Love Me Stone · Elizabeth’s Nightstand
The Butcher
One night in Paris. All the strings attached.
Fifth Republic · Book One
★★★★★
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
A fresh start with a dangerous complication.
She wants a night without expectations. The man she takes home wants much more.
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Between the covers · The premise
Starting over was supposed to be simpler.
After discovering her husband’s infidelity, a woman leaves their marriage and begins rebuilding her life with a new apartment and a bartending job. Then a stranger at the bar becomes a passionate one-night stand.
She wants to keep things casual. He wants exclusivity—and he turns out to be the Butcher, a powerful figure in Paris’s criminal underworld. What begins as an escape from heartbreak draws her into a dangerous new entanglement.
Premise paraphrased from the publisher’s description on NetGalley.
My thoughts
Five stars and a dangerous escape.
The Butcher by Penelope Sky gets five stars from me. A one-night stand with Paris’s most dangerous crime lord is quite the way to start over after a broken marriage.
She wants something casual; he wants all the strings attached. That tension is a delicious setup for a dark romance.
Heartbreak, desire, and a very dangerous complication—this is my kind of escape.