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Consequences: Book 1 of the Consequences Series Kindle Edition

by Aleatha Romig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Book #1 of the bestselling Consequences series: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences.
Every action has consequences.
Waking in an unfamiliar bedroom in a luxurious mansion, Claire Nichols is terrified to discover that a chance encounter led her into the cruel hands of her abductor, Anthony Rawlings. Claire has no understanding of why she’s there, but it’s been made abundantly clear—she is now his acquisition and every action has consequences.
earn the rules to survive.
Facing incomprehensible circumstances, Claire must learn to survive her new reality—every aspect of her livelihood depends upon the tall, dark-eyed tycoon who is a true master of deception.
Driven by unknown demons, he has no tolerance for imperfection, in any aspect of his life, including his recent acquisition. Anthony may appear to the world as a handsome, benevolent businessman, but in reality Claire knows firsthand that he’s a menacing, controlling captor with very strict rules: do as you’re told, public failure is not an option, and appearances are of the utmost importance.
Captivate the captor.
To fit together the pieces of the puzzle, Claire must follow his rules. Will her plan work, or will Anthony become enthralled by Claire’s beauty, resilience, and determination, changing the game forever?
If that happens, will either of them survive the consequences?
Have you been Aleatha'd?
"Nobody ever did or ever will escape the consequences of his choices."—Alfred A. Montapert
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Aleatha Romig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, who has been voted #1 "New Author to Read" on Goodreads, July 2012 - Present! Aleatha has lived most of her life in Indiana, growing-up in Mishawaka, graduating from Indiana University, and currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of twenty seven years, they've raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she's not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include exercising, reading, and creating heroes/ anti-heroes who haunt your dreams! Aleatha enjoys traveling, especially when there is a beach involved. In 2011 she had the opportunity to visit Sydney, Australia to visit her daughter studying at the University of Wollongong. Her dream is to travel to places in her novels and around the world. CONSEQUENCES, her first novel, was released August 2011 by Xlibris Publishing. Then in October of 2012, Ms. Romig re-released CONSEQUENCES as an indie author. TRUTH, the sequel, was released October 30, 2012, and CONVICTED, the third in the series, was released October 8, 2013. Unexpectedly, the fourth book of the Consequences series came to life with REVEALED: The Missing Years. It is the fourth full-length novel in the series. It explores the gap in time in Convicted that was previously only mentioned as well as a complete character glossary and timeline. REVEALED was released in June of 2014. Aleatha also wrote reading companions for the Consequences SeriAAes. BEHIND HIS EYES CONSEQUENCES (Book 1.5) and BEHIND HIS EYES TRUTH (Book 2.5) are currently available for those time and scenes when the readers asked, "What was he thinking?" These companions also contain never before behind the scenes scenes. Aleatha is a "Published Author's Network" member of the Romance Writers of America and represented by Danielle Egan-Miller of Brown and Miller Literary Associates.

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Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana, USA. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis as well as part of the year in Bradenton, Florida, USA. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she's not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time with her friends and family, including her beloved grandchildren.

Aleatha released her first novel, CONSEQUENCES, in August of 2011. CONSEQUENCES became a bestselling series with five novels and two companions released from 2011 through 2015. The compelling and epic story of Anthony and Claire Rawlings has graced more than a million e-readers. Her next series, INFIDELITY (not about cheating) hit New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-seller lists. Aleatha has since released over fifty novels in multiple genres: dark romance, romantic suspense, thriller, and romantic comedy. She went back to her edge of your seat romantic suspense thrillers with her WEB SERIES trilogies, Devil’s Duet, Kingdom Come, and most recently with her suspense series, the Sin series, ready to binge.

The titles keep coming. Be sure to check out her website to stay up to date.

Aleatha is a "Published Author's Network" member of the Romance Writers of America, NINC, and PEN America. She is represented by Danielle Sanchez of SBR Media and PR with Wildfire Marketing.

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Nean
5.0 out of 5 stars Claire was living a normal happy life until she woke up and realised that she ...
Reviewed in Australia on 19 July 2018
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Claire was living a normal happy life until she woke up and realised that she was a prisoner, and that her capture was Anthony, who she had no idea who he was but soon learnt. She was debt free but he’s captive until he decided her debt was paid. Anthony was always firm about appearances being everything. Slowing Claire realised there was two side to Tony, and with the right behaviour, slowly Claire learnt to crave Tony, but it wasn’t until an error on her behalf that she truly learnt how appearance are everything, until she saw those appearances used against her.
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Arpitha
4.0 out of 5 stars Yeah…Nah.. Yeah!
Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2023
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———Initial review - 3 stars———-
I am a big fan of Aleatha, this book will not change that. I’m glad I have read some great work from her, before I got my hands on this one.

I found it hard to read this through. Too many things just go in a loop. I’ve read a lot of dark romances before, but somehow the way Tony treated Claire is not something I can digest. He’s not a alpha male billionaire, he’s an abuser. His revenge on her family didn’t give him the right to physically assault her. The fact that Claire is shown under a very weak, stupid sense let me down. She barely fought back, followed him through and through but ended up as a victim anyway.

I know the other books are paid, I’m still debating whether to continue or not. Sure. I want to know what happens next. Knowing Aleatha I’m sure there are a lot of twists and turns and hopefully justice too.

Not one the best books I’ve read from this author but I’m hoping the series will get better from here on.

——-Final review after reading the series -4.5 stars———
Ok, so I did but the rest of the series (box set is a great bargain rather than buying each book on kindle) and I want to give my opinion.

There is a great deal of character development. Claire turns out to be the a much more stronger person and Tony, he will make you fall in love with him, eventually!!
It’s absolutely as good as her other books. Just the POV is something I’d rather change but the plot is extremely stunning!! I’m so glad I bought the other books in this series and fell in love with C & T. Very well written story, full of turns and twists, always keeps you in the edge. Loved it.
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Martin Verhoeven
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!
Reviewed in Australia on 2 February 2014
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Now that is a story! Very long but so detailed and just amazing! Claire Nichols would have to be one of the strongest and bravest fictional characters I've come across. Absolutely cannot wait to read the next instalment in this brilliant story. Five stars doesn't really do it justice!
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Rebecca
3.0 out of 5 stars Worth it
Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2017
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It's kind of slow and sometimes repetitive and redundant. I remember thinking it was going on and on and not really going anywhere and this book better have a twist because if it doesn't this is the stupidest, most infuriating book ever written and then BAM. Worth it.
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Vienna1956
5.0 out of 5 stars Twists and turns, setting appearances
Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2015
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Amazing read. Once you start you cannot stop. Calculated, cunning, twisted, manipulative, demanding and domineering.... Claire was like a deer in the headlights... Survival and inner strength were her saviours!!!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Bad download
Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2022
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Many blank pages with skipped text. Could not get further than 20 pages.
Not great storyline could hold my interest
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Jade B
4.0 out of 5 stars Consequences
Reviewed in Australia on 29 April 2022
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I had a lot of mixed feelings during this book and I guess since those feelings were big elements in the following books of the series that was the goal but a lot of this book I hated how Claire was treated and her reactions to how she was treated.... and yet I couldn't put the book down.

I will say that after reading the entire series and reflecting back that I did very much enjoy the series as a whole but this book in itself was a hard read due to scenes in the book that could also be big triggers for some readers.

4 Stars.
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Lois Norma Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Was great read really thankful girl friend told me was good ...
Reviewed in Australia on 28 June 2015
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Was great read really thankful girl friend told me was good read did not want. To put book down great writer
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Moscreations
5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding
Reviewed in Canada on 21 May 2019
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Like many other reviewers, I got the book for free, and didn't read it right away, and at first I thought it was rather weird what Anthony did to Claire, and I couldn't wait to get to the end to see if she would get justice, certainly didn't expect THAT ending. I couldn't put it down at that point. It was spellbinding. I plan on reading the sequels and see where that goes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DOS ÚLTIMOS TEMPOS
Reviewed in Brazil on 19 February 2019
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O LIVRO EM SI É FANTÁSTICO, LEIAM AS DEMAIS RESENHAS QUE FALAM EXCLUSIVAMENTE DO LIVRO, MAS TODA A SÉRIE É IMPERDÍVEL. DEPOIS QUE DESCOBRI ALEATHA ROMIG, LI QUASE TODOS OS LIVROS QUE ELA JÁ PUBLICOU E
SÃO TODOS MARAVILHOSOS. ATUALMENTE É UMA DAS MINHAS AUTORAS PREFERIDAS.
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WD
5.0 out of 5 stars unexpected
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 17 January 2018
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the story is full of surprises with an unexpected ending. Enjoyed the reading with Claire being at times strong and weak. i guess when in love you cant always think straight.
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GVK
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in India on 28 April 2016
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Superb book! Couldn't keep it down once I started it. Gets slow in the middle, but ending is just worth the whole book. Will read the second part now :)
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Patricia
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspensful, violent and totally unpredictable! 'Unputdownable !" An amazingly well written thriller/love story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2016
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When I first started the book, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. The writing was more like a journal style rather than a literary work, it reminded me of the old TV line, 'just the facts ma'am, just the facts' But the more I read, the further into the story I got, the more it drew me in and the style was actually easy to read. A clear, concise account of events but embellished sufficiently to make it really interesting and not clinical.

I GENUINELY HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN THIS GENRE!!!! .. adding that I read an awful lot !!!

This is my first encounter with Ms Romig's literary offerings but it definitely won't be my last ! I certainly didn't see the eventual final events coming in this book and I was completely drawn into the two characters. I in turn hated then commiserated, then hated again, Anthony the 'hero' who is totally unlikable though fascinating but I fell instantly in love with Claire, the heroine of this story. I could understand how and why she was drawn into the situation, appalling as it was.

The author spares no detail and yet moves this story along at a comfortable pace so you don't feel that any incident is rushed neither do you feel that it is dragged out and boring. I simply did not want to be away from this story for even a minute and so was very annoyed when I got tired at 3am and needed to go to bed before finishing the book. It's a long one but so well filled and extremely well written, no spelling mistakes and very few grammatical errors. Certainly not enough to spoil the story.

This is an in-depth tale with complex but well defined characters, the suspense is palpable, the fear and confusion exhilarating and the plot is a real humdinger! A lot of sexual and violent events are alluded to throughout this book but none are detailed to offend those who do not like to read explicit scenes. For me, actually, that was a disappointment as I do like a steamy scene in my books as that is part of life and relationships, but there are none at all here. This is definitely an author that I will be following even after I have finished this series!! Fortunately Ms Romig appears to be a prolific writer so there are many more books and stories to follow.

Highly recommended ! I am about to tell all my friends about Consequences on my Facebook page as I know many of them would love this story!

I have one little negative to add, in that as soon as I finished this first book in the series, I went into Amazon to purchase the next one and discovered that there are in fact 4 more books to finish the story! Also that there are yet 2 more for an insight into Tony's point of view!! This is a double edged sword in that I am excited that the story will continue for some time yet to entertain me, but I'm not happy that I will have to pay a lot of money to find out the ending!!

However, if the rest of the books are as good as the first one indicates they will be, then I can justify the expense as a 'well worth it' read!
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