Title: Ours to Love
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year: Penguin Publishing 5/7/13
Length: 400 Pages
Series: Wicked Lovers #7
Overview
Between two brothers…
Xander Santiago spent years living it up as a billionaire playboy. Never given a chance to lead his family business in the boardroom, he became a master in the bedroom instead. His older brother, Javier, inherited the company and worked tirelessly to make it an empire. But while cutthroat corporate espionage took its toll on Javier, nothing was as devastating as the seemingly senseless murder of his wife. It propelled him into a year of punishing rage and guilt…until Xander came to his rescue.
Comes an irresistible woman…
Eager to rejuvenate Javier’s life, Xander shanghais him to Louisiana, where they meet beautiful London McLane. After a decade of tragedy and struggle, London is determined to make a fresh start—and these sexy billionaire brothers are more than willing to help. In every way. London is stunned to find herself open to every heated suggestion…and desperately hoping that her love will heal them.
And inescapable danger.
But a killer is watching, on a single-minded mission to destroy everything the Santiago brothers hold dear, especially London. As fear and desire collide, every passionate beat of her heart could be her last.
My Thoughts
Going into this 7th installment, i was wondering how we were going to get deep and meaningful stories for both Xander and Javier but of course our lovely author Ms Black was able to answer all those questions for me. If you recall, we spend a lot of time with Xander back in the last book when Tyler and Del were getting their stuff sorted and we also got to see a bit of a tease into what’s going on with his brother Javier. So we see how that all pays out.
We also got the teaser of London, Alyssa’s cousin when the ladies were looking for someone for Tyler to settle down with. So it’s nice to see how her story unfolds as well. She’s had a rough life, almost dying in a car accident years ago and living with the scars and trauma of it since then. she’s trying to get her life back together and finding stability in Lafayette with her cousin and their network of friends who are also family. She gets independence from her family, and she gets a job and some of her confidence back, and that’s all where the Santiago brothers come into play.
A chance meeting with Xander at Alyssa’s club shows London all that she’s been craving yet she has insecurities about herself and Xander that she’s not able to really make things happen as she wants. She walks away, and is some how put into Javier’s path, for a job and to watch more sparks fly.
Javier’s trying to cope with the murder of his wife and all that’s going on in his life as well and he’s crashing and burning better than you could imagine. he’s been taken to Lafayette in the hopes of a detox and restart of his life so that he can get his mind and company back on track. Someone’s trying to get a hold of information from their secure database and that’s not a good thing at all in their line of business.
So the journey that we are taken on in this book is complicated. Playboy Xander wants to be tamed, Javier needs to be saved from himself and London learns to stand on her own two feet. What’s even better is that to go back to my original question – how do we get both stories for the brothers out, well it’s because we find ourselves in another little menage situation. So, all the kinky and hot passion that you’ve been missing from the past few installments comes back to us fast and hard in this one.
The other bit that keeps things exciting is that we’re trying to sort out the connection to Javier’s wife’s killer and it’s going to much deeper and darker than we ever expected. There’s so much tied to it that really starts to blow your mind that if you wanted substance outside of heat and passion, well you’ve got that in this book too. So on that note, i can’t wait to see who’s next – i’m sure Thorpe is due to have his own story since he’s the DOM of the club that these guys seem to all like – so we can see how that plays out. Enjoy!