Forbidden Ice
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4.6 • 9 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Solve the case. Save the girl. Stop the killer.
Protect Wren. The minute that Jacob Jones receives the text from his brother, he springs into action. Wren Maye is the golden girl from his childhood, the star of his teenage fantasies, and the one woman who was always off limits to him…because she was his twin brother’s girl. Over the years, he kept a careful distance from Wren because he knew she was the one person who could wreck his careful control.
She’s in danger, and he’s the only one who can save her.
Jacob arrives just in time to stop Wren’s abduction. Now he’s going to be her shadow because Wren is the target of a killer bent on vengeance. Jacob has always maintained a careful distance between himself and Wren—but there is no room for distance any longer. There is danger. There is desire. There is a vicious obsession that will not end. So now, he’s just going to take what he wants. And, yes, he will damn well fight his brother for her. He will fight the world for her. She will be his. No one will hurt what belongs to him.
She thought he hated her. Now he’s being her hero.
What is a woman supposed to do? One minute, the delectable Jacob Jones is keeping an icy distance between them, and in the next instant, he’s saving her. Kissing her as if his life depends on the task, and swearing that he’ll keep her safe from any and all threats. And in order to do that protection bit? He has to assume the role of his brother. He’ll be her lover. Or…at least Jacob mistakenly believes that was the role Ebenezer “Eb” Jones had in her life. Newsflash—she has never belonged to Eb. How could she? For years, she’s been hooked on Jacob. The intense and brooding twin who knows far too much about darkness.
A killer will use her to get vengeance.
It is Wren’s connection to both Jacob and Eb that makes her the killer’s perfect target. He wants to kill her in order to punish the brothers. A life for a life. The twins will pay for their crimes. And they will pay by losing a woman who is so very important to them both. A friend to one. A lover to another. An ice-cold grave for them both to visit as they mourn for what they lost.
Vengeance is best served ice-cold. And desire? It’s best when it burns red-hot.
Author’s Note: A cold case from the past is about to shatter Jacob’s world. If he can’t team up with the Ice Breakers and solve this case, he may lose the woman who has been his life-long obsession. The woman who owns his heart. Get ready for another Ice Breaker Cold Case Romance…danger, steam, a hero who will not fight his desire any longer. Be careful when you wake the beast. Because he will fight like hell for the woman he wants.
Customer Reviews
Twisted and edgy
FORBIDDEN ICE is the thirteenth instalment in Cynthia Eden’s contemporary, adult ICE BREAKERS COLD CASE romantic suspense series focusing on a group of men and women who work for Ice Breakers, a former online team of crime solvers whose goal it is to solve cold cases. This is realtor Wren Maye, and former FBI profiler and Ice Breaker agent Jacob Jones’ story line. FORBIDDEN CASE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed when necessary.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from omniscient third person perspectives FORBIDDEN ICE follows in the wake of the threats against our story line heroine. Wren’s past is mired in darkness and death, but the two constants have been twin brothers Eb and Jake Jones. An attack against our heroine, following her best friend’s bridal party, finds Wren under the protection of Jake Jones, the man she has been quietly lusting after for most of her life. As the threats against Wren become more personal, revealing the secrets from her past, Eb and Jake believe they may be the target, and Wren is a pawn in a much larger game.
The world building follows the desperate need to protect our story line heroine who is in total denial regarding Jake and Eb’s depth of love and emotional attachment towards Wren Maye but one is willing to step aside to ensure the happiness of his twin. As the threats against Wren increase, the possibility of someone close upends the worlds of Wren, Eb and Jake.
The relationship between Jake and Wren is one of friends to lovers but Wren’s need to deny Jake’s feelings and attraction is more of a protective measure in the face of losing them both. Wren has always believed Jake’s actions and attitude bordered on dislike but both Jake and Eb were willing to step back as long as one or both were Wren’s primary protector. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters are energetic, desperate and dynamic. We are introduced to Jake’s twin brother Eb: Wren’s ‘uncle’ Milo; Declan Flynn (Cruel Ice), and Hunter; and Wren’s friends Makayla, Tom and Jennifer.
FORBIDDEN ICE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, murder and retaliation, obsession and madness, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is intriguing, twisted and edgy; the romance is spicy; the characters are determined and charismatic.