Release Blitz and Review: Discretion: Karina Halle
Discretion
Karina Halle
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Release Date August 6, 2019
From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes a delicious saga of wealth, luxury, and scandal—and the wicked secrets of success behind an envied family dynasty.
The Riviera means indulgence—if you’ve got money. For Sadie Reynolds, a down-on-her-luck student, the Riviera means dingy hostels and back streets. When a wrong turn puts her in jeopardy, the last thing she expects is to be saved by the most handsome stranger she’s ever locked eyes with. When she later wakes up in a luxury suite with a Mediterranean view, she’s in the tender care of her rescuer: Olivier Dumont, France’s most eligible bachelor, billionaire hotelier, and heir to the Dumont fashion fortune.
Olivier also owns his reputation for scandal. But Sadie is unlike any woman he’s ever met. Her humble persona and wild innocence promise real passion. He’s promising Sadie something too: anything she wants. From Bordeaux to Cannes to Paris, Sadie’s past in America is swept away and replaced with a fantasy too good to be true.
Pulled into Olivier’s orbit of wealth, glamour, and excess, Sadie discovers that the Dumont dynasty comes with a legacy of wicked secrets. And Olivier’s secrets may be the most damning of all…
This is the introduction to a new series based in France about an extremely wealthy and powerful family. This centers around Olivier Dumont, who runs the hotel side of the Dumont empire while his other family members deal with the haute couture and other subsidiaries. But there are some serious family dynamics and secrets in play. Olivier made a mistake ten years ago and is still paying for it, and the situation is about to get even more complicated. He is handsome, charming, intelligent, rich, and known as a playboy. He does not really get close to people and lives with his guilt and shame.
Sadie Reynolds is a poor student from the US just backpacking during her summer. She has not had good luck with men, and is barely scraping by during her trip. But she is smart, resourceful, spunky, and independent. When Olivier comes into her life unexpectedly, he offers to change it for the time she remains in Europe. And due to their new connection both of their lives do change significantly. It is pretty much insta-chemistry and insta-love for these two. But they are good for each other and seem to provide a much-needed anchor when needed. And suddenly Olivier has someone to lose.
But is it just a short fling? Is there any way for them to find a way to make it work with them living in two different countries and really two different worlds?
And as tension mounts in the Dumont family, will the innuendo and threats become all too real? Would it be safer for Olivier to just let her go? How far are people willing to go to have the power and money they want?
In addition to the quick and steamy romance, it's got intrigue, secrets, and suspense. I will admit I had a hard time getting into this one at first, but by the end, the author had really introduced this intense cast of characters and family drama and made them seem more real. I honestly did not think his big secret was that big a deal although I could see how a young man could be guilted and influenced. But in the present day, it did not seem as significant anymore. Some of it felt a bit over the top and some of it will probably bleed into the next two books. I am looking forward to more with Seraphine and Blaise's love-hate relationship in the next book, Disarm. It is going to take some work for the author to make me like his malicious cousin, Pascal, but I have faith that she will manage it in his book, Disavow.
In addition to the quick and steamy romance, it's got intrigue, secrets, and suspense. I will admit I had a hard time getting into this one at first, but by the end, the author had really introduced this intense cast of characters and family drama and made them seem more real. I honestly did not think his big secret was that big a deal although I could see how a young man could be guilted and influenced. But in the present day, it did not seem as significant anymore. Some of it felt a bit over the top and some of it will probably bleed into the next two books. I am looking forward to more with Seraphine and Blaise's love-hate relationship in the next book, Disarm. It is going to take some work for the author to make me like his malicious cousin, Pascal, but I have faith that she will manage it in his book, Disavow.
Disarm (The Dumonts#2)Pre-order Amazon | Amazon Worldwide
Expected November 19, 2019
Karina Halle, the New York Times bestselling author of Discretion, lifts the veil off a privileged family dynasty to reveal a wealth of secrets and dangerous obsessions.
Seraphine Dumont seems to have it all: she’s gorgeous, brilliant, and part of one of France’s most illustrious dynasties. But underneath the facade, Seraphine struggles to hold it all together. Besides grieving her adoptive father’s suspicious and sudden death, she also shares a tenuous role in the family business with Blaise, her in-name-only cousin. As tumultuous as their history is, he may be the only member of the deceptive Dumont family she can trust.
Seraphine is a temptation Blaise can’t resist. The torch he’s carried for years still burns. It’s his secret—a quiet obsession just out of reach. Until his brother demands that he spy on the increasingly cagey Seraphine, whom their father considers a dispensable Dumont outlier. But the more Blaise watches her and the closer he gets, the more he sees Seraphine may have every right to be suspicious. And she could be the next one in danger—from his own family.
As blood runs hot and hearts give in, Seraphine and Blaise have only each other. But can their love survive the secrets they’re about to uncover?
Disavow (The Dumonts#3)
Disavow (The Dumonts#3)
Karina Halle
Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Root Literary and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.
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