Carnage by Shantel Tessier

An all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel Tessier. Carnage is based in the Lords' world and can be read as a standalone.

A PUPPET 
The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success. The more they’re willing to serve, the more power they have. 

Among them are the Spade brothers, who run Carnage. It’s where the Lords who have not held up their oath go to live out the rest of their lives in shackles. Tucked away from the world as if they never existed. 

I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW. 

I once belonged to a Lord—Saint Beckham Carter. Although nothing was holy about him, I still kneeled as if he could grant me eternity in a world where only evil existed. 

At the time, I willingly vowed to be his and allowed him to share me with his “brothers.” But things changed. And what I thought couldn’t get any better got exceptionally worse. So I did the only thing I could and ran from him, knowing I could never return. 

Now he’s found me and dragged me back to his hell, where he will make me his pet. The world already thinks I’m dead, so no one will miss me. And I’m just another name on a long list of those who will never know freedom. 

What he doesn’t know is why I ran from him in the first place. A Lord doesn’t listen to reason, so it’s not like he’d care anyway. Saint was born a Lord, and he will die as one. 

If life has taught me anything, it’s that we all pay for our sins. And Saint will never let me forget that my place is at Carnage, serving him on my knees until death is granted.

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5 Heart Review by Lorena

The Spade brothers from Carnage are ruthless, bad, evil but still have a soft heart when it comes to Ashtyn. Saint has been in love and obsessed with her for as long as he's known her and he vowed that he would make her his chosen, one way or another.

What Saint wants, Saint gets and that's exactly how it went down, but Ash also has been head over heels in love with Saint for a long time and was wishing and hoping that Saint would be hers and it worked out for them both. 

The theme of this book is extremely dark and I absolutely LOVED it. The Lords just keep getting better and better and hotter and hotter. Love how they don't give two toodles on how they treat those that have wronged them and they will get revenge one way or another.

When someone takes something from them, they will go over and beyond to get it back. 

The BDSM scenes were insane in this book. I CANNOT wait to see who or what comes next!

There were so many surprises in this book, but that doesn't surprise me because Shantel Tessier is very good at making us hyperventilate when it comes to her books. I love her writing, and it seems like every book she writes they just keep getting darker and darker and I fall in love with every single character of hers. 

I am always in a high and can't seem to concentrate after finishing one of her books. I think about the story for days and end up in a book hangover because her stories consume me.

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