect, sexy with a dark edge, it gave me chills, accelerated my heart, made me sweat my hands, provoked butterflies in my stomach, drained me emotionally. This is not the typical love story, it is about evolve, but above all it is about how the protagonists as they relate and knowing each other, help to find themselves, to transform themselves and to heal. 

As usual the author exceeded all my expectations and gives us her best work so far, which is not a surprise because every time I read a new story of her, the only predictable thing is the unexpected. I have followed her work from the beginning and I have to say that in each new story she achieves the unthinkable, create a better than the previous one. Their words are magical, hypnotic, it enchant you, it wrap you and it do not let you go, it contain so much emotion that it transport you to the story and make you live with the characters all their history.

I completely loved the plot from the first page, it had me hooked from the beginning and I could not stop until I finished, I practically inhaled the pages, a plot full of surprises, elaborated and shocking, with so much anguish and drama that left me drained emotionally.

Infinite stars!!!!

“Snowflakes teach us the lesson that if you live long enough, you will eventually get soiled. But even your stains won’t tarnish your beauty.”

 

EXCERPT

Bane Then. A liar. A con. A godless thief. My reputation was a big wave that I rode, one that swallowed everyone around me, drowning every attempt to fuck with what’s mine. I’d been known as a stoner, but power was my real drug of choice. Money meant nothing. It was tangible, and therefore easy to lose. See, to me, people were a game. One I’d always known how to win. Move the rooks around. Change the queen when necessary. Guard the king at all fucking times. I was never distracted, never deterred, and never jealous. So, imagine my surprise when I found myself being all three at once. It was a siren with coal black hair who robbed me of riding the biggest wave I’d seen that summer. Of my precious attention. Of my goddamn breath. She glided from the ocean to the beach like nightfall. I crouched down, straddling my surfboard, gawking. Edie and Beck stopped beside me, floating on their boards in my periphery. “This one’s taken by Emery Wallace,” Edie had warned. Thief. “This one’s the hottest masterpiece in town.” Beck had chuckled. Con. “More importantly, she only dates rich bastards.” Liar. I had all the ingredients to pull her in. Her body was a patch of fresh snow. White, fair, like the sun shone through her, never quite soaking in. Her skin defied nature, her ass defied my sanity, but it was the words on her back that made my logic rebel. It wasn’t her curves or the way she swayed her hips like a dangling, poisonous apple that warranted my reaction to her. It was that tattoo I had noticed when she swam close to me earlier, the words trickling down the nape of her neck and back in a straight arrow. My Whole Life Has Been Pledged to This Meeting with You Pushkin. I only knew one person who went gaga over the Russian poet, and, like the famous Alexander, he was currently six feet under. My friends began to paddle back to shore. I couldn’t move. It felt like my balls were ten tons heavy. I didn’t believe in love at first sight. Lust, maybe, but even that wasn’t the word I was looking for. No. This girl fucking intrigued me. “What’s her name?” I snatched Beck’s ankle, yanking him back to me. Edie stopped pedaling and looked back, her gaze ping-ponging between us. “Doesn’t matter, bro.” “What’s. Her. Name?” I repeated through a locked jaw. “Dude, she’s, like, way young.” “I will not repeat myself a third time.” Beck’s throat bobbed with a swallow. He knew damn well that I didn’t mess around. If she was legal—it was on. “Jesse Carter.” Jesse Carter was going to be mine before she even knew me. Before I even knew her. Before her life turned upside down and her fate rewrote itself with her blood. So here was the truth that even my lying ass wouldn’t admit later on in our story—I wanted her before. Before she became business. Before the truth caged her in. Before the secrets gushed out. I never did get to surf that day. My surfboard broke. Should have known it was an omen. My heart was going to be next in line. And for a small chick, she did one hell of a fucking job obliterating it.

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About LJ Shen

 
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat. Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards. She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.

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