Today, I am on the tour for Edie Baylis and her new release Takeover. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Boldwood Books for my gifted copy of the book.
She’s the boss now...
Daddy’s girl Samantha Reynold hadn’t bargained on unexpectedly needing to step into her father’s shoes and take over the family casino business.
Pampered and spoiled, Sam knows nothing about the rules of this glamorous but deadly new world. She has a lot to learn and even more to prove. But she won’t let her family down, especially when it looks like they could lose everything to their biggest rivals – the Stoker family.
Eldest son Sebastian hasn’t got time to pander to pretty girl Samantha as she plays at being boss. Rumours are swirling around the streets of Birmingham that have the power to rip the Stoker family apart and destroy everything they’ve built.
And Seb will stop at nothing to ensure that in this takeover, only one will succeed.
A gripping new gangland story perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Heather Atkinson and Caz Finlay.
Another one of my favourite authors. Edie Baylis writes gritty gangland on the same level as Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller. I could go on, but you get my drift. This is a fantastic beginning to a new Gangland crime series, The Allegiance series.
New families who are rivals make for a fabulously gripping, tense, and gritty story. This book starts with a few characters to get your head round, but I had no issues at all. I picked up Takeover and was hooked immediately. I read it on my Kindle, and if I went out, I carried on reading when I was waiting for appointments, too.
We meet Samantha, who is thrown into the deep end, without armbands, having to learn how to run her fathers business. She does have help, but is the reasoning behind that help not what she would expect?
She never expected to be in the position she finds herself. Samantha had always known she should learn at some point, and she knew some things. Her graphic designer career has always been at the forefront. It makes an absolutely fabulous setup for this book.
The author has created a gangland story and brought every ingredient needed, mistrust, intrigue, and tension as well as romance. This gives us an intense story, not just with the gangland thriller side, but the romance side gives us a different angle.
The characters all fitted well into the roles Edie Baylis has assigned to them. They brought the story to life for me as I got more involved with the characters and found myself forgetting I wasn’t really part of the story myself at times!
An all-consuming gangland thriller that makes me want to read the second book like yesterday. I really do recommend Takeover for anyone who loves a gangland thriller with heart.
Author Bio
Edie Baylis is a successful self-published author of dark gritty thrillers with violent
background settings. She lives in Worcestershire, has a history of owning daft cars
and several motorbikes and is licensed to run a pub. She has signed a five-book deal
with Boldwood.
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