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Beautiful Liar Kindle Edition

by Natasha Knight (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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MacKayla Simone was beautiful. Irresistible.
She was also the setup.

We had one night.
A night that rocked my world.

Then burned it to the ground because the next thing I knew, she and I made the headlines of every paper, our faces and much more plastered on TV screens across the country.

That night cost me everything. I wasn’t a dangerous man until then, but things change when you have nothing left to lose.

And only one thing matters to me now.
Find the girl who destroyed me and ruin her.

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"The erotica writing is un-skimmable, and the story itself is rich and well layered...When I finish Ms. Knight's books I am left with the afterglow of a swoon fest...I think the talent I appreciate the most is how she writes the smexy scenes. She can write holy hotness steamy scenes...guaranteed!!" - Olga The Rebel Reader

"Dark, dirty, dangerous & enough dominating alpha to literally leave you desperate for more. Beautiful Liar hooked me from the very start. With two amazing lead characters who moved me so completely & a story line that stole my heart as well my breath." - CrazyButterfly

"You're probably going to cry, laugh, and get super horny if you read this book. Natasha has a really strong writing style and as I read this book, I felt every emotion the characters did." - TheTypewriter

"What a thrilling, sexy, twisty turny story! I love that throughout all the impending dangers and the panty-sizzling, edgy, BDSM play, there's also all the heart-melting sweetness of 'falling in love when you least expect it'! This is a story I could read over and over and never get enough of." Romazing Reader

"Beware!! This story will suck you in, so don't start reading late at night. I made that mistake and finally MADE myself put it down at 3:30 AM when my alarm was set for 4:30 AM ;) This story is edgy, steamy and sexy as hell." Letitia Moore

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01F44D9DG
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3096 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1533060487

Best Sellers Rank: #594,380 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #22,169 in New Adult & College Romance (Books)
- #27,830 in Romantic Suspense (Kindle Store)
- #28,660 in Romantic Suspense (Books)

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Natasha Knight is the USA Today Bestselling author of Romantic Suspense and Mafia Romance Novels. She has sold over a million books and is translated into six languages and when she’s not writing, she’s walking in the woods listening to a book, sitting in a corner reading or off exploring the world as often as she can get away.

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Kathy~ JustLetMeRead

Beautiful Indeed

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2016

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OMG! I loved this book. It was perfect. I’ve read several books by this author because she is one of my go to authors. She is one of my authors that I always one-click her new releases without reading the blurb because she never disappoints. This book was no exception. Beautiful Liar by Natasha Knight is a hauntingly beautiful story of two broken people with a connection but even with their first meeting, obstacles the size of the great wall of China stand between them, making it impossible to recognize the sizzling connection. Not to worry, because they will both feel it, eventually, even if they deny it multiple times. Slater only wants revenge, or so he thinks, and MacKayla, thinking she deserves his wrath, is terrified of him. Will these two ever be able to see what is right under their noses??? Hmmm, that’s not something that you’ll hear from me so I highly recommend that you one-click now!

This book is different than her others which just leaves you wondering if there is anything she’s unable to do. Its lighter than her last one but it’s not all heart and flowers. It is a standalone with a HEA but believe me when I saw that the road is twisty, tenuous, beautifully painful and full of angst and grittiness. There are twists that you will not see coming. The writing puts you in the story so you will feel everything and that puts your emotions on a roller coaster ride that will both devastate and thrill you. The book is captivating. It’s just not possible to put it down until the very last word. I read it in one sitting and didn’t even think about real life while I was involved with these characters. You will not find any filler so forget skimming. This 100% titillating story. The characters are very well developed and feel real and this includes the secondary characters. In fact, I’m hoping for more from the secondary characters. The plot is well developed and flows effortlessly, despite the twists. Everything about the writing is flawless. It is written in dual POV and yeah, its flawless too.

Remember that everything is not as it seems. On the surface this appears to be another book about revenge but it is so much more than that. It is much deeper than that. Somewhere lurking there is a love story, something much deeper and complicated than a perceived need for revenge but that “something deeper” has to be acknowledged before it can happen. Can someone that is full of anger from losing everything be able to see beyond his perceived need for revenge? Great question and only one of the many examples of the complications and obstacles that Slater and MacKayla encounter and YOU will not find the answer HERE so you need to one-click. I really recommend this book and this author.

I received and ARC through my blog but I didn’t touch it because the author is one of my go to authors and it was live so I bought it. As always, I did not regret the purchase.

Happy Reading!
Kathy ~ Just Let Me Read

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SLATER VAUGHN IS THE MASTER OF MY UNIVERSE!!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016

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“I own your nights, MacKayla. In the small hours, I am your master.”

Full Disclosure: I have never actually been jealous of a heroine before…until this book! There are certain heroes you covet to the point where the lines between reality and fiction become blurred, and you wish you could crawl inside the novel and swap places with the heroine. So move aside, MacKayla, because Slater Vaughn owned MY nights….! At six feet six and 250 pounds of muscle covered in tats, he is literally sex on a stick!! He is so PRIMAL and brazenly sexy, so unapologetically dominant and roughly possessive, pulsating with so much potent masculinity and “bristling, fiery rage,” that he literally leaps off the page and leaves me all aquiver.

Nothing thrills me more than a dark, brooding hero with an ax to grind and Slater Vaughn is so pissed his blood in boiling! But he’s about to collect his debt...big time.

Three years prior, MacKayla Simone was paid $5,000 to seduce newly elected Senator Vaughn—and catch it all on camera. She executed the plan flawlessly, preying on him in a moment of weakness, beckoning him with her intoxicating beauty and come hither smiles. But succumbing to one night of mind blowing passion with the cunning temptress ended up costing him everything. His career. His wife. His daughter. His name. And, most of all, his self-respect. But now the tables have turned and MacKayla Simone’s day of reckoning has come.

After years of planning, he finally tracks her down at the Hello Kitty Kat strip club. “Everything about her, her body, her face, her eyes—even from this distance—everything screamed erotic, right down to her pink tongue licking her full crimson lips.”

But he has not come here to drool. Or to get a private lap dance in the back room. He’s just relishing the moment before her whole world comes crashing down around her. For he’s temporarily moved in next door to her in North Bend, Oregon for one reason and one reason only. To punish her. However, when he finally advances on her, causing her to recoil in fear and shame and guilt, he is taken aback by his visceral reaction to her. For the vulnerable, teary-eyed woman who kneels before him, ready to submit to his cruel demands and pay the ultimate penance, is nothing like he pictured.

“I’d made her out to be a witch in my head. But looking at her here, all small and scared, I couldn’t reconcile that image with the reality. There was more here than met the eye.”

As much as he wanted to hate her, he couldn’t. She strikes a raw nerve in him, arouses his protective instincts, in ways he never anticipated. He tries to stay detached, to not care, to not FEEL anything for her, but the haunting sadness in her strangely beautiful eyes gets under his skin. Makes him momentarily waver in his plan that has been three years in the making. “In this game, this play of power, only he had control. Absolute control." Or so he thought!!

Turns out, MacKayla is tormented by her own tragic past, has pretty much only known hardship and sacrifice in her young life, and demanding restitution by making her his love slave fills him with self-loathing not vindication. He is drawn to her, wants to own her nights, mark her as his, take her to the heights of pleasure and pain, but the mere thought of truly hurting her, humiliating her, breaking her beautiful spirit twists him inside out.

"I didn’t understand this woman. I didn’t understand my reaction to her. I should only want to cause her pain, but I couldn’t. I’d thought it would be easy. I’d thought seeing her would bring all of my anger to the surface, making it easy to take what she owed, but it didn’t. The opposite, in fact."

Could it possibly be that the woman who he thought he loathed with very fiber of his being was a much a pawn as he was? MacKayla was the girl everyone loved to hate: trailer park trash who brought down a good man. But desperate times called for desperate measures and she did what she had to do save her family. She’s tired of always looking over her shoulder, of facing the accusing stares, and knows he has a right to his revenge. She owes him and deserves his cruelty, his hate.

“I wonder if you don’t need the release of punishment as much as I desire extracting the payment. I think the best way to look at this, Mac, is to understand that you live at my pleasure. Not only that, but you live FOR my pleasure.”

But he becomes much more than her Dom. He becomes her everything. Her master. Her lover. Her punisher. Her protector. But will bending to Slater's will bring him the vindication he thinks he so richly deserves or is there another way—a BETTER way--for them to both find absolution and peace?

BEAUTIFUL LIAR is beyond riveting! This tale is dark and gritty. Sweet and sordid. Passionate and provocative. Beautiful and gut-wrenching. And at the heart of this story is an underlying message of how love can trump hate, of how hope and forgiveness can permeate the suffocating darkness. This taut, emotionally tumultuous tale is chock full of twists and turns and it starts off with a bang! In fact, there was so much trepidation and mounting tension leading up to the pivotal moment when Slater closes in on an unsuspecting MacKayla, like a panther circling its prey, that when he finally pounced my heart nearly jumped out of my chest! The chemistry between this couple is so exhilarating, I felt it deep down in my marrow. MacKayla is drawn to his darkness and he to her light. They are both tethered together in shared pain and have a soul-searing connection that defies reason and logic. And although they were brought together under heinous circumstances, they just might be one another’s true salvation.

The characterizations in this book are multi-faceted and intricately drawn. Ms. Knight is a pro at interlacing eroticism with raw, aching emotion and my heart throbbed for Slayter and MacKayla to find a way to heal their long-festering wounds. Going into his book, I was shivering with excitement because Natasha Knight pens some of the most macho, uber-sexy, Alpha men I have EVER read. And Slater Vaughn is my favorite by far! But there is so much more to his appeal than the fact that he’s a hot, dirty-talking Dom! His hardboiled, angry exterior is really a mask to hide how emotionally shattered and profoundly broken he is inside. He is hurting terribly, and readers relate to him because Ms. Knight crafts him with so much depth and humanity. And sweet, brave-hearted MacKayla, with a backbone of steel, is the perfect balm to his tainted soul.

Another thing I truly appreciated about this story is the broad range and scope of this story. Sure the sexual power exchanges are BLISTERING HOT, but this is not a mere master/slave story that is basically contained to the candle-lit boudoir. There was a real, full-bodied, heart rendering story to be told here. The plot is complex and beautifully textured. And I particularly loved how the author interspersed steamy BDSM scenes with heartwarming familial exchanges throughout. Delving so intricately into their personal lives and backstories helped us gain a deeper understanding of their psyches and provide context to the catastrophic chain of events that forever altered their lives. I found it especially poignant seeing Slater pine for his little girl, Mel. Nothing makes readers’ hearts swell more than seeing a big, bad Alpha soften into a cuddly teddy bear around their little ones! Ahh…the paradox…

That said, I do have one qualm with this book that unfortunately relegated this fantastic novel from a five star read to a four star one. It is in regard to the resolution of the romantic conflict, which I feel happened prematurely. There was such intense, high octane tension simmering between MacKayla and Slater throughout but instead of drawing it out till the end to keep the momentum going, it was quickly resolved at 66% so the author could shift gears to tying up loose ends with the various subplots. And, as a result, I feel plotting in the last third of the book was uneven and we never got proper closure on the retribution storyline. Granted, there WAS a jaw dropping black moment that transpired beforehand (which I don’t want to spoil) but I felt as if it didn’t carry enough emotional weight and I kept waiting for it to lead to that big epiphany for the hero where he finally abandons his vengeful plans and allows love to illuminate the darkness. But it never came.

However, to the exquisitely talented Ms. Knight’s credit, everything came beautifully full circle in the end and we were treated to scorchingly sexy, sigh worthy HEA. So that one critique aside, Beautiful Liar is a MUST-READ or fans who have an affinity for lusty revenge to lovers tales that will leave you breathlessly turning the pages!

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I did enjoyed this s to but ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017

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MacKayla and Slater went through hell and came out on the other side! It is a story about survival of a wrecked life, the guilt both earned and perceived to be deserved that people feel when they review choices they have made in their past.. Unfortunately, we are sometimes far harder on ourselves than we are on those who helped in the destruction of out lives.

I found it ridiculous that Slater held the girl he screwed responsible for all his losses! He wasn't letting her spank him for what he did to her and when he finally sees the entire truth, he didn't even truly apologize for his wretched behavior! The writer lost a star there from me here! I believe the beautiful liar role was taken by Slater, his ex-best friend and his ex-wife far before MacKayla!

I did like the portrayal of MacKayla up until her last night at the club where the author lost another star! I simply couldn't believe anyone would hold themselves to the standards she did then on the last night with minimal pressure she caves and drops her standards and the remaining cloth she insisted on until the night she plans to quit? It lost me right there because either she is the most gullible moron ever or the writer lost track of what values she wanted in her character! The story could have been written without her devaluation of herself just as easily! I couldn't stomach the reasoning of the other girls having to work harder, no way! She insists until then when literally nothing holds her to the club after she covers one shift that she knows her friend would not have supported the decision the manager made! It was ludicrous and unbelievable!

The rest of the story was written well and works, but this book was the first book by this author that I have string objections as to how the story is written.

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phyl

Great

Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2018

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Really good read. Loved the story. Revenge turns to love light bdsm. Suspenseful moments and lots of hot sexy scenes.

Paperback Dinosaur

Read and Enjoy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016

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Something different from Natasha Knight - a softer, gentler story, but still with some deliciously 'dark' bits.

Beautiful Liar is an uplifting story that starts off in anger and ends in love and commitment. The two main characters Slater and Mac have a real connection and their sexual encounters really sizzle - hell yes. Through the trials these two go through they remain strongly connected and that makes this story such a pleasure to read.

Beautiful Liar is an easy to read, well rounded, entertaining erotic love story.

S.R.H

Another great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2016

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Another great read by this author. I have read several books now by Natasha Knight. I felt that this book was not as dark as some of her other books but still enjoyed this story very much. Well worth a read!

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