Until I Get You
Emotional
Intense
Testosterone-y

Until I Get You

A new standalone romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Claire Contreras. Seven years ago, Abigail Clarke was spared her life, if you can call being pulled out of a burning house while her family was left to die and being put under protective custody sparing anything. After years of solace, she finds out that she_s been called to testify against the man who took everything away from her, and she_s soon thrown into a dangerous labyrinth of family secrets that threatens everybody around her, including the sexy new security detail she_s been assigned. Connor Mulligan has more than a few agendas when it comes to Abigail Clarke. Whatever he decides on his short list of horrors should do the trick. It shouldn_t be too difficult for him. After all, the girl gets on his very last nerve. With her mooning over him one minute and snapping at him the next, he_s not sure if he wants to gag her and stuff her in the trunk or sleep with her. For both their sakes, he hopes he never succumbs to the latter.
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Reviews

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Vicki Johnson @vickijj
5 stars
Jan 31, 2024

Such a beautiful book. It really kept me on my toes and had just the right amount of twists.

+5
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Ivory Flores@ivoryf25
3.5 stars
Jan 26, 2024

It felt like I was reading a Wattpad story.

+6
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Katie Buchanan@katieirene
3.5 stars
Jan 22, 2024

Very, very intense, but great. I was fully captivated. Check the TWs!

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Priscilla Stanfield@priscillas01
4 stars
Sep 5, 2023

This was my book club pick for the month and I did really like this one. It had a lot of tropes that I really like and I did really like the characters. I don’t really think it can be a dark hockey romance when the hockey wasn’t prominent in the book, especially when her soccer, which she didn’t even play in 95% of the book was talked about just as much as the hockey. I also would call it dark romance when really it is dealing with traumatic events. Now if it would be marketed like the cover says on the book as a romantic suspense I would say it accomplished that. But the two main marketing points just don’t seem accurate to me. Everyone has differing opinions on this though. I did get a little bored as I was reading in the middle of the book. The beginning was good and the end was strong but the middle just kind of got to me and I struggled a bit. I do believe that Lyla was a strongly written character and endured so much and was persistent to keep going. For Lachlan it was hard to imagine him as this dark character because of the energy he gave in the first part of the book but when it ended I saw the potential and was looking forward to it but it felt flat to me by how abruptly it felt halted. As a romantic suspense it was a good book.

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Meghan Morris@meghamorron
3 stars
Jul 21, 2023

“Because the world would be empty without you,” he said. “Because we wouldn’t have met, and my soul would be lost for the rest of my life, searching for yours.”


This book made me really mad. It was moody, suspenseful, and overall a lot. After a while I just needed to power through.

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Skye@skyeslibrary
4 stars
May 23, 2023

“she was mine, and I was hers, period.” • read if you like: ♡ dual pov ♡ time jumps ♡ hockey / sports romance ♡ playboy falls first ♡ insta love ♡ dark romance ♡ unattainable boy / unattainable girl ♡ “you’re mine” ♡ marriage contracts ♡ jealousy scenes ♡ on-page spice ♡ alpha hero (possessive/obsessed) ♡ revenge ♡ bully ♡ loyal friends ♡ second chance ♡ weddings trigger warnings: ☞ stalking ☞ rape ☞ death of a loved one ☞ murder ☞ abuse ☞ parental neglect ☞ discussion of suicide • thank you Valentine PR for providing me with an early copy! join me for an IG Live with the author on tuesday, april 18, 2023 at 8pm ET. replay will be available after the event.

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RacquelElizabeth@rocky23
5 stars
May 22, 2023

Lachlan Duke will always have my heart ! And Lyla James? she is one of the most badass FMC, I think I've ever read. There was nothing that could tear her down.

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Megan BV@megplantparm

I don’t know how to feel about this book. Generally, I enjoyed it. I think it would probably fall closer to dark romance over romantic suspense, there wasn’t any mystery/ thriller aspect although there were many dark themes. And all the tropes. There were parts I enjoyed and parts I didn’t.

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Joselyn@geminimarsss
4 stars
Jan 4, 2024
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Kellie Rittershausen@kritter63
3.5 stars
Jul 16, 2023
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Hedda@heddareads
5 stars
Jun 27, 2023
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Victoria Yu@victoriayu
5 stars
Jun 21, 2023
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Michelle Miller@bookishwifey
3 stars
Jun 7, 2023
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Haritha R@haritha4may
0.5 stars
Jun 2, 2023
+3
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Isabella Lodovici@isabellalodovici
4.5 stars
May 18, 2023
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Rotha@rotha011
4.5 stars
Apr 25, 2023
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Cami Berger@camiberger
3 stars
Mar 24, 2024
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Ace@neuvillentus
5 stars
Mar 10, 2024
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Lindsie Lauzen@lmlauzen
5 stars
Mar 9, 2024
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Keely Calagos@keelymorgan
3 stars
Jan 18, 2024
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Anastasia Jack@anastasiajack
2 stars
Jan 9, 2024
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Zainab Barot@zainab21
4 stars
Jan 9, 2024
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avy@avywavy
5 stars
Jan 7, 2024
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Ashley @aalexa1201
5 stars
Dec 28, 2023

Highlights

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Ivory Flores@ivoryf25

If he’s a boyfriend, she’ll have to break up with him. If he’s a friend, fuck, it’s not like I can tell her who she can and can’t be friends with. I’m not that much of an asshole.

The one time Lachlan was actually reasonable. (Sorta.)

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Haritha R@haritha4may

He’d rather kill her than let anyone else have her. I’d rather die than live in a world without her in it.

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Haritha R@haritha4may

“Because the world would be empty without you,” he said. “Because we wouldn’t have met, and my soul would be lost for the rest of my life, searching for yours.”

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Haritha R@haritha4may

“I love you more than I hate anything.”

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Haritha R@haritha4may

no kid deserves to be given broken promises by someone who was supposed to protect them and show them how the world worked.

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Haritha R@haritha4may

I found ways to distract myself from feeling anything at all. It was quite possibly the best and worst skill my mind had acquired throughout all of this. Best, because only a handful of brave souls tried to get me to open up again. Worst, because once you learned how to numb yourself from pain, you took the risk of it happening to all of your emotions.

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Haritha R@haritha4may

beside this girl with the face of a goddess and the personality of Wednesday Addams.

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Haritha R@haritha4may

Sometimes wings are built from despair.

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RacquelElizabeth@rocky23

"That's my favorite smile. You have no idea how often I dream of it. I want to posses it. To keep it for myself."

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