The Lost by Cole McCade
Date of Publication: August 25, 2015
Blurb
She's known it her whole life. She knows it every time she spreads her legs. Every time she begs for the pain, the pleasure, the heat of a hard man driving deep inside. She's a slave to her own twisted lusts--and it's eating her alive. She loves it. She craves it. Sex is her drug, and she's always chasing her next fix. But nothing can satisfy her addiction, not even the nameless men she uses and tosses aside. No one's ever given her what she truly needs.
Until Gabriel Hart.
Cold. Controlled. Impenetrable. Ex-Marine Gabriel Hart isn't the kind of man to come running when Leigh crooks her pretty little finger. She loathes him. She hungers for him. He's the only one who understands how broken she is, and just what it takes to satisfy the emptiness inside. But Gabriel won't settle for just one night. He wants to claim her, keep her, make her forever his. Together they are the lost, the ruined, the darkness at the heart of Crow City.
But Leigh has a darkness of her own. A predator stalking through her past--one she'll do anything to escape.
Even if it means running from the one man who could love her...and leaving behind something more precious to her than life itself.
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About Cole McCade
Corporate consultant by day, contemporary romance author by night.
Mid-thirties. Coffee addict. Cat lover. Bibliophile. Technophile. Definite sapiophile. Native Southerner. Runner. Country boy turned city suit. Shameless collector of guitar picks, vinyl records, and incense holders. Aficionado of late-night conversations over live music in seedy bars. Browncoat with a secret crush on Kaylee Frye.
Fascinated by human sociology, and particularly by the psychology of sex and gender – and their effect on relationship expectations, the culture of dating, and what it means to fall in love.
Non-smoker. The picture's just a stock photo. A rather broody, dark one for someone who isn't all that broody or dark, but sometimes forgets to smile even when he means to.
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Sonja's Review
Wow! Man, did The Lost take me on a journey and I know technically every book does that, but not many like this one. It's the kind of book journey where I feel like I've been gone somewhere forever and I just got home and I'm tired, but so happy and relieved to be back. It was hard and painful, happy and good, and all completely worth it. This is a phenomenal book and I really loved it.
In the first few glimpses that we get of Leigh, I wasn't sure if I would like her because she didn't give a very good first impression but those aren't always correct and in Leigh's case, it definitely wasn't. I did get her wrong and even though I didn't always like what she did and she frustrated me sometimes, I truly did like and love her. I loved her strength and even when she wasn't strong, I loved her fierce love, her stubbornness, and how she managed to be different in a world that tried to force her to be the same as everyone in that world.
And Gabriel, oh my gosh, I can't tell you how much I loved that man! He just completely dug his way into my heart and nothing could ever get him out. He's beautiful and wise and caring and patient. He's unbelievably strong, he's the kind of guy you can count on to protect you and stand by your side if you let him. Gabriel is just a real, true man and he completely owned my heart - I'll never forget him.
The Lost took me by surprise, it wasn't at all what I was expecting and it turned out to be way more than what I was thinking it would be. I didn't have any clue when I started it that it would get inside me so deeply or make me feel so much. It's heart wrenchingly tragic and dark, beautifully broken and sweet, and heart achingly moving and deep. It broke my heart, put it back together, made me laugh and smile, and made my cry sad tears, but happy ones too.
The Lost isn't an easy, piece-of-cake book to read, it's hard - it will get into your soul, take over and consume you, but it's absolutely worth it. This was just a spectacular book, I'm so glad I got to read, and I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited to see what Mr. McCade comes up with next!
The Lost isn't an easy, piece-of-cake book to read, it's hard - it will get into your soul, take over and consume you, but it's absolutely worth it. This was just a spectacular book, I'm so glad I got to read, and I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited to see what Mr. McCade comes up with next!
The Lost is a standalone, it's told from Leigh's POV, and she and Gabriel do get their good ending.
~ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stars
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