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USA Today Bestselling Authors Maggie Ryan and Alta Hensley join forces again to bring you the second novel in this action-packed, romantic suspense trilogy full of bad boys and the women who love them.
Dark… seductive… promise
Stryder Steele, along with his two brothers and father, lives by one code: Help all in need. Even if it means saving those who walk among the most sinister criminals in the world. Known as The Black Stallions, their mission is simple – provide rescue and safety to the innocents drawn into the evil depths of the underground.
Zoya Morozova has been kidnapped and ready to be sold at an underground human auction in Moscow. Being sold to the highest bidder, she has no idea her life is about to change when her new Master is the dark and mysterious… Stryder Steele.
Bad boy Stryder remembers the pain of being unable to save another but he’ll put his life on the line to save this beautiful Russian farm girl. When he buys Zoya with the purpose of rescuing her, he has no idea that she may have the power to rescue him as well.
Flown to The Black Stallion Ranch, and with the help of Zoya and the knowledge of the human sex trade she has, can the Steeles put together the pieces in time to save all the innocent women who had been sold to the monsters of the underground, or will they lose to the mastermind of it all?
Publisher's Note: This book contains graphic sex and BDSM elements.
OUR REVIEW
3.5 Stars
Men on a mission
Rescuing women who are sold to be slaves to evil powerful and disgusting men.
Stryder his brothers and father along with others make it their mission to rescue women and get the heads of the sex slave operations and auctions and do what they can to bring the organisations down.
About the plot:
Zoya was rescued in Russia she was purchased by Stryder who posed alongside his brother as interested parties in the women slave trade, Zoya was purchased and once Zoya was safe in Texas at the ranch which is the base, a safe house, she provided the men with information on what she has seen and heard from her time in captivity and helped them to gain more information on the sex slave organisation.
An interesting plot, told in third person. While Zoya was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time before her captivity Stryder is a person with a sad backstory that drives him to put himself in dangerous situations for the women they save.
A story where both the rescuer and rescuee fall for each other.
I enjoyed Stryder there were parts of the plot that I felt didn’t fit the plot for example the women have been abused, kidnapped seen rape, been raped or sexual abused but there's a play room at the ranch with well everything Mr Grey would use. I didn’t think it fitted this story ok Stryder liked kink but it just didn't feel right with the plot at all. Why couldn't he of just been a dominant alpha who loves to protect and has a bossy side that's more fitting. This is just my opinion but it baffled me that he would be that sort of character or that a safe house would have that on the premises given the history of the women and what they had been through. It just felt like the author just wanted to put some kink into the story but it didn’t fit the plot.
Great up-to 80% disappointed in some things.
