What happens when the one person you never expected suddenly happens to be the one you’ll fight the hardest to keep?
Colton stole my heart. He wasn't supposed to, and I sure as hell didn't want him to, but he crashed into my life, ignited feelings within me that I thought had died forever, and fueled a passion that I never knew could exist.
Rylee fell out of that damn storage closet and into my life. Now I don't think I'll ever be the same. She's seen glimpses of the darkness within me, and yet she's still here. Still fighting for me. She is without a doubt the saint, and I am most definitely the sinner.
How is it the one thing neither of us wanted—neither of us anticipated that fateful night—has us fighting so hard to keep?
He steals my breath, stops my heart, and brings me back to life again all in a split second of time. But how can I love a man who won't let me in? Who continually pushes me away to prevent me from seeing the damaged secrets in his past? My heart has fallen, but patience and forgiveness can only go so far.
How can I desire a woman who unnerves me, defies me, and forces me to see that in the deep, black abyss of my soul there's someone worthy of her love? A place and person I swore I'd never be again. Her selfless heart and sexy body deserve so much more than I'll ever be capable of giving her. I know I can't be what she needs, so why can't I just let her go?
We are driven by need and fueled with desire, but is that enough for us to crash into love?
I look over my shoulder and smile at him. “Thank you,” I reply, recognizing the salacious look in his eyes. “But I have a feeling that your view is a little jaded from a lack of sex.”
The hum of appreciation in the back of his throat makes me smile. “Oh, baby, there’s definitely nothing wrong with my view,” he says with a chuckle. I start to go up the second flight again, but this time Colton’s hands seem to be touching me in various places with every step. A soft caress up the back of my thigh. A slight brush down my bare arm. A quick tap on my backside.
I know exactly what he’s doing, but it’s not like he needs to stoke the embers because I’m already a wild fire of need. Knowing that he wants me like this, needing and aching for more of his touch, makes me feel wanton and willing to play the game too. I sway my hips a little more than usual as I walk across the second landing. My hand purposely snagging my hem to reveal just a trace of what’s beneath it.
Colton’s lightning quick as he grabs me from behind, both of his arms wrapping around me in a vice like grip. “You little minx.” He growls in my ear as I feel the play of his muscles against my back. “Are you really going to tease me like that when I’ve been without being inside of you—tasting you for way too long? Especially when you know how desperate I am to have you.”
So, in Driven we met Rylee and Colton. Rylee dedicates her life to the boys in the foster home the company she works for is in charge of. Colton is a famous racecar driver who is known for being a playboy. Both our hero and heroine are struggling to overcome tragic events from their past, and really neither are looking for a relationship.
Let me take a second and state that I am seriously very passionate about this series! I think we all know by now that I’m a bit of a sucker for the trilogy series with intense and somewhat mysterious alpha males that have some seriously messed up issues. And if that doesn’t describe Colton then I don’t know what does.
After finishing Driven I could not call Colton a book boyfriend yet. He hadn’t earned it. He was treating Rylee like crap and she just kept taking it and coming back for more. By the end of Driven I wanted to knock some sense into her! I say that, but part of me wants her to run off with Colton every time he came by to steal her away, but another part of me is screaming ‘RYLEE! This guy is a douchebag! Tell him to fuck off!’
However, by the end of the first chapter of Fueled, Colton is pretty much forgiven. At that point he is starting to earn his book boyfriend status. Slowly… but he is getting there. I still wasn’t 100% sold yet, but he was starting to show his potential.
We learned all about Rylee’s tragic past in Driven and why she came to be in the place she was in when she met Colton. In Fueled, we learn about Colton’s. Driven is completely in Rylee’s point-of-view, but in Fueled we get Colton’s point-of-view, as well as Rylee’s. Now, did we need the duel point-of-view? Eh.. I’m a bit on the fence about that. Did it help me understand Colton and maybe love him a little bit more? Sure. But I kind of like my tragic trilogy heroes to be mysterious.
While Colton wasn’t so mysterious anymore, he still had a few prick moments where I wanted to slap him around to defend Rylee. However, I also wanted to slap both of them around because most of the time they both had were far too stubborn. Neither one of them would try and fix things during their arguments. It felt so repetitive at times because at the end of their argument it would be ‘well, I guess this is the end’, but then five seconds later they would be in another argument. Neither one of them willing to let go, but neither one of them willing to bend either.
Now in most trilogies the second book is usually the one that is the most intense and gets your heart racing in the rollercoaster it takes you on. While fueled definitely lived up to that, but I have a sneaky suspicion that the third book, Crashed, might even be more intense. How K. Bromberg will be able to pull that off, I have no idea… but I don’t think she is going to let us off easily.
K. Bromberg has so many setups in Fueled as to where this story might continue that I just know I’m in for another rollercoaster.
I will tell you that at the end of Fueled, Colton had earned his official book boyfriend status. But here is my official warning - If you thought the end of Driven was a bad cliffhanger, you haven’t seen anything yet. K. Bromberg may or may not have gotten a few shouty all capitals messages from me when I finished Fueled. So I’m warning you now… there is a BAD cliffhanger that will rip your heart out.
K. lives in Southern California with her husband and three children. When she needs a break from the daily chaos of her life, you can most likely find her on the treadmill or with Kindle in hand, devouring the pages of a good, saucy book.
Fueled is K. Bromberg’s second published novel and is the highly anticipated second book of “The Driven Trilogy.” Driven was her well-received debut novel and Book #1 of the series.
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