Covenant (The Firm #1)

Here's the latest from Taylor Lark and Cora Rose: "Covenant." It's the first novel in their new series, The Firm.

["The Firm can make any wish come true.
Money. A job promotion. Murder.
Whatever you desire can be yours—for a price.

The Firm has ruled St. Dismas for generations. To most, they’re just a myth.
But in truth, they are the last resort of the desperate.

I never understood why anyone would go to The Firm. There’s always a price to pay—a price you won’t discover until your request has been granted.
It was a path I swore I’d never walk.
Or so I thought.

When my brother is gravely injured, everything changes.
I have no choice but to go to The Firm.
I don’t know what they’ll ask of me, but I’ll give anything to save Jackson.
He has his whole life ahead of him, and I’ll make sure he gets to live it.

But when my price comes due, it’s nothing like I expected.
Not drug smuggling or murder. Not the darkness I braced myself for.
No, this is worse.

My price is to fulfill someone else’s request.
To give them what they asked for.

A marriage.

For anyone else, it may seem simple. But not for me.
Because the man I must marry is my worst enemy.
My rival.
The man I once trusted above all others—until he shattered that trust and threw it back in my face.

The idea of pretending to be Matthias’s doting husband for a year is my worst nightmare.
But I won’t do it for me.
I’ll do it for Jackson.
For my brother, I’ll pay the price.

Even if it means condemning myself."]

These two were not entirely what I expected. Just when you think you have them understood (even though you were suuure you had Matthias figured out from the start), they make you rethink everything. It was beautiful and dizzying and perfect for the two of them, quite frankly. They were both so beautifully broken and tragically lonely (spoiler alert...), good think that old friendship of there's is so totally and completely behind them... ;)

They made me laugh and giggle, but they made me cry and sob. It was a beautiful mix of fluff and spite, of love and spice. It wasn’t easy, and it would have been simpler if they communicated, but the story wouldn’t have been as satisfying.

There are SO many brothers and sooo many potential story lines, annnd yettt, the prologue hinted at a brother/story that was completely unexpected. I. Want. It. Now!

Trigger Warnings: toxic and abusive parents, life-altering accidents (not MCs), and more. 

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