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The Sinner (18) (The Black Dagger Brotherhood series) Hardcover – March 24, 2020

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A sinner’s only hope is true love in this passionate new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Syn has kept his side hustle as a mercenary a secret from the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When he takes another hit job, he not only crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy, but also that of a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Jo Early has no idea what her true nature is, and when a mysterious man appears out of the darkness, she is torn between their erotic connection and the sense that something is very wrong.

Fate anointed Butch O’Neal as the Dhestroyer, the fulfiller of the prophecy that foresees the end of the Omega. As the war with the Lessening Society comes to a head, Butch gets an unexpected ally in Syn. But can he trust the male—or is the warrior with the bad past a deadly complication?

With time running out, Jo gets swept up in the fighting and must join with Syn and the Brotherhood against true evil. In the end, will love true prevail...or was the prophecy wrong all along?
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J.R. Ward is the author of more than sixty novels, including those in her #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. There are more than twenty million copies of her novels in print worldwide, and they have been published in twenty-seven different countries. She lives in the south with her family.

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Chapter One

CHAPTER ONE


Route 149

Caldwell, New York

Behind the wheel of her ten-year-old car, Jo Early bit into the Slim Jim and chewed like it was her last meal. She hated the fake-smoke taste and the boat-rope texture, and when she swallowed the last piece, she got another one out of her bag. Ripping the wrapper with her teeth, she peeled the taxidermied tube free and littered into the wheel well of her passenger side. There were so many spent casings like it down there, you couldn’t see the floor mat.

Up ahead, her anemic headlights swung around a curve, illuminating pine trees that had been limbed up three-quarters of the way, the puffy tops making toothpicks out of the trunks. She hit a pothole and bad-swallowed, and she was coughing as she reached her destination.

The abandoned Adirondack Outlets was yet another commentary on the pervasiveness of Amazon Prime. The one-story strip mall was a horseshoe without a hoof, the storefronts along the two long sides bearing the remnants of their brands, faded laminations and off-kilter signs with names like Van Heusen/Izod, and Nike, and Dansk the ghosts of commerce past. Behind dusty glass, there was no merchandise available for purchase anymore, and no one had been on the property with a charge card for at least a year, only hardscrabble weeds in the cracks of the promenade and barn swallows in the eaves inhabiting the site. Likewise, the food court that united the eastern and western arms was no longer offering soft serve or Starbucks or lunch.

As a hot flash cranked her internal temperature up, she cracked the window. And then put the thing all the way down. March in Caldwell, New York, was like winter in a lot of places still considered northerly in latitude, and thank God for it. Breathing in the cold, damp air, she told herself this was not a bad idea.

Nah, not at all. Here she was, alone at midnight, chasing down the lead on a story she wasn’t writing for her employer, the Caldwell Courier Journal. Without anyone at her new apartment waiting up for her. Without anyone on the planet who would claim her mangled corpse when it was found from the smell in a ditch a week from now.

Letting the car roll to a stop, she killed the headlights and stayed where she was. No moon out tonight so she’d dressed right. All black. But without any illumination from the heavens, her eyes strained at the darkness, and not because she was greedy to see the details on the decaying structure.

Nope. At the moment, she was worried she was about to provide fodder for True Crime Garage. As unease tickled her nape, like someone was trying to get her attention by running the point of a carving knife over her skin—

Her stomach let out a howl and she jumped. Without any debate, she went diving into her purse again. Passing by the three Slim Jims she had left, she went straight-up Hershey this time, and the efficiency with which she stripped that mass-produced chocolate of its clothing was a sad commentary on her diet. When she was finished, she was still hungry and not because there wasn’t food in her belly. As always, the only two things she could eat failed to satisfy her gnawing craving, to say nothing of her nutritional needs.

Putting up her window, she took her backpack and got out. The crackling sound of the treads of her running shoes on the shoulder of the road seemed loud as a concert, and she wished she wasn’t getting over a cold. Like her sense of smell could be helpful, though? And when was the last time she’d considered that possibility outside of a milk carton check.

She really needed to give these wild-goose chases up.

Two-strapping her backpack, she locked the car and pulled the hood of her windbreaker up over her red hair. No heel toeing. She left-right-left’d it, keeping the soles of her Brooks flat to quiet her footfalls. As her eyes adjusted, all she saw were the shadows around her, the hidey-holes in corners and nooks formed by the mall’s doorways and the benches pockets of gotcha with which mashers could play a grown-up’s game of keep away until they were ready to attack.

When she got to a heavy chain that was strung across the entry to the promenade, she looked around. There was nobody in the parking lots that ran down the outside of the flanks. No one in the center area formed by the open-ended rectangle. Not a soul on the road that she had taken up to this rise above Rt. 149.

Jo told herself that this was good. It meant no one was going to jump her.

Her adrenal glands, on the other hand, informed her that this actually meant no one was around to hear her scream for help.

Refocusing on the chain, she had some thought that if she swung her leg over it and proceeded on the other side, she would not come back the same.

“Stop it,” she said, kicking her foot up.

She chose the right side of the stores, and as rain started to fall, she was glad the architect had thought to cover the walkways overhead. What had been not so smart was anyone thinking a shopping center with no interior corridors could survive in a zip code this close to Canada. Saving ten bucks on a pair of candlesticks or a bathing suit was not going to keep anybody warm enough to shop outside October to April, and that was true even before you factored in the current era of free next-day shipping.

Down at the far end, she stopped at what had to have been the ice cream place because there was a faded stencil of a cow holding a triple decker cone by its hoof on the window. She got out her phone.

Her call was answered on the first ring.

“Are you okay?” Bill said.

“Where am I going?” she whispered. “I don’t see anything.”

“It’s in the back. I told you that you have to go around back, remember?”

“Damn it.” Maybe the nitrates had fried her brain. “Hold on, I think I found a staircase.”

“I should come out there.”

Jo started walking again and shook her head even though he couldn’t see her. “I’m fine—yup, I’ve got the cut through to the rear. I’ll call you if I need you—”

“You shouldn’t be doing this alone!”

Ending the connection, she jogged down the concrete steps, her pack bouncing like it was doing push-ups on her back. As she bottomed out on the lower level, she scanned the empty parking lot—

The stench that stabbed into her nose was the kind of thing that triggered her gag reflex. Roadkill… and baby powder?

She looked to the source. The maintenance building by the tree line had a corrugated metal roof and metal walls that would not survive long in tornado alley. Half the size of a football field, with garage doors locked to the ground, she imagined it could have housed paving equipment as well as blowers, mowers, and snowplows.

The sole person-sized door was loose, and as a stiff gust from the rainstorm caught it, the creak was straight out of a George Romero movie—and then the panel immediately slammed shut with a clap, as if Mother Nature didn’t like the stink any more than Jo did.

Taking out her phone, she texted Bill: This smell is nasty.

Aware that her heart rate just tripled, she walked across the asphalt, the rain hitting the hood of her windbreaker in a disorganized staccato. Ducking her hand under the loose nylon of the jacket, she felt for her holstered gun and kept her hand on the butt.

The door creaked open and slammed shut again, another puff of that smell releasing out of the pitch-black interior. Swallowing through throat spasms, she had to fight to keep going and not because there was wind in her face.

When she stopped in front of the door, the opening and closing ceased, as if now that she was on the verge of entering, it didn’t need to catch her attention and draw her in.

So help her God, if Pennywise was on the other side…

Glancing around to check there were no red balloons lolling in the area, she reached out for the door.

I just have to know, she thought as she opened the way in. I need to… know.

Leaning around the jamb, she saw absolutely nothing, and yet was frozen by all that she confronted. Pure evil, the kind of thing that abducted and murdered children, that slaughtered the innocent, that enjoyed the suffering of the just and merciful, pushed at her body and then penetrated it, radiation that was toxic passing through to her bones.

Coughing, she stepped back and covered her mouth and nose with the crook of her elbow. After a couple of deep breaths into her sleeve, she fumbled with her phone.

Before Bill could say anything over the whirring in his background, she bit out, “You need to come—”

“I’m already halfway to you.”

“Good.”

“What’s going on—”

Jo ended the call again and got out her flashlight, triggering the beam. Stepping forward again, she shouldered the door open and trained the spear of illumination into the space.

The light was consumed.

Sure as if she were shining it into a bolt of thick fabric, the fragile glowing shaft was no match for what she was about to enter.

The threshold she stepped over was nothing more than weather stripping, but the inch-high lip was a barrier that felt like an obstacle course she could barely surmount—and then there was the stickiness on the floor. Pointing the flashlight to the ground, she picked up one of her feet. Something like old motor oil dripped off her running shoe, the sound of it finding home echoing in the empty space.

As Jo walked forward, she found the first of the buckets on the left. Home Depot. With an orange-and-white logo smudged by a rusty, translucent substance that turned her stomach.

The beam wobbled as she looked into the cylinder, her hand shaking. Inside there was a gallon of glossy, gleaming… red… liquid. And in the back of her throat, she tasted copper—

Jo wheeled around with the flashlight.

Through the doorway, the two men who had come up behind her without a sound loomed as if they had risen out of the pavement itself, wraiths conjured from her nightmares, fed by the cold spring rain, clothed in the night. One of them had a goatee and tattoos at one of his temples, a cigarette between his lips and a downright nasty expression on his hard face. The other wore a Boston Red Sox hat and a long camel-colored coat, the tails of which blew in slow motion even though the wind was choppy. Both had long black blades holstered handles down on their chest, and she knew there were more weapons where she couldn’t see them.

They had come to kill her. Tracked her as she’d moved away from her car. Seen her as she had not seen them.

Jo stumbled back and tried to get out her gun, but her sweaty palms had her dropping her phone and struggling to keep the flashlight—

And then she couldn’t move.

Even as her brain ordered her feet to run, her legs to run, her body to run, nothing obeyed the panic-commands, her muscles twitching under the lockdown of some invisible force of will, her bones aching, her breath turning into a pant. Pain firework’d her brain, a headache sizzling through her mind.

Opening her mouth, she screamed—

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (March 24, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501195093
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501195099
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
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J. R. Ward lives in the South with her incredibly supportive husband and her beloved golden retriever. After graduating from law school, she began working in health care in Boston and spent many years as chief of staff for one of the premier academic medical centres in the nation. She is the author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Fallen Angels series.

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The Sinner was amazingly epic! All the characters. The fight. The passion. The Brothers. The love. It was incredible! Another outstanding story in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.I was immediately immersed in the story, learning everything about Jo and Syn, what was going on with Butch, the fight with the Omega, and the new evil that was previously outed. I loved all the details, depth, and amazing build. This story reminded me of the first books in this series with all the different layers, exceptional character development, and the camaraderie between the Brothers and the humor that's added. It was so well thought out and well done.I was thrilled for Jo’s story. I loved the connections to her that were mentioned in previous books, I was excited to see those brought to the forefront. She was such a strong heroine and I loved her fight for the truth and to understand what was going on with herself. Syn has been this hard-core mystery so I loved getting into his past and learning why he is the way he is. It's intense yet sweet, passionate, and drama-filled. He's got some issues he's dealing with, to say the least, but I loved his growth over the course of the story and his redemption. I was so excited while reading and learning everything, seeing the dots connect and getting them confirmed about Jo, it was like stars aligning.I loved the drama, action, and emotion. Everything was phenomenal. The new evil that's in play is an OMG kind of thing, learning everything about that was awesome. I loved those details and how it all came together, it was fantastic! I adored all the Brothers and their bonds. There are a lot of really great, stand out moments in this. Lassiter was marvelous, and I really loved seeing more of Butch and V’s relationship.This was just brilliant. From start to finish I was hooked. I had a million questions and wanted to know everything. I pretty much inhaled it! I thought it was action-packed, on-the-edge-of-my-seat intense! This was a pivotal book in the series that is not to be missed. Loved it all! Thank you, J. R. Ward, for bringing this world to life and making me feel like I'm a part of it.
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Gretchen Schmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it all!
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The Sinner was amazingly epic! All the characters. The fight. The passion. The Brothers. The love. It was incredible! Another outstanding story in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.

I was immediately immersed in the story, learning everything about Jo and Syn, what was going on with Butch, the fight with the Omega, and the new evil that was previously outed. I loved all the details, depth, and amazing build. This story reminded me of the first books in this series with all the different layers, exceptional character development, and the camaraderie between the Brothers and the humor that's added. It was so well thought out and well done.

I was thrilled for Jo’s story. I loved the connections to her that were mentioned in previous books, I was excited to see those brought to the forefront. She was such a strong heroine and I loved her fight for the truth and to understand what was going on with herself. Syn has been this hard-core mystery so I loved getting into his past and learning why he is the way he is. It's intense yet sweet, passionate, and drama-filled. He's got some issues he's dealing with, to say the least, but I loved his growth over the course of the story and his redemption. I was so excited while reading and learning everything, seeing the dots connect and getting them confirmed about Jo, it was like stars aligning.

I loved the drama, action, and emotion. Everything was phenomenal. The new evil that's in play is an OMG kind of thing, learning everything about that was awesome. I loved those details and how it all came together, it was fantastic! I adored all the Brothers and their bonds. There are a lot of really great, stand out moments in this. Lassiter was marvelous, and I really loved seeing more of Butch and V’s relationship.

This was just brilliant. From start to finish I was hooked. I had a million questions and wanted to know everything. I pretty much inhaled it! I thought it was action-packed, on-the-edge-of-my-seat intense! This was a pivotal book in the series that is not to be missed. Loved it all! Thank you, J. R. Ward, for bringing this world to life and making me feel like I'm a part of it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it all!
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2020
The Sinner was amazingly epic! All the characters. The fight. The passion. The Brothers. The love. It was incredible! Another outstanding story in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.

I was immediately immersed in the story, learning everything about Jo and Syn, what was going on with Butch, the fight with the Omega, and the new evil that was previously outed. I loved all the details, depth, and amazing build. This story reminded me of the first books in this series with all the different layers, exceptional character development, and the camaraderie between the Brothers and the humor that's added. It was so well thought out and well done.

I was thrilled for Jo’s story. I loved the connections to her that were mentioned in previous books, I was excited to see those brought to the forefront. She was such a strong heroine and I loved her fight for the truth and to understand what was going on with herself. Syn has been this hard-core mystery so I loved getting into his past and learning why he is the way he is. It's intense yet sweet, passionate, and drama-filled. He's got some issues he's dealing with, to say the least, but I loved his growth over the course of the story and his redemption. I was so excited while reading and learning everything, seeing the dots connect and getting them confirmed about Jo, it was like stars aligning.

I loved the drama, action, and emotion. Everything was phenomenal. The new evil that's in play is an OMG kind of thing, learning everything about that was awesome. I loved those details and how it all came together, it was fantastic! I adored all the Brothers and their bonds. There are a lot of really great, stand out moments in this. Lassiter was marvelous, and I really loved seeing more of Butch and V’s relationship.

This was just brilliant. From start to finish I was hooked. I had a million questions and wanted to know everything. I pretty much inhaled it! I thought it was action-packed, on-the-edge-of-my-seat intense! This was a pivotal book in the series that is not to be missed. Loved it all! Thank you, J. R. Ward, for bringing this world to life and making me feel like I'm a part of it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!
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One of the best books in this series… and I LOVE the series. 🩷 This story was amazing, and the ending is priceless… happy reading!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love Always Wins
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I remember meeting Josephine Early in another Black Dagger Brotherhood book. I am excited to finally know her story and her connection to the Vampire world. Her reluctance to stand down in the face of the unknown makes her one of the most fearless heroines in this power-packed world.

Syn is also a male who was introduced in earlier books. He has always been firece and more than a bit scary. Finding out what fuels his rage os quite eye-opening. I absolutely loved watching the transformative power of love evoke changes in him.

JR Ward has set this beautifully fierce love story against the background of the end days of the war between the Brotherhood and the Omega. Each detail lends itself to the story and culminates is a satisfying ending. I am addicted to the bonds these characters in this world form and the family they have created. I eagerly await the next book this epic series.
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It has been a few years since I read the last book in the series, but I had no trouble slipping back into the author's writing, world, or the current situation in the series. I liked that there seemed to be fewer main and minor plot threads floating around though it did have a crew of narrators.

The Sinner picks up the story of one of the Band of Bastards, Syn, who has a nasty little habit of enjoying killing so he has taken a side gig beyond his duties with the others in the war against the Omega and the Lessers. Syn's wet work brings him into contact with intrepid newspaper journalist and freelance Vampires-are-real style of website researcher. Something happens when he is sent to take out the inquisitive Jo in a mob hit- he protects her instead and slowly he gets a look inside his own black heart and doesn't like what he sees. He doesn't deserve her and she has no idea she is a half-breed on the cusp of transition, but he wants her- oh how he wants her.

Jo has gaps in her memory, but this worrisome thought doesn't stop her. She does investigative reporting so that she knows the crime element want her taken out and she feels she is getting closer to proving there is a paranormal element in Caldwell. Meanwhile, she's into Syn knowing he's something of a bad boy and his job doesn't involve white collars or offices. She is also busy about finding out her own story since she knows she was adopted and she has no real connection to her adopted parents and hopes to find something akin to family with her blood family.

Dervana, the demoness, has realized that the Father isn't planning to recall her to her demon realm and she knows why. She's hung up on a certain angel, (Imagine my shock to realize she's the villain from the Fallen Angels series which I've slowly been reading) Jim Herron whom she can't have. Caldwell looks like a good place for her gruesome brand of play, right?

Meanwhile, Butch the Dhestroyer draws ever closer to his destiny of facing off with the Omega and ending him and his Lessers. Butch and V, a strong bromance, along with the rest of the Brotherhood are ready for whatever it takes.

The Sinner grabbed me in the opening pages and there were moments here and there before I was riveted to the last quarter. I liked Jo and was fine with Syn, but they weren't a pair that I was dying to get their story. I did like seeing how Jo fit into the vampire world and who she turned out to be related to. I was curious about the rise of Dervana and Butch's part in the book. Bits and pieces that were big for the series. So, it was good- really good, but not great. Still, you know I'm going to keep reading the Brothers, and oh yeah, get caught up on those Fallen Angels books so I can see how the crossover happened.
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorites
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The Sinner is definitely one of my favorites out of the series. It was really good and I am looking forward to the next book in this series
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Chrystal-foxx
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner!
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This author rocks...once I started reading her books I haven't stopped....on to the next one, I can't wait!
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Reviewed in Brazil on January 19, 2023
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Quando precisei falar com o vendedor, foi tudo rapido e fácil. Ele resolveu o problema numa boa e tranquilo. E o prpduto chegou no praso (antes até) tudo certinho.
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BookNERD
5.0 out of 5 stars I could reread this book forever
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2024
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I absolutely loved this book its beautifully written and the end of a long war and the start of a brand new adventure ♡
If you havnt read the fallen angels first for it to make even more sense
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Jackie
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars
Reviewed in Germany on September 17, 2021
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I can't even begin to tell you how much I love the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I love it with my whole heart. I've been reading them since day one and I won't ever give one of those books less than 5 stars. Will never not read a new release.
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Amrita
5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar read
Reviewed in India on June 11, 2021
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JR ward never disappoints.. the world of the vampires is woven so beautifully into an engrossing story line with central characters that are strong , independent and go getters .. an exciting read.. JR ward has had me hooked to the Black Dagger brotherhood for years..
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