Blurb
"For fractured
souls are like magnets.
Drawn to collide into
an impossible bliss…"
Labeled a ‘Cursed’ woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured
nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order’s most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with
her sister in The Hangmen’s
secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith
she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment.
Just… free…
At age twenty-one, the
timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home—safe from the outside world, safe from harm
and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen’s most volatile member; the heavily pierced and tattooed,
Flame.
Flame.
The man who ceaselessly
watches over her with his midnight dark and searing eyes. The man who protects
her with a breath-taking intensity. And the man who stirs something deep within
her numbed heart.
But when circumstances
conspire for Flame to need HER help, Maddie bravely risks it all for the broken
man who has captivated her fragile soul.
The Hangmen’s most infamous member, Flame, is ruled by one
thing—anger. Plagued by haunting demons from his
past, an all-consuming rage, and isolated by an abhorrent hatred of being
touched, Flame's days are filled with suffocating darkness, pierced only by a
single ray of light—Maddie. The shy,
beautiful woman he cannot purge from his thoughts. The woman he has an
overwhelming need to possess…
... the only person who
has ever been able to touch him.
Flame’s mission in life is to protect Maddie, to
keep her safe. Until a trigger from his troubled past sends him spiraling into
madness, trapping him in the deepest recesses of his disturbed mind.
His Hangmen brothers
fear that Flame is beyond saving.
His only hope of
salvation: Maddie and her healing light.
My Review
My Flame, my broken Flame...
People say, you live a thousand lifes when you read a book. And this has never been truer.
I was prepared to read this book, when I finished Heart Recaptured I said to myself, that my heart was too broken, but I was prepared to read Flame and Maddie's story, though.
But, oh Lord, how wrong I was. I think I have an empty space where my heart is, because now is too shattered on the floor.
For Fractured Souls Are Like Magnets. Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss…
I really don't know where I can start...
First of all, THIS book, I waited so much for this book and everything, was worth the wait, the tears, the pain, my broken heart...
Tillie did an amazing job, showing us how two broken souls can be entwined and how they can heal for all the hurt, all the darkness, all the horrible things that they once experienced.
"I…I wanted him as my own. In this moment, seeing the man who had become the center of my world, breaking, I wanted nothing more than to save him."
Maddie was an incredible heroine, believe me as —The Cursed Ladies—, they suffered so much, especially Maddie, and see the light shinning bright out of her, for her strength, for being capable of love and try to help a broken man, when she needed someone with her too.
And Flame, oh boy, he was suffering internally all the time, by his demons, haunting his life, making him to be the victim of the cruelty that surrounded him in his childhood, without a soft hand to give him love. Abused and hurting... those parts where I read when he was cutting himself, were really hard, to see how much he was damaged, and the selfhatred he felt for himself. Who was with him? Who could save him? Of course, Maddie, the little one, did and incredible work trying to understand and help Flame.
"If it is my turn to be his savior, then I will happily step into the fire."
"My Maddie. Her Flame."
This book was a journey I really enjoyed. It was something beautiful to see, how these broken souls found the calm in the storm that were their lifes.
Tillie, once again made an exceptional work, where she combined the brotherhood, the love, and the healing. Not only for see the light in the world of darkness, also to have hope, that with the love by our side, we can win the cruelest battles inside us.
**I received and Arc copy in exchange of a honest review**
Excerpt
I couldn’t take my eyes off
his face. I had never looked at men. After what I had endured at the hands of
males, I could not think of them as handsome. I had given no thought to the
matter at all. I simply did not think like that. I had never felt butterflies
in my stomach. I had never felt my heart flutter, had never felt myself losing
my very breath. When Lilah and Mae would talk of Ky and Styx, when they would
blush just describing their love’s faces, eyes,
lips, I did not comprehend.
But standing here,
over Flame, right now, staring at his anguished face—his sharp features:
slightly crooked nose, full lips, dark short beard, and those soulful eyes,
those incredibly long black lashes—a feeling
previously unknown to me bloomed in my heart, filling me with light. With an
incredible heat. This close, I felt a tension spark between us. I felt
something magnetic.
I…
I wanted him as my own. In this moment, seeing the man who had become
the center of my world, breaking, I wanted nothing more than to save him. To
gift him the peace he so richly deserved, even if it meant sacrificing my
newly-awakened heart in the process.
On a loud hiss,
Flame’s body stiffened. My grip tightened on the handle of the knife. It
felt like a ton weight in my hand, but I knew what I had to do. For Flame, I
told myself, You must do this for Flame.
Steadying my shaking grip, I raised the blade,
leaving it suspended it in the air. I inhaled deeply, then looked down at
Flame. His beautiful eyes stalked me. With tears filling my eyes, I whispered, “Flame…
I know you are lost right now, but I want to save you. I want to save
you as you have so often saved me.”
I swallowed the lump clogging my throat and continued. “I know you want
eternal peace, but… but…
I cannot… I cannot take your
life.” Tears streamed from
my eyes, but I lowered my mouth to a few inches from his ear. “I know the flames
pain you greatly. And I know you live with pain. I know you no longer want to
live. I…” I sniffed back my
emotions as Flame became eerily still. “I have been there
too. I have felt the urge to fade, to never wake again. But then something
happened to me. Someone happened to me…
You.”
Flame’s erratic breathing
blew against the hair falling over my face, but he did not move. His body was
completely and utterly still.
Rearing back
slightly, I searched his glazed eyes and prayed to the Almighty that he was
seeing me. That he could hear my words. I itched to run my fingers through his
hair, like I had seen Mae do to Styx, but I held back.
“I have watched you,
Flame. I have watched you as you have watched me. And I have seen you free the
flames. I have counted with you from my window as you have administered the
slashes to your flesh, releasing what you believe runs within you.”
My legs began to shake as I lifted the knife, and lined up the blade
over his arm. “I will not take your life, but I will help you release the flames. I
will stay here with you, in this room, until you come back to me.”
Author Bio
Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and
through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but
awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought
up surrounded by her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish
father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and
horses.
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