Wrenched: Dark Romance Thriller (HB)

Wow! Emma James has joined my favorite authors list and is definitely my favorite new author of 2015. I was blown away by her Men of Ocean Beach books. I was excited to see that she had a new series releasing that had a biker theme. In my mind I was expecting an emotional type of story rather than a dark thriller. Emma James does dark just as well as she does emotional. Wrenched took me by complete surprise. I was expecting a story that revolved around the Hell's Bastard MC. What the reader got was much more complex. Whisper is a young woman that has been held in depraved captivity since her infant years. She has never experienced a normal, loving life. She has been a victim all her life. Rather than letting her life circumstances beat her down, she allowed it to strengthen her for the day when she was either freed or dead. In all reality it looked like death was going to be the ultimate ending for her. Freedom comes at an unexpected moment but not without a price. Now she is a young woman that is lost in the world. She has no past and could very well have no future. But she's free. She has found new people who care for her and are watching her back. Edge is the most brutal enforcer in the Hell's Bastard MC. He's the judge, jury, and executioner. He is one of the most feared men in his dark world. Edge didn't become this brutal and lethal man by choice. He had a horrific childhood in which he escaped. He vowed he would one day return and dispense his brand of justice on his father. Fate took that away from him. His father died and it was not by his hand. His father screwed him over one more time in his death when he left the whore, Whisper, his entire estate except for the $100 he left his natural born son. Edge is hunting down Whisper. She took his inheritance. It's not about the money. It's about the theft of his justice. His justice is going to knock on Whisper's door. As the old saying goes "read between the lines" and "all is not black and white" definitely applies in this story. All is not how it seems. There is a more tangled plot than a depraved man destroying two young lives. This depraved man was playing a game of chess and in the end, his king will not be taken. He had the foresight to destroy them both in his death. Wrenched ended on a major cliffhanger that left me chilled to the bone. Emma James created a complex plot that could be described as a tangled web. Wrenched was just the beginning and introduction to a very twisted complex story. The writing is brilliant. I believe that once the Hell's Bastard Series is complete, it will easily be a 6 Star series. Wrenched is a superb dark thriller!

** Provided on behalf of the author for an honest review ** Your alone. You have no one. No friends. No parents. No siblings. No interaction with the outside world. Your isolated. Cooped up in his house, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Except when the cleaning crew come in, then your locked up in an old, run down shed in the yard. Your world has consisted of nothing else except for handcuffs, blindfolds, ropes, cameras, beatings. He watches you all the time. He’s trained you. He watches your every move. If a mistake is made, you will be punished. You will forever be his, never to escape the hell that the four walls he hides you in. Death seems such an easier option. You don’t live, you simply exist. Hope is only a dream. It’s unattainable. But is it? One accident, one error, one mistake will change everything. You will no longer be a prisoner. You will no longer be trapped. You will finally have the freedom you always dreamt of. This is Whisper’s story. A story about a monster who enslaved a girl at the smallest of ages that will finally be freed from hell. A story about a girl who learns that not all people are animals, and you can learn to trust again. A story about a girl who can find friends and value them as family even if they were found due to the horrific of circumstances. A story about a girl willing to survive. Wrenched is a MUST read. We were captivated from the very first page. It’s dark, gritty, raw, confronting, heartbreaking. So full of emotion we found ourselves at times crying because we could simply feel the torment and the torture bleeding out of the pages, simply taking our breath away. We could feel Whispers struggles, her pain, her fear, her hopes, her dreams. Emma James wrote with such detail and depth that you simply couldn't be anything other than drawn to every page turned. An absolutely captivating, hard core, highly emotional read that has so many twists that you will never see coming. Wrenched is a MUST novel to be on everyone's TBR list. A definite 5 star read.

Heartbreaking, violent, sexy, uplifting, full of action and twisty turns. I live all the characters. I'm currently on the fourth book. This is by far one of the best series I have read. I highly recommend it. I really dont want it to end but cant put the books down. Just read it and well done Emma, you are now one of my favourite authors. Thankyou for a fab bit of escapism. Xx

4 1/2 stars..Loved it.. Had to keep reading to work out the different threads Emma had going through the book... Then she leaves us with a cliffy..

Can't praise this author enough this book was amazing, the storyline was brilliant and flowed throughout, the characters were interesting. The whole book was so exciting and intense, I can honestly say this story gripped me from the beginning I couldn't put it down. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone over 18years who likes their stories a little darker. I loved it so much I am diving straight into book two.