“Because you’re fire,” he murmurs. “And fire never stops burning.”
Indigo is running, she has no other choice. She's done something bad, and the only way to escape it, is to flee her home, and her country. She sets out on a luxury Yacht, to take her to another country with her best friend Eric. But she runs into a problem.
The Yacht catches fire.
She ends up stranded in the ocean, terrified, and scared of the uncertain. Until they show up. The pirates. Terrified, Indigo and Eric have to face the reality that this might be the end for them. These are pirates, they are the criminals of the ocean. What chance have they got of surviving this nightmare?
Then she lays eyes on Hendrix. He's the Captain, he's gorgeous, rugged, and mean. He's planning on keeping her to repay his debt to another man, by selling her. Now Indigo has a crazy ex after her, as well as a pirate she can't seem to get out of her head.
Come on this heart wrenching, dark, angsty and dangerous adventure as two people so opposite, find something so beautiful.
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Our heroine, Indigo Waters (cool name, so ocean-ish) was a victim of domestic violence and she decided she had enough of the constant abuse her boyfriend was giving her so she shot him when he attempted to take her life. Abusive boyfriend was incarcerated after that. Years later, Indigo’s ex-boyfriend was released and was threatening her life once again as vengeance for sending him to prison. She left the country, along with her best friend, for her safety and decided to rent a yacht to London so that she could also take a break even though she was on the run. But alas, the yacht she and her best friend were on sank thus leaving them on the sea for days.
Our heroine, Indigo Waters (cool name, so ocean-ish) was a victim of domestic violence and she decided she had enough of the constant abuse her boyfriend was giving her so she shot him when he attempted to take her life. Abusive boyfriend was incarcerated after that. Years later, Indigo’s ex-boyfriend was released and was threatening her life once again as vengeance for sending him to prison. She left the country, along with her best friend, for her safety and decided to rent a yacht to London so that she could also take a break even though she was on the run. But alas, the yacht she and her best friend were on sank thus leaving them on the sea for days.
Hendrix, the captain of the pirates, found both of them and took them as his captives. He decided to hand over Indigo to another pirate as a sex slave, payment of his debt to him. Indigo was determined to escape her situation but with Hendrix constantly threatening her best friend’s safety, she decided to trade her freedom for her best friend’s. In other words, she would willingly hand herself to the other pirate and no harm would come to her best friend. Still, Indigo wanted to be free but she didn’t know what to do. A suggestion from another friend told her to seduce her way to freedom and she took the risk. What she didn’t anticipate was to find herself harboring feelings that were more than sexual towards her captor.
Let me get this straight first: I don’t have any problems when it comes to characters with Stockholm syndrome. What doesn’t bode well with me is when instalove and Stockholm go together. No.
I found Indigo seriously annoying. Most of my facepalms while reading this book were because of her.
She and her best friend were captured and the first thing she described her captor was that he was breathtaking. She was faced with a life or death situation and the first thing she noticed about her abductor was his handsomeness.
She tripped a lot. I swear. And guess who always caught her? *drum roll* It’s Hendrix! Perhaps it was the ocean all around causing more gravity on her or some dark force constantly pushed her or something but she fell a lot it was ridiculous.
At some point she changed. Perhaps it was caused by mood swings because of the trauma she experienced but she sounded really different when she was rescued from Hendrix. She sounded like she was brainwashed.
He’s a goddamned pirate,” I snarl, spinning and glaring at him. “He’s not getting anything done to him because he IS the fucking law on the ocean.
I loved when her best friend finally expressed my thoughts:
I sat rotting in a fucking cell, and you were off screwing the man who put us in that position?”
“I was trying to save your fucking life!” I scream. “I was doing whatever it took to get us out of there.”
“Only you wanted to fucking do it, so it doesn’t make it a good thing,” he spits.
We also had Hendrix who played the usual hot and cold scheme most captors do. Anyway he was like a fallen hero or something but I didn’t really have any problems with him except the fact that he actually considered selling Indigo as a sex slave. Knowing Hendrix as I read the story, I didn’t know he had it in him to do that. He was also somewhat romantic when he finally got together with Indigo.
Because you do something to me, right here,” he says, thumping his chest, right over his heart. “And one thing I’ve learned in my life is that when something affects your heart, you don’t let it go. There are only so many times in life that something can have that effect on a person.
The pace of the book in the last fifty pages got fast. Too fast. Hendrix’s past was revealed too quickly when I expected at least a little suspense on that. A lot of things happened on the last few chapters to the point that it looked like they were cramped.
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