Unholy Gambit: Checkmate in Blood (A Paranormal Halloween #5)
by Candace Blevins
Blurb:
He buried her memories to protect her. She was never meant to
remember the vampire who saved her.
Aurélie de Saint Claire was five years old when she threw herself at a
monster to save her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the blood. Doesn’t
remember the fangs. Just the fallout: bones that never healed right, a limp
that became her identity, and a fear she could never explain.
Now twenty-three, she’s a rising star in the international chess circuit, with
a brilliant mind, a body that never fully healed, and a past that’s beginning
to unravel. When the truth begins to resurface, so does the dark, distant
immortal who once silenced her pain with a thought and walked away without a
trace. He’s cold, controlled, and undeniably inhuman — and he’s watched her
grow from half a world away.
Axel was never supposed to interfere, but a single encounter changed
everything. The tiny child was too fiercely brave, too brilliant, too intense.
For the first time in his long life, he broke the rules to save a life. He’s
never been the same.
She was brave before most children can tie their shoes, and now she’s a woman
who tempts him in ways that have nothing to do with innocence.
He rewrote her memories and vanished, but she was his the moment she stood on
shattered legs and faced a monster. Their bond should have died when he erased
her memories. It didn’t.
Now that Aury is remembering, the bond is waking up, and it’s still alive.
Still functional. Still binding them both.
As she digs into the scars left behind, she’s dragged into a world of vampire
law, ancient debts, and a game more dangerous than she ever imagined.
Because this isn’t just about what happened that night. It’s about the bond
they forged, and buried obsessions can rise from the dark and crawl back. Fangs
first.
Even erased memories leave scars.
Unholy Gambit is a standalone vanilla vampire paranormal holiday romance set
around Halloween. Perfect for readers who crave slow burns with a big payoff,
emotionally damaged possessive heroes, sexy vampires, smart heroines who happen
to be virgin, high-stakes chess, trauma recovery, dark secrets, and a love
worth bleeding for.
My review:
Unholy Gambit features complex characters and new beginnings.
She is intelligent and self-aware. He is a vampire with a vicious past who has
never felt love for another. These two may have been brought together by
horrible circumstances but they now have a chance to explore a future together.
I love Aury and her outlook on life. Axel
has made a lot of bad decisions in his long existence but they’ve led him to
this moment in time and a chance at love and happiness.
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