From Goodreads: "This book is amazing. If I didn't know Mandi, I probably wouldn't have guessed this to be her first book. The writing was superb. It hooked you and didn't let go until the end. There was no way that I wanted to stop reading this, it was just too good to put down."
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Even when she won’t fight for us, I’ll go to war for her…
Inside the Octagon, I have no fear. I’m at home, in my element, inflicting pain onto men trained to hurt me just as badly. Making them submit, knocking them out, maiming them, because it’s them or me. And I choose them.
Outside the Octagon, my only weakness is a five-foot-two, classy as fuck woman that I’ve loved for most of my life. She’s the one that brings me to my knees, fills my arms, my heart, and one day soon, my bed. She makes me reckless. Volatile. I drink too much and try too hard to fuck my way out of feeling—all because of her.
Frankie De Rosa is my girl, my best friend. I haven’t earned her yet, but I won’t stand by and let anyone take her from me. She will be the greatest fight of my life, but she’s worth the battle.
Love hurts, but anything worth having does, right?
I’m Deacon “The Hitman” Love — Welcome to the Cage.
MB's INTERVIEW
Thank you, Mrs.Mandi Beck
1. What is the most important thing a romance should have?
Feeling. It doesn’t have to end in a happily ever after for me to consider it a love story but I have to have felt the love.
2. What is your opinion about explicit scenes in a romance? Are they really needed or is it just a “trend”?
Needed? No. I think you have to keep in tone with the story and your characters. I would never throw explicit sex in where it didn’t belong just because it seems to be what’s hot at the moment. Are mine explicit? I think so, but so is my character. He’s filthy even when he’s clothed.
3. How do you want readers to perceive Deacon?
I want them to see that Deacon makes mistakes. He’s a little rough around the edges with a filthy mouth, volatile and reckless at times but he loves hard. At the end of the day he is a good man crazy in love with his girl.
4. In what conditions and for what reason would you use a cliffhanger?
I don’t know that any author sits down and says, “I’m going to write a cliffhanger today!” I know I didn’t. I went where the story took me. I took all of my little chunks and put them together, filled in the blank spots and the next thing I knew…To Be Continued. I never meant for this to be a series or even to NOT be a series. I just told the story the way the characters screamed for me to do.
5. What is your biggest wish(s) as a writer?
That I never run out of stories that readers want to read. I don’t want to get rich, I just want to write books that people will enjoy. It makes me happy to see that people are reading my book and that it’s making THEM happy. That to me is what it’s all about. It makes every moment away from my boys, every penny spent, every tear shed completely worth it.
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About the author:
Mandi Beck has been an avid reader all of her life. A deep love for books always had her jotting down little stories on napkins, notebooks, and her hand. As an adult she was further submerged into the book world through book clubs and the epicness of social media. It was then that she graduated to writing her stories on her phone and then finally on a proper computer.
A nursing student, mother to two rambunctious and somewhat rotten boys, and stepmom to two great girls away at college, she shares her time with her husband in Chicago where she was born and raised. Mandi is a diehard hockey fan and blames the Blackhawks when her deadlines are not met.
Love Hurts is her debut novel and she is currently working on the next in the series along with whatever other voices are clamoring for attention in her mind.
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