Review – Lie To Me by Tori St. Claire

Description:
After helping to break up a Russian human trafficking ring as part of the CIA’s elite Black Opal team, Alexei Nikanova’s newest assignment is to rescue one of the stolen women and return her to her father. When he arrives in Dubai, he discovers his target is Sasha Zablosky—a woman he knows all too well, and who has haunted him ever since their one unforgettable night together. But he finds Sasha reluctant to leave her Sheik, the only true friend she’s ever known. Only Alexei can’t give her a choice.

With their yearning roused by intrigue, Alexei and Sasha can no longer resist and spend night after night in forbidden pleasure. Soon Alexei finds himself falling for her even as he battles a shadowy menace to protect her. But Sasha is no innocent. She has a past darker than she could ever admit or that Alexei could ever forgive. And it is about to explode into her life once more. Now, as the lies they tell themselves—and each other—pull them deeper into a perilous desire, what began as simple passion becomes a love certain to destroy them and end the lives of countless innocents.

ARC Review

Sasha Zablosky first meets Alexei when she takes the alias of Irina and hides out in a strip club in Russia. Sasha used to work for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, but time has hardened her so much that getting out of the business was her only option. After months of trying to move on, finding a quite place to wallow seemed like the only option left for her. Accepting her fate was just the first step for Sasha to create a new life, once Alexi kidnaps her and trades her to a sheikh in Dubai.

Alexei Nikanova doesn’t know Irina’s true identity. He only knows that he has been hired to kidnap her and deliver her as part of his undercover role in the human trafficking organization. Alexei works for secret section of the CIA known as the Black Opals. What Alexei doesn’t expect is to be unable to get Irina out of his mind. Taking her was just another job for him, but falling into bed with her and falling for her were things that he couldn’t control.

When Alexei and Sasha meet up again, their intense sexual attraction hasn’t diminished and they must deal not only with the betrayal of Alexei giving Sasha to the sheikh, but also all the other baggage from their pasts. Whether or not their attraction will be enough to help them move on once all the secrets are revealed is what keeps readers engrossed in this story.

I had to keep reading in order to know how Sasha and Alexei would work things out and what other secrets they were keeping hidden from each other. There are lots of revelations in this story and not knowing when they will arrive or how they will be shown adds to the suspense.

This book starts off with the sexual tension and eroticism between Sasha and Alexei and doesn’t let up until the very last page. I was immediately drawn into the story of these two people running from their pasts and trying to build a future.

There is a lot of descriptive sex in this book. The sex takes place between Sasha and Alexei as well as with various partners and combinations. I thought that the sex scenes were necessary to show the depth and strength of the attraction that Alexei and Sasha feel for each other. if you are looking for a great book with some serious suspense and intrigue, hot under cover agents and steamy sex than this is a book that you need to pick up and add to your collection. I will definitely have to go back and read the other books in this series just for an excuse to re read this one.