{"id":24451,"date":"2020-08-04T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tdcbookreviews.com\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2020-08-04T21:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:33:02","slug":"blog-tour-inked-in-lies-by-giana-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tdcbookreviews.com\/2020\/08\/04\/blog-tour-inked-in-lies-by-giana-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour Inked In Lies by Giana Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"iil<\/h3>\n

\u201cInked in Lies has just nudged its way onto my top readers of 2020 list. This emotional rollercoaster is beautiful, steamy, and utterly breathtaking! Darling has brought her A-game, and delivered a story that packs a whole punch and so much more!\u201d– Dani Ren\u00e9, USA Today Bestselling Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Inked in Lies, an all consuming friends to lovers romance from <\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i> bestselling author Giana Darling, is available now! <\/span><\/h2>\n

\"IIL<\/p>\n

He moved in next door.
\nHandsome as sin, older in a way that meant forbidden.
\nHe had tattoos on his hands and wickedness tucked in his grin.
\nI was a goner as a girl to a man they called Casanova for a reason.
\nHe would never love me, at least not the way I needed him to.
\nI tried to move on.
\nBut I couldn\u2019t turn my back on him or The Fallen MC.
\nSo when they needed me most, I offered the only thing of value I could use to help them.
\nMy body.
\nAnd when helping them meant putting my life on the line, Nova had to decide just how much he was willing to do to get me out alive.<\/p>\n

\"iil<\/p>\n

Download your copy today!<\/strong>
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Add INKED IN LIES to Goodreads: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2MGWpG1<\/p>\n

\"iil<\/p>\n

Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a heady fuckin\u2019 thing, bein\u2019 someone\u2019s sunshine, their rain, their entire ecosystem.
\nBut it was dangerous too.
\n\u2019Cause I would raze that all to the ground with one wrong move, one of my stupid mistakes.
\nAnd it would be gone, laid to waste forever.
\nThis was better, rippin\u2019 out the weeds of romanticism I\u2019d been so stupid to sow in her heart. The other stuff, with time, would survive.
\nWe\u2019d always be family, and eventually, we\u2019d get back to our friendship.
\nTwo years hadn\u2019t ruined us, what was a few more in an effort to heal her heart and give her the chance to win someone better?
\nI sat on the edge of the bed, dressed, boots tied, hands in my hair \u2019cause I couldn\u2019t shake this feelin\u2019 I was bein\u2019 a fuckin\u2019 dumbass for endin\u2019 it even though I knew it was right.
\n\u201cSneaking out?\u201d she whispered.
\nI looked over my shoulder at her, the sheet clingin\u2019 to the curve of her hip, the flowers I\u2019d inked on her back vivid against her dark skin and the white covers. My fingers twitched to trace them.
\n\u201cNothin\u2019 about this is easy, Li,\u201d I admitted. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m hurtin\u2019 you if I do, hurtin\u2019 you if I don\u2019t. I\u2019m just tryin\u2019 to find the best option here. You might not believe it, but I\u2019m tryin\u2019 to do what\u2019s best for you.\u201d
\nShe blinked up at me, those wide, long lashed eyes that had stared up at me for years, so trustin\u2019 and lovin\u2019 were now shuttered, guarded against me.
\nMy heart rattled against the cage of my ribs, strugglin\u2019 to get out.
\nTo get to her.
\n\u201cI know you think you aren\u2019t good enough. I know you\u2019ve always had that kernel of doubt about yourself because you were different, and growing up, people told you that made you bad. I know Meredith solidified that for you. But I want you to think it about it like this,\u201d she took a deep breath, and I braced for her words. \u201cYou saying your not worthy enough? It\u2019s like me saying the same just because Ignacio is my father, and I have his blood. I choose every day to be better than what he gave me, Nova, even though he\u2019ll always be a part of me. You could make the choice to be better than what you think you are, for me, if you wanted.\u201d
\nShe had a way of sayin\u2019 someone\u2019s name like that. The same way she said the names of flower varieties, as if each word itself was a novel, and she was tryin\u2019 to convey a summary of the entire thing in one word.
\nI\u2019d memorized the way she said Nova, as if it was the great novel ever written. As if it was a sacred text she\u2019d studied, runnin\u2019 her hands over the pages until they went cotton smooth with use and lovin\u2019.
\nI wanted to be that for her, to try for her, to love her better every day, but how selfish would it be to keep her in this life of mine?
\nLou and Z had been separated for months by prison, Cressida had lost her King.
\nWouldn\u2019t I just be condemning Li to a similar fate somewhere down the line?
\n\u201cYou know, Nova, I\u2019ve loved you all my life. Since the day I first saw you across the street stepping out of that minivan, I thought you were the most beautiful thing I\u2019d ever seen.\u201d She laughed softly, and I thought I\u2019d never heard a laugh so full of grief and mourning. \u201cBut for a pretty boy, you have an ugly heart.\u201d
\n\u201cLila,\u201d I started, but my voice was wrong, strangulated by the cobra of emotion twined around my throat, squeezin\u2019 the life outta me. \u201cDon\u2019t say that. Not you. I\u2019d fuckin\u2019 rip out my own heart to see you safe, to see one fuckin\u2019 smile on your face.\u201d
\nShe was so fuckin\u2019 lovely in her despair, tragic in a romantic way like Juliet before her Romeo. Of course, even my Flower Child made heartbreak look pretty.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s just it. You could make me smile every day for the rest of my life so easily. All I\u2019ve ever wanted was your love.\u201d
\n\u201cI love you,\u201d I said instantly, but the words fell flat and heavy when they should have soared, hollow and cheap as a children\u2019s toy dropped to the floor.
\n\u201cNot enough,\u201d she declared with a sad kind of triumph as if I\u2019d put her outta her misery in some horrific way.
\nAs if she\u2019d just been waitin\u2019 for me to disappoint her all along.
\n\u201cNot enough,\u201d she repeated softly. \u201cNot enough to even try.\u201d
\nI watched her with my heart in my goddamn throat as she got up, naked and glorious as a nymph crossin\u2019 my path, and went to the bathroom. Before she closed the door, she turned to me and said, \u201cI hope you\u2019re gone when I come back. And you should know, this time? I\u2019m not waiting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Giana<\/p>\n

About Giana<\/strong>
\nGiana Darling is a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Top 40 Amazon bestselling Canadian romance author who specializes in the taboo and angsty side of love and romance. She currently lives in beautiful British Columbia where she spends time riding on the back of her man\u2019s bike, baking pies, and reading snuggled up with her cat Persephone.<\/p>\n

Connect with Giana<\/strong>
\nWebsite: gianadarling.com
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\nNewsletter: http:\/\/eepurl.com\/b0qnPr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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