About Ruthless
The first in a sexy contemporary romance series featuring the Lawless siblings—from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.
The Lawless siblings are bound by vengeance. Riley, Drew, Brandon, and Mia believe the CEO of StratCast orchestrated their parents’ murder twenty years ago to steal their father’s software program. And there’s only one way Riley can find some solid evidence...
Heir to the StratCast legacy, Ellie Stratton hires a new attorney to handle a delicate business matter—and she’s shocked by her attraction to him. Over the course of a few weeks, Riley becomes her lover, her friend, her everything. But when her life is threatened, Ellie discovers that Riley is more obsessed with settling an old score than in the love she thought they were building. And Riley must choose between a revenge he’s prepared for all his life and the woman he’s sure he can’t live without...
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“Smart, savvy, clever, and always entertaining. That’s true of Riley Lawless, the hero in Ruthless, and likewise for his creator, Lexi Blake. Both are way ahead of the pack.” ~ New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry
"I love Lexi Blake. Read Ruthless and see why.” ~ New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
With Ruthless, Lexi Blake has set up shop on the intersection of Suspenseful and Sexy, and I never want to leave. ~ Laurelin Paige, New York Times bestselling author
Excerpt
“Why
did you do that?”
It
was the first time she’d spoken without being prompted. “Do what?”
Her
face flushed the sweetest pink. The color went all the way down that sexy
V-neck. Her breasts flushed as well as her face, and it made his damn dick
tighten. “Kiss me. Why did you kiss me like that?”
Oh,
so many reasons, but he gave her the most compelling one. “I wanted to.”
The
minute she’d opened the door and he’d seen her standing there looking anxious,
he’d known how to calm her down. All he’d had to do was put his hands on her
and some odd connection flared between the two of them. She hadn’t fought him.
He could have gone on kissing her. He’d been the one to pull away.
It
was like the minute he walked in, he was the only thing that existed for her.
It made him feel ten feet tall, but it also made him want to please her.
It
was an unsettling sensation.
Her
hands came up, fingers on the sides of the table. “You know what I’m asking.
You knew I wasn’t alone. Why did you pretend to be my boyfriend?”
It
was easy to see she’d wanted him to wait for her at the restaurant so as to
avoid him meeting her sister and ex. When she’d opened the door, he’d immediately
known something was wrong. He’d gotten a glimpse of her sister and known Ellie
had likely needed a hand. It had to be tough on a woman’s ego to lose even a
pathetic excuse of a husband to a younger sister.
“You
were alone with your sister who slept with your husband. Excuse me.
Ex-husband.”
She
shook her head. “At the time, we were definitely married. How did you know he
was my ex-husband?”
“He
took half your net wealth. I’m your lawyer. At this level, a good lawyer is
less legal counsel and more war consultant. I can’t properly perform my duties
if I don’t know everything about you, including the fact that you tend to have
terrible taste in men.”
She
frowned. “I haven’t had a ton of boyfriends. I’m not sure what my taste is.”
He
really wanted to understand why she’d married that obvious prick. “What
attracted you to him? Because from where I was standing, he looked like a
dickwad desperate to be twenty-one again.”
She
bit into her bottom lip, her eyes glancing away from him. “He wasn’t always
like that. I actually met him when he was twenty-one. He was far more mature
then.”
He
liked her candor. “You were in college?”
“Last
year of undergrad. We dated for two years and then it seemed like it was time
to get married. We’d moved back here to Manhattan so I could take my place at
StratCast. I thought he was going to go to grad school, but he decided on a
different path.”
“What
path was that?”
A
single brow rose over her right eye. “You don’t know?”
Of
course he knew. He knew everything. “Are you referring to your ex-husband’s
penchant for swinging for the fences? When it comes to investments, that is.”
It
was what he liked to call “idiots who funded ridiculous ideas.” They never
wanted a simple profit out of their money. They wanted millions and really
fucking fast. They swung for the grand slam when all they needed to do was get
on base.
It
took a true genius to take a single idea and make millions off it. Drew had.
Her
shoulders straightened. “He wanted the easy solution. A get-rich-quick scheme.
He wasn’t that way at first. At one point he was very intellectual. It’s what
attracted me to him. He was curious about the world and liked to discuss
everything from politics to social jus- tice to movies we saw. He changed. I
didn’t. In some ways, I blame getting involved with me for what happened to
him. He got around my father and real wealth and wanted some of his own. When I
met him, he wanted to be a professor. He wanted to teach.”
At
least he’d gotten her this far. She was talking. Now he needed to get those
shoulders down from around her earlobes. For one moment, for that moment when
he’d drawn her into his arms and pressed his mouth to hers, she’d relaxed
against him, given over to him. Her body had softened and she’d leaned into
him, and if he’d pressed her, he didn’t know what would have happened. She
might have continued kissing him, forgetting all about the other people in the
room. He could have cupped her breast, her ass. Put his hands anywhere he
liked.
Kim's 4 Star Review
Drew, Riley, Bran and Mia Lawless have never forgotten the
night their parents died or who was responsible for their death. After twenty years of strategizing the
Lawless siblings are about to bring to life their revenge and Ellie Stratton
heir to her father’s share of StratCast is the first in line as they settle the
score. What happens when a plan for
revenge becomes much more than anyone could ever think?
I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.
The Lawless boys have thought of only one thing after they
found out that their parents were murdered.
They have spent years planning their revenge on the three other members
of the company their father helped found, and subsequently died for. Everything they did down to what careers
paths they took were all to make sure their plan goes off perfectly.
Eleanor (Ellie) Stratton knows what a bastard her father
was. He wasn’t any better to her but she
still loved him. Now that Ellie is
supposed become CEO of StratCast, she has everything to prove to the board of
directors that she is the right choice including that her father was wrong
about her being too soft. She may come off soft-hearted and naïve but she has
her ideals and morals in place. Ellie is
really only looking for the things her father never gave her, unconditional
love and acceptance for who she is.
The first meeting between Ellie and Riley, she couldn’t help
but be attracted to the gorgeous lawyer recommend by her father’s retired
lawyer. Riley likes what he sees and
more than that he actually likes her for who she is. The chemistry between these two simmers for a
while as Ellie is fighting the attraction. Riley is a persistence alpha man who
knows what he wants but Ellie turns out to be nothing like he expected. His focus might be on revenge but he can’t
help but notice what a remarkable woman Ellie was. The closer they get to each
other the attraction becomes over-whelming and more powerful than either one
ever thought they would ever experience.
Lexi Blake wrote a marvellous story that teaches you things
aren’t always what they appear and people can surprise you in both good and bad
ways. Years of planning revenge can jade a person but Riley sees past all his
anger and sees just who Ellie is and how she is just what he needed. The problem with revenge is that someone
almost always gets hurts in the process and Ellie is the lucky person to be
hurt by more than just the Lawless siblings. The twists and turns Lexi has in
this story keeps her readers guessing who did it and just how they could pull
off such a plan. Lexi did a great job of pulling off a story about planning
revenge while trying not to fall in love and anticipate anything the others
will throw at you. This was a refreshing change from other books I’ve read
lately and can’t wait to see what happens next for the Lawless siblings in “Satisfaction”.
ABOUT LEXI BLAKE
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn't until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.
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