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The Found: A Crow City Novel Kindle Edition

by Cole McCade (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Witness to a murder. Kidnapped by a monster. Life hanging on a whim. Willow Armitage’s world was already falling apart; between getting fired and caring for her chronically ill father, she’s had little room for anything but survival. But that survival hangs in the balance the night she stumbles into a back alley – and watches a stranger die at the hands of the most beautiful man she’s ever seen.

Lethal. Powerful. Unstable. Terrifying. The contract killer known only as Priest is a dangerous unknown, and when Willow wakes tied to a chair in his hideout, the only thing she sees in his fox-gold eyes is death. Yet for Priest, Willow is a dilemma: an innocent, a saint among the sinners he cuts down in the streets of Crow City. His code of honor forbids shedding innocent blood. Releasing her will send her straight to the police. The only answer is a warped game, and his promise: that he will find the darkness inside her, expose it, and prove that deep down, everyone is just as monstrous as he…and just as worthy of death.

Yet he unearths not a monster, but a smoldering and secret desire – one that has always terrified Willow, and may be her undoing. His touch sets her alight. His strength burns through her like flame. And his control melts her each time he binds her virgin body, possesses her, teaches her the strength in weakness and the passion in submission. But that passion may be her damnation, and in the end Willow must choose: Priest’s love, or her own life.

When his every kiss is pure sin…can she resist damnation long enough for Priest to find his way to redemption?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L31RF5C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (August 25, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1019 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 379 pages
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Cole McCade is a New Orleans-born Southern boy without the Southern accent, currently residing somewhere in Seattle. He spends his days as a suit-and-tie corporate consultant and business writer, and his nights writing contemporary romance and erotica that flirt with the edge of taboo—when he’s not being tackled by two hyperactive cats.

He also writes genre-bending science fiction and fantasy tinged with a touch of horror and flavored by the influences of his multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual background as Xen. He wavers between calling himself bisexual and calling himself queer, but no matter what word he uses he’s a staunch advocate of LGBTQIA and POC representation and visibility in genre fiction. And while he spends more time than is healthy hiding in his writing cave instead of hanging around social media, you can generally find him in these usual haunts:

• Email: blackmagic@blackmagicblues.com

• Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/cole-mccade

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/thisblackmagic

• Twitter: @thisblackmagic

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xen.cole

• Tumblr: thisblackmagic.tumblr.com

• Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/ColeMcCadeBooks

• Website & Blog: http://www.blackmagicblues.com

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Tarah
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, delicious, and utterly satisfying.
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
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Ah, it was so nice to settle down with old friends while getting to know some new ones in this latest book from Cole McCade. I was thrilled to get back to Crow City and make fresh paths with Willow and Priest. Needless to say, this author has set the bar high for himself. I wanted everything I came to know from The Lost, The Fallen, and more.

Mr. McCade, you don’t disappoint.

Instantly I was transported, feeling both tentative and indulgent with the immersion. I felt like a fly on the wall the entire time. I was there every step of the way. Sometimes holding my breath as not to startle someone. Other times whispering directions in hopeful pleas that they’d listen. I am fracking Jiminy Cricket to Crow City! Only my guidance wasn’t always on the proper side, I’m sure… The reassurance of the familiar. The intrigue of the unknown. Slow details seeping from the pages at taunting speeds. Details that gnaw at you because you need more.

“Even the archangels were called to war.”

Oh, Priest. I longed to know more about you and my craving is sated. The glimpses of both Willow and Priest in previous books had me longing for The Found. This story is so emotionally raw. Both poignant and uplifting. Heartfelt and sexy. Intelligent and suspenseful. Sensual. The art of making you feel sinful and comforted in the same breath. These two characters have such a chemistry that I’m still reeling. Their push and pull can’t be overstated. Their relationship melts into you, consumes you.

“I want nothing more from you than yourself.”

I mean, frack... My heart could barely take it. Some of the things- the words said in this story hold so much weight to them. I’m so heavy with words after reading The Found. In every possible good way. I want to give you a list of everything I highlighted in this book. Beautifully and brilliantly lyrical. I cannot properly describe the wondrous ebb and flow. THERE ARE SO MANY. So many good words. You have to read them because the feeling of this weighted comfort is something everyone deserves to feel from a book.

“I liked that this discarded, forgotten thing could roll with the tides until it became something precious.”

You know the saying “two wrongs don’t make a right?” Willow and Priest will change your mind. And reading how is beyond delicious and utterly satisfying.
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Michell Casper
4.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016
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WOW!!!!!! This book is dark and heavy and may cause triggers.

I got talked into reading The Lost in a read along. I wasn't sure I wanted to pick up another book from a author I hadn't read yet because I was so behind on my reading as it was. But holy sh*t I'm so glad I gave these books a chance.

This book was so dark in places that I had to put it down a few times to read something a little lighter. But I could not just walk away I had to finish. And again I'm so glad I didn't.

I don't think my words will do this book justice or that I can come up with the right thing to say. Just give the book a chance.
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Nancy
3.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Dark
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2016
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I recommend reading the first book in this series, "The Lost" as some of the same characters continue in this book. This is a hard novel to review due to it's darkness and complex personalities in the main characters. I ironically found Priest easier to understand as a serial killer handing out vigilante justice than Willow who seems to be submissive, trying to please everyone, serious issues with her mother, self body image, sexuality and an underlying anger that stays mostly hidden. The novel jumps from the present to Willow's past , hitting on pivotal points that shapes who she is. I don't always understand what she does. I'm still conflicted about this book hence the three star rating. Priest kidnaps and holds her prisoner for three days as he thinks about what to do with her witnessing one of his killings. Even though Willow is a virgin and never had a boyfriend (4 days with a man does not count as a boyfriend) she engages in pretty kinky sex with Priest. She doesn't say no, but I would consider what she does with Priest as non-consensual since she is a prisoner either tied up to a chair or chained and collared to a bed frame with the threat of death hanging over her. The sex scenes are intense and sometimes disturbing. I kept reading for the same reason people look at car accidents as they drive by. I appreciate the author's afterword at the end of the book, because sometimes it gives me a glimmer of what he is thinking when writing this.
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LESLIE OBRIEN
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful writing
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016
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“The Found” by Cole McCade is book 2 in the Crow City series. I’m not entirely sure where I found this story but something made me buy it and I’m glad I did. To start, this story comes with a series of warnings that I actually didn’t read until the end. Being familiar with BDSM and D/s, I understood that this story is a fantasy and not to be taken as any form of reality. That said, the author does go to considerable effort to give trigger warnings. So if the types of things depicted in this story bother you, DO NOT BUY IT. JUST DON’T.

But if it doesn’t bother you, then yea, you want to read this story because it’s absolutely amazing. I read this story over a couple days and each time I stopped, I felt as though I’d been turned inside out and back again only to become a completely different person. The interactions between Priest and Willow are chilling, scary, intriguing, manipulative, fantastic.

From a psychological perspective, I couldn’t get enough of the scenes about control, of which there are many. Some were subtle, others hit you over the head as they announced their arrival but the way McCade was in Willow’s head during all of it—from the outrage to the active participation and everything in between was nothing short of brilliant. I love it when I can feel a character’s emotions rather than simply told what’s going on.

This is not an easy story. When I finished it, I was both elated and exhausted. But it’s a powerful story and one worth reading.

*Again, if taboo topics are of bother to you, then choose something in the romance section because this one will leave you emotionally drained.
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Carcoura
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Just wow.
Reviewed in Australia on December 2, 2017
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I am so monumentally happy I found this author and these Crow City novels. Leigh and Gabe's story was powerful and raw in a way too many writers in the "romance" genre shy away from; then this book about sweet demure Willow and the monstrous assassin who helps her find herself just blows that definition of powerful and raw writing out of the water!
There are definitely triggers in this book, and I note this while recognising that as a rape victim myself I often find author's warnings about these things to be rather silly and more PC than necessary. In this novel the actual acts portrayed might be considered triggers by some, but for me the greatest impact lies in the author's descriptions of Willow's self loathing and her fear of intimacy, fear of pleasure, fear of having spent so long hiding from the world she'll never be found and will miss out on life altogether. Far too many of the sentiments I've battled over the years to not make me at the very least feel shaken by memories of what made me this way... but also leaving me more aware of what I've survived and risen above. Which takes this from being powerfully written to empowering.
Extraordinary story-telling with brilliant layering of characters makes this a book that will stay with me for a very long time.
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Nicola_1202
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, gritty and unpredictable brilliance.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2016
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This book is exactly the reason I'm tighter with my five-stars. Because when something this brilliant comes along it deserves every single one.

"Sometimes we find what we want in the strangest places."

I'm picky when it comes to the falling-for-your-abductor trope; it's one I've struggled with in the past because of stereotype and predictability. But here I am, eating my words, because The Found hit every spot. It's dark, it's gritty, it's unpredictable, and you feel everything the characters experience: it keeps you on your toes and has scenes that are, to be quite blunt, as hot-as-f*** and those which are heartfelt. And if you love those elements, then you'll devour every single moment.

"It’s not about capturing you. It's about showing you the pleasure in giving up control."

I loved Priest. LOVED HIM. Beneath the monster is most definitely a man, one with so many layers and I appreciated each one--the cold calm assassin, the tortured and tormented man battling his demons, and the man capable of deliciously dirty things. He stole my heart, put it through the ringer and I was there in that room with him and Willow every step of the way; sweet, vulnerable Willow who was stubborn as hell, determined and, when she wanted to be, downright kick-ass. And the chemistry between them is something else with build-up, fight and discovery as Priest unleashes a side to Willow she never knew existed.

"She’d expected him to torture her. To hurt her. She hadn’t expected it to be like this, his touch invading her in ways she’d never allowed anyone..."

This story was so much more than I could have anticipated and I went through a myriad of emotions: not unusual when I pick up a book by this author, but some weren't necessarily ones I envisaged I'd feel. Priest and Willow have one heck of a journey filled with highs and lows, is perfectly paced for the period of time it covers and what you see is not what you get when it comes to either of them.

"Now...let’s see how much you can endure."

This is absolutely a read to experience in all its glory for yourself and Cole McCade proves he's a master at his craft: creating strong characters and a story which is raw, honest and poignant, filled with hate, lust, kink, determination, fear and perfectly timed humour. Priest and Willow are unforgettable characters: days after reading this they're still in my head and my heart, and I applaud Cole for making me swoon over a man who's a killer because Priest is quite possibly my favourite hero/anti-hero of all time. Crow City is shaping up to be a place where anything is possible and I'm excited to see where we're taken next.

(It's worth mentioning that although part of a series, this can be read as a standalone.)
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Suejoh
5.0 out of 5 stars A bit different
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017
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I loved this book and I cannot believe anyone could not love it. Priest is hot and the first part of the book builds up the erotic tension without sex. Ok I did find that Willow went on about being dirty just a bit too much but maybe it is realistic. As in The Lost - if you have not experienced what these people went through then you cannot judge.
This is probably the best for me of the two but it is a close run thing.
More of these please Cole.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and hauntingly beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2016
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I've read the rest of the crow city books this one was no less amazing maybe even better. Is not an easy read but honest and raw. Some dark books are just shock porn in my opinion.
Not so here I found myself lost in the dark with these characters. We're all afterall both good and bad trying to stay in the light.
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