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MANIPULATE is book 6 in the
DELIVER Series Dark Romance

Anti-heroes - Sex Trafficking - Cartel

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Tula Gomez is in the most ruthless prison in Latin America.

She only drove to Mexico to help her sister. She did nothing wrong. But her quiet life changed in an instant.

To survive the violent, cartel-controlled prison where men blend with women, she pledges her loyalty to the notorious leader in exchange for the one thing she needs most. Protection.

When she agrees to seduce the suspicious new inmates, Martin Lockwood and Ricky Saldivar, she doesn’t expect to enjoy it. Sure, they’re gorgeous, irresistibly alpha, and insanely talented with their hands and mouths. But they’re the enemy. She can’t fall for them.

Torn between her cartel loyalties and two men who want her as deeply as they want each other, she questions who is manipulating whom. Her search for answers leads to a passionate ménage, a soul-crushing secret, and an impossible choice.

DELIVER SERIES

Each book is a different couple. No cliffhangers. Must be read in order.

DELIVER (#1) - FREE
VANQUISH (#2)
DISCLAIM (#3)
DEVASTATE (#4)
TAKE (#5)
MANIPULATE (#6)

What I thought about Manipulate

The dark romance series from Pam Godwin returns with Manipulate, the story of Ricky and Martin's attempt to take down the La Rocha Cartel and their child sex trafficking ring. As two of the former sex slaves known as the Freedom Fighters, they get themselves thrown in to Jaulaso, the most violent prison in Mexico.

The story doesn't start with Ricky and Martin though. Petula Gomez gets a cryptic call from her sister in Mexico with a plea for help, and she leaves Arizona on what she thinks is a day trip. Arrested and thrown into Jaulaso, she's tortured until she's taken under the wing of an older man at the prison who happens to be the head of the cartel.

Things are very bleak for Petula until Ricky and Martin show up reminding her of the USA and making her long for physical closeness. They find solace in each other, and over their time together secrets are revealed that could kill them all. It's the love between them that may save them.

This series is very dark and the charm is that the characters find redemption for their sins and someone to love along the way. There are plenty of villains in Manipulate and I thought it is the darkest so far in this series. I actually had moments where I wondered if I could finish because the tension and fear was so pronounced that I had a to take a break. Be warned that the prison life depicted in Manipulate does not sugar coat any aspect. It's a tough read content-wise and the love story between Ricky, Martin and Tula doesn't quite make up for the darkness.

Manipulate is very heavy on violence and sex, some loving and most of it not so much. The writing is excellent and the story well-crafted, but the subject matter is very hard to take in Manipulate, at least it was for me. Your mileage may vary, as they say. It's a story that will definitely poke at my brain for a few days so I'm giving this four stars with a trigger warning for sexual violence.

An ARC was provided for review.

DELIVER, Book 1: FREE on all retailers

His name was Joshua Carter. Now it’s whatever she wants it to be. She is a Deliverer. She lures young men and delivers them to be sold. She delivers the strikes that enforce their obedience. She delivers the sexual training that determines their purchase price. As long as she delivers, the arrangement that protects her family will hold. Delivering is all she knows. The one thing she can’t deliver is a captive from slavery. Until him. And her stubborn slave thinks he can deliver her…from herself.

VANQUISH, Book 2

Her life is like a prison cell. A self-made, to-hell-with-the-free-world existence that locks from the inside. Stop judging. Her agoraphobia doesn’t define her. It simply keeps her safe. He belongs in a prison cell. The 6x8, make-me-your-bitch variety that locks from the outside. But he’s free. To hunt. To take. To break. And he just found a sexy new toy. Capturing her is the easy part. Her fucked-up mind, however, makes him question everything he does next. But he’s a determined bastard. If all goes his way, this will hurt like hell.

DISCLAIM, Book 3

Camila was seventeen when Van Quiso kidnapped her. Ten years after her escape, the shackles refuse to release her. Not while there are still slave traders preying on her city. She will stop at nothing to end them. Even if that means becoming a slave again. Returning to chains is her worst fear—and only option. They won’t know who she is or what she intends to do. She’s prepared for every complication. Except him. The one who decimated her sixteen-year-old heart. Matias is charming, gorgeous, and dangerously seductive. He’s also untrustworthy and enshrouded in secrets. After years of no contact, he finds her—on her knees, wrists bound, in the clutches of her enemy. Will he sabotage her mission by needlessly saving her? Or will he keep her in chains and never let her go?

DEVASTATE, Book 4

“What is the price you’re willing to pay?” “Money isn’t an issue.” “I’m not talking about money.” Tate is on the hunt to find his best friend’s sister. Eleven years ago, Lucia Dias was abducted. Presumed dead. He never met her, so why does he care? Some might call his efforts noble, but his motivation is more perverse, bordering on obsession. When he follows a chilling lead to Venezuela’s Kidnap Alley, what he finds is neither a corpse nor a captive. Amid poisonous lies and crippling depravity, the price of love is devastation. And he pays. With his body, his blood, and her life.

TAKE, Book 5

He’s a notorious crime lord, a kidnapper, and an artist. Scarification is his outlet, and he just captured a new canvas. Kate refuses to surrender beneath his blade or the cruelty in his beautiful eyes. But she’s drawn to the man inside the monster. A man who makes her ache with his touch. Who owns her with his kiss. A man who worships her as deeply as he hurts her. She can run, but there’s no escape from a bond carved in scars.

DELIVER #1: Narrated by Teddy Hamilton (Josh) and Abby Crayden (Liv)

VANQUISH #2: Narrated by Ryan West (Van) and Jo Raylan (Amber)

DISCLAIM #3: Narrated by Christian Fox (Matias) and Emma Wilder (Camila)

DEVASTATE #4: Narrated by J.F. Harding (Tate) and Tracy Marks (Lucia)

TAKE #5: Soren Gray (Tiago) and Kate Genevieve (Kate) - coming July 23

Books 6-9 TBA

Pam Godwin

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Pam Godwin, lives in the Midwest with her husband, their two children, and a foulmouthed parrot. When she ran away, she traveled fourteen countries across five continents, attended three universities, and married the vocalist of her favorite rock band.

Java, tobacco, and dark romance novels are her favorite indulgences, and might be considered more unhealthy than her aversion to sleeping, eating meat, and dolls with blinking eyes.