All is Lost (All Series, Book 2)

What Readers are saying about The All
Series…

“Marie has the ability to bring so much
more to the romance genre. Hooking even the unromantically inclined
readers, making even me beg for more.” ~ Angela Pratt (I Feel the
Need the Need to Read)

“All is Lost demands your
attention from the beginning. It will have your heart wrenching and
blood bounding at every turn... You will want, no, need the next
book more than your next breath.”
~ Author
Simone Nicole

“Another emotional ride that I didn’t
want to end! Amazing character development.” Heather Armstrong.
(All is Lost beta)

“I can honestly say that this IS the
best book I have read this summer. It covers everything I could as
for in a book: thrilling, mystery, drama, and of course,
ROMANCE!!!” ~booknerd (review of Be All on Amazon)

“Well I will not lie that when I
started this book I didn't know if I would like it boy I was wrong.
This book is filled with suspense, drama, and love.” ~Lisa Petty
(review of Be All on Amazon)

“This book !! This book had me reading
at every chance I got. I could not get my head out of the story or
the characters. I love a good story that has twists you don't see
coming and an angst filled love triangle. This book had that in
spades. It was a roller coaster ride for discoveries and mysteries.
I couldn't get enough.” ~Novelgrounds (review of Be All on
Amazon)

“I don't know where to begin. This book
is amazing the thought and effort put in to this is mind blowing!”
~Rebecca (review of Be All on Amazon)

“Wow!!! Just absolutely freaking
amazing!!! I fell in love with the characters and want to know
more. Reading is one of my passions, and when I get into a book,
it's like I'm part of it. This book got to me so much.” ~Christina
Barajas (review of Be All on Amazon)

“I really liked this book.
The characters are hateable, loveable, frustrating, perfect for
each other, yet NOT. It had the right amount of intrigue, thrills,
aggravation, honestly, and pain. I fell in love with Marcus and
Tristan.” ~Carolyn Isherwood
(review of Be
All on Amazon)

ALL is Lost

(
All Series
, Book 2)

A novel

By

Marie Wathen

ALL IS LOST

Copyright © 2013 Marie
Wathen

All Rights Reserved

Smashwords
Edition           

No part of this book may be reproduced
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information
storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the
owner. Excerpts for reviews – only when stated as such and quoted –
are an exception.

This is a work of fiction. Names,
characters, places and incidents are either the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Resemblance to
actual person, living or dead, events or locales, are entirely
coincidental.

Editor: Pamela Snyder (PS
Editing) email:
[email protected]

website:
http:/pamelasnyder.wix.com/home

Published by Marie Wathen PO BOX 239
Vincent, AL 35178

Cover Art Design &
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(Warning: This book is not suitable
for anyone under the age of 18 due to explicit language and sexual
content.)

This story is approximately
122,000 words

 
Table of Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter
Thirteen

Chapter
Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter
Seventeen

Chapter
Eighteen

Chapter
Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter
Twenty-One

Chapter
Twenty-Two

Chapter
Twenty-Three

Chapter
Twenty-Four

Chapter
Twenty-Five

Chapter
Twenty-Six

Chapter
Twenty-Seven

Chapter
Twenty-Eight

Chapter
Twenty-Nine

Chapter
Thirty

Chapter
Thirty-One

Chapter
Thirty-Two

Epilogue

About the
Author

Acknowledgements

Special Excerpt

Dedication

This book is dedicated to
my adoring husband. Barry. You are my life, my love, my best
friend, my protector, my accepter, my fun, my every day, my every
night and my at last. There could not be a more perfect person for
such an imperfect me. I love you,
 
f
orover ~ Marie

Prologue

A luxury water cruiser sits anchored
pristinely off the Atlantic coast. Currently it is the largest and
fastest vessel on the seas. The owner had the ship customized to
his specific needs and desires. He is a tall well-built gentleman
with blonde locks trimmed neatly. With a massive chest and perfect
physique, he always looks magnificent dressed only in the finest
Armani can offer. Having the finest of everything, he didn’t skimp
on one detail for the one woman he has loved his entire life.
Perfection and opulence is the only way he could keep her happy,
and in turn that keeps him happy. There are servants scurrying
below deck preparing a luxurious celebratory feast. However, at the
moment, the reason for celebrating has yet to happen. It won’t be
much longer now.

“
No, you promised that when
the brat turned nineteen I would be done with all this scheming
bullshit.” An angry red haired beauty demands to her lover, as she
stalks across the cabin of the lavish cruiser.

She has spent a lifetime waiting for
the moment that she would finally be reunited with the man she
loves and with the son that she was denied a relationship with up
until this point. Devious plans, plans that were a must, plans that
meant a brighter future for them kept her family apart for far too
long. At last, the time has finally arrived and she is not waiting
another minute for their journey to continue–together.

Following the feisty redhead through
the door leading out to the deck, a malicious voice spits, “That
was the plan, before you fucked up and let your son arrange the
hit–that was a failure. I was against killing her from the
beginning, I might add. She is still alive and we are no closer to
having what we want.” The malicious voice belongs to a beauty more
sinister than the redheaded she-devil. This seductive brunette
quite literally emulates evil-incarnate and she threatens the long
anticipated family reunion. She never intended for the lover’s to
reunite. The jealous wench meticulously devised a plan that
separated them for nineteen years and she will be damned if this
woman thinks she can come in and destroy or take away the one thing
she sacrificed it all for.

“
Now love,” he croons. “We
need to deal with the loose ends and extra baggage that our son
left when he failed to capture the girl.” Glancing between the two
statuesque women, the man points a finger at the ginger-haired
vixen and says with a monotone voice, “Your sister, will continue
to monitor the situation with our prisoner.”

An angry growl from the
fiery tart behind him draws his attention away from his intended.
Discarding her attitude, he continues. “He won’t last much longer
and we need him to survive.
You
need him to survive just a little longer if we
want the new plan to work. Unless something miraculous happens
soon, I must go back underground.” Glancing between the two, his
voice softens as his eyes scan and appreciates their sexy tan legs,
and full curves, but always the masochist he tamps down his carnal
desires. “Our informant nailed it correctly when he said that there
is a small undercover task unit investigating our
business
. Fortunately for
us, he has their trust and will keep direct contact with me. The
little pack of rogue cops have become the girl’s guardian angels,
and it seems as though they are not letting her out of their
sight.”

“
It was him! He is
protecting her. I knew there was something wary with the way he was
watching her,” his woman hisses back, completely missing a
lascivious glare secretly exchanged between her man and the other
woman during her meltdown. “I knew I should not have hired that son
of a bitch. The little bug would be dead this very moment, and we
could be sailing away with our hearts desires darling.” She croons,
approaching her future husband. Accommodating his grand stature,
that stands seven powerful inches over her five feet eight, she
rises up on her tiptoes and places a sweet kiss against his jaw
line. He pulls her body roughly against his.

A loud huff behind them
draws the embracing couple’s attention. The other woman bores an
evil glare at the redhead and says, “That was your most recent fuck
up. Whether or not your stepdaughter dies,
we
will have what is rightfully
ours.” Her eyes roam the length of the man.

Flinching at the way the
dark hair devil snarls at her before whipping around and storming
away, she accesses that her behavior resonates a scorned lover.
Although she has considered the brunette her biggest threat to
their future happiness, she refuses to believe
he
would betray her after all that
she’s sacrificed for this endeavor.

“
Wait,” While holding his
devoted ginger beauty tightly in one arm the man reaches for the
other brooding woman, halting her from escaping and bringing her
body against his vacant side. The two women stab the other with
hate filled eyes. He whispers promises against the other woman’s
hair, “With the progress that I’ve made with Ryske I guarantee that
we will get the results we are expecting. My investor from Willow
is satisfied with the results it offers their specific
arrangements, which satisfies the hell out of me since they have
been continuously funding our little experiments all this time.
Everything is just within our reach ladies and once we have
her
we will have it
all.”

“
Wait one damn minute,” his
woman, still pissed with what she is accused of by the bitch,
lurches out of his hold and steps within inches of the other
woman’s face. “You are the one that fucked up when you doped her up
with the Ryske at the damn local goth club. Do not think I–or my
son–will take the blame for every damn mistake made in getting rid
of her. Your girl at Toxic failed miserably when she couldn’t
control herself and overdosed on it. Why didn’t you just inject her
with all of it instead of trusting that little junkie with the
whole damn vial? If she would have died that night everything would
be in my name now.”

“
You stupid woman, I have
explained it to you numerous times. Get this through your damn
head. I always know what I’m doing and it wasn’t time for her to
die!”

“
Dearest.” Fearing a
catfight is emanate the man steps between the two ladies and pulls
his woman into another intimate embrace. He lovingly caresses her
cheek with the back of his hand. “There is no reason for you to get
defensive with
her
. We are all in this together. I need you and I am just as
eager to get Willow Island and all that it encompasses behind me so
that we can finally have the life we’ve been denied for the past
nineteen years. Killing the little one before her birthday was
never the plan. Scaring the living shit out of her so that her
defenses would stay fragile is how we always intended
it.”