Hi, book buddies ☺ I'm happy to share my excitement over the finale of the Brilliance Trilogy by Lisa Renee Jones. It's suspenseful, passionate, and romantic.
Title: A Sinful Encore
Series: The Brilliance Trilogy #3
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Release Date: September 22, 2020
MY OPINION
A powerful finale for an intense trilogy. Musical secrets, dramatic characters, and thrilling romance.
The mystery really thickens in this final book. I loved the suspense that suffuses the atmosphere. Gio reappears in a blaze of mistrust and anger, setting Aria and Kace on edge. This couple truly exploring their intimacy, both emotional and physical. Hot all around!
Enemies abound while this persecuted couple is trying to claim their future together. I loved the scenes with the cupcakes, the onspot film reference, and the Walker Security men. It was a mixture of sharp wit, sophisticated love, and never knowing where the true danger really lurks.
These passionate characters delve deeper into their bond, and I relished how they prove their love to each other again and again. Also, the steady suspense is intensified by the ambiguous push of Gio, Aria's brother. Is he friend or foe? That was a great pulling force for the whole story. I would have liked more action around this character's resolution. A book for him would be great, too ;-)
I thought that the secret formula for the violin creation was revealed in a compelling fashion which reminded me of the magical quality surrounding the final scene in The Da Vinci Code.
Many characters come to jo in forces with Aria and Kace to add their own brilliance to the strong alliances forged here, and I loved to see them all. Suspense and dark ambitions mix with love and secrets in an ending filled with friendship and bittersweet legacy. I cried over the last chapters.
ABOUT A SINFUL ENCORE
You only thought you knew how this was going to end, but their story is far from over. The explosive finale is bound to leave you breathless.
A Sinful Encore is the third and final book in the Brilliance Trilogy.
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EXCERPT
I swallow hard, my lashes lower, my lips dry. Me and him. It’s just me and him and God, I do need the escape and I know, I just know, that he needs the trust. Still, I can’t believe I’m going to do this. I can’t believe how much I want to do this. “Yes.”
He doesn’t speak but I can feel his approval wash over me. He kisses my neck, the earthy scent of him seducing me and promising to test my limits. He unzips my skirt, and a second later, he’s sliding it down my hips, and with only a tiny pair of panties and thigh-high tights on, he’s easily exposing my naked backside. Nerves and anticipation overwhelm me and I’m all but shaking, but I don’t feel fear. His fingers caress down the silk strip between my cheeks and I yelp as he yanks it away with a biting tug. But already, he’s made me forget that bite.
His hands are on my backside and he leans in, his lips close, so very close to my ear, his warm breath fanning my skin, and promising forbidden fantasies I didn’t even know to call my own until now.
“What are you thinking, Aria?” he asks, the same way he’d asked me one time before when I was in the wrong place when I needed an escape.
“About us, Kace. About what you’re going to do to me.”
He turns me to face him, his expression pure possession, his eyes meeting mine. And I could swim forever in the sea of his blue eyes, as every wave breaking around me only sends me crashing right back to him. “What am I going to do to you?” he asks as if he needs to know I can say it as if he needs to know I want this.
I wet my parched lips and say, “Spank me.”
“And do you want me to spank you?” The question is a mixed challenge and a raw seduction.
Suddenly, I’m drowning in my own confusing desire, and my lashes lower, heat rushing to my cheeks when his hand cups my face and he tilts his gaze back to his. “Do you,” he says, enunciating the words, “want me to spank you?”
“I want to get out of my head. I want to escape. I want you.”
His eyes darkens. “That’s not an answer.”
The waves are breaking again and when I might drown, I don’t. I really do crash right back into him. “Yes.”
“Yes? Yes what, Aria?”
“I want you to spank me.”
His eye light with approval and that approval splays over me like blessed sunshine in the chilly snowfall. I don’t know why his approval arouses or pleases me, I don’t know what that says about me, or him for that matter, but there is no denying the burn in my belly. There is no denying his control, and my submission sends a thrill through me like no other. His hands fit my waist, possessiveness in his touch, a branding that feels right when with anyone else it would be wrong. His cheek presses to my cheek, the roughness of his newly formed stubble an erotic pinch on my sensitive skin. “Who’s in control?”
“I am,” I say, and I mean it. This is about choice. I know that when I say yes or no to with Kace, he will listen. “And right now, for just a little bit, I don’t want it,” I add, and for once in my life, I mean it. “Take it,” I add softly. “It’s yours.”
THE SERIES
A Reckless Note (book one)
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A Wicked Song (book two)
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Nook → http://bit.ly/2r2v5u1
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Audio → https://adbl.co/2Zhf415
Paperback → http://mybook.to/WickedSongPB
A Sinful Encore (book three)
Amazon → http://mybook.to/SinfulEncore
Apple → https://apple.co/2JHJX7R
Nook → http://bit.ly/2JKITQB
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Audio → https://adbl.co/31hgA5A
Paperback → http://mybook.to/SinfulEncorePB
ABOUT THE MASTERMIND
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.
In addition to the success of Lisa's INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling WHITE LIES, DIRTY RICH, and LILAH LOVE series.
Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women's Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
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