What to expect.
Hunter & Prey • Touch Her and Die • Possessive MMC • Rags to Riches • Owned • Masquerade • High Heat • Hunted • Anti-Heroes • Dark Romance • Billionaires • Villain • Traumatic Past • Forced Proximity
BLURB:
They call it a game. But games have rules, and mine were written in blood.
I was starving when I applied to The Feast of the Fallen—a twisted hunt where the world’s most elite billionaires pay millions to chase women like me through a gilded labyrinth until dawn.
One million dollars just to play. Two million if I’m caught.
I told myself I’d run, hide, and take the money–unharmed–so I could finally escape the poverty that’s been choking me my entire life.
But I didn’t count on him.
Jack Thorne, the phantom host, who built an empire from ash and blood, watched from the shadows while men hunted like monsters in a storm of his own creation. But when a reckless guest breaks his rules and goes too far, Jack steps out of the darkness, revealing himself as the most dangerous player of all–one who looks like a savior but will stop at nothing for revenge.
Jack doesn’t negotiate with giants. He watches them gorge themselves on power until their true nature spills out. Then he brings the axe.
“Bestselling author, Lydia Michaels, delivers a dark, billionaire romance with all of The Great Gatsby’s champagne charm and The Hunger Games high stakes, in this deliciously twisted retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. For readers who like their heroes morally gray, their steam scorching, and their happily-ever-afters dripping with secrets, Feast of the Fallen has it all!”
⚠️ Dark romance with explicit content. Please read responsibly.
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Feast of the Fallen by Lydia Michaels
Tanya’s rating: 5 of 5 stars
Feast of the Fallen is the third book in the Villains of Kassel series. The story being told is a dark and twisted retelling of Jack in the Beanstalk and is Jack Fitzgerald Thorne and Daisy Burdan’s story.
I have to say, this retelling was a first for me—I’ve never encountered Jack’s story told this way before. I never imagined him in such a dark, romantic light. Lydia Michaels made me genuinely feel for both Jack and Daisy. Jack, sold by his own mother into something even worse, and Daisy, desperate and starving, grasping at the only chance she had to escape abject poverty. Their circumstances were heartbreaking, yet the author made their connection impossible to look away from.
Even though this book is a work of fiction the story told was inspired from the atrocities of what is happening in our news now.
I LOVED reading Feast of the Fallen and this series of retellings. I haven’t read anything like this series. This author knows how to drag you into the rabbit hole and speaking of…. That is the next title for book #4, The Rabbit Hole. I CAN’T WAIT!
Note from the Author:
This is a rage piece.
I write it as a woman with her eyes wide open.
I see the hypocrisy, the fascism, and the corruption of those in power who exploit those without.
And I’m angered to a point that my fury defies the expectation of silence.
We may be small when in the shadow of giants, but our voices still matter.
This story is just one scream of many that I needed to get out, to prove that even after the longest, darkest, coldest of nights, a new dawn will inevitably arrive.
Please check your triggers.
This is a dark romance born from the bones of a fairytale and baptized in the wreckage of a broken world.
It does not flinch.
Expect explicit sexual content, graphic language, and scenes of intense emotional intimacy. This novel contains depictions of child abuse (off-page but heavily implied), sexual assault, violence, murder, drug addiction, parental abandonment, branding, PTSD, and trauma responses, including dissociation and hypervigilance. Themes include class exploitation, corruption among the powerful, human trafficking, obsessive and possessive behavior, and the moral complexities of vengeance.
The hero is not safe.
He is not gentle.
He is not sorry.
If you need your monsters dressed in redemption, this isn’t your story.
But if you believe that the darkest fairytales tell the truest truths, pull up a chair.
The Feast is about to begin.
About Lydia Michaels
Lydia Michaels is the author of over thirty-five novels and the consecutive winner of the 2018 & 2019 Author of the Year Award from Happenings Media, as well as the recipient of the 2014 Best Author Award from the Courier Times. She has been featured in USA Today, Romantic Times Magazine, Love & Lace, and more. As the host and founder of the East Coast Author Convention, the Behind the Keys Author Retreat, and Read Between the Wines, she continues to celebrate her growing love for readers and romance novels around the world.
Lydia is happily married to her childhood sweetheart. Some of her favorite things include the scent of paperback books, listening to her husband play piano, escaping to her coastal home at the Jersey Shore, cheap wine, 80’s pop culture, coffee, and kilts. She hopes to meet you soon at one of her many upcoming events. You can follow Lydia at www.Facebook.com/LydiaMichaels
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