Chosen

By Barbara Elsborg

Kate Evans doesn’t take risks. She chose her apartment with care—a safe district with a good neighbor—a place where she can live a quiet, unassuming, under-the-radar existence. Then she makes one mistake and opens her door to accept a delivery of flowers from a secret admirer and her life will never be the same again. A guy she’s never seen before bursts into her apartment and asks her to marry him. Jack Thompson won’t take no for an answer and drags Kate on a cross country journey to hell.

Invalided out of the police, Nathan Beranson works as a private investigator in San Antonio, Texas where he spends too much of his time following unfaithful spouses and delivering the bad news to their partners. When his fiancée cheats on him with Jack Thompson, the half-brother Nathan’s only just met, he becomes obsessed with Jack in the same unhealthy way as his revenge-seeking clients. By the time Nathan finally realizes putting the ghosts of the past to rest is a wiser option than settling an old score, it’s too late. He’s already been drawn into his sibling’s latest deadly game and Nathan and Kate find their nightmare is only just beginning.Some crimes can never be forgotten.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Jun 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781613330746

Barbara Elsborg

Barbara Elsborg lives in Kent in the south-east of England. She always wanted to be a spy, but having confessed to everyone without them even resorting to torture, she decided it was not for her. Volcanology scorched her feet. A morbid fear of sharks put paid to marine biology. So instead, she spent several years successfully selling cyanide.After dragging up two rotten, ungrateful children and frustrating her sexy, devoted, wonderful husband (who can now stop twisting her arm) she finally has time to conduct an affair with an electrifying plugged-in male, her laptop.Barbara's written around fifty novels, a mixture of MM, MMM and MF. They cover a whole range of genres - contemporary, paranormal, suspense, sci fi etc. She likes to write about quirky heroines, bad boys, and weird paranormal creatures, and she hopes her books are as much fun to read as they were to write.

Reviews for Chosen

[LashuriChan · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I'm so conflicted! I knew I was not going to like the ending after reading the reviews. i like these kind of stories where the heroine gets kidnapped and later falls for her captor, though it isn't the case in this story and I don't blame Kate for not falling for Jack but at the same time I wish their ending was different. I didn't like that she fell for the other brother. I didn't even read the scenes with him in it, not until the end where he went to the house and the real action started to happen.

It was a bittersweet ending I guess you could say but in some weird, twisted way I wanted her and Jack to end up together.

Aside from that, I loved this book! Was going to rate it five but it made no sense to do so when I knowingly skipped scenes of characters I didn't like. I didn't care for the investigation stuff while she was with jack, it only became relevant when he was caught.

Talk about a twist though with the motive and plot. I loved it! And even at the end I honestly did not know if it was the truth.

[avamp1r3-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

INTENSE, TWISTED, DISTURBING!
Not an easy read, NOT a romance, but very good.

This book was very hard to read! I could only read a few chapters at a time! There were aspects I didn't like, however, everything was very believable and the characters all seemed 'real'. The ending, like others have reviewed, didn't have the same sound or feel to it, like it was written as an after thought or something. I liked what was in it, but I didn't like how the last chapters were written. I'd definitely read more by this author!

[chris.blogemporium · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

WHAT THE Fuck did I just read , talk about a total Mind fuck of a book , I think Jack has Tony from Consequences beat with this book ...

This truly is not a love story , it is a mind fucking story about a crazy ass psycho man name Jack . There are so many damn twists and turns in this book , that if you blink once you will miss something important about the story .

Kate Evans doesn’t take risks. She chose her apartment with care—a safe district with a good neighbor—a place where she can live a quiet, unassuming, under-the-radar existence. Then she makes one mistake and opens her door to accept a delivery of flowers from a secret admirer and her life will never be the same again. A guy she’s never seen before bursts into her apartment and asks her to marry him. Jack Thompson won’t take no for an answer and drags Kate on a cross country journey to hell.

Invalided out of the police, Nathan Beranson works as a private investigator in San Antonio, Texas where he spends too much of his time following unfaithful spouses and delivering the bad news to their partners. When his fiancée cheats on him with Jack Thompson, the half-brother Nathan’s only just met, he becomes obsessed with Jack in the same unhealthy way as his revenge-seeking clients. By the time Nathan finally realizes putting the ghosts of the past to rest is a wiser option than settling an old score, it’s too late. He’s already been drawn into his sibling’s latest deadly game and Nathan and Kate find their nightmare is only just beginning.Some crimes can never be forgotten.

This is the first book written by Barbara Elsborg that I have read , and man from what I have seen nothing of her other books is in comparison to this one . This is not a love story, sweet romance , this is a Psycho ride into the mind of Jack and let me tell you Jack is one twisted Man ..

Kate, how she survived and smiled at the end of this book I have no clue , But she does . She goes through hell and back only to go through hell again at the hands of jack and let me tell you she should of been broken into a thousand pieces at the end , but by god she was not . amazingly she lived and moved on ,....


If you have not read this book , read it it is worth it , but be prepared to have your mind fucked bigtime by Jack .....