When young con artist Ellie Watt decides to
call herself Eden White and go after the drug lord who ruined her as a child,
she never expects to fall for one of his henchmen. But Javier Bernal is no
ordinary man. Subtly dangerous and overwhelmingly seductive, Eden finds herself
passionately in love with Javier, the very person she’s set-up to betray. With
her body and heart in a heated battle against her deep need for revenge, no one
will walk away from this con a winner.
This 50K
word (100+ pages) novella takes place six years before Sins & Needles. It
can be read before or after Sins & Needles and may also be read as a
stand-alone.
Javier…YOU SON OF A BITCH! You
make me fall for you when I didn’t even want to like you in the first
place, and then even though I knew what was coming, you managed to
rip my heart right out of my chest! There has never been a more perfect example of a love/hate relationship with
a character – ever. I want to smack him across the face and rip all his clothes
off at the same time. Karina, what have you done to me?!?
This novella is Javier and
Ellie’s story, and it’s a fucking whirlwind. After reading Sins & Needles, I was torn on how I felt about a novella
involving Javier. I had already made my mind about him and firmly planted
myself on Team Camden. But there’s no way this novella would make me change my
mind about him, right? I had to read it anyway. Then the unthinkable happened –
I started seeing people’s posts about how dashing and charming and sexy Javier
is, and now they don’t know who Ellie should end up with. Um…excuse the fuck
out of me…but WHAT?! How could you possibly change your mind about this man??
And then I read On Every Street and I’m just as confused
about my feelings as everyone else. Well, maybe not as torn, but there's some hesitation in my decision now. This novella allowed us to see the side of
Javier that never surfaced in Sins &
Needles, and really delve into their relationship. It wasn’t a huge train
wreck or horribly one-sided like I thought it would be; it’s sweet and kind and
loving…with a dash of crazy mother fucker. With having read Sins & Needles prior to On Every Street, I knew how their
relationship would play out and just what actions would lead to their demise,
but you know what? My heart hurt just as much this time as it did reading about
it in Sins & Needles. Ellie is
one of my favorite characters of all-time, and her meltdown in the truck was
like taking a freaking hammer to my heart.
I didn’t want to like Javier or
think that there might be some good underneath all that asshole, but I can’t
help it. He got under my skin. I’m not to the point where I can say I don’t
care who she ends up with, but Karina Halle definitely planted a little seed of
doubt in my mind. Sure, Javier’s batshit crazy, but Camden isn’t perfectly sane
either. On Every Street was an intense
and suspenseful novella, and while I’m still Team Camden – the lure of Team
Javier is giving me it’s come hither stare and the temptation has made its
presence known. There is only one thing I know for sure at this point; I need Shooting Scars, like, yesterday!
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