Madlyn
Robicheaux earned her reputation as the Red Queen. She crushes her opponents
with a calculated ruthlessness that never loses. Jared Marshall is a
distraction she doesn’t want or need. Even worse, he’s a threat. If she’s not
careful, he could blow the lid off everything she’s spent ten years protecting,
but crushing Jared is proving as impossible as resisting him.
Jared
Marshall hates being a lawyer, he’d rather play with his band at Trick’s or
make cheesecake at his bakery. His one shot at avoiding the family firm rests
on convincing the Red Queen to join Marshall and Marshall. But when his
legendary charm fails, he falls straight through the looking glass where
nothing is as it seems. And the chemistry that blows up between them exposes a
shocking vulnerability that questions everything he’s ever believed about
her.
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The Fall of
the Red Queen is Book 3 in the Southern Style Series. While it can stand alone,
it’s highly recommended that you read Sweetened with a Kiss first. Not a
serial. Each book in the Southern Style Series features a different couple with
standalone HEA. It's category style contemporary romance told in third person
from the point of view of both hero and heroine. It has been professionally
edited, copy-edited and proofed. Intended for mature audiences only
Release Date: January 20,2016
Southern Style Series #3
Review copy provided by author for honest review
Liza’s Review:
I really didn't want to like Madlyn Robicheaux when I met her in
Sweetened with a Kiss. Even though I
knew there had to be more to her story than what we were seeing, I didn't want
to like her. However, the Red Queen won me over as I read her story and learned
the truth.
Madlyn is a very complicated character. She comes across as a
total bitch, yet there is so much depth to her character. Even 10 years after
his death, she is still mourning the death of her son's father. That so didn't
fit into her roll as the Red Queen. I don't know that Madlyn's layers would
have been reveled to all who knew her if Jared Marshall hasn't stormed into her
life. I loved Maddie and Jared together. They
had smoking hot chemistry and I adored them as a couple, even as
Maddie fought her attraction to Jared.
Maddie's grandfather totally did a number on her. Seriously her
grandfather was totally diabolical and I really wanted to punch him in the face
once I knew everything he had done to Maddie and others in her
life. Honestly it made the Red Queen more human to me to find out the
steps she had taken to protect those people in her life without them knowing.
The fact that she put her own happiness on the back burner for years made
me see her in a whole new light.
The Fall of
the Red Queen really will be a much better story if you read
Sweetened with a Kiss first. I think to really see the true Madlyn Robicheaux,
you have to see both sides of her character in both books. While Lexxi Callahan
is a new-to-me author, I really liked her voice and look forward to reading
more books from her in the future.
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