This is the second book installment in the Shadow Security series featuring Rage and Luna, co-workers who quickly become friends. Luna has a time-sensitive problem, and Rage steps in to help. Rage has had a crush on Luna since their first meeting. Rage now sees an opening to get his girl. This plot takes us on a thrilling ride full of mystery and suspense, fast-paced and action-driven with deep character development between its main characters.
Rage is a standout character who is kind and compassionate, loving, protective, and possessive in a good way, but early on you see a lot of head-banging about their future—swoon-worthy character for sure. Luna is a woman burdened with secrets who has a quirky, lovable, and eclectic personality, a superior hacker in a different life whom some liken to a Robin Hood kind of character.
These characters wrestle with their past and their own vulnerabilities. It was awesome to see a softer, vulnerable side to these characters who have very strong personalities, but felt safe enough to expose and trust one another regardless. This couple's chemistry is palpable, but more importantly, they belong together; it was refreshingly beautiful and even made me envious of them.
The author skillfully weaves in the secrets held by its characters while slowly trying to unravel the mystery of its plot and its complex characters, while keeping us on edge to see what will transpire next. The plot moves at a brisk pace, but it doesn't feel rushed. The author plants clues along the way to help us solve the mystery and determine if Luna's past has caught up to her or if something entirely different is going on.
The characters were awesome, especially the crew at Shadow Security. Grim always has Rage's back, besties and all that jazz. Danill, the non-working prince as he is referred to, is the problem solver. Luna's friends are the bomb; they make you laugh out loud time and time again.
We welcomed the plot twists with their intriguing characters in a plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat that was layered with mysteries needing to be solved, all the while finding out all the hidden secrets this plot held within it. A thoroughly enjoyable read where you will find yourselves grinning and smiling throughout.
As much as this was an enjoyable read, you have to ask yourself why Luna and Rage ignored their gut feelings and never questioned the odd things happening around them. Why the brush-off? Why not look deeper? Both had a lot to lose. Was it because they were blinded by love and afraid of losing one another?
This series leaves you eager to see what comes next, not just its characters but as a whole, as we are really loving this series up to this point, especially when your partners are a prince and princess and your friends happen to be a King and Queen. This plot was full of surprises you won't see coming.
Meet Kat Mizera:
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Kat Mizera was born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of Wanderlust. She's lived from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, but home is wherever her family is. A devoted mom and wife to her wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat loves to travel the globe with her adventurous, hockey loving family. Greece is at the top of that list. She hopes to one day retire there, spending her days writing books on the beach.
Kat is former freelance sports writer who now writes steamy hockey romance about her favorite fictional teams, the Las Vegas Sidewinders and the Lauderdale Knights. The library of novels she's penned also include sexy contemporary stories about baseball stars, alpha sex club owners, bodyguards, rock stars, and royalty. Regardless of genre, her books about bad boys with hearts of gold will steal your breath, rock your world and melt your heart.
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New York Times/USA Today bestselling author Melanie Moreland, lives a happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of twenty-seven-plus years and their rescue cat, Amber. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family, and she cherishes every moment spent with them.
While seriously addicted to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to sample.
She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys traveling, here and abroad, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip.
Melanie loves stories, especially paired with a good wine, and enjoys skydiving (free falling over a fleck of dust) extreme snowboarding (falling down stairs) and piloting her own helicopter (tripping over her own feet.) She’s learned happily ever afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.
He was the right person at the wrong time. Fate wasn't finished with them yet.
An emotional friends-to-lovers doctor-nurse contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Melanie Moreland.
Matthew VanRyan
ER doctor, prankster, friend to all.
His easy smile and quiet demeanor hide the pain he doesn't talk about.
Love is one prescription he refuses to fill ever again.
Until he meets her.
The one with the sweet smile, soft eyes, and gentle touch.
She reawakens his belief in love. In forever.
Until life comes between them and they are forced to agree: the right person at the wrong time.
But when fate steps in and brings them together, can the doctor and the nurse heal themselves?
Author's Note
Paging Dr. VanRyan is a complete standalone contemporary romance — a friends-to-lovers medical romance with a wounded hero, a heroine who sees straight through him, and the guaranteed happily ever after you've come to expect from me. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Just two people who found each other at the wrong time and refused to let that be the end of the story.
Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter who keeps her on her toes.
From USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Knight comes a high-spice, father’s-best-friend age-gap romance about crossing the line with the one man she knows she shouldn’t want.
The last person Blair Hart expects to run into at a members-only sex club in Beverly Hills is her father’s best friend.
She’s only in Los Angeles for a work conference, and after catching her boyfriend cheating, one night of no-strings-attached fun sounds like exactly what she needs. Until she walks into Sensation and comes face-to-face with Dane Kincaid.
He’s older, tempting, and completely off-limits, and he knows better than to see Blair as anything more than his best friend’s daughter. But the woman standing in front of him isn’t the girl he remembers, and once they cross the line, one night in his private room is supposed to be where it ends.
Instead, Blair returns to New York with Dane still on her mind—and it isn’t long before dirty texts turn into late-night calls, and the secret they left behind in LA follows them across the country.
When Blair receives an offer she’d be foolish to refuse, it’s a career-changing position at the construction company owned by her father and Dane.
Moving home means being closer to her family, stepping into the job she’s worked years for … and leaving three thousand miles of safe distance between her and Dane in the past.
They already know what happens when they’re alone together. What neither of them knows is how long they can keep their secret after Blair returns to California.
Because she was never Dane’s to want, but knowing that hasn’t done a damn thing to stop either of them.
Not Yours to Want is a high-spice, dad’s-best-friend age-gap forbidden romance novella featuring a one-night stand that turns into something more, an older man/younger woman pairing, a secret relationship, and a very exclusive sex club.
It was a promise with a waitlist: black-sand beaches, redwood fog, luxury glamping, ceremonial cacao, and a bonfire where every guest casts a sigil for the kind of love she’s been waiting her whole life to find.
Draw the symbol. Feed it to the flames. He’ll come.
Marlowe only attends because her boss pays for her to go. It’s all nonsense, she tells herself. An evening of designer spirituality for women desperate enough to believe the lie.
Then every woman’s wish starts coming true. Including hers.
Damian is everything she asked for—patient, devoted, ruinously handsome—and the only person trying to convince her not to sign up for the next retreat.
Because the fire wasn’t symbolic. The women didn’t manifest anything. Every wish was answered by design.
Now the retreat’s charismatic founder and the secretive sisterhood behind her wellness empire expect Marlowe to honor a bargain she never knew she made.
And walking away has never been part of the program.
Lilly Manning writes romance and romantic suspense—stories where the tension isn't just between the sheets. Her stories are built on sharp heroines, guarded heroes, and worlds where secrets are currency and trust has to be earned.
A ghostwriter for years, Lilly spent a long time putting her words into other people's names. The Alias Series is her first work published as herself.
Earned, Book I of The Alias Series, is available now on Amazon.
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