The Broken Bounty Series by Ember Nicole

Trista has been on the run for years, attempting to escape a past that isn’t willing to let her go. Life taught her that she can rely only on herself for survival, and in turn, it’s made her cold, calculating, manipulative, and just a little vindictive. She knows they’re out there searching for her. She knows someone will always be right behind her, but a life spent running and hiding is exhausting. A life spent fighting and outsmarting her pursuers takes a toll.Jersey is a soulless hunter... moreTrista has been on the run for years, attempting to escape a past that isn’t willing to let her go. Life taught her that she can rely only on herself for survival, and in turn, it’s made her cold, calculating, manipulative, and just a little vindictive. She knows they’re out there searching for her. She knows someone will always be right behind her, but a life spent running and hiding is exhausting. A life spent fighting and outsmarting her pursuers takes a toll.Jersey is a soulless hunter. As far as the world is concerned, his identity was erased right alongside his humanity. Now, he works for an organization that pays him to locate and return treasured and sought-after things for questionable people. Giving up any remaining emotional connection to the world was a small price to pay in exchange for becoming the most efficient at what he does. He is assigned the jobs that so many others have failed. There’s no length to which he will not go to find success.Their collision is explosive when Jersey finds himself face-to-face with someone else who’s used to living in isolation, someone else who’s used to surviving by any means necessary. Their limits are tested when one will stop at nothing to escape his custody, while the other will do whatever it takes to return her to those who are willing to pay.This dual-perspective, dark romance is emotionally turbulent and is intended for readers over 18 years of age. There are trigger warnings included within the first pages of the book. Please read and understand them before venturing further. less

Jersey wasted no time in sacrificing himself, thinking that it was the necessary step to save the lives of the only two people left in the world for whom he cared. But death wasn’t what he got in exchange for that sacrifice. Death would’ve been a relief. Instead, Jersey finds himself in the trunk of a car and on the way to be tortured relentlessly for days while his captors use his suffering to attempt to lure Trista and Memphis back out of hiding... moreJersey wasted no time in sacrificing himself, thinking that it was the necessary step to save the lives of the only two people left in the world for whom he cared. But death wasn’t what he got in exchange for that sacrifice. Death would’ve been a relief. Instead, Jersey finds himself in the trunk of a car and on the way to be tortured relentlessly for days while his captors use his suffering to attempt to lure Trista and Memphis back out of hiding. His background from another life provided him with the ability to withstand that torture to some extent, and Jersey knows that once his mind has had enough, a more primal part of him will take over until his body can no longer endure the pain. He was willing to live out his last days in the painful custody of the man he used to work for in order to keep Trista and Memphis safe, but he was entirely unprepared to learn the truth of how he’d come to work for that organization in the first place.Secrets that shatter his already fragile grip on reality send Jersey into the depths of his memories until he struggles to find his way back out of the past.Trista and Memphis know they’re working against someone else’s timeline to get Jersey back alive. To achieve that goal, they’re forced to rely on the help of others who’ve worked within the same dangerous organization that connects all of them. While Trista wrestles to understand what Jersey might be experiencing, she’s left with the unpleasant realization that after an entire life spent in solitude, she no longer wants to face the world alone. Except the version of Jersey who returns to her is a man she barely recognizes.She can’t see a future without him, but he can’t see beyond the nightmares of his past.This is the second book in The Broken Bounty Series . It is not a standalone. It’s a dual perspective, dark romance and is intended for readers over 18 years of age. Emotional upheaval is common in the works of Ember Nicole, and this one is no different. There are warnings included within the first pages of the book. Please read and understand them before venturing further. less