TITLE: BREAKING HAILEY
SERIES: SHADOWS OF OBSESSION #1
AUTHOR: I. DICE
GENRE: MAFIA | ROMANCE
PUBLICATION: FEBRUARY 13TH, 2024
Synopsis
HAILEY
One evening, two years’ worth of memories lost.
Under the pretense of recovery, my father sends me to an elite boarding college, but soon, my memories start rushing back, and it’s obvious I’m not at Lakeside to heal.
I’m here to hide.
Navigating the scattered past to decipher the threat lurking in the shadows is hard while I’m kept in the dark and even harder when he steals my focus. Crude, arrogant, and threatening, he draws me in, and the closer I get, the less I understand.
Waking up without memories is terrifying, but remembering the time I lost is infinitely worse.
CARTER
Guilty by association, Hailey Scarlett Vaughn deserves pain.
The moment I see her, I want to wrap my fingers around her neck and squeeze...
No matter how big the temptation, I need to extract a key hidden in the depths of her mind first.
A key to my father’s freedom.
Hailey’s a pawn in a complex game of revenge. A tool in my hands, but as she starts to remember, I realize we’re both tangled in an intricate web of lies that tightens every day.
The harder I push to break her, the faster she breaks me.
One evening, two years’ worth of memories lost.
Under the pretense of recovery, my father sends me to an elite boarding college, but soon, my memories start rushing back, and it’s obvious I’m not at Lakeside to heal.
I’m here to hide.
Navigating the scattered past to decipher the threat lurking in the shadows is hard while I’m kept in the dark and even harder when he steals my focus. Crude, arrogant, and threatening, he draws me in, and the closer I get, the less I understand.
Waking up without memories is terrifying, but remembering the time I lost is infinitely worse.
CARTER
Guilty by association, Hailey Scarlett Vaughn deserves pain.
The moment I see her, I want to wrap my fingers around her neck and squeeze...
No matter how big the temptation, I need to extract a key hidden in the depths of her mind first.
A key to my father’s freedom.
Hailey’s a pawn in a complex game of revenge. A tool in my hands, but as she starts to remember, I realize we’re both tangled in an intricate web of lies that tightens every day.
The harder I push to break her, the faster she breaks me.
My Review
📚 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐘 📚 This is the first full length mafia romance book in 'Shadows of Obsession' series by I.A. Dice. Spoken in 'dual perspectives' This is ❥ HAILEY & CARTER'S ❥ book. This does end in a cliffy.
Off I went to Amazon as soon as this went live!! Jumping in tonight!! I think I've only read one other by this author, so I'm intrigued with this one..
This surprised me by how effortlessly I was pulled into the storyline, enjoying the unexpected ride this book took me on. Twists and turns, the giddiness of loving this world the author has created.
This kick starts off with twenty year old Hailey after nine days waking up from a coma in the hospital, no idea what landed her there, and why her body feels like it's been run over by a mactruck. Something feels off, her father's evasiveness and her diminished memories which evade her she learns that she's lost two years of her life that she has no recollection of. Her father is a well known cop, famous in his own right for putting so many bad guys behind bars.
Instead of going back to the school she previously went to her father sends her somewhere else where she'll be safe and healing is her high priority.
Twenty-six year old Carter has just learned about his much loved eighteen year old sisters death, and that the person who will have knowledge of what happened is in Hailey's memory bank. So he's pulled out of the running of his club Delta and entrusted to uncover what Hailey knows by his father. He needs to earn her trust and enact revenge for the death of his sister. Carter leads the life of a made man, deep within the mafia life. 
