Ker Dukey’s Release Day Launch

Title: Empathy

Author: Ker Dukey

Genre: Dark Romance/Erotic Suspense

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Synopsis

Blake:

I am a brother I am a police detective I am a contract killer I don’t want to love I don’t want to feel I don’t want … EMPATHY.

They say some people are born with decreased activity in the front central lobe causing them a deficiency in empathy. Maybe that’s true about me but whether I was born this way or created in a moment of evil, empathy was something I didn’t possess until her green eyes met mine in the mirror and I couldn’t take her life. I didn’t want to feel, didn’t want this woman in my life complicating how I lived but she was there at every turn. Sent to haunt me for my sins. Her light so bright she provoked a shadow from everyone she touched. When a job turns bad quickly altering my life forever I’m forced to feel. When nothing is making sense I’m forced to face truths I never would recover from. When life drowns you in its cruelty you don’t know which way the current will drag you or who you’ll become once you re-surface.

Melody:

I was a daughter I was a student I was a victim Did I have his love? Did I make him feel? Did I have his empathy? When the actions of a soulless killer forces sorrow into my veins I never dreamed the man healing my wounds would be the one to leave the worst scar. His love would scar my soul. Scars are permanent; I will never feel the relief from them. Will I learn to live with them, remember why I have them and learn never to let him close enough to inflict more? Will I eventually cover them… like tattoos coating them with new memories, new love and new starts? I didn’t know these answers because the pain was too suffocating, the only thing I knew was they will always be under the surface lingering. He had scars too, from his sins. There is nothing that can cover them, they were too deep, too ugly, too dark and they marked us both forever.

My Review

This book was a total roller coaster, mind f**k, darkly sexy, gem of a book!
Blake has a tortured past, it molded and shaped him into the man he is today, and he's perfectly ok with that. Cop by day, hired hit man by night. He does what he's good at, making his way through life, just trying to provide for his younger brother. His brother is the only person who matters to him, his targets? Necessary. Their family's? A casualty. The girls he uses? Something to fill his time.
But when he meets Melody, that all changes. Can the girl he cant get out of his head, make him change his ways? Or will she be a casualty of his life styles too?
Melody had a it all. Loving and supportive parents, a caring ex boyfriend, and a new school, to become the blossoming woman she wants to be. But all that changes in one night. Alone, apart from a creepy half brother, Melody struggles with her new life.
But is her life still in danger? Who will she trust and will it be the right person? Or will she fall into the arms of a killer?

I have to say Ker Dukey is easily becoming one of my favorite authors of all time. She is a woman who knows how to write dark and twisted! The writing was amazing, the story is something that's unique and different. Chapters are told form multiple points of view, it keeps you wondering and at the edge of your seat.

I loved this book and would highly recommend it!

5 Twisted Stars

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review- Thank you!!!!

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Meet Ker Dukey

I have always had a passion for storytelling, whether it be through lyrics or bed time stories with my sisters. I wanted to be an actress growing up so I could live many roles but I learned early on that my mind was too active... I would want to change the script. I would watch films and think of ways they could of improved the story if they took another direction so I thought it best that I tell my own. My mum would always have a book in her hand when I was young and passed on her love for reading, inspiring me to venture into writing my own. I tend to have a darker edge to my writing. Not all love stories are made from light, some are created in darkness but are just as powerful and worth telling. When I'm not lost in the world of characters I love spending time with my family. I'm a mum and that comes first in my life but when I do get down time I love attending music concerts or reading events with my younger sister. You can find me on Facebook where I love interacting with my readers.

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