Review Tour: Confessions: Bailey: Ella Frank
Confessions: Bailey
Ella Frank
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Release Date October 28, 2019
Black and white. Right and wrong.
That’s how Craig Bailey has always lived his life.
The son of a fallen, decorated police officer,
he’s had no choice but to follow the rules.
Until he met the ultimate bad boy
and decided to follow him instead.
Henri Boudreaux is everything Bailey never knew he wanted.
Mysterious, sexy, and hiding more secrets than friends.
He’s exactly the kind of man Bailey knows could break his heart.
But there’s a vulnerability to Henri that calls to Bailey.
A longing for a connection that Bailey is unable to resist.
And while Bailey has always lived his life on the straight and narrow, he is now beginning to understand that falling in love is never so black and white.
GORGEOUS COVER DESIGN (for this ENTIRE series) BY Hang Le @Hang Le
STUNNING PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dylan Rosser
THE PERFECT “BAILEY” MODEL: Ashley Morris
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I have been anxiously awaiting more with these two. We continue where we left on in Henri's book, with Henri's biggest secret haunting him.
I loved these guys. Henri is the mysterious, intense, charismatic man with skeletons in his closet. He can be arrogant, charming, and confident, but there is more to him. His past makes him feel guilt, shame, regret, and has done a number on his self-esteem and self-worth. He feels he is not good enough, but so wants to be. He is used to being the guy that pushes people away or runs, but Bailey keeps drawing him in and makes him want to stay. But he knows that his secrets might be too much for the good cop Bailey to handle. I loved seeing Henri's vulnerability and deep need to be truly loved.
Bailey is the hot cop that has caught Henri's eye and seems like his opposite. He is dependable, shy, optimistic, and caring. Lying is a deal-breaker for him. But he also has some baggage and past events have caused him pain. And something in the present will rock his foundation. With him and his brother being police officers, there is always stress and danger. And Henri's current career has risks too.
They have this intoxicating draw and intense connection, but also real fears and this big shadow hanging over them. With stories of survival sometimes it is hard to determine black, white, or grey. It is complicated for a man who grew up surrounded by criminals to be involved with a man of the law and still be open about all of his secrets and mistakes. And a rule-following man used to a clear wrong or right will be challenged to accept and process.
This is a sexy, emotional, edgy, and messy opposites-attract story about hope, healing, and finding that person. Their relationship is about trust, taking risks, being vulnerable, sharing their deepest pain in order to find a place to feel worthy of love. But it is not easy to believe in themselves, much less feel worthy of the other.
I love getting bits with Priest, Julien, and Robbie. I enjoy this rich and compelling Confessions world and I really do not want to leave it.
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I have been anxiously awaiting more with these two. We continue where we left on in Henri's book, with Henri's biggest secret haunting him.I loved these guys. Henri is the mysterious, intense, charismatic man with skeletons in his closet. He can be arrogant, charming, and confident, but there is more to him. His past makes him feel guilt, shame, regret, and has done a number on his self-esteem and self-worth. He feels he is not good enough, but so wants to be. He is used to being the guy that pushes people away or runs, but Bailey keeps drawing him in and makes him want to stay. But he knows that his secrets might be too much for the good cop Bailey to handle. I loved seeing Henri's vulnerability and deep need to be truly loved.
Bailey is the hot cop that has caught Henri's eye and seems like his opposite. He is dependable, shy, optimistic, and caring. Lying is a deal-breaker for him. But he also has some baggage and past events have caused him pain. And something in the present will rock his foundation. With him and his brother being police officers, there is always stress and danger. And Henri's current career has risks too.
They have this intoxicating draw and intense connection, but also real fears and this big shadow hanging over them. With stories of survival sometimes it is hard to determine black, white, or grey. It is complicated for a man who grew up surrounded by criminals to be involved with a man of the law and still be open about all of his secrets and mistakes. And a rule-following man used to a clear wrong or right will be challenged to accept and process.
This is a sexy, emotional, edgy, and messy opposites-attract story about hope, healing, and finding that person. Their relationship is about trust, taking risks, being vulnerable, sharing their deepest pain in order to find a place to feel worthy of love. But it is not easy to believe in themselves, much less feel worthy of the other.
I love getting bits with Priest, Julien, and Robbie. I enjoy this rich and compelling Confessions world and I really do not want to leave it.
The first four books are about Robbie, Julien and Priest, but Henri and Bailey are introduced.
Good and bad. Right and wrong.
Life would be easy if things were always that simple.
That’s never been the case for Henri Boudreaux.
Son of a criminal. Ex-boyfriend to a Priest.
Henri's made a career out of getting in trouble and avoiding the law.
So when he winds up in bed with it, he knows that things are about to get…complicated.
But what’s life without taking a few risks?
And what’s a risk without the threat of being caught?
No one's ever accused Henri of being good man.
And Officer Craig Bailey is about to find out just how bad he can be.
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Relationships are complex.
Love ever-changing.
And when it comes to rules of the heart,
they were made to be broken…
That’s what Robert Antonio Bianchi was telling himself, anyway.
Otherwise, he really had no excuse for what—or who—he’d done.
No excuse, except for his lonely heart, a pitcher of margaritas, four Bitter Bitches, and the apparent need to confess all his weaknesses to the two men he knew would bring him nothing but trouble.
But trouble was nothing new.
Just ask his crazy sisters or any of his friends, and they’d be the first to tell you:
If there was a bad decision to be made, Robbie always had a knack for making it.
And thus begins the story of the priest, the princess, and the prick.
Love ever-changing.
And when it comes to rules of the heart,
they were made to be broken…
That’s what Robert Antonio Bianchi was telling himself, anyway.
Otherwise, he really had no excuse for what—or who—he’d done.
No excuse, except for his lonely heart, a pitcher of margaritas, four Bitter Bitches, and the apparent need to confess all his weaknesses to the two men he knew would bring him nothing but trouble.
But trouble was nothing new.
Just ask his crazy sisters or any of his friends, and they’d be the first to tell you:
If there was a bad decision to be made, Robbie always had a knack for making it.
And thus begins the story of the priest, the princess, and the prick.
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Kim's 5 star review
People are complex.
Love a double-edged sword.
And when it comes to a broken heart, there are no rules, only time…
For the past eight years, Julien Thornton has been living with a secret. One that only a handful of people know about.
To the outside world, he has it all.
A thriving career. A loving husband. And a face that the American public fell for by the millions, on a reality show that inadvertently saved his life.
But behind the shine of celebrity, behind the easygoing nature, a crippling truth fills Julien with pain and self-loathing. It’s a truth that he fights to overcome daily with the help of his husband, Joel Priestley, and now their boyfriend, Robbie Bianchi.
But unlike Priest, Robbie doesn’t know what he’s helping Julien to fight. He doesn’t know what Julien did all those years ago. And with the anniversary of his sister’s death fast approaching, the time for explanations is running out.
And thus the question: will the princess be able to forgive the prick as the priest once did?
Only time will tell.
Confessions: Priest (Confessions #3)
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Kim's 4.5/5 star review
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Kim's 4.5/5 star review
I am complex.
My love is all-encompassing.
And when it comes to my heart, there is only one rule:
Don’t mess with what’s mine.
Until the age of seven, I was Joel Alexander Donovan, son of Jimmy.
The man who terrorized a town and made its citizens fear
the very ground he walked on. Including me,
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.
And thus begins a lesson to those who would seek to harm: Never underestimate what the Priest will do to protect the Princess and the Prick.
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Kim's 5 star review
Everyone said our love wouldn’t work. That it was too hard, too complicated, too messy. Oh how I enjoy proving everyone wrong.
My men are smart, sexy, sophisticated— and most of all, crazy about me. The only problem is trying to explain that to my big, opinionated Italian family.
But after all we’ve been through, we deserve a happily ever after. And if there’s one thing I know about my guys, they always manage to have a few surprises up their sleeves.
Ella Frank
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.
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