Ethan Frost, the irresistible leading man from the New
York Times bestsellers Ruined and Addicted, returns once
again in Exposed—a novel that’s perfect for fans of J. Kenner and Sylvia
Day.
Will Ethan Frost go too far for the woman he loves?
The moment Chloe Girard walked into my life, she exposed secrets and emotions I always thought were best kept buried.
She wants to move on, to ignore the past. But I can’t do that. Not when she still suffers. And not when the man who hurt her remains unscathed. So when I discover the perfect opportunity to make him pay for what he did to Chloe, I can’t walk away, no matter the consequences.
But there’s a fine line between justice and obsession. As I turn up old crimes and new lies, I know that I’m playing with fire—and risking the very foundations of our relationship.
My love for Chloe is absolute. I just hope it’s enough to save us both.
Book 3
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Will Ethan Frost go too far for the woman he loves?
The moment Chloe Girard walked into my life, she exposed secrets and emotions I always thought were best kept buried.
She wants to move on, to ignore the past. But I can’t do that. Not when she still suffers. And not when the man who hurt her remains unscathed. So when I discover the perfect opportunity to make him pay for what he did to Chloe, I can’t walk away, no matter the consequences.
But there’s a fine line between justice and obsession. As I turn up old crimes and new lies, I know that I’m playing with fire—and risking the very foundations of our relationship.
My love for Chloe is absolute. I just hope it’s enough to save us both.
Book 3
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After several long minutes, my heartbeat finally returns to normal. I pull out slowly, rolling Chloe over so that she’s cuddled into my chest and I can feel her breath against my neck, her heart beating against my own.
“I love you,” she says, her lips moving drowsily against my sweat-slicked skin.
“I love you, too.”
It’s a vow on my part as much as it is a declaration. Because loving her has never been the problem. I’ve loved her almost from the beginning—I started falling the minute she refused to drink the blueberry smoothie I made her and by the time she’d returned the Vitamix I’d bought her for the second time, I was all in.
Yes, loving her is easy. But keeping her—that’s something else entirely. I’ve already fucked things up with her, twice. I lied to her, tried to break up with her, hurt her over and over again when all I’ve really wanted to do is protect her.
I don’t know how one man can fuck up as badly—and as many times—as I have. And yet, by some miracle, she’s still here. In my arms. In my bed. Though, technically, we’re in her bed at the moment.
That’s something else I intend to change as soon as possible. Not that I have anything against Chloe’s room—or her roommate. But I need her with me, in my space. I need her in my house, her stuff cluttering up my dresser, her shoes tripping me on the way to the bathroom, her sexy-sweet scent hanging in the corners of every room I enter.
I need her things mingled with mine, need her life mingled with mine.
Because no matter how much I’ve fucked up, no matter how many mistakes I’ve made, I can’t let her go. I won’t let her go. Not now. Not ever. We’re tied together, our lives twisted and tangled together long before we had a clue what we would mean to each other. I wouldn’t have chosen our past, how we started out. But it exists. It’s real, and it’s something we’re both going to have to live with—for better or worse.
That’s the nightmare. That one day she won’t be able to live with what Brandon did to her. With the part I played in keeping him safe because I didn’t know better. Because I was blind.
But that’s a future I hope will never happen—a future I’m determined to never let happen. Right now, in the present, she’s still here. Still in my arms. Still willing to give me—to give us—a chance to get this right.
It’s more than I deserve, but I’m taking it.
I stroke her back, murmur nonsense words in her ear as Chloe snuggles close to me. Her breathing evens out and she’s asleep again within minutes. She’s exhausted, the toll of the last few weeks—the last few months—impossible to ignore. For both of us.
I close my eyes, try to follow, but my mind is too crowded to allow any kind of sleep to creep in. Chloe’s words from earlier chase themselves around inside my head—and there’s a part of me that knows she’s right. That knows I’ll be messing with all kinds of old wounds if I keep pursuing this. Opening them up, making them bleed. Making her bleed.
Hurting her any more than she’s already been hurt is the last thing I want to do.
But as I lay here staring at the ceiling, I can’t stop thinking about my brother. About the fact that he hurt her when she was young and defenseless. About the way he continues to hurt her even now.
I flash back to the way he looked at her in my driveway that day when the whole world came crashing down around our ears for the first time. So smug, so satisfied, so convinced of his own invincibility. The nondisclosure agreement—agreements, I remind myself, thinking back to the call I just took—make him untouchable and he knows it. More, he revels in it.
I’m not okay with that.
I’m not okay with any of it. Not what he did to Chloe and those other women. Not how he got away with all of it. And most definitely, not how he’s planning to run for Congress and beyond, building a life for himself making laws that he feels absolutely no compunction to follow.
None of that is okay.
Chloe might be strong enough to live with the past—and a future where Brandon never pays for his crimes. But I’m not. And I never will be.
Johanna – ☆☆☆☆☆
Exposed is book three in the Ethan Frost series, and it's aptly named. Exposed is all about bringing Brandon to justice about raping Chloe. The book starts out with Chloe and Ethan in a head to head, and then a Vegas wedding. If you've followed this series then you know the turbulence that they've been through along the way. I love this series and the author. Once you start one of these books you just can't put them down. Overall entertainment in the highest form of love....five stars. I loved it!
Shannan – ☆☆☆☆
Exposed gives us more insight into Ethan and what is driving him to destroy Brandon. I do love that it is a dual POV. I think it works very well in this book.
I got a little bored in Addicted, I can say I was not at all bored in Exposed. More characters were added into the mix that were great additions. I loved to hate Ethan's mother, great character/conflict with that one.
I look forward to Flawed to see what will happen next.
Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
Although this is called Ethan Frost 3 it actually sits neatly between the last chapter of book 2 and its Epilogue. I loved it! You do need to have read the other two books to make any sense of it – and why wouldn't you as they are a good read.
Here we read of Ethan's need to right the wrong which was done to Chloe when she was 15. Chloe, however, wants it to remain buried forever. Somehow this newly married couple have to learn each other, and learn compromise – a concept which is somewhat alien to Ethan ... For me this book did the reader a great service, in showing just how both the leads had developed and grown through their romance. It was dramatic, but not traumatic. There was darkness, but also much lightness and humour. A few of the lines were fun, and I read them out to a friend as they amused me so much.
This book for me made the story complete, although if another in the series were written, I would snap it up ... but my imagination will otherwise fill in the blanks!
Mary – ☆☆☆☆☆
I have loved Ethan and Chloe from the very beginning. The pain and heartbreak they go through makes me wonder if it is possible for them to have a happily ever after. In this one, the third book of the series, Chloe comes back to Ethan where she belongs. Ethan wants to make it permanent so they head to Vegas to get married. While there, they meet up with Sebastian, Ethan's best friend, and Chloe doesn't know why but she doesn't question it. When she learns what Ethan is planning, she tries to talk him out of it. Going after Brandon will only make things worse for them. Things will happen in this book that you will not believe and it will keep you glued to every single page just to find out what is going to happen next. I can't wait for Flawed (coming soon), wonder what Tracy Wolff has in store for Ethan and Chloe. If you haven't started reading this series, I recommend you do and soon. You will not be disappointed.
Also Available in the Ethan Frost Series
Book 1
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For reviews & more info, check out our Ruined blog post.
Book 2
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For reviews & more info, check out our Addicted blog post.
Tracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where—and sometimes who—she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow and a prince—and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she’d found her life-long love. Now an English professor at her local community college, she writes romances that run the gamut from contemporary to paranormal to erotic suspense.
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