Branded, Saffron A. Kent
Branded, Saffron A. Kent
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Branded

Author: Saffron A. Kent

Narrator: Heather Verdugo, Maxwell Hamilton

Unabridged: 16 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Forever

Published: 10/28/2025


Synopsis

Pen Pal meets Yellowstone in this dark, western romance featuring a college student using a false identity to exchange spicy letters with a prison inmate, only to be hunted down when the convicted cowboy is released.

It all began with letters. Every word he wrote etched itself into my mind, into my soul.

I had no choice but to fall for him. Was it really so bad that the letters were part of a pen-pal program . . . for prisoners? Or that they weren’t addressed to me?

It’s not as if we’d ever meet. It’s not as if I’d ever get to look into Beau’s eyes that yearn for the ranch he left behind. Or that I’d ever get to feel his work-roughened hands dominating my body just as he does my fevered dreams. What harm could there be?

Until one afternoon when I find myself standing in front of Beau—pretending to be someone I’m not. But the joke’s on me because for all my pretenses, his deception is much crueler . . . The hardened, dangerous, impossibly beautiful man is nothing like the man in the letters.

And it’s too late for me to run.

Content Guidance:
The contents of this dark romance book may be triggering to some readers. It contains explicit sexual content and a morally gray hero.

Trigger warnings: false identities, stalking/obsession, revenge/retribution, abduction, drugging, blackmail/coercion, forced marriage, violence, bondage, knife play, gun play, dubious consent, non-consent, off-the-page domestic abuse set in the past, off-the-page murder set in the past, parental grief

About Saffron A. Kent

Saffron A. Kent is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and new adult romance, including Bad Boy, Gods & Monsters, and The Unrequited. More often than not, her love stories are edgy, forbidden and passionate. Her work has been featured in Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, New York Daily News, and USA Today's Happy Ever After. She has an MFA in creative writing and she lives in New York City with her nerdy and supportive husband. Along with a million and one books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by kiki’s delivery witch ౨ৎ on August 29, 2025

2.5 stars Branded started off like a spicy road trip in a convertible with the top down, only to veer into a ditch around the 35% mark and start blasting some questionable 80s adult film soundtrack vibes. I dove into this book with high hopes. Give me a broody hero, a steamy forbidden romance, and s......more

Goodreads review by Iqra on October 12, 2025

Started off really strong like I was addicted to this book but as soon as we hit the 45% mark the direction of the book changed and it slowly lost my interest. I was at the 60% mark and thinking what’s left to say lol. Why am I still here 😭 but as I was reading I got it kinda. I think it could’ve be......more

Goodreads review by Laura (updating reviews) on October 16, 2025

Thank you to the publisher Little Brown Books UK for providing a copy of this book for review purposes via NetGalley all opinions are my own. I went into this book with my eyes wide open after reading all the trigger warnings first, so I knew what I was getting into. I liked the idea of this book, t......more

Goodreads review by Sam on October 23, 2025

3.25⭐️ First off, thank you to NetGalley and Saffron A. Kent for the eARC! This story started off really well and I was hooked from the first page. It was definitely the hot spicy dark cowboy romance that I expected. You really feel for both main characters with all the trauma they went through which l......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on October 30, 2025

This was sold on the vibes for sure. And I was here for most of them. I enjoyed listening to this and I had a relatively good time watching the events unfold. But... this also relied on being "Dark cowboy who's broken and jaded" as the whole point of the book and nothing but the point. There was also......more