Blade (Black Blade Protection Book 1) by Becca Jameson

 

 

Blurb:

June
Yeah, I’m hiding.
I hardly leave my apartment.
My luck sucks, though.
On a rare night out, I get attacked.
By a stranger—not the man I’m hiding from.
Now my picture is on the news.
I need help. I’m desperate.
There’s only one man who might be able to protect me.
A man I met yesterday.
Dangerous. Tattooed. Muscular. Hot.
Out of my league.
But I’m not looking for a lover; I’m looking for a bodyguard.

Blade
I hated leaving her alone in her apartment.
She’s bruised and battered, and her arm is broken.
But I couldn’t insist she let me stay.
She doesn’t know me.
I met her by accident and gave her a ride. That’s all.
Who am I kidding?
I was drawn to her in an instant.
And I didn’t exactly leave her alone. Hell no.
I watched her building all night.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had someone to nurture.
Maybe it’s time to take a chance.
And she just walked through the front door…

 

My review:

New beginnings, new series lots of love, angst and danger.  Blade is grumpy, growly and a total silver fox. He jumps in to save June and is instantly attracted even though she is having a really bad life. He almost forces her to start living again and as they both heal they find each others heart. This is sweet, sassy and smexy.

 

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Macon (Brigade Trucking Company Book 1) by TK Lawyer

 

 

Blurb:

Satisfaction is guaranteed
At The Brigade.
No matter what it takes~

Macon always left his customers supremely satisfied.
Till the day his eyes landed on Nina- the delectable female in the warehouse

His sights are set on her.
The smart-mouthed, curvy woman that invades Macon’s most delicious dreams.
He will have her.
No matter how long it takes~

As the first female hired by the all-male trucking company,
Nina can do anything a man can do and better.
Yet, staying out of the lusty-eyed Macon’s view proves to be challenging.
Macon is a temptation that will surely end up bad news for her, in the end.

She knows his kind. She has dated men like him, before.
Yet, there remains a part of her that wants to bed him and bring him to his knees.
Still, Nina is not into anything permanent with anyone, anymore.

Will Macon and Nina realize that fated mates are better together than separate?
Or will Macon’s desire for Nina remain unfulfilled?

 

My review:

HOT! HOT! HOT! Smoking hot tiger shifter trucker and man-whore Macon is knocked for a loop when his mate starts working for the Brigade Trucking Company. She is not about to date where she works no matter how hot these Truckers are. It’s driving Macon nuts.  Watching these two play cat and mouse was fun but when they get together the pages were on fire.

 

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Silent Night, Obedient Night by Candace Blevins

 

 

Blurb:

After running away from a Halloween night proposal, Willow wakes to find the moment has gone viral. She books a remote mountain cabin before she gets out of bed and hits the road two hours later.

But a landslide strands her on the mountaintop with three dominant wolves who see exactly what she needs. Their idea of taking care of her means taking her apart in ways she never imagined.

Kenny, the alpha, provides the authority and structure she craves, enforcing obedience with ruthless discipline. Silas feeds her hunger for pain and psychological edgeplay with a sadist’s perfect cruelty. Boone methodically dismantles her defenses, challenging her every limit with his overwhelming presence.

They push her. Use her. Show her how submission can be safety, connection, and something dangerously close to love.

Every order she obeys pulls her deeper into a world of unyielding discipline and rough hands, where pain is layered with care, and being used is its own kind of freedom.

For seven days, she’ll be theirs: every hole, every inch, every breath. Seven days to test the limits of her submission while being stripped psychologically bare. Seven days to see if she can survive being their plaything, and whether she even wants to.

When the week ends, Willow faces a momentous choice: return to her safe, predictable life, or surrender completely to three wolves who promise to give her everything she never dared ask for.

And if she says yes, it won’t be a game anymore, it’ll be the Christmas she never saw coming.

Sometimes you have to run away to find home.

Silent Night, Obedient Night is a standalone high-spice reverse-harem shifter romance power-exchange relationship that ends on Christmas Day. Perfect for readers who love extreme physical and psychological kink, power exchange, and sexy werewolves.

 

My review:

Candace Blevins books always introduce me to new forms of kink. As long as they make her characters happy I can usually get through knowing that their kink doesn’t have to be my kink as long as it’s consensual I’m okay with it. Silent Night, Obedient Night found a hard limit for me. I am not a fan of degradation, humiliation and objectification. And no matter how much the characters are into it I just couldn’t get past my feelings about it. I can get through the sadism by saying that they’re shifters with higher pain tolerance and much better healing but the mind games just blew me out of the story.

 

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Brynjar (Freki Wolf Clan Series Book 3) by Victoria Saccenti

 

 

Blurb:

When her wolf is freed, the balance of power will shift—for good or evil.

Sable begs to be allowed to help the Freki repel a daemon invasion. Instead, she’s sent off to the one place she hoped never to see again. The Vuk clan’s mansion. Years ago, her scheming mother offered her in betrothal to the Vuk heir, only to be soundly rejected. Yet even as Sable packs her bags, the tall, handsome Brynjar Vuk is never far from her thoughts. Neither is the creeping feeling that something isn’t right.

Brynjar isn’t ready for a mate. His life is too complicated, a fact he knew years ago when he laughed off the parents of a seven-year-old bride prospect. But when the warm, addictive scent of an unshifted female stops him in his tracks, he realizes the inevitable. He’s on the edge of mating burn. And that child—Sable—has grown into a smart, funny, luscious woman. His fated mate.

But there’s more than disparity in rank that challenges their deep, sensual bond. There’s an unnatural reason Sable’s wolf hasn’t emerged. She is the centerpiece of a tangled scheme of ambition, unholy alliances, and hunger for power that threatens not only her survival, but their world as they know it.

 

My review:

Enter a world filled with magic and magical creatures. Sadly with all the things magic can do it doesn’t change the nature of people and it makes the bad guys stronger thus requiring the good guys to step up.

Brynjar is the direwolf shifter/gryphon rider son and heir of a small Freki clan. His father is supreme leader his word is law and Brynjar can’t stand him. He is in no way prepared for Sable.

Sable is the young woman that Brynjar’s father tried to betroth him to when she was but a child. Now she’s all grown up with a mind of her own. She is stronger than she thinks.

Danger brings them together and fate will not be denied. But there is danger and it’s closer than they know.

I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of magic and love.

 

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Mine to Keep by R.S. McKenzie

 

 

Blurb:

Being a hitman isn’t easy, but it pays the bills. I’m in and out before my mark even knows I’m there. I’m the best in the business and I’m in high demand.
Until I botch a job that should have been effortless.
I take a month off to get my head back in the game, then I’m sent on a mission overseas. While at the airport, I meet two of the most beautiful boys I’ve ever met in my life. They’re perfect: sweet, soft and fragile.
The perfect boys for their daddy.
Will I be able to keep them safe when my demons are at my doorstep? Or will I have to let them go, doomed to live my life alone and in the dark?
Mine to Keep is part of a serial killer daddies multi-author series called Bloody Desires and ends with an HEA.
Because every good boy needs a serial killer daddy.

 

My review:

Check your brain at the door and enjoy this tale of the hitman and his boys. Knox is a hitman for the Void and really good at his job. But it makes for a lonely life and more and more lately he’s been looking for an exit plan that doesn’t leave him 6 feet under. Meeting Talon and Javi in the airport leaves him questioning more than his professional choices.

I really enjoyed this tale of a morally smokey character and his life choices. Kick back and enjoy.

 

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Her Alien Cyborgs (The Drift: Haven Colony #10) by Susan Hayes

 

 

 

Blurb:

The only thing that ever came easy for her was trouble.

After a lifetime of busting her ass and bending the law just to scrape by, Hezza is running on fumes. Her ship is even older than she is, and both are feeling their age. Is she ready to retire? Hell no. Hanging up her flight suit is the last thing she wants, even if it’s the smart thing to do.

Before she can make that choice, though, trouble finds her again… and this time it comes with a double order of hard muscles, sinful smiles, and alpha attitude.

They had nothing. No past. No future. No names. Then she appeared… and everything changed.

Subjects Six and Seven are failed experiments. Created in secret using banned technology and stolen DNA, they were crafted as weapons for a not-so-distant war. Too stubborn to be controlled and too valuable to terminate, they exist only to serve… and to dream of freedom.

Fate brought three battered hearts together, but it will take more than luck to survive the coming storm. Hezza is their key to happiness, and the cyborgs are her first rays of hope in a life spent in the shadows. Together, they’re going to change the galaxy… or die trying.

 

My review:

Hezza has been co-opted into helping two hunky cyborgs escape captivity and help them being recaptured and put into captivity by the IVF. What neither Hezza nor the cyborgs expect is to find their soul mates. I love that this features an older heroine who can still kick butt and take names but is kind of vulnerable when it comes to the opposite sex and feelings. I really enjoyed the theme of freedom and choices.

 

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Colorado K-9 Rescue by Kathleen Donnelly

 

Blurb:

A kidnapper’s twisted game is on.

And a trusty K-9 won’t let him succeed.

Years after being abducted, Mckenna Parker’s worst nightmare has come true—her kidnapper is out on parole. And he’s after her again. Now an FBI victim specialist, she and her crisis canine, Mocha, have been assigned to a case with FBI agent Evan Knox. Together they must find two local girls who disappeared. As passionate as Mckenna is about helping others, Evan is ambitious about his career. Both have sworn off love. But when Mckenna vanishes into the mountain wilderness, it’s Evan—with Mocha’s amazing help—who braves danger at all costs.

 

My review:

As a young woman Mckenna escaped her kidnapper and survived. Now 12 years later she uses that experience as an FBI victim specialist. Now there is a kidnapping that eerily echoes hers.  Hunky FBI agent Evan Knox is on the case and they need to work together to find the kidnapper and his victims.

 Mckenna is incredibly strong. She has to revisit her mindset after her kidnapping again and again to help victims and assist the FBI get information from victims after trauma.  Her adorable lab is a natural at helping people cope with the trauma. This case hits close to home. Having Evan believe in her heals a part of her she didn’t know needed healing. I really enjoyed this fast paced mystery.

 

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