✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰ 
• 15 August 2018
• M/M/M Romance!
• Book #3 in the Confessions Series
• Cover Model: Alexander MacKenzie
• M/M/M Romance!
• Book #3 in the Confessions Series
• Cover Model: Alexander MacKenzie
#4 – CONFESSIONS: THE PRINCESS, THE PRICK & THE PRIEST
... coming soon!
... and after that – a brand-new SPIN-OFF: The Confession Series!
... and after that – a brand-new SPIN-OFF: The Confession Series!
★★★★★
4.75 Fangirl Stars
I am complex.
My love is all-encompassing.
And when it comes to my heart, there is only one rule:
Don’t fuck with what’s mine.
Until the age of eight, I was Joel Alexander Donovan, son of Jimmy.
I idolized my father and worshipped the very ground he walked on.
Until the day I realized that ground ran red with blood.
At age eighteen, I became Priest.
A man without a past.
A man determined to right the wrongs of my father.
A man who never believed anyone could love the son of such a monster.
But then a thief stole my heart.
A sweetheart lit up my world.
And I forgot for a moment you should never turn your back on your enemy.
ARC received for an honest review
You will need to have read both Robbie and Julien before diving in to Priest - and you wouldn't want to miss any of their hotness anyways!
Priest continues right where Julien left off (I did go back and read the last couple of chapters of Julien to refresh my bookzheimerish brain) and things.
This is the story of the trio that I have been waiting on forever!!! I have been intrigued by Joel Priestley since we first met him back in the Temptation series, and Ms Frank has not disappointed.
I don't want to spoil anything (people who post spoilers suck anyway!) however you will remember the troubles at the end of Julien, and our darling Princess Robbie is feeling a little miffed. Oh the poor boy, my heart hurt for him as he is dealing with his feelings about it.
I adore that Priest and Julien circle the wagons around the "family" they have created.
There is plenty of hot, sexy times in this story (and boy, do I mean HOT) however this story is more about the intricacies of their unusual relationship. It is also about dealing when the past comes into their present.
I didn't think I could fall more in love with the prick, the princess and the priest - but I was wrong. I feel harder and deeper for these three wonderful men than I ever thought possible, and I can't wait for more of them in the future.
We're back in the world of our darlings Robbie, Julien & Priest.
You need to read the first 2 books before reading this one. And while you're at it - please read the whole Temptation series too - because we already met these 3 in Logan & Tate's series - especially Robbie!
PRIEST'S BOOK!
The last book ended with a TV report about Priest's father. An infamous mega psycho criminal who is supposed to get out of prison on parole. Robbie didn't know that THE Jimmy Donovan was Priest's dad - Priest officially changed his name when he 18.
Robbie is pretty pissed that his two guys didn't tell him the truth. He thought their whole relationship was based on telling each other everything.
But... he'll get over it - he just needs some time to think. He doesn't want to leave his two boyfriends.
Robbie's feelings about the whole thing is unfortunately not the only problem we're facing in this book. There's also the danger of Priest's dad seeking revenge and coming after Priest and his loved ones. Plus the stress about the restaurant opening. And our boys have a LOT on their minds.
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I loved this book.
At first I was a bit mad at Robbie for being so weirded out about the whole daddy situation. Ok, they didn't tell you, so what? You're new to their lives. Ugh. I wanted to slap some sense into him. But he wasn't mean about it, he just needed some time - they gave it to him - and everything slowly went back to the way it was. They just have to talk about a lot of things first... and then we have the threatening bad guy danger lurking in the background!!!
It was a very exciting story. Very sexy. Very moving - with all the feels!
I loved reading it and I can't wait for their epilogue book!!! GIMME!
These three are just so adorable. So different. So in love. Ugh. I want to be Priest when I grow up! ☺
And I also want to read Henri's book asap!
The tiny little things that still bother me - but that's just me. The fact that the book is not written in the first person POV! With all those male I's HE's HIM's HIS's - it's so complicated sometimes to understand who is saying or thinking something! I would prefer a book written in the first person where every chapter just has a name and that way we know who's talking.
Also - still not a fan of Priest's hair color! I just can't adore and love a bookboyfriend with red hair. I checked out some of the cover models pics on IG, and he's very Pumuckl-y in some of them! (google Pumuckl!) BUT - Alex/Priest is also very goodlooking, so I'm kinda ok with it - but I still don't love it! ☺ As long as the pic is in black and white ... I can definitely live with it!
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♥ EXCERPT ♥
CHAPTER ONE
CONFESSION
My name is not Joel Priestley.
My name is Joel Alexander Donovan.
And a long time ago, I was taught that things
aren’t always what they appear to be—and neither are people.
JOEL PRIESTLEY, A.K.A Priest, sat behind the wheel of his
Aston Martin with his hands at the ten and two positions and his seatbelt
fastened. He’d been sitting like that for the past thirty minutes or so. Ever
since he’d pulled the vehicle into its designated parking spot alongside his
and Julien’s—his husband’s—black Range Rover.
Sinatra had been keeping him company, as Priest tried to
block out the phone call he’d made back in his office to Henri. But no matter
how loud he played the charismatic crooner, nothing seemed to lessen the impact
of Henri’s words and the way they had made Priest’s stomach coil.
“Nice to know you can at least follow an order if it’s to
keep those you love safe… Be careful; keep an eye out…”
And that was what he’d been doing for the past thirty
minutes or so. Sitting in his car, with his eyes trained on the rearview and
side mirrors, as his paranoia over what used to only exist in the shadows began
to slowly creep back out into the light of day.
Priest gritted his teeth and reminded himself that Jimmy
wasn’t out of prison just yet and likely wouldn’t be for some time. He wasn’t
about to appear out of thin air to exact absolution for what he believed was
Priest’s biggest crime—abandonment. But that didn’t mean Jimmy hadn’t reached
out to the others to find him. To track down the son who had turned his back on
his family if, and when, he walked free.
Priest cursed and slammed the heel of his palm against the
steering wheel, then he reached for the seatbelt’s release, and as it retracted
across his chest, he reached up and shoved it off his shoulder where it caught.
As it snapped into place, Priest pulled the handle of the door and got out of
the car. He needed to get upstairs. To get inside a locked lobby, where a
security guard walked the halls, and his condo had a deadbolt on the front
door. It was one of the main reasons he’d been interested in Logan’s place to
begin with. The additional barriers between him and those he loved—and anyone
who may want to hurt them.
Julien had already texted to let Priest know he and Robbie
arrived home safely. But as of yet, Priest hadn’t heard anything from Robbie,
their boyfriend. Not that he’d expected to. The last image Priest had of their
princess was an ashen face and betrayal in those usually bright blue eyes, and
Christ, Priest wished he could erase that picture from his mind.
The three of them had been making such headway lately. They
had moved past the getting-to-know-you, comfortable stage of their relationship,
and had been thisclose to slipping into that space where the heart and soul of
the one whose body you were worshiping was coveted.
But that had all changed now. The truth about his father
having wiped out any trust he may have built with Robbie, judging by the
expression on his face before Priest had left the brewhouse.
All the joy, and all the happiness, the closeness the three
of them had been reveling in, had been smothered by the dark cloud that
descended on them, and Priest had a feeling it was going to take a lot of
explaining on his behalf before they could get out from under it—if they ever
could.
Priest jabbed the button of the garage elevator, and when
the doors slid open, he ran his key fob over the panel and hit the floor
button. He leaned against the back wall and shut his eyes, and as the elevator
ascended, he wondered how he was going to explain all of this to Robbie.
He’d only ever had to do it once before. Only ever found one
other he deemed important enough to share this side of himself with. And he’d
been just as apprehensive, just as sick to his stomach, at the thought of
revealing all to Julien, as he was heading up to face Robert Bianchi.
Priest walked down the hallway toward their condo like a man
heading toward his execution—or the execution of their new relationship—and
when he got to the front door, he paused before entering.
Scanning the hallway, he looked to his left, where their
neighbor lived on the other side of the corridor, before he took a final glance
back in the direction he’d come. Once he was satisfied there was no one about,
he unlocked the door and headed inside.
The first thing he noticed upon entry was how quiet it was.
Lately, when he’d arrived home from work, the TV was on and there was the sound
of someone doing something or other in the living room or kitchen. But not this
afternoon.
Right now, the place felt more like a library. The kind of
space where you should tiptoe and whisper in case you offended whoever was
inside—provided there was someone there to offend in the first place.
But that was just his paranoia creeping in again. Of course
someone was inside—two someone's, in fact. Julien had told him so, and when
Priest stepped out of the short hallway, he spotted his husband immediately.
Julien was curled up on the couch with a blanket over his
legs and his phone in hand, and the second Priest moved into view, Julien’s
legs came out from under him and he got to his feet. He dropped the phone on
the cushion beside him, and as the blanket fell from his lap, it crumpled to
the soft rug without a sound.
Julien rushed around the couch and hurried over to Priest,
and when he reached him, Julien took his face between his hands and pressed a
hard kiss to his lips.
“Mon Dieu, Joel,” Julien said. “I’ve been a mess worrying
over you. I’m so glad you’re home.”
Priest wound his arms around Julien’s waist, anchoring
himself to the man who understood him in ways Priest had never imagined
possible. “You don’t know how much I needed to hear that.”
Julien trailed his fingers down the scruff on Priest’s cheek
and frowned. “Was there really any doubt?”
Priest shut his eyes and let Julien soothe him in the way
that only he could. His touch, his words, this man’s mere presence—they were
all vital to Priest’s survival. Priest let go of Julien’s waist to cover the
hand still cradling his cheek.
There were so many things he needed to say: “I’m sorry”or
“You were right.I should’ve told Robert about this the second I found out.”But
right then, all Priest could manage was: “There was no doubt. Not about you.
Never about you.”
Julien’s eyes softened as Priest’s shifted over his
husband’s shoulder to the closed door of their bedroom. “Is he still here?”
“Oui.”
“I…” Priest paused as he searched for the words. “I wasn’t
sure that he would be.”
“I wasn’t either,” Julien admitted, and when Priest locked
eyes with him again, Julien added, “He’s been in there since we got home.
Hasn’t said a word.”
“That was more than an hour ago.”
Julien nodded. “I know. But he made it very clear he wasn’t
ready to talk about things yet.”
Not knowing what to say to that, Priest put his keys on the
coffee table, and Julien placed a hand on his back.
“Listen, he’s processing right now. What he found out about
Jimmy… It’s a lot, mon amour.”
“It’s more than that, Julien. You saw his face when he found
out.”
“Oui, I did. I also spoke to him in the car on the way
home.”
“He thinks I lied to him. Doesn’t he?” When Julien didn’t
reply, Priest ran a hand through his hair. “Fuck,” he said. “Fuck. I should’ve
told him about all of this before he moved in.”
“And when should you have done that? At CRUSH? On our first
date with him? Or maybe the second, when he had dinner here? I’m surethat
would’ve made him feel right at home. There hasn’t been a good opportunity. You
know that,” Julien reminded him, and touched his fingers to the sleeve of
Priest’s jacket. “He just needs time to—”
“No,” Priest said, shaking his head. “Time gives people a
chance to distort things. To make them doubt what they once believed. You and I
know that better than anyone. I won’t have him doubting this. Doubting us,
Julien. Not because of fucking Jimmy. I’m going to go and talk to Robert, and
he’s going to listen, and then the three of us are going to sit down and
discuss this.”
Something flashed in Julien’s expression, but instead of
saying what was on his mind, he let go of Priest’s arm and said, “Okay.”
Priest narrowed his eyes in question, but Julien remained
quiet. So Priest turned on his heel and headed toward their bedroom to track
down their boyfriend and try to make things right again.
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Ella Frank is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite contemporary romance, Sex Addict. Her Exquisite series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!”
Some of her favorite authors include Tiffany Reisz, Kresley Cole, Riley Hart, J.R. Ward, Erika Wilde, Gena Showalter, and Carly Phillips.
