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Title: Masquerade

Subtitle: The Games Series, Book 3

Author: Nyrae Dawn

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert, Michael Goldstrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A biker. A tattoo artist. A love to last a lifetime.

Maddox Cross has always had to be tough. When his father went to jail for murder, the teenager took care of his sister and mother. Now on his own and working security at a night club, Maddox wants to become a tattoo artist - a dream that comes closer to reality when he falls for the hottest, most tatted woman he's ever seen. She's wild and beautiful, and Maddox will do anything to be with her.

Bee Malone came to town to open up her new tattoo parlor, Masquerade. Since being kidnapped as a young girl, Bee has had trouble getting close to anyone. But when she meets Maddox, she sees that under his hard biker's body is the sensitive soul of an artist. What starts out as a sizzling one-night stand soon becomes so much more.

Bee wants Maddox to join her tattoo business, but letting him into her life means revealing all her most intimate secrets. And as the past begins to intertwine with her present, Bee fears their love may not be as permanent as their ink.

Members Reviews:

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Truly Something Special

The Games series by Nyrae Dawn has quickly become one of my contemporary romance favorites. Each book has impressed the heck out of me, treating me to all the right feels and giving me characters with stories I truly care about. Masquerade was no exception. I'd say it is the best in the series so far, but they've all been so good, I can't put one above the other.

This time around, it's Maddox's turn to enter the spotlight. Fans of the series will remember him from book 2 (Facade) as Laney's broody and oh-so-riveting older brother. As we dive into Maddox's story, we learn that he's carrying around massive amounts of guilt tied to events that were revealed in the last book, and his way of dealing with it is to close himself off emotionally and keep everyone at arm's length - that is, until he meets a kindred spirit in the form of a gorgeous tattoo artist named Bee, who stops in one night at the club where he works security. The two engage in a no-strings-attached hook-up and then part ways, each assuming they will never see the other again. But of course, it doesn't work out that way - and thank goodness for that, because Bee and Maddox need each other far more than either of them realize.

Although Bee and Maddox were both damaged characters, Maddox felt more damaged to me. He lived his life, went through all the right day-to-day motions, but he wasn't fully alive, and it killed me because he had so much going on inside that never made its way to the surface. He was like an iceberg - what you see is only a fraction of what's really there. He wasn't cold or unfeeling at all. His problem was, he felt too much, and had tricked himself into believing he was somehow responsible for all the painful things in the past that, really, he had no control over. I hurt for him, I really did. When he finally started to thaw and take his first tentative steps in Bee's direction, I was so happy I nearly cried.

Bee was weighed down by a very different set of issues. She'd gone through an ordeal as a child that left her with one heck of an identity crisis and a million questions she couldn't answer, and, like Maddox, her way of coping was to keep the world - and love - at a distance.