Broken Heir by Alison Aimes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What is the one thing a sinner can’t allow?
Temptation.
But Keira Sartin is all that and more.
A walking, talking dream. She calls to every cell in Alexi’s messed-up, rule-breaking soul.

Except she’s forbidden.
Addictive.
A distraction he can’t afford.

Not when his family is depending on him and redemption is within reach.
Not when his mission hinges on making no waves and fulfilling his duty.
Not when she’s the sister of his bride-to-be.

What’s the one thing a troublemaker can’t afford?
More trouble.
But Alexi Skolov is all that and more.

He’s beauty incarnate.
Flesh and blood sin.
Wild nights and dark pleasure.

He’s also up to no good. Which means he’s not for her.
She has her own objective to fulfill and he’ll only get in the way.
He’s also promised to her sister.

It should be easy for them both: just stay away.
But running from temptation is hard. Avoiding trouble even harder—and sometimes it catches up to you, leaving you…
breathless,
begging,
Broken.

Broken Heir

“Together we fight, together we rise!”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 😄😮🙂🥰😍
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration

The Hero: Alexi Skolov – he is another alpha male in the Anarcheim Alphaverse, and is a second brother to Nikolai Skolov, the head alpha boss of the Skolov clan in the Brotherhood syndicate. He was tasked with getting into the Sarten compound to find his brother Mikhail, finding the beta servant who took his twin siblings (Mikhail and Zaya), and to uncover any clues about the enemy who paid the beta servant to abduct the twins when they were babies. Alexi was using an alliance between the Skolov’s and Sarten’s as a ruse to get into their compound.

The heroine: Keira Sarten – she lived with her vicious uncle, Barro Sarten who was the alpha of her clan and head of the Sarten crime family. Her uncle had survived six assassination attempts and is no stranger to violence. He loves to hurt people and had a special room which he used to discipline his servants and family. She was once prime Omega to alpha Tan, but now that she was a widow she was no longer buffered from her uncles advances. Her gift never manifested so he often threatened her and marked her with his derision.

The Story: Barro Sarten was a bit worried that the Brotherhood would find out about his illicit side business that he never told the brotherhood about. Especially since they have been taking losses from thieves who had been stealing from the same side business. Though he was happy to find that the Skolov family has agreed to an alliance. Since Keira was a widow with no gifts, he chose her younger sister Callie to punish her. Though she had a plan and Barro played straight into her hands. It was her chance to get Callie away and under the protection of a stronger family before her uncles’ misdeeds came back to haunt them.

Alexi wasn’t too happy to see his child bride, he liked an omega with more experience who could handle his twisted side. When he smelled a tantalizing, exotic female scent, he felt something right away and found it was Keira. He worried it was the same thing his brothers felt when they found their fated mates. Though Alexi had a past, when he was thirteen, he’d been captured and tortured by a rival gang, he had also been in love with a girl named Rose who had died and he thinks himself broken, he has a beast that comes out at times.

I liked the characters in this book. Kiera was fierce in spite of all the violence she faced from her uncle. Turns out it was Kiera who had been stealing his uncles’ omegas from his trafficking business. She would take pregnant females and remove their trackers before they gave birth, and her uncle could sell their babies. She would get 200 lashes if she was found out. Alexi was also good at heart. He stopped a guy from beating a whore even when his brothers warned him not to get involved.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Jason Clarke and Stella Hunter. These two are both great narrators and you can’t really go wrong with either or both of them. Jason has a deep and sexy voice while Stella has a feminine yet intelligent sounding voice, both are perfect for these characters. I just love that more books lately are being narrated in duet narration!

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