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Nocturnes & Nightmares (The Sandman Duet Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Keri Lake (Author), Julie Belfield (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 492 ratings

Book 1 of 2: The Sandman Duet

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From USA Today Bestselling author Keri Lake comes an intense and gritty romantic thriller that’ll have you turning the pages well past your bedtime.

The most terrifying monsters aren’t found in dreams ...

Four young socialites have gone missing in the Chicago area. Two found dead, bearing the signature marks of a brutal serial killer. With the kind of tragedy that mars Nola Tensley’s past, she should be concerned, but without a pot to piss in, all the struggling single mom cares about is making a normal life for her son.

After all, she’s clearly not the murderer’s type.
Or is she?

When Rhett Voss, an enigmatic and handsome stranger, answers her ad for the outdated in-law suite at the back of her property, offering double her asking price, Nola really can’t refuse. Even though the supposed Wall Street Wolf seems better suited for a high-rise downtown—a suspicion that quickly turns into hindsight once she submits to the flirtations of her charming new tenant, and consequently, unearths a series of disturbing revelations.

Her curiosities lead her down the path of a madman, whose moniker, The Sandman, only hints at the grisly nature of his crimes. He’s smart. Evasive. A cunning psychopath with a twisted method of disposing his victims.

And his hunting grounds are hitting too close to home.

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Dark and eerily imaginative, Nocturnes and Nightmares was brilliantly executed. A thriller at heart, with a sensual romance woven within the mystery, it's hauntingly beautiful. I have to know how it ends. -Trisha Wolfe, USA Today best-selling author

Just when I think that Keri has taken us to the darkest recesses her of mind, she draws us down another dark alley with her twisted musings. -Read Love Blog

This is a brilliant mindf$&k and a must read! So many twists that keep you guessing until the very last page. -Goodreads Reviewer

I locked myself in my bedroom, and I read this one cover to cover. The writing was fantastic. It was well paced. The plot was SO frigging engaging. It was dark. It was twisted. It was freaky. It was disturbing. It was heartbreaking. It was sexy. It was a super slow burn. -Between the Bookends Blog

A spine tingling, edge of your seat page turner!! This book was unlike anything I've read from Keri to date! I had goosebumps reading it. -Dirty Girl Romance Blog

Keri Lake is an author whose stories come off the page and play like a reel in the mind. The words fall away with the images she conjures, and the hair-raising sense of anticipation that starts as a prick soon turn into full blown shudders that race down your spine. -Relentless Romance Blog

So deliciously dark, so tortuously twisted. Keri has looked at the darkness and jumped further into the abyss. -L. Ann, Author of the Midnight Pack series

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07RBPRKC7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (April 28, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 28, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4849 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 109609049X

Best Sellers Rank: #164,095 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,525 in Mystery Romance
- #9,565 in Romantic Suspense (Books)
- #11,868 in Romantic Suspense (Kindle Store)

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Keri Lake is a USA Today Bestselling author of dark romance who specializes in demon wrangling, vengeance dealing and wicked twists. Her stories are gritty, with antiheroes that walk the line of good and bad, and feisty heroines who bring them to their knees. When not penning books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and their rebellious Labrador (who doesn’t retrieve a damn thing). She runs on strong coffee and alternative music, loves a good red wine, and has a slight addiction to dark chocolate.

SERIES READING ORDER:

GOTHIC ROMANCE:

Master of Salt & Bones

The Isle of Sin & Shadows

Nightshade

Infernium

Nocticadia

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE:

The Vigilante Series--

Ricochet

Backfire

Intrepid

Ballistic

DYSTOPIAN ROMANCE

Juniper Unraveling

Calico Descending

Kings of Carrion

God of Monsters

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The Sandman is coming...

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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His past will determine her future, unless he can win the game.

Rhett Voss doesn't lose, he learned at an early age the consequences of losing and has no intention of entertaining the emotions as an adult. He doesn't hurt, he doesn't love...he's been hardened into what those consequences forced on him and now he's become the secretive, sadistic, most sought-after assassin for the organization known as The Gallows. Why? Because Voss doesn't fail, Voss doesn't lose.

Nola Tensley's life is colored with tragedy and loss, some would say crippling loss, but Nola is a fighter and a survivor and she has Oliver, her young son. Struggling to provide Oliver with something close to normal, after their devastating loss, life has other intentions for this mother and son as the demons from Voss' past come creeping into Nola's present and suddenly, unbeknownst to her, the game is on.

This is book 1 of The Sandman Duet. The story is intricately woven with an off the charts creep factor, as we not only get the view from inside the heads of our two MCs but also the Sandman. The crazed serial killer has set his sights on Nola and now Voss has to play his game in order to keep Nola safe.

For Voss...failure is not an option.

This one will leave you dangling a bit over the edge as you turn the last page, but fear not, I understand we don't have long to wait to find out what happens next. If psychological thrillers with a side of romance are your jam, you don't want to miss this one.

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VDIB

Not bad

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

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Pretty good book, I LOVED Voss, but sadly I just couldnt connect with Nola. She annoyed me a bit too much and it was hard to sympathize and read about her. I ended up just skimming the last half of the book, because Voss of course. The suspense was good at first, but then I felt like it just got obvious and not all that suspensful, just kinda weird and dragged a bit. Also their relationship got heated a little too quick for me. Overall good book, I dont think I will be reading the second one, but I will be checking out the authors other works, and I would still recommend this book!

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EJT

Slow glorious burn !!

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2023

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I love Keri Lake because her books are this sensual slow burn that builds up! The Character development is detailed but not to a point of boredom.. Every detail leads to a deepened understanding of each and every relationship in this story. Oh what a story it is! A serial killer, a cold blooded killer that's a hit man but has a heart for Nola..then there's his past ugh...awful and intense! Hola has had no easy times either and her life has been hard but she's strong yet tender...there's her son who has been to hell and isn't back from that trauma..however with all that's happening it flows so well. If you haven't read her books read this if you're into dark romances with very twisted characters... It's dark and I love dark! Seriously she's one of my favorite Authors and I recommend this book and its part if a duet so read this first! Excellent!

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Kathryn Bradley Anderson

hmm

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023

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Kinda mixed on this one because the connection between MC’s felt like it came out of nowhere. Also this poor cat and he son. Like what. Keri you know I love you and I would never betray you, but is this just practice? Like for the big books??

3/5

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Chaotic Cate

Hooked From The Get Go

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019

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Wow, this one's going to be hard to review just for the simple reason that I was so hooked I stayed up all night and read both books back to back and suffice it to say a LOT happens in the course of that time. For a first time try at suspense and thriller the author really did a good job and had me massively roped in.

The story takes place in Chicago with a young mother, Nola Tensley, trying to raise her recently traumatized son who has gone mute after watching his father die. Nola is struggling to make ends meet both by working as a waitress in a diner and working to try and break through to her son and get him to communicate. When strapped for cash, she decides to rent the apartment over the garage and that's when Rhett Voss enters the picture. He's obviously white collar rich, Wolf of Wall Street, so to speak, and Nola for the life of her cannot figure out why he wants to rent her shoddy little studio and is adamant upon offering an ungodly sum of money to entice her to give it to him. But Rhett isn't just there for the intentions he says he is and his job is way removed from Wall Street. Rhett has a deeply completely f*cked up past and after having received a taunting and deadly message in New York from a ghost he'd long thought he put to rest in Chicago years ago, he's back to take on the challenge and stop the past from repeating. That past has put Nola Tensley in the crossfire and for the first book she is blissfully unaware.

There is also the issue of the serial killer, The Sandman who has been abducting young socialite type girls from clubs and doing macabre twisted things to them before leaving them to be found with his signature touch. This all ties back to the message Rhett received at the beginning and the very reason he is literally planted in Nola's backyard.

Nocturnes and Nightmares was a romance where the mystery/thriller/suspense came first and foremost and the romance was a slow burn that organically evolved over the course of the book. When Rhett and Nola were finally together it was hot and steamy. This is a dominant man with a very dark side and kink to him which he held back a little with on Nola. But if he's the predator then she's definitely still his prey no matter how much he restrains his true sexual desires. The whole book revolved around 3 POV's - Nola's, Rhett's and The Sandman's. Reading the Sandman's chapters was not only creepy and sadistic, it was also completely cray cray. This is one master manipulator and one sadistic son of a bitch. The book ends of course on a cliffhanger, not so much for where Rhett and Nola are at that point but definitely with the Sandman's last thoughts. One knows these 3 are going to end up coming head to head and the idea is absolutely appalling and terrifying. It left me one the edge of my seat and completely unable to do anything but jump to book 2 because I was so hooked.

Absolute hit out of the ballpark for an author's first try and thriller/suspense and I loved it all 5 stars and back again!

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Book Fairy🧚

Very good

Reviewed in France on October 5, 2023

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👌👍 a very good story. It’s scary and sexy, how it should be ! I loved it.

RelentlessEliza

4.5 "Spine-tingling" Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2019

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Nola Tensley is a single mother who has been knocked to her knees by the experiences she has faced in life. It’s to her testament, and the fierce love for her son, that rises to feet to fight tooth and nail for as best of a life as she can give him.

Money as always is tight but to help ease the burden she has advertised for a lodger to reside in the annex to the back of her home. By nature she is a pessimist but her cup runneth over when she finds a lodger who is eager and willing to pay over her original asking price.

Her out of place, somewhat rude and reclusive lodger is Rhett Voss. He’s dark and sleek and she can’t seem to shake off the something being amiss with him. He reeks of money and luxury, but her instincts are correct when it comes to whiff of danger that hangs in heavy plumes around him.

As readers we are introduced to the man behind the mask with Voss. We know Nola should heed her reservations about him, but yet, knowing his reasons for being there change the game completely. In honesty I didn’t second guess my ease in thinking of him as a dark hero. He’s admittedly frightening, but I must say I shivered for all the wrong reasons. The story is a perfect balance of danger, exhilaration and fear, wound together tightly with tension that is set to break in spectacular fashion.

Keri Lake is an author whose stories come off the page and play like a reel in the mind. The words fall away with the images she conjures, and the hair-raising sense of anticipation that starts as a prick soon turn into full blown shudders that race down your spine.

Sim H

🤯🤯😍

Reviewed in Australia on April 26, 2020

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Damn ok. I could not put this book down. It keeps you guessing who the sick twisted Sandman is. I really feel for Nola & Oliver. Denny was such a pighead... I don’t think he deserved what happened to him but still I wish Nola would’ve kicked his butt sooner. Voss is such and enigmatic character...there was some bits that left me unsure about him, but I guess this is where Keri Lake deserves the credit. She creates this world where the reader can get lost in the suspense and thrill of Voss’s specific likes, Nola’s deep dark desires... and obviously the mind of a psychotic guy. I’ll admit, every time I did get in my car I always checked my back seat tho 😂😂🙊

Zoeb

When the last thing you want to do is sleep!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2020

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Wow what a book this was. When your worst nightmares become a reality. When the Sandman isn’t that guy from folklore who helps you’d sleep...this one will keep you up all night, the last thing you want to do is sleep.

Nola is just trying to keep it all together, she’s gone from one heartbreaking situation to another. Now someone wants to give her more pain.

Voss, looking for someone from the past who shouldn’t be alive, he’s forced into a situation he wasn’t expecting.

Things look like they’re about to take an interesting turn of events!

Keri get again pulls it out of the bag to bring us a dark psychological triller.

Kindle Customer

Loved this 🙈

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2019

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Sometimes they say dark read !, but this definitely is ! But with it there is the light, for me a perfect balance , I won't go into all the story you can read the blurb for that , but what I will say is this holds your imagination, thrilling loved it great characters , this was my first book by this author, it's always exciting when you find a great one thank you 🍸🙈

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