Coming home to say his goodbyes to the man who gave him away as a child, Devin an infamous gunslinger who sends chills up the spine of even the soldiers who hunt him doesn’t expect to stay long. That is until a chance encounter with a woman no bigger than a child herself and who sends him into a frenzy from first glance. He doesn’t know why Megan, his father’s widow stimulates emotions in him he never knew existed. All he knows is she’s his now to protect and ravish and anyone who thinks they can harm her will find out in a painful way that Megan and his sisters are off limits. Megan knows Devin won’t stay around but even she won’t marry her childhood friend to let him off the hook after he awakened a need in her that only he can fill. These two have a long road to travel if they ever plan on making it past the mountain of pain and a past that separates them.

Devil’s Pact is the kind of book for people like me who enjoy reading about an overly aggressive testosterone filled man in love. Devin is not a gentleman; he’s crude, kind of mean but the same passion he uses when killing is exactly what he brings to the bedroom. Samantha Cruise’s historical feast was more than just a well developed story with guns, danger, mayhem and delicious wickedness. Devil’s Pact was a story that sucked me into the emotional upheaval of the characters, I was right there during the orgasmic interludes that left me sweating and anxious for more. I was with them as they attempted with their bodies to say what each found so hard to say with words. I can’t say enough how much I actually loved this book, all 497 pages of it. A story that had me on the hook from the first encounter with Meg to the final culmination when finally a decision was made on if Devin and Megan could make it. If their passion was more than rabid frenzy lust but something life altering something meant to be forever. Caleb the third in the ménage was just icing on a cake already flowing with goodies, but he wasn’t Devin; a man readers will go away loving or detesting. That is why I think Ms. Cruise did a great job no matter the impression you get, strong love or hate for some of her characters she did something special by seducing you into the story to feel anything at all.

Reviewed by: Rachelle