Pam Godwin has crafted a brilliant dark erotic tale with Deliver and Vanquish. We met Van in Deliver, but we really didn't get to see much beyond his villainy. Vanquish picks up with his escape from the house after being shot, which was an awesome way to refresh this reader's memory as to what happened to him in Deliver. He's still obsessed with Liv and for good reason. He wants to connect with their daughter and the only way he's going to do that is by convincing Liv he should. That's not going to be so easy. 
 When he finally finds Liv using his many stalker-ish talents, he meets Amber. She's got lots of problems, like an ex that totally messed up her head, along with agoraphobia and OCD just for starters. Van's intrigued with her, which rapidly moves to more of an obsession as he realizes just how much he wants Amber and how he could use his "talents" to help her. 
 Only he doesn't really bargain for the things Amber does for him as they both spill their secrets to each other. I was amazed by the emotions that I felt during this part of the book. It was easy to hate Van for what he did to Liv and the others, but to hear his life story was gut-wrenching and I found myself becoming sympathetic to Van. Pam does a great job with building the case for his redemption. 
 And just when I thought it was all going to work out, Van shows just how much he's changed from his trafficking days with an unselfish act that has both Van and Amber alone again. There's a good amount of emotion in this part of the book that is so well done and I just loved it. 
 Vanquish was a very satisfying and awesome way to end this dark series. I love it when an author manages to make me feel differently about a character, and Pam Godwin does an excellent job of that in Vanquish. There wasn't a lot of action in this one--there's more introspection and I didn't mind that. There's lots of steamy sexual content too, but I do feel I should give a warning that Vanquish does contain abduction and non-consensual sex. 
 I really love this series. It's dark, sexy and very well researched. Vanquish is the perfect follow-up to Deliver. 
 This review also appears on my blog at: http://redhotbluereads.blogspot.com/2014/08/review-and-giveaway-vanquish-by-pam.html