Sweet Cruelty
Ruthless Obsession
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Narrated by:
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Lauren Sweet
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Tor Thom
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Written by:
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Zoe Blake
About this listen
It was an innocent mistake; she knocked on the wrong door. It was mine.
If I were a better man, I would've just let her go. But I'm not. I'm a cruel bastard. I ruthlessly claimed her virtue for my own. It should've been enough but it wasn't
I needed more...I craved it.
She became my obsession. Her sweetness and purity taunted my dark soul. The need to possess her nearly drove me mad. A Russian arms dealer had no business pursuing a naive librarian student. She didn't belong in my world. I would bring her only pain. But it was too late...she was mine and I was keeping her.
Sweet Cruelty is a dark romance stand-alone novel intended for mature audiences.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-11-24
The only performance by Tor Thom that was not great
I love Tor Thom’s narration, until this book. He speaks with a really bad Russian accent, but “ thinks” without one, so when we hear his thoughts, for the most part, it is without an accent. All the Russian male characters sound the same so it’s hard to figure out who’s saying what. The story was great, really sweet.
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- Heather
- 2022-10-21
Scorching
Tor Thor’s Russian accent was amazing. This was a hot romance. On to the next book in the series
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