"Exquisitely sensual, Maldeamores is the most unforgettable forbidden romance I have ever read." Katy Evans, New York Times Bestselling Author of the REAL Series.
"Refreshingly 'taboo' - in a community where we're inundated by novels claiming this title, it's wonderful to finally find a book that not only truly lives up to the word, but is also well written, moving, and beautiful in its prose." Stylo Fantome, Best Selling Author of the Kane Trilogy.
Belén: I’ve loved Luciano ever since I can remember, desired him before I even knew what it meant. He’s always been the only man in my life—my constant protector, and his rejection only intensifies my need.
Luciano: I’ve never known a love more fierce than the one I feel for Belén. But I force myself to deny her no matter how much it hurts.
Our love is a sickness and both of us are infected.
Because there’s no cure for being from the same family
***Warning***
This novel contains graphic sex scenes, including: incest, F/F, and ménage, M/M/F. Some drug use and violence.
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Now that Luciano lives in the same building, he comes over all the time. Both he and Titi have a key, and I have one to their apartment that I keep on my key chain.
Our front door opens while I’m sitting at the dining room table doing homework. I look up, expecting to see Mami coming in with the groceries, but instead it’s Luciano and he doesn’t look good.
His lip is swollen and bleeding—his eye took a punch too, and it’s almost closed from the pressure. He’s hurt and it startles me. I stand up and my pen rolls to the floor, but I stay silent, waiting for him to say something first.
"I didn’t think you’d be home," he says. His face is totally straight, lacking any emotion.
"The library was closed for a special event. Was there a fight? Are you okay? You’re bleeding."
He nods and says nothing.
"Let me get you some ice," I say, running to the kitchen.
I put ice in a bowl and run a clean towel under water, then grab some gauze and peroxide from the bathroom and take it all to the living room where he’s sitting.
Kneeling down beside him, I put ice cubes in the wet towel and lift it to his face. I ask permission with my eyes and Luciano gives me a quick nod. He winces from either the cold or the pressure and I put my hand on his chest to calm him. It’s an automatic gesture.
"Does it hurt?" I ask him.
He shakes his head.
His chest feels solid under his T-shirt and touching it does strange things to my body. I try to focus on the task in front of me.
"Titi will kill you," I say, pulling my mind away from his hard chest. "You should try to stay out of fights," I add, resisting the urge to wrap my arms around him or crawl into his lap. Luciano is, and has always been, the only man in my life. I look to him for reassurance all the time, even though we’re almost the same age.
I dab at the gash under his eye that is bleeding the most.
"Easier said than done," he says, and then grabs my wrist hard. I stare at the juncture where his hand meets my arm. His knuckles are white and my skin under his grip is turning bright pink.
My lips immediately part and my stomach fills with unease. I can always read Luciano, but right now I can’t tell what’s happening. He has sweat on his brow and there’s dirt smudged on his face and his arm. He doesn’t release my hand.
"Luciano, you’re scaring me."
He drops my wrist disdainfully and his eyes graze slowly down my body. I glance down at my own chest and suddenly remember that I took my bra off when I got in. I’m wearing a white button-down shirt, unbuttoned a little bit. My nipples are hard from the cold ice in the tea cloth. The shirt brushes over my breasts just enough to make shivers skirt up my back.
Mara White is a contemporary romance and erotica writer who laces forbidden love stories with hard issues, such as race, gender and inequality. She holds an Ivy League degree but has also worked in more strip clubs than even she can remember. She is not a former Mexican telenovela star contrary to what the tabloids might say, but she is a former ballerina and will always remain one in her heart. She lives in NYC with her husband and two children and yes, when she’s not writing you can find her on the playground.
"You don't get to choose who you fall in love with and the heart is blind."
Mara White Posted the cover of this book and I had to have it.
Come on with a cover like that you have to know what are hidden among those pages, plus I've read her other books in the Heights of Desire series and completely fell in love with her writing!
I read the Prologe and seen this at the end...
***Warning***
This novel contains graphic sex scenes, including: incest, F/F, and ménage, M/M/F. Some drug use and violence.
Let me start off by saying I came into this book with an open mind.
I usually don't read the whole "forbidden" books because it's just too hard for me to get comfortable with whole situation and really get into the book but knowing what an amazing writer Mara White is, I knew right away I was going to have to keep an open mind and just absorb the love story.
WHOA! I am so freaking glad I did!!
This book changed my complete mindset regarding the "forbidden" category!
This story proved to me that I don't need to be so closed minded about the "forbidden" side of the story and at least just give the story a chance because you might be completely blown away, and thats what happened with Belén and Lucky story.
Mara White completely blew me away with not only her writing skills but her bravery of actually writing this story and releasing it. She deserves a round of applause.
This isn't just a love story. It's a Dark, Raw and Emotional story about just happening to have found the one person that your soul recognizes as you other half and not being able to act on those feelings because its your Cousin...The angst and pain you feel for the characters will have you wanting to rip your own heart out. It's gritty and raw and at times you feel uncomfortable but it's a beautiful master piece all the same, because..
"I think that nobody can help who they love. That shit just happens and you've got figure out how to deal with it. I don't believe it's a choice. Ever."
Did Belén and Lucky get their happy ending? Guess you are going to have get the book and find out. Trust me you want to find out, because the ending is what MAKES this book!
The ending completely took me surprise! I am talking about made me hold my breathe and was thinking no this is a joke. Mara White can't be ending it on this note. SHE CANT!!!! But ill be damn if she did. SHE FREAKING DID!!!
Let me ask you this, Do you love books that leave you wondering what the heck just happened?
Wondering if the author is pulling a huge prank on you?
Do you LOVE when a book leaves you breathless and in complete awe? Well guess what this book is for you! Because Mara White did just that.
This book is a MUST read!
Give it a chance and the story will BLOW YOU AWAY! It will leaving you wanting more and wanting to start emailing asking a ton of questions!
Maldeamores is to be releasing on June 22, 2015
Quotes:
"We're both each others poison, but we're also each other's only antidote."
"She is raw. Pure emotion. Savagely in love with me and willing to sacrifice whatever it takes."
"When the pen falls into our hands, we can't erase the past. All we're allowed is the chance to create a new ending."
"I'll die without you," she whispers, her eyes ow out of their daze. "There will never be anyone else for me, Lucky. Ever. I don't want there to be."
"Pretending that I want what everyone else wants. Walking away from Lucky will be my own funeral procession with the real Belén lying dead in the coffin. I'll never let her out for anyone else to see. She's not perfect if she's in love with her cousin. She's defective and so is he."
"Loving you, Bey, she not be something that's hidden from the world. your love should be a privilege, not a dirty secret. I want you to have a happy life, one that you're proud of."
"I love my pain, Lucky, and I love how it hurts me, When I no longer feel it, it means I've lost my connection to you, and I never want that to happen. I love this pain because it's part of loving you."
"Once I tasted your lips it ruined every other kiss for me. I don't want them. I resent every caress that isn't yours, Lucky. Your touch branded me first and I'm ruined."
"I'm in love with you, Belén. Always have been. I don't want to fuck you-I want to be the first man to make love to you."
"I love him. Lucky. The only one. Finally."
"Lucky owns every part of me, my past and my future. I don't think moving on is possible. How could I ever want to come on from a love this full and prefect?"
"I was yours regardless. I always belonged to you."
"We fall asleep together, wrapped in one another's bodies, becoming each other's soft blanket of comfort. I don't know what will happen to us, but no matter what, at least Lucky and I share this same sick love for one another."
"I'm thinking about Len when the vehicle behind me blows up."
"Gene mutations I can tell you about Belén. But love, that is the universe;a greatest mystery."
"My pain from Luciano isn't a sickness-it's a source of magnificent strength, it's the most beautiful part of me."
"I don't consider myself cursed; I consider myself lucky."
"Len, you are the best and worst thing that's ever happened to me."
"We love deep down at the bottom of a well, where my glass heart bears his name and neither one of us, ever, feels any shame."
"Luciano takes up all of my heart and is forever a part of me."
"I promise you, Lucky that no matter what happens-jhere or there-to you or me, nothing else will ever compare to this love. Nothing."
"We fall asleep together under the sweet, heavy honey, our love buried underneath like a beautiful secret, when we hide from the world. We love deep down at the bottom of a well, where my glass heart bears his name and neither one of us, ever, feels any shame for it."
"Belén's problem isn;t just that she love you like nothing else, Lucky. It's that she's convinced herself that it's a disorder-that she's somehow abnormal."
"I learned something from him, man. That you fucking know when it's real love and you don't get to choose when or with who it happens. You got to hold onto it, because life is too short."
""Are you in love, Jaylee?" I ask him as. This is his predicament. He is fighting against love now just like Lucky did his whole life.
"First time" he says and thumps his fist against his heart."wrong fucking person, who makes everything feel right. You get how that goes, Bey, huh?"
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