Title: Beautifully Forgotten
Series: Beautifully Damaged #2
Author: L.A. Fiore
Release Date: July 29, 2014
SYNOPSIS
Successful restaurateur Lucien Black’s blue-green eyes and unattainable attitude drive women wild. But his abandonment issues and criminal past have left him emotionally closed off. When a familiar face shows up for a job interview at his nightclub, the ache he has tried to forget tears at his heart—it’s the girl who once healed him…and then abandoned him.
Darcy MacBride still remembers Lucien’s delicate touch when they were both wildly in love teenagers. His gorgeous eyes had soothed her hurt after she’d been dumped off at the orphanage where Lucien lived. Darcy felt his jagged edges fit perfectly into her own, and she’d planned to spend the rest of her life with him—until a mysterious man warned her away. Now, fourteen years later, she’s ready to endure the torture of Lucien’s indifference and having him as her boss…just to be near him. But when it seems that they might finally take up where they left off, a devastating secret buried in their past threatens to tear them apart again.
L.A. Fiore’s story of smoldering love recaptures the tormented romance of Beautifully Damaged.
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Review by Leaann
From what I can see, book 1 in this series was all about Trace & Ember. Beautifully Forgotten was all about Lucien & Darcy and there were enough flash backs in this book to bring me up to speed on Lucien & Darcy’s background.
Lucien & Darcy met in an orphanage when they were teenagers, and like all young people, thought their love was going to ensure they would be together forever & never be separated from each other.
Unfortunately, there were key players in their lives that neither of them knew about that had other plans.
When they reunite 14 years later, they still love each other as much if not more than when they were younger. But life is not all black & white, they uncover a lot of information from their past that that devastates them both & now they are fighting the same people that ensured they were torn apart as teenagers to discover what really happened so they can rebuild their relationship, their lives together & move on to the happy ever after they both fully deserve.
When I started to read this book I really didn’t feel like I would become emotionally invested in the characters, but by the end I had tears in my eyes. Not just for Lucien & Darcy but also for Trace & Ember who also play a big part in their story.
This story had enough twist & turns in it to have me holding my breath in some part & not believing what I was reading. There were things that happened in this story that I just would not have picked & I sometimes had to go back & re read just to make sure I read it right the first time.
If you like beautiful love stories with people that have a history together & you also like a bit of angst & a whole lot of suspense & drama, then I would highly recommend you one click Beautifully Forgotten, you won’t be disappointed!!
Review by Leaann – 5 Stars
Review by Heather
Beautifully Forgotten takes place a few months where Beautifully Damaged takes off and let me just L.A. Fiore has done it again! I was intrigued by Lucien Black in the first book and by the time I was done with Beautifully Forgotten I found a new book boyfriend.
I have to be honest, this book starts out a little slow and was hard to follow with the constant flip between past and present, however, once I got past that it was so riveting I could not put it down.
Lucien had been hurt by Darcy who he met in a group home when he was a teenager. Darcy not only hurt Lucien but hurt herself in the process. L.A. Fiore did an amazing job portraying the guilt and pain of these two characters. There were moments that I cried throughout the book. I was rooting for these characters from the beginning. Something about lost love being found again always tugs at the heart strings.
Outside influences tore Lucien and Darcy apart but can they also bring them back together?
In Beautifully Forgotten we also get to see how Trace and Ember are doing, meet some awesome new characters and have some appearances from book one’s villains- Heidi, Todd, Dane and the entire Carmichaels clan. What we learn about these characters will blow you away!
In a story of broken hearts, broken promise and lost dreams, is a twisted tale of lies, deceit, blackmail and murder. This book was like a soap opera on paper and I loved every minute of it.
Fans of Beautifully Damaged will not be disappointed in this second book in the series. Darcy and Lucien will capture your heart and you are ok with them not giving it back.
Review by Heather – 4.5 stars
EXCERPT
Lucien watched as Darcy struggled to get the printer working. Even from his distance he could hear the cursing, which made him smile. It had been a week since their relationship had taken a very pleasant turn. She was still just as feisty as he remembered and it wasn’t hard for him to recall why he had fallen for her in the first place. Their sparring was verbal foreplay and he fucking craved it. His eyes moved over her. Her body was nothing like the one he had known, with curves that his hands itched to touch. Her hair was up, though he preferred it down, and tendrils were falling out of the twist. He remembered vividly the sight of it spread out over his pillow.
He had to admit that she was still just as interesting to him as she had been at fourteen. Despite everything, she was still his Darcy—sweet, witty, and guileless, except at the moment. She looked about ready to torch the printer, so he moved to help her. As he approached, she was actually staring into the paper tray, yelling at the creatures that lived inside it.
He chuckled, which must have taken her by surprise, because she leaped backward and landed on his foot.
“Fuck!” he cursed.
“Sorry.”
He looked down at her strappy sandals with heels high enough to stake a vampire and had a vision of those legs draped over his shoulders. Instantly, he was hard.
“I was going to offer to help you. The printer can be temperamental, but now I’m bleeding out from a stab wound.”
She didn’t miss a beat. “It probably didn’t even break the skin. What is it you guys say? Rub some dirt into it.”
He eyed her shoes. “Those things should be listed as lethal weapons.”
“Hardly. There are far cheaper ways to kill someone.” She bent to stare into the printer again and Lucien took the opportunity to check out the curve of her ass in the little black skirt she wore.
“Stop checking out my ass and help me.”
Not at all repentant for getting caught staring, he replied easily, “It’s a paper jam.”
He thought he was being helpful and when she straightened slowly, he entertained the notion that she was struggling with the need to throw herself into his arms in gratitude.
One look at her face, though, and he knew he wasn’t going to be copping a feel.
“Your powers of deduction are astounding. Seriously, you should give a seminar on mastering the obvious.”
He tried not to laugh, but he lost that battle. And she responded by flaying a layer of skin off him with her sharp tongue.
“I know it’s a paper jam, Sherlock, I just can’t find it.”
“It’s usually in the back,” Lucien said as he reached for the back of the printer, his arm brushing up against her on purpose. Darcy’s inhaled breath in response had his balls tightening. He dislodged the paper and pulled it free.
He turned to her with a smug smile, which she returned with uncanny accuracy before she said, “Thanks. I almost lost my cool.”
“Almost?”
A slight smile touched her lips. “I should go restart my print job.”
“Probably, unless you can get the little men in the printer to do it.”
Brownies.”
“What?”
She laughed. “Not the baked goods, the little mischievous mystical creatures.”
“They live in my printer?”
“Maybe.” She started away, but stopped and turned to him.“Thanks.”
“Have dinner with me tonight.”
She eyed him through her lashes before she said, “You’re on.”
And then she turned and disappeared into her office.
AUTHOR BIO
L.A. Fiore lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband, two children, their dog, two kittens and Willow: their three-legged hamster. Her twin sister lives right down the street and being a seasoned zombie hunter, there is comfort knowing when the zombie apocalypse comes they'll be ready. L.A. loves hearing from readers and can be reached through Facebook at the link below.
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