Title: Three Hours, Seven Series book 5
Author: Dannika Dark
Published: 4-6-15
Genre: Paranormal
5 hearts
Destiny will find you
Naya James is a confident woman
who also happens to be an exotic dancer. She doesn’t care if people judge her,
just so long as they don’t disrespect her. Life has been good, but when two
dancers from her club are kidnapped, Naya puts her life on the line to uncover
the truth.
Wheeler is the black sheep of the
family, evident from his extensive tattoo collection to his dark personality.
Nothing like his twin brother, Ben, who can do no wrong. Wheeler’s pack loyalty
is put to the test when Austin orders him to act as a bodyguard for a woman
he’s despised for years—one who presses his buttons every chance she gets.
A dark secret unravels, uniting
two enemies and threatening to fracture the brotherhood of the pack. A tortured
soul, a violent past, a fiery romance, and a shocking twist that will leave you
breathless.
This is the fifth book in the Seven Series by Dannika
Dark. From the very first book, I fell
in love with the Westin Pack. This group
of brothers has each other’s backs and will fight and protect any wolf or human
or other that they bring into their family.
This book is Wheeler and Naya’s story.
In the previous books, the reader gets the sense that
Wheeler is troubled and he definitely exudes a bad boy image with all his dark
tattoos and moody personality. He is
fiercely loyal but can be quick to judge.
Wheeler is a financial guru and helps to keep the pack’s business
ventures in the black. Up until Three
Hours, Wheeler intrigued me and I knew he had more to his story than we had
been allowed to see. After reading this
installment in the series, I have whole heartedly jumped on the Wheeler band
wagon. Once again, this author has taken
a questionable character and made him so vulnerable and loveable, the reader
cannot help but fall in love with him.
Sexy, bad boy alpha with a need to be loved unconditionally….perfect
book boyfriend material!
Naya James is a troubled shifter as well. She is living as an outcast so that she doesn’t
have to reveal her animal. Doing so will
put her in grave danger. Living alone
has caused her to build tough walls around her heart. She is best friends with Lexi and helps the
young shifters she dances with but no one knows the real Naya. When danger comes knocking, Naya turns to the
Westin Pack for help and Wheeler is assigned as her body guard.
Naya and Wheeler have had less than friendly encounters in
the past. This book jumps ahead 3 years
in the timeline and the tension between these two has not lessoned. It becomes quickly clear that the tension
between them is due to attraction and potential mate feelings. I loved that they were able to block out the
rest of the pack and the rest of the world to eventually tell each other their
fears, their dark secrets, and their dreams, with no judgement and no
expectations for anything more. One of
my favorite quotes is actually from Ivy to Naya:
“Wheeler can appear to be as tempestuous as an angry ocean,
but the further you are willing to go, the calmer the waters. I think you two will make a fine pairing. He
needs someone to warm those icy waters and give him a chance to shine.”
As Wheeler’s past comes to light, a new villain emerges in
this tale. No spoilers here, but there
is a familiar character who turns out to be not what they appear. I look forward to the last two and a half
books in this series. You will want to
read this series in order just to keep the story line fluid.
*I received an ARC of this title for an honest review.
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I leaned forward and gripped the top of the chair on either side of his head.
“I don’t like this situation any more than you do, but I’ve never had anyone
speak to me this way. I don’t form unhealthy friendships with people, but this
isn’t exactly a friendship. I need a bodyguard, and neither of us seems to have
any choice in the matter. So let’s just play nice, okay?”
His eyes
glided down my neck and settled between my breasts. Wheeler’s pupils widened
and, my God, I needed to get away from him. The closer I got, the more I picked
up his heady scent. Wheeler was the opposite of the refined men in my
life—powerful men with expensive clothes and imported cologne. Most were
shorter or had a leaner frame than his medium build. Something began to
culminate between us that I knew he must have felt, because he didn’t have a
comeback. I wondered how it would feel to have those inked arms wrapped around
my body, for the bristles on his face to scratch against my stomach as he laved
my breast with his tongue. Would his hands feel as rough as they looked? Was he
a gentle lover or animalistic?
The ropes
of muscle in his arms were taut from the tight grip he had on the armrests of
the chair.
Oh, no. This couldn’t be happening.
My cell
phone rang and snapped me out of my fantasies. I stood up and put my hands on
my hips. “I have a feeling that before this is all over, we’re going to end up
killing each other.”
A sardonic
smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. “Now that sounds like fun.”
About the Author
This is the segment where you
learn a little more about who I am, so here's what I can tell you: I
drink copious amounts of vitamin water placed precariously close to my laptop
while writing. These are two healthy habits I have no intention of breaking. I'm
a transplant living in the south, but I was born in the 70's to a military dad
who moved us around the world.
When
I'm not writing (which is all the time), I'm hunting down Indie music, watching
movies, reading, eating Tex-Mex, discovering new ways to humiliate myself
bowling, and burning up my laptop battery on the Internet. I have a relaxed,
easy-going personality and don't like drama. I live with a cat who thinks she
is a dog, or a goat (she eats plastic, so I'm not sure which).
Throughout
my life, I've had insomnia. Counting sheep never worked and eventually I would
imagine those sheep were the sole source of food after an apocalyptic battle
where only thousands survived. I made up stories in a futile attempt to bore
myself to sleep. The problem was, I got so wrapped up in my "head
stories" that I would continue them through the following nights, changing
it up each time to make it more exciting. Eventually, I started writing my
ideas down - creating short stories, and then I discovered my love for poetry.
It's
almost embarrassing how many spiral notebooks and stacks of paper I have of
poetry and lyrics.
Another
passion: digital art. I design all my book covers, marketing, and series art.
I'm a very visual person and pursued photography as an avid hobby for many
years.
I
am not a YA author (I feel like I have to state this only because I've had a
few people ask), but I think it's wonderful there are so many books available
to teens in Urban Fantasy and Paranormal.
I
am finally doing what I have always wanted to do: giving my characters a pulse
through writing full time. I focus on adult urban fantasy romance, but I don't
like labels and I enjoy blending genres to break out of the confines of
predictability.
But
it's what I love to do.
Danni
Author
Links:
Website/Blog: http://www.dannikadark.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DannikaDark
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