Title: Hard Love

Series: Guns & Ink

Author: Shana Vanterpool

Genre: N/A Contemporary Romance Standalone

Release Date: May 22, 2018

When two people in pain collide, there is something intoxicating about drowning in the chaos of hard love.

Brando Hawkins is a detective with the Denver Police Department. The world should be his to take. He’s a dedicated officer with a promising career. But Brando’s got secrets. Dark, ruthless secrets. At twenty-six, he’s burned-out, and the sight of another body, one more unhappy ending, might just do him in.

Catherine Abbott is a woman who wars with her demons and guards her heart. Immersed in a world where people ink their lives on their skin, Catherine trusts only that which she can see. And, as a rape survivor, she finds comfort in control.

But Brando’s demons start to tangle with hers. They’re dangerous, like hers. But they’re beautiful too.

A spray of bullets brings them together, and the pain of their pasts collide with the lure of their futures. Cat wants to mend his heart and his wounds, but Brando’s secrets lay tucked away in a vault so tightly sealed, she can’t get through.

Everything around them is covered in the confusion of love and the burn of revenge, but no one ever said love was easy.

Hard Love is the next standalone installment in the Guns & Ink series by Shana Vanterpool, a world of tattoos, love, and redemption from Swoon Romance.

Romance author, coffee drinker, and bad boy aficionado. Every second not spent breathing is an opportunity to write and read. I live in Northern California with my family and actress dog, Halle Bella. (Just Bella when she decides to cut the crap.) Escaping with a good book is something I live for and I write so others can do the same.

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This is the second book in the Guns & Ink series and you don’t have to read the other books to read each of them, but why pass up a chance to read about some hotties with tattoos right? The stories that we see may break them and us, but the love and bonding that these characters share are what family is made of. Brando and Cat are two broken souls with their own dark stories to tell. They’ve met before and again in this storyline based upon the case Brando was working that involved Madison from book one. They’ve had a connection, but with their darkness they take no action at that time. Events lead them back together and Cat may have demons, but that doesn’t stop her from trying to piece Brando together by trying to help his demons and hers. This is not a love story that makes you swoon, it’s raw, real and gritty. They shatter, we shatter and the searching for answers and healing is a long road for Brando and Cat. This may seem vague, but this is the best way to state their story without spoilers.

So, with this I’ll say if two people are meant to be together it is more real with the Hard Love than the Easy Love. They had to work through issues, messes and each other, but in the end your heart will get some Easy Love with where their story developed. Love it! Loved seeing the secondary characters in this story and cannot wait for the next Tattoo Ink character to get their story.