Destin’s Hold: Science Fiction Romance (The Alliance Book 5) by S.E. Smith (Epub)

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Destin Parks will do whatever it takes to rebuild the city he calls home, even if it means working with another alien ambassador. Her predecessor left him hesitant to trust the alien diplomats assigned to Chicago’s rebuilding, but Destin knows that if he refuses to work with them, he will be replaced, and he won’t give them the satisfaction.Jersula ‘Sula’ Ikera is assigned to Earth by the Alliance and the Usoleum Council. The Councils hope her logical mind and calm demeanor will resolve the upheaval caused by the last ambassador. Sula has fought hard for her position, and while not pleased with her current assignment to liaise with humans, she will do her best to help rebuild the world its inhabitants have destroyed. What she does not anticipate is her reaction to the hardheaded human male who she has been assigned to work with. His ability to get under her skin and ignite a flame inside her is quite alarming, mystifying, and leaves her questioning her own sanity.When Sula uncovers an alien cartel’s plans to traffic human women and children, a near fatal attack leaves her unable to trust anyone but Destin. Together, Destin and Sula race to stop the aliens before anyone is taken off-planet, but the traffickers are not the only ones they are fighting against; the Waxian and Drethulan forces have targeted Earth. Can Destin and Sula stop the traffickers and prevent the deadly forces of the Waxians and Drethulans from destroying the progress they have made? Will the Alliance be able to protect Destin when the enemy discovers his connection to a powerful Alliance family? The battle for Earth has just become personal.

User’s Reviews

Review USA TODAY Bestseller! What readers are saying about Destin’s Hold!”Great story…vivid characters …smooth melding of past and present while opening doors for more to come …a definite winner!””I really enjoyed this book. Destin is very wise for his age and is goal oriented. He care for the people with him deeply. A lot of action and some romance.””Love these series…they are great books to read and listen to.””Highly recommend for your entertainment. story has lots of action as well as romance.. S E Smith keeps you on th edge the entire book.””Held my interest from beginning to end. Several times!””I’m not a writer. I don’t critique writers, but S.E. Smith’s style of storytelling sparks my imagination to see the action she’s describing as if I am watching a movie.””Great story of warning from the future, given in the past, to play before a attack of today. Love, protect, defense, and many aliens to act as one to protect each other. “”Awesome. One is my favorite authors. Hope there’s more to this series. I’ve loved every book in this series so far.””I gave enjoyed this book as I have the others in the series. They are well written with great characters and story lines.””Great book. But then again, the whole series is wonderful.” From the Author Scorching hot and sexy stories set in science fiction and paranormal worlds that come alive in your hands The Alliance series is for you. All of my stories are unapologetic happily-ever-afters. They are also full of alpha heroes, heroines with a brain, action, adventure, and humor. Don’t miss out on stories that readers say they can’t get enough of! Hunter’s ClaimRazor’s Traitorous HeartDagger’s HopeChallenging SaberDestin’s HoldEdge of Insanity (Coming soon) From the Inside Flap A peek inside Destin’s Hold.”Ajaska warned us that your life would be in danger and that it was of paramount importance that nothing happens to you. Razor assigned me to protect you.”Destin frowned and stared at Trig in disbelief. His life was in danger. Hell, when had it not been? Kali and he grew up on the streets, running them from the time they could walk until well after the Trivators announced their arrival and the Earth had dissolved into a fiery pit of hell and destruction. Now, the Trivators thought he needed a damn babysitter? Shaking his head, he crossed his arms and glared back at Trig.”I hate to tell you this, but you are about twenty-four years too late on the babysitting job,” he replied sarcastically. “I’ll give my mom credit for the first two years of my life.””Razor thought this was different,” Trig replied with a shrug.”Who am I supposed to be in danger from and what exactly did Ajaska say to make Razor think I might be in danger?” Destin asked with a skeptical expression.”We don’t know,” Trig admitted, reaching up and running his hands through his hair in aggravation. “The damn Kassisan was pretty tight-lipped. The only thing he would say was that you were in danger and we needed to keep you alive for the future sake of your planet.””For the future sake….” Destin shook his head.”Yeah, well, we’ve been trying to anticipate how this or that factor might affect an outcome we don’t even know the details of. All we know is you’ve got to live through what’s coming,” Trig said with a frustrated sigh.Destin released a dry, rough chortle, and dropped his arms to his side. “News flash… My life was already in danger. I killed the man who was trying to kill me, and Chicago is being rebuilt. Ajaska missed the memo or forgot to send it out before reality hit. Plus, I already have a team in place to watch my back. I trust them – as much as I can trust anyone. I like you, Trig. I think you are a good man, but I’ve learned that even those you know aren’t always what they appear to be. Go find someone else to piss off – that means to irritate in case you didn’t know. I’ve got enough going on without tripping over your ass all the time.””Tough shit.”

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ Destin”s love for Jursula was as unexpected as it was passionate and heart warming. The book is just so amazing. As the love between the human Dustin and the beautiful alien Jursula comes together there is an alien battle yet again coming to a head in Chicago, the city that the humans and the alien alliance have spent years rebuilding. Human woman are still missing, Jursula had made it her mission to find and return these women home. They were abducted by the ambassador before her, and taken off planet to be sold. Now that Jursula is the ambassador she is fighting hard to earn acceptance of the earth people. With Destin by her side they are once again at war with two other species who want to destroy earth and the Trivator warriors and their home world. I recommend reading the first 4 books in the series to better understand the trivators, the original coming to earth by the alliance, and the first glimpse of Destin and the great man he is. There is so much love and excitement in this book, as well as some heartache that comes with battle. I can not wait for the next book.

⭐ I bought this book months ago and never read it. Why? Because it seems like it takes so long between books that I completely forget what the storyline was originally. But, when I noticed the other day that Edge of Insanity was released, I decided to read the series over again so that I could finally read this book and the next.I think of all the series that Ms. Smith has written (that I’ve read) this particular series is my favorite. It’s a tad more believable and mature than the Dragon Lords and the only other series of her’s I read was the Lord’s of Kassis, which I disliked so much, that after reading it I couldn’t bring myself to read anything else she’d written. That being said, I did like this book. I’ve read elsewhere that Ms. Smith doesn’t read her reviews. Well, that must be wrong, or else she has someone else read them and give her the highlights because one of my biggest complaints was her overuse of the words husky and huskily. She used it so much, that I thought everyone must’ve been a chain smoker. And she, like most writers now days, seemd to think bemused was another form of amused, which it isn’t. Well, over the two years she has taken to write more books, she seems to have grown a little. I was pleasantly surprised that the husky voices had been silenced and her descriptive words were much more varied in these last two books. Maybe, if I’m lucky, she’ll go back one day and update her older books.Other than the writing being better, the style is consistent with the rest in this series. While I often wonder if there is more than one person writing these series, this one seems at least to be written by the same person throughout. For example, it’s difficult for me to believe that the person who wrote the offshoot of the Dragon’s series the Sarafin Warriors is the same that wrote the Dragon Lords or Lord’s of Kassis. While Dragon’s was interesting the way it went back in every book to give you the same story from someone else’s point of view, the basic storyline was pretty immature. I got the feeling as I read, that it was written by someone young and inexperienced who just wanted to shock everyone with what they learned watching porn. And the Kassis series I swear was written by a man because the abuse and degradation of women was really shocking to me. And the characters in both series were just kinda dopey. But the Sarafin Warriors I have read over and over because they are just laugh out loud funny. Those two books make me wish that all her books were that good.Overall, while I will likely keep up with this series, I am not sure that I am interested in continuing the Dragon Lords even though I see Ms. Smith has finally added another book to that series as well. I just can’t imagine where else that storyline could go. And, as I have said before, it sure is lucky for a universe full of lonely males that good old Earth is here to fill in the female gap and that we are oh so compatible with seemingly every other life form. Because if Humans weren’t so harvestable for breeding purposes, everyone else would die off.

⭐ This book takes the characters from previous books, dealing with a ravaged earth and shows how they can work together to rebuild what fear and xenophobia destroyed. The fact that 2 different species are involved in both the effort and the love story is interesting. The story gets a bit preachy at times about the difficulties of building trust when dealing with unknowns but the characters do seem to settle quickly into mutually agreeable relationsips. The story is not entirely believable but it is a pleasant fantasy with which to combat today’s reality.

⭐ I love her series. The Alliance Series was my first but the Valdier, Kassis, Curizan, Sarrifen, Cosmos etc are also amazing. And I love that she slowly links them together. They are exciting and funny. You probably should read them in a better order than I did. Her Magic and Second Chance series are also amazing.I love love love that they are almost all on audio especially since my eyesight has been so bad due to health issues.You won’t be disappointed with her series but I would look to see the order first. It helps them make more since when you know everyone. LOL. Even though she does not consider herself an erotic writer, she is amazing at the scenes with it even though they don’t take over the book like some authors but she does tend to not put enough in on others.Plus she does write under 17 age books too, I have not read those because I like the ones I am already in. Waiting for a new book to them us bad enough much less another series. I just wish you could write faster and David would read them faster. He has the sexiest male voice out there so far but I guess he is in high demand because it seems to take forever.I use to never start a series unless it was completely done but with S E Smith, I just couldn’t wait. Darn it.

⭐ Good news, I enjoyed the relationship development between the characters. I was getting tired of the men having too much angst and the women having to placate them. This was much more equal. My problem was that it seemed rush. Things weren’t explained well and suddenly wrapped up. I’ve read the other series multiple times but still can’t figure out the time warp with all the characters, not to give anything away.

⭐ Book 5, “Destin’s Hold”, is another exciting addition to one of my favorite S.E. Smith series, The Alliance. While visiting his sister on the Trivators’ home planet, Destin meets Sula, an alien Princess. They fall in love and travel to Earth. Back on Earth, Destin is in charge of rebuilding Chicago after it was destroyed by war. Even though the city is being rebuilt, it is still a dangerous place. Destin and Sula will have to bravely face that danger. This book is full of action, suspense and sexy romance. I really enjoy reading about the larger-than-life, sexy Trivators, the aliens from other worlds and the human heroes who work and fight beside them to rebuild Earth. For me, the books of The Alliance are an automatic buy. Enjoy!

⭐ I absolutely loved this book. SE Smith is one of my favorite authors and I always am looking for the next installment of any of her series. I loved the way she connected the Lords of Kassis series to this one. As always her story was exciting and filled with danger, drama and love of course. Suri and Destin are attracted to each other immediately but circumstances get in the way. When they meet again it’s instantaneous and combustible! I can’t wait for the next one and hope I don’t have to wait long. Start at the beginning and read the Lords of Kassis series first so you understand more. You won’t be disappointed and you’ll fall in love with the characters, the intricate story and this author! You can’t go wrong with any of her books! I’d give this one 20 stars if I could, but I guess 5 will have to suffice.

⭐ If you want a book that will take you away from wherever you are then this one is for you. It is full of action, political intrigue, and men and women who fight for what means the most. It is pure excitement and some wonderful romance. Destin and Sula are an enchanting couple and their courtship is definitely exciting. The battle for Earth continues in this fast-paced story. I loved it.

⭐ I finished this book around 2 a.m. Couldn’t put it down! What an amazing book. The love scenes were scorching hot. It kept me hooked. I loved Sula, she was a woman to be admired. She wasn’t afraid to jump in and fight, yet she was very much a lady. There’s so much I want to write about, but I don’t want to put any spoilers! Get the book! I was on the fence. I wasn’t sure I wanted to read about a human. I’m more of an alien romance person. I wasn’t disappointed there. I guess I must have skimmed over the information about the book. It was so great, I dreamed about it all night.

⭐ Just finished Destin’s Hold and as always the book has everything you’d ever want in a Science Fiction Romance. Destin returns to a Earth after a visit with his sister and getting involved in an attempt by enemies to kill his sister and niece. While visiting Kari he is reintroduced to a woman that he falls hard for. Fast forward to Earth and the problems that his group is having accepting the Alien love interest while all hell breaks lose in New Chicago and everyone must work together to defeat the threat. The book is one of those that you really can’t put down and I highly recommend it as well as the entire series.

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