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A long-simmering feud between two families comes to a head in this gripping novel in Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling Shadow Riders series. As the youngest member of the Ferraro family, Emmanuelle has watched each of her brothers find happiness in love while her own heart was shattered by a lover’s betrayal. For two years she’s stayed as far away from Valentino Saldi as possible—until she learns that he’s been shot during a hostile takeover of his family’s territory. Emme’s first instinct is to call her brother Stefano for help, and soon the entire Ferraro clan arrives to bring Val back from the brink of death and protect the Saldis from further attack. With one choice Emme has re-exposed herself to Val’s intoxicating pull and dragged her family into the Saldis’ private war. A deadly storm is brewing, and only time will tell who survives…
Publication Year: 2021
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I only recently discovered Christine Feehan and was kind of gobsmacked to discover these are paranormal series. I mean, paranormal-lite if we're being honest and the premise of this series was very interesting.
I must say that Feehan has a way of pushing boundaries (especially sexual) in her series with every book (the Torpedo Ink Series!) but this series had a formula that she more or less stuck with and truthfully, it worked.
Shadow Storm is the concluding book in the series (as far as we know for now) and trying to tell Val and Emme's story was a huge undertaking and I honestly couldn't see how she could pull it off given the story we know so far.
Without trying to spoil anything, the Saldi family backstory is a genius move (even though it slightly smacks of deus ex-machina) and I really like how they wrapped up the story!
It was good to see some characters get their deserved comeuppance (no spoilers but fans of the series can probably guess who I'm talking about) and the HEA seemed very well deserved.
There are quite a few possibilities for spin-off series and I really really want Elie's story even if she writes nothing else!
Overall, I really enjoyed this series even though Torpedo Ink remains my favourite. I'm going to dive into the rest of her books now.