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Narrated by:
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Desireé Ketchum
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Teddy Hamilton
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By:
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Sam Mariano
About this listen
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
I used to fantasize about meeting a masked madman who would love me endlessly and obsessively. He would look after me in a world where no one else did. He would manipulate all the strings that held up my life until I had exactly the one I wanted.
And then one night, I met him. Only he wasn't the hero I always imagined he would be.
When we left the forest together that night, I thought I'd escaped the villains relatively unscathed, but my true villain was the man whose arms I felt safest in. He was the one who would tear me apart.
Now I know the only way to save myself is to stay far away from Killian Walsh. But no matter how fast I run, he won't stop chasing me.
He knows the best thing he could do for me is set me free. But he's too selfish to do it.
He calls me reckless, but I think he's crazy. Killian Walsh will let the flames consume us both before he will ever let me go.
Brutal Ambition is a full-length secret society romance for mature listeners. This story is a spinoff of the Coastal Elite series but can be enjoyed as a standalone. The timeline of this book coincides with the fourth Coastal Elite book, Surrender.
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After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.
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- Kristi
- 12-12-24
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Another amazing journey to those macho elite men who take what they want and leave us wanting more
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-24
🤭 😍Sam.
So, there isn’t anything particularly “brutal” about this book. It was more of a sweet-darkish romance. I’ve been waiting for this release for a while because I kinda had high expectations for it to be a bit more psychotically deliciously dark (not so much “mushy/sweet-dark”).
Still, I’ve absolutely loved Sam’s work. 👏 , both to the Author and Narrators!
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- Nieszka
- 01-08-25
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I would give it six stars if I could. the main female character strong resilient not a pushover. not weak or submissive or subservient she know who she was she know what she wanted and the lead male character badass. dark hair blue eyes you just can't go wrong
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- Howard S.
- 12-31-24
Absolutely Love
This book was amazing! I think the narrators were great and the story was amazing. It wasn’t predictable and it kept getting better! Definitely recommend
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-08-25
Coastal Elites spin off.
I really like this new take on the hero/villain of the coastal elite world. A secret society that we can follow along and grow with. I hope Sam Mariano continues with this series. I’m very curious about Adrian and Sloan. And some of the others mentioned.
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- Kristine Gohlke Lairy
- 12-13-24
Great narration
This will hit the top of the charts. Well worth the purchase, and looking forward to more books in the series!
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- The Bookish Girl Reviews
- 12-17-24
absolutely perfect
I don't think anything could have made this audio any more perfect. I lived every single moment the narrators did amazing and I would re listen 1000 times
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- Kristy
- 02-17-25
Not for me
Firm believer of no means no. Not a fan of the way he ignores her NO over and over.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-12-25
absolutely terrible!!!
First of all it starts out with a gang rape!!! And this was a college student!!!! This was the same theme throughout the book and the FMC was dumb and naive. I prefer smart and strong FMC's, but she neither. Definitely not my kind of book! Im sorry I wasted a credit and purchase of the ebook for my vacation!
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- Meliora
- 12-21-24
I’m disappointed…
I couldn’t stand Brynn… and Killian is so DUMB!!! To share all that information, important information to a girl he just met? 🙄 seriously? It would made more sense after a semester or something… and Brynn can’t keep her mouth shut for anything… letting her “beauty” work for her was so pathetic… I wish it was a different story line… the obsession with the secret society was ridiculous… she’s talking up Aiden(?) and they could have gotten to “know each other” the conversations seem so empty, didn’t get the “attraction” it was more of convenience and “she’s pretty enough” kind of deal and he had enough money to have her be okay with staying there pretending surprise about all the wealth 🙄 I couldn’t stand her trying to try and adopt the dog when she knew she could hardly afford to even keep herself together and trying to make jealous when they were not even “together” yet?
I can’t stand when the character is supposedly ridiculously beautiful and extremely smart but then no evidence of the said intelligence… every single action is filled with idiotic inner monologues and stupid actions… no sign of intelligence anywhere….this grinds my gears I’m like was it necessary? We didn’t need to know the actual major… so, goes without saying that I hated that they focused on STEM major but she hardly studied… Killian seemed to study more than her… I wish she was studying a humanities major or something… it just felt like just major to impress… because who says “chatter excitedly about space stuff” no one in STEM I can tell you that….I don’t know… I haven’t read a ton of Sam Mariano’s books and loved almost all of them but this one is tough to get through only chapter 19 in and I think there’s 51. I wish there was more his POV because her POV irritated me to no end…the inability to think, constantly leaving her head how is Killian thinking she’s anywhere near strong? Like the holier than thou behavior she has was ridiculous… the repetitions? she’s always scared and she “doesn’t say anything” then she tells her roommate? She’s not a good friend, even individually a good person…oh let’s not forget how so freakin childish and for someone who’s not her boyfriend she needed a lot of reassurance and it was weird AF! And the stupid lies, she’s in a sorority? Like it’s not hard to find out she’s not one 🙄 (scientist don’t do this, they’re more analytical and have independent thinking Brynn is not. I would have respected her more if she was undecided for a major… I don’t know why I’m irrationally irritated by her “biology” major and she’s falling over herself being stupid and her main thing is trying to fit in a sorority… never heard of biology major or anyone in STEM really caring that much about clothes and belonging to vain sorority especially with her reasoning to why she joined the college) the deer in a headlights look every chapter was not cute at all! And the whining!!! Oh the whining!!! The complaints…. she wants the rich guy, so obvious! 🙄 the pretending was so obvious it was annoying…
oh and She doesn’t want anything going to her roommate but lies that she’s going there…? Seriously? Like she’s not connecting anything… they’re both dumb! There’s no connection just two people thrown together really…
I really Needed to hear Teddy Hamilton more…just can’t imagine having Teddy Hamilton and he’s not narrating more… the horror!’ Clutched my invisible pearls…
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