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Nick Sebring has issues. Born feeling like an outsider in his own family, growing up under the shadow of a brother who could do anything, Nick isn't that great of a guy. But when this culminates with Nick lashing out to hurt his brother through the woman he loves, Nick turns inward and makes some decisions about the man he intends to be. And as he does this, he falls in love and truly learns the man that he's grown to be. When his love is murdered right before Nick's eyes, Nick knows he has to avenge her. He knows how he's going to avenge her. And he has no qualms using Olivia Shade to exact that vengeance. Olivia Shade has grown up on the outside of her family too. Her problem is that they don't want her outside. They want her all the way in, right under their thumbs. She pays the price for seeking escape and learns her lesson--she'll never see a dawn where she wakes up free. Then she meets Nick Sebring, and even as she fights it, the hope that died years ago starts to blossom. She can find love. She can have a man of her own. She can be happy. She can be free. Olivia hopes while Nick schemes. However, as Nick peels back the layers of all that is Olivia Shade, he finds something surprising. He understands its fragility. He falls in love with its beauty. He seeks to protect it. But he forgets to protect his Livvie from one thing: Nick Sebring.
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5 primary booksUnfinished Hero
Unfinished Hero is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Kristen Ashley.
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Nick Sebring: You've come a long way and earned your HEA with blood, sweat and tears.Yes I really enjoyed this series and [b:Sebring 25879951 Sebring (Unfinished Hero, #5) Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1447696416s/25879951.jpg 45757078] serves as a nice coda.Nick had been on a long and at times tortuous trip to manhood and redemption from when we first met him in [b:Knight 18806659 Knight (Unfinished Hero, #1) Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1384508571s/18806659.jpg 19143978] and we've been getting tantalizing glimpses of him during the course of the other books which confirms that [a:Kristen Ashley 2958084 Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442937365p2/2958084.jpg] had a clear idea of where she was going with all these characters right from the beginning. And that is a good thing.After some serious f**k-ups Nick has shed his callous young man persona and become Knight-light, and I don't mean that pejoratively. He has his own level of intensity and serious drive but as he acknowledges himself he doesn't come from the same place as Knight, he was a pampered son and brother all his life who just had to find his footing and purpose in the world and in this book he has. Revenge and justice.But of course life has other plans and the spanner in his schemes is Olivia Shade. A person who barely exists due to what her life has been and so Nick's new purpose is to bring her to life, to copy KA, “in a variety of ways” and so he does. Memorably. I must say I felt for Olivia and the life she's led. A person truly unloved and alone who nonetheless holds on to that little slab of hope in goodness that keeps her human in the midst of monsters. I particularly liked how the relationship between Knight and Nick was fully dealt with and the nice check-in with all the couples from the previous books as well as name drops of characters from other series which piqued my curiosity. We are solidly in KA land where no one says or asks for anything but rather advises or orders. You get me? Also there's a lot of whispering. So there's that and at this point I'm either immune to it or have grown to like it. I can't tell which. LOL
