The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. Mom's hospital bills. My baby brother's tuition. My tuition. Rent. Electricity. All of it on my shoulders. And I had just lost my job. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. No return address. My name on the front, my address. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Enough to let me focus on classes. There was no name on the check, just "VRI Inc.," and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: "You." Just those three letters.
If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it?
I did.
The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. It too contained a single word: "belong."
A third check, the next month. This time, two words. Four letters. "To me."
The checks kept coming. The notes stopped. Ten thousand dollars, every month. A girl gets used to that, real quick. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom's hospice care paid for. How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you're desperate? You don't. I didn't.
And then, after a year, there was a knock on my door. A sleek black limousine sat on the curb in front of my house. A driver stood in front of me, and he spoke six words: "It's time to pay your debt."
Would you have gotten in?
I did.
It turns out $120,000 doesn't come free.
So. I think it goes without saying what a wonderful and
creative writer Jasinda Wilder is. And who can write a hotter scene then
Jasinda?
What would you do if you were on the verge of being evicted and
losing everything? Would you accept anonymous $10,000 checks every month? Kyrie
found herself in a situation where honestly, who wouldn’t accept those checks
when you have nothing else to lose?
A year and $120,000 later, there is a knock on Kyrie’s door
and someone is there to collect her. When she reaches her destination she is
blond-folded and told she cannot take it off. The man who now claims she
belongs to him will not give her his name or let her see him. Yet there is
something completely captivating about him.
Jasinda once again takes us on a adventure in her story
telling, as we never know where she is going to take us and where we’ll end up.
The secret identity of the man who supported Kyrie’s with the checks and now
seduces her with just his voice is incredibly addicting!
There was no way to put ALPHA down until I got to the last
page because I had to know all the secrets and mysteries going as to why this insanely
charismatic and dominant of a man would provide Kyrie with the money she needed
to survive, and what his connect was to her.
Riding along on the journey with Kyrie as she uncovers dark
secrets from her past and learning new things about herself is definitely an
experience I got a bit of a book hangover with!
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jasinda Wilder is a Michigan native with a penchant for titillating tales about sexy men and strong women. When she’s not writing, she’s probably shopping, baking, or reading. Some of her favorite authors include Nora Roberts, JR Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Liliana Hart and Bella Andre. She loves to travel and some of her favorite vacations spots are Las Vegas, New York City and Toledo, Ohio. You can often find Jasinda drinking sweet red wine with frozen berries and eating a cupcake.
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