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Hard Love by Shana Vanterpool

Title: Hard Love
Series: Guns & Ink
Author: Shana Vanterpool
Genre: N/A Contemporary Romance Standalone
Release Date: May 22, 2018
When two people in pain collide, there is something intoxicating about drowning in the chaos of hard love.
Brando Hawkins is a detective with the Denver Police Department. The world should be his to take. He’s a dedicated officer with a promising career. But Brando’s got secrets. Dark, ruthless secrets. At twenty-six, he’s burned-out, and the sight of another body, one more unhappy ending, might just do him in.
Catherine Abbott is a woman who wars with her demons and guards her heart. Immersed in a world where people ink their lives on their skin, Catherine trusts only that which she can see. And, as a rape survivor, she finds comfort in control.
But Brando’s demons start to tangle with hers. They’re dangerous, like hers. But they’re beautiful too.
A spray of bullets brings them together, and the pain of their pasts collide with the lure of their futures. Cat wants to mend his heart and his wounds, but Brando’s secrets lay tucked away in a vault so tightly sealed, she can’t get through.
Everything around them is covered in the confusion of love and the burn of revenge, but no one ever said love was easy.
Hard Love is the next standalone installment in the Guns & Ink series by Shana Vanterpool, a world of tattoos, love, and redemption from Swoon Romance.


My rating: 4 of 5 stars





This isn't my first rodeo with Shana Vanterpool and i have to say that i love getting right into her books. They are edgy, dark and so very on point when it comes to the darkness that resides in human nature; about the urges that we tend to forget that we have and want to deny having in the first place.


Hard Love was all that - the need to find something that will make your heart pound harder than ever before, to finding what makes you feel, whether it's pain, desire or even fear, and especially, it's about taking a dive into something that makes your heart beat faster than ever before, no matter the kind of danger that surrounds you. I wish i had read the previous book in this series so that i would have gotten a better feel of what the underlying police investigation was about, to be able to really understand what Madison and Klayton went through, especially when it comes to how Catherine comes into play.

The dynamic that existed between Brando and Catherine got me in so many ways - it was intense, it was beautiful but most of all it was dark. This story made me want to keep reading, to find out what really happened between these characters. I liked the different nuances in this story and i can't wait to get my hands not only on the next book in this series, but also on the previous book to see just what Shana Vanterpool will do [and has done].


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Romance author, coffee drinker, and bad boy aficionado. Every second not spent breathing is an opportunity to write and read. I live in Northern California with my family and actress dog, Halle Bella. (Just Bella when she decides to cut the crap.) Escaping with a good book is something I live for and I write so others can do the same.
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