Title: Surrender
Series: Surrender #1
Author: Melody Anne
Publication Date: March 29, 2013
Summary: Raffaello (Rafe) Palazzo takes what he wants with no regrets. Arianna (Ari) Lynn Harlow has led a charmed life until tragedy strikes her family. He’s looking for a no-emotions attached mistress, she’s looking for redemption.
They are not a pair that should ever work, but undeniable attraction and devastating tragedies bring them together in the city by the bay where he fights to keep their relationship nothing more than an enjoyable way to meet his needs, and she battles to not lose herself in him. Spending time with Ari starts cracking the hard shell that Rafe has built around his heart, but he denies the affect she has on him until it’s too late to stop the inevitable conclusion that their relationship is headed for.
Rafe once believed in happily ever after, coming from a large Italian family. He’s got the Midas touch, since every endeavor he tries turns to gold. That all ends when his wife walks out the door and leaves him blindsided. His devastation quickly turns to steel when he decides no woman will fool him again. From that point on he treats relationships as nothing more than business transactions where both party’s come out mutually benefited.
Just when Ari has sunk to the lowest she’s ever been she finds an ad in the paper announcing a job that’s too good to be true. It turns out she’s right. She makes it through the intense rounds of interviews only to find out the job is for a mistress to the powerful Rafe Palazzo, owner of Palazzo Enterprises. Rafe gives her a day to think about whether she wants the position or not, and she’s sent on her way, only to find out her mother’s near-terminal position has taken a turn for the worse. Her mom’s only in the hospital because Ari messed up, and her mother’s the one who paid the price. Is Rafe her savior, or will he take her with him straight to the depths of hell?
Review
Surrender is scorching hot and will leave you panting for more. If you want to know what to read after The Fifty Shades of Grey this is it!
I read this series last year as it came out. Let me tell you I just about died after Surrender waiting for Submit. This book is that good and it is FREE right now so you have nothing to lose. Before writing this review I went back and re-read Surrender and it was just as good as it was the first time and I could not go to bed last night until I started Submit. I had to see what Ari was going to do again even though I knew what she was going to do. I had to read it again just to be sure :).
Rafe is a very alpha dominant male who puts an add in the paper for job that sounds too good to be true. His job description is very vague and Ari is intrigued. It pays quite a bit of money and she needs the money to pay for her mother’s medical bills. Ari is very sweet, highly intelligent, and witty. In the beginning she may seem a little timid but boy does she let Rafe have it. He is thrown off balance because no one has ever talked back to him and told him no. She becomes his biggest challenge and he goes above and beyond what he has ever done to have a woman. Even after all of his hard work she still says NO!. I absolutely love Arianna. She is spunky and I was on her side 100 percent.
Melody Anne does an amazing job with character development. Arianna is a girl after my own heart and let me tell you after I read this book the first time I hated Rafe. I had read all of Melody Anne’s Billionaire Bachelors Series and was super excited about this series and then I met Rafe and wanted to scream. By the time you get to the fourth book Scorched you are totally in love with him and realize that he was just scared of getting hurt again. This is a series that at the end I wanted to cry that it was over. My friends and I were hooked from the moment we finished Surrender.
Surrender will take you on a wild ride and leave you one-clicking Submit as soon as possible.
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Surrender Series and Reading Order
Melody Anne is the author of the popular series, Billionaire Bachelors, and Baby for the Billionaire. She also has a Young Adult Series out; Midnight Fire and Midnight Moon – Rise of the Dark Angel. She’s been writing for years and published in 2011. She hold a bachelors degree in business, so she loves to write about strong, powerful, businessmen.
When Melody isn’t writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and pets. She lives in a small town that she loves, and is involved in many community projects.
See Melody’s Website at: http://www.melodyanne.com. She makes it a point to respond to all her fans. You can also join her on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/authormelodyanne, or at twitter: @authmelodyanne.
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Jennifer Burrows released her debut book A Shot in the Dark July, 2013. Recently she has released the sequel Into the Light and currently working on her third book Surrender.
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