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Dangerously Deceptive by Emma LunaSeries: Brutally Beautiful #2
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Pages: 315
ASIN: B09TZ738QT
Published: 07/04/2022
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What would you be willing to sacrifice for the one you love?
I was born a princess of the Celtic Reapers MC, but I'm definitely not royalty. I'm abused, tortured, and broken, desperate to escape.
I have two choices. I can stay with my childhood sweetheart, Jamieson aka Whiskey, who abandoned our plans for freedom when he patched into the MC. Or, I could win my freedom and live my dream life with loveable, sexy, tech geek Kellan.
But when I fall pregnant, my whole life changes and I'm forced to make painful decisions.
This is not your typical love story. It's messy, it's real, and it's heartbreaking. This is the story of how you make an impossible choice. I'm Shayla Callahan, and this is my story.
Dangerously Deceptive is a prequel in the Beautifully Brutal Series. It takes place before the events of Black Wedding. It can be read before Black Wedding, but you will get more out of reading the whole series. Dangerously Deceptive features dark, mature themes that may be a trigger for some people. If you want any further details please contact emmalunaauthor@gmail.com
I absolutely loved Black Wedding, the first book in the Brutally Beautiful series, and love that the world has so much potential for expansion. When I read the story I was curious to know Kellan’s backstory and what really happened with the mother of his child, Hallie. Dangerously Deceptive is Kellan’s prequel and answers all of these questions.
I usually consider a prequel to be a short story or a novella, but at 315 pages this book is a whopper. You’ll want to set aside some serious reading time for this one because there’s a lot of history to cover.
From reading Black Wedding (it’s not essential to read it first but some of the back story will make more sense) we know that Hallie’s mother left when she was only hours old. When we first meet Shayla, her mother, the immediate reaction is that she must be the villain of the story. She’s not, and it quickly becomes clear that the true villains are her MC family.
The first half of the story covers how Shayla and Kellan meet; her hiring him to help her complete a task that will win her her freedom from the Celtic Reapers MC. The second half of the story focuses on the discovery of her pregnancy through to the days after Hallie’s birth.
I’m in two minds about whether it was better to read the book knowing the eventual outcome or not. If I’m honest, knowing that Shayla was going to screw Kellan over and abandon Hallie made me feel like she was less of a victim. I think I would have had far more compassion for her had I gone into the book blind. I found that I couldn’t really enjoy the tale of Kellan and Shayla falling for each other without the back of my mind screaming at him that he was being both foolish and careless because I already knew what would happen. It made it difficult to connect with the tragedy of Shayla’s character and, in that respect, probably took away from the experience I would have had, had I not already read Black Wedding.
Dangerously Deceptive is a standout book about the difficult choices a woman will make for the benefit of her child, but at the same time also discusses the challenges of loving one man while being tied to another and how to juggle the conflict between what the heart wants and duty towards family. Nothing I say here will adequately prepare you for the story you’re about to read; it’s one of those that has the potential to break you.
About Emma Luna
Emma Luna is a midwife and lecturer who lives in Cambridgeshire, UK, despite her heart still very much being Northern. She lives surrounded by her crazy family; her Mum, who is her best friend and biggest fan; her Dad who helps her remember to always laugh; her Grandparents and Brother who can never read what she writes and her long-suffering man-child Boyfriend who she couldn’t live without (but don’t tell him that!).
In her spare time, she likes to create new worlds and tell the stories of the characters that are constantly shouting in her head. She also loves falling into the worlds created by other authors and escaping for a while through reading.
When she’s not adulting or chasing her writing dream she loves dog-napping her Mums shih-tzu Hector, chilling curled up on the sofa with her Boyfriend binge-watching the latest series or movie, drinking too much diet coke (it’s her drug of choice), buying too many novelty notebooks, and completing adult colouring books as a form of relaxation. Oh and she is a massive hardcore Harry Potter geek. Ravenclaw for life!
