5 Smooches
Synopsis
Parker Black wants the one woman he shouldn’t have—his buddy’s girl. She’s sweet and smart, but clueless about how deep Parker lives in Titan’s virtual world. Everything is controlled. Chaos is mastered. Black and white data and risk analysis. That is the way he understands his world, how he plays his role to keep Titan teams alive.
But he’s wrong.
About everything.
Lexi Dare lives two lives. She’s an unhappy fiancée stuck in a spiraling relationship, unsure how she ended up with a ring on her finger and an abuser in her bed. But she’s also elusive. Elite. A master hacker playing deadly stakes.
When the lines blur and the truth comes out, Lexi’s only shot at survival is the trust of her rival—her equal—before it’s too late.
Review
“Everything he did had order, but the woman making his heart pound? She was messy and complicated. She was broken, and he didn’t know the first thing about mending hearts.”
So this is my first foray into the world of the Titans, I read Cristin Harber’s Only For Him series and loved it and knew I needed to read more from her so when I saw this one I jumped right in. My review for this is based on it being read as a standalone and I thoroughly loved it and now I cannot wait to start at the beginning of the series and catch up. If the other books in the series are as good as this one I can easily see it becoming one of my favorite series.
“You’re the only person that makes me do what I’m not expected to.”
Black Dawn follows Parker, sexy ex-military Titan who goes by BlackDawn in the online world of hackers and developers and Lexi, his childhood friend’s fiance and who is secretly SilverChaos, hacker extraordinaire. Parker has always had a thing for Lexi but she was Matt’s and off limits. But when Parker finds out that Matt is not treating her as he should he is enraged, protective and a bit ashamed to be hopeful that maybe he stands a chance in Lexi’s life But before they really have time to think about that drama goes down when the program Lexi has developed goes up for sale. Soon the two are on the run and Lexi’s life is in danger.
“sweetheart, I’m gonna eat you until you get it. I like your taste. Those sounds. The way you feel moving against my lips. You want to clamp and claw on me, then fucking do it.”
Intense emotions, action and so sexual chemistry that had me sweating Black Dawn was impossible to put down and had me ignoring everyone in my life while I found out what could possibly happen next. Often in these alpha male security books I find the story lacking and details skimmed over. This was not a problem in Black Dawn, in both the emotional and action scenes Cristin never introduced a fact she didn’t need later. I deeply fell for Parker and his analytical ways. I loved how Lexi did not fit in the perfect order he had created in his life and yet he wanted her there more than anything. Lexi for her part was both self assured and a broken woman. Desperate for the love of family that she never had growing up she compromised everything she was to feel needed and yet in the online world as Silver she was a strong person that others looked up to. With Parker’s help she learns to merge the two and just be who she is and to be happy as that person.
“He was her friend. Her co-worker. A protector.”
This book was high intensity and action a lot happens and you need to pay attention to keep up. For a security alpha story it had everything I look for and I will be recommending it to anyone I know who loves action, sex and an alpha male! Great job Cristin I look forward to reading the rest of the series and falling for all the men of Titan.
~miranda
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