Review: Theirs to Cherish (Wicked Lovers #8) by Shayla Black

Title: Theirs to Cherish
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uthor:  Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 3/4/14
Length:  400 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #8

Overview

The perfect place for a woman on the run to disappear…
Accused of a horrific murder she didn’t commit, former heiress Callie Ward has been a fugitive since she was sixteen—until she found the perfect hideout, Club Dominion. The only problem is she’s fallen for the club’s master, Mitchell Thorpe, who keeps her at arm’s length. Little does she know that his reasons for not getting involved have everything to do with his wounded heart…and his consuming desire for her.

To live out her wildest fantasies…
Enter Sean Kirkpatrick, a Dom who’s recently come to Dominion and taken a pointed interest in Callie. Hoping to make Thorpe jealous, she submits to Sean one shuddering sigh at a time. It isn’t long before she realizes she’s falling for him too. But the tender lover who’s seducing her body and slowly earning her trust isn’t who he claims…

And to fall in love.
When emotions collide and truths are exposed, Sean is willing to risk all to keep Callie from slipping through his fingers. But he’s not the only man looking to stake a claim. Now Callie is torn between Sean and Thorpe, and though she’s unsure whom she can trust, she’ll have to surrender her body and soul to both—if she wants to elude a killer…

My Thoughts

It’s been ages and ages since i’ve been in this series so I honestly don’t remember Dominion much, the characters or what the stressors are, but when we dive into this story and get to live in the world that Callie’s living in and yet running from, we realize that it doesn’t matter.

The journey in this eighth book of this series takes us on two different paths. First we see the sub in Callie come through, even though she’s got bigger walls than anyone. She’s got this attraction to Thorpe, but he’s always kept her at arms length. She doesn’t realize that it’s because of the attraction that he has to her, and the burden of his past that he doesn’t want to lay on her. AT the same time, she’s using Sean both to make Thorpe jealous and to fuel a bit of an attraction that she feels there. She doesn’t trust anyone yet she finds that there’s something that she can latch onto with both, until one proves that he’s not who he seems and that forces Callie to run yet again.

Thorpe’s always known that Callie was on the run and knew her true identity and still chose to keep that information to himself since he knew that it would make Callie run. He’s a protector by nature and that’s all that he wants to do for her. Sean on the other hand really isn’t who he showed himself at the club and he’s the reason that she runs. She finds an old picture of herself in his phone and a gun, and that’s more than enough of a reason to run out.

That where the other part of the story really starts up. 1) the hunt for Callie, and who will get to her first. 2) who’s actually after her and why 3) what will this mean for everyone involves.

we go to Vegas, to a lake in the middle of no where back to vegas and then on the news. Mysterious military men are on the hunt for Callie, and even though it’s nine years later, we don’t know who or why.

The other side of the story is that there’s this menage going on with Callie, Thorpe and Sean. They both give her what she needs in one for or another yet they don’t complete her and they have their fair share of misunderstandings throughout. They each know where they fall short and yet they hope they can be enough. While this isn’t a menage in the true way that we’ve seen it in other stories/series – it’s an interesting approach. I don’t know that i’ll dive back into the next one of this series just yet since there are a few other things i’ve got in the pipe, but i’ll def hop back in eventually. Enjoy!

Review: Ours to Love (Wicked Lovers #7) by Shayla Black

Title: Ours to Love
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 5/7/13
Length:   400 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #7

Overview

Between two brothers…

Xander Santiago spent years living it up as a billionaire playboy. Never given a chance to lead his family business in the boardroom, he became a master in the bedroom instead. His older brother, Javier, inherited the company and worked tirelessly to make it an empire. But while cutthroat corporate espionage took its toll on Javier, nothing was as devastating as the seemingly senseless murder of his wife. It propelled him into a year of punishing rage and guilt…until Xander came to his rescue.

Comes an irresistible woman…

Eager to rejuvenate Javier’s life, Xander shanghais him to Louisiana, where they meet beautiful London McLane. After a decade of tragedy and struggle, London is determined to make a fresh start—and these sexy billionaire brothers are more than willing to help. In every way. London is stunned to find herself open to every heated suggestion…and desperately hoping that her love will heal them.

And inescapable danger.

But a killer is watching, on a single-minded mission to destroy everything the Santiago brothers hold dear, especially London. As fear and desire collide, every passionate beat of her heart could be her last.

My Thoughts

Going into this 7th installment, i was wondering how we were going to get deep and meaningful stories for both Xander and Javier but of course our lovely author Ms Black was able to answer all those questions for me.  If you recall, we spend a lot of time with Xander back in the last book when Tyler and Del were getting their stuff sorted and we also got to see a bit of a tease into what’s going on with his brother Javier.  So we see how that all pays out.

We also got the teaser of London, Alyssa’s cousin when the ladies were looking for someone for Tyler to settle down with.  So it’s nice to see how her story unfolds as well.  She’s had a rough life, almost dying in a car accident years ago and living with the scars and trauma of it since then.  she’s trying to get her life back together and finding stability in Lafayette with her cousin and their network of friends who are also family.  She gets independence from her family, and she gets a job and some of her confidence back, and that’s all where the Santiago brothers come into play.

A chance meeting with Xander at Alyssa’s club shows London all that she’s been craving yet she has insecurities about herself and Xander that she’s not able to really make things happen as she wants.  She walks away, and is some how put into Javier’s path, for a job and to watch more sparks fly.

Javier’s trying to cope with the murder of his wife and all that’s going on in his life as well and he’s crashing and burning better than you could imagine.  he’s been taken to Lafayette in the hopes of a detox and restart of his life so that he can get his mind and company back on track.  Someone’s trying to get a hold of information from their secure database and that’s not a good thing at all in their line of business.

So the journey that we are taken on in this book is complicated.  Playboy Xander wants to be tamed, Javier needs to be saved from himself and London learns to stand on her own two feet.  What’s even better is that to go back to my original question – how do we get both stories for the brothers out, well it’s because we find ourselves in another little menage situation.  So, all the kinky and hot passion that you’ve been missing from the past few installments comes back to us fast and hard in this one.

The other bit that keeps things exciting is that we’re trying to sort out the connection to Javier’s wife’s killer and it’s going to much deeper and darker than we ever expected.  There’s so much tied to it that really starts to blow your mind that if you wanted substance outside of heat and passion, well you’ve got that in this book too.  So on that note, i can’t wait to see who’s next – i’m sure Thorpe is due to have his own story since he’s the DOM of the club that these guys seem to all like – so we can see how that plays out.  Enjoy!

Review: Wicked to Love (Wicked Lovers #5.5) by Shayla Black

Title: Wicked to Love
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 10/28/11
Length:   71 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #5.5

Overview

Just when Brandon Ross gave up on the woman he’d always wanted, he found the one he needed–right under his nose.
A politician’s son, Brandon reined in his desire to serve his community for years after a former friend blackmailed him for desiring the man’s wife. Years later, he’s still haunted by Kayla, holding every woman to her standard. And Brandon’s secretary, Emberlin Evans, knows she can’t measure up.

Emberlin would do anything to make her boss notice her. But when one phone call from Kayla sends Brandon running after her, she knows it’s time to stop waiting for him to see her and move on. Funny how her resignation gets Brandon’s attention in a way short skirts didn’t.

When Brandon confronts Emberlin, he realizes that he’s been blind to his feelings for her–and that the way she always calls him Sir and says “please” has his thoughts turning wicked…

My Thoughts

I’m so confused on what i just read.  It wasn’t even substantial enough for me to get to the point, literally like 2 chapters worth maybe?  We have Brandon who is friends with Jack Cole, a guy that we know and love from other books, and his secretary Em.  We have a really short and fluffy story between these two.

Em has resigned from working for him because she think that he’s still pining for Kayla – an ex flame of sorts, and her own feelings are clouding everything.  Too bad Brandon has other thoughts in mind and it takes her walking away from him to realize it.

So from there we get a really quick 24 hours of where they make that decision to be more than just coworkers and it’s as steamy as expected.  Again though, so confused about what i read since there was no substance at all.  oh well.  Enjoy!

Review: Mine to Hold (Wicked Lovers #6) by Shayla Black

Title: Mine to Hold
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 9/3/13
Length:   297 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #6

Overview

A friend’s duty.

Tyler Murphy was an LAPD detective, single and happy—until a near-fatal tragedy crippled his friend, fellow detective Eric Catalano. While Tyler supported Eric, he also became a shoulder for Eric’s wife, Delaney, to lean on. But with one naughty suggestion from Eric, a drunken night with Delaney spilled into erotic abandon. Before it was over, Tyler saw his best friend’s wife as a woman and yearned for more. When Eric struggled to deal with the aftermath, Delaney begged Tyler to leave. Crushed, he fled to Louisiana, hoping to escape his longing for the one woman he could never have again…and unaware of what he’d left behind.

A lover’s desire.

After two years of living with regret, Tyler finds Delaney on his doorstep, her husband having abandoned her long ago. She’s protecting a shocking secret and desperately needs refuge from a stalker determined to see her dead. As they fight to stay alive and catch the killer, they struggle to resolve the guilt of their past pleasures. But they can’t deny that what was once a spark is now a flame burning out of control. To possess Delaney—body and soul—Tyler must heal her pain and thwart the evil that’s a mere breath behind her…

My Thoughts

it’s nice to get Tyler’s story here – he’s been a constant in the series so far, ever since we got introduced to him in Alyssa and Luc’s story and well, it’s about time that we see what really makes him tic.  We know that he was brought into the series because he was hired by Alyssa’a brother to find her and we also know that he’s a serial womanizer – a guy who really hasn’t had much of a reason to plant a solid foundation anywhere.  at least romantically.

So this story is where we see what his past was like, and what it means for his future.  We know that he was a cop from LA and that he left that job to become a detective and then went out on his own.  Thankfully before that though, we know that he at one point in time had a best friend and partner who was married to an amazing woman.  And that’s where the stories cross.

Delaney was the wife of Tyler’s partner, and after prodding from her now ex husband, they ended up becoming much closer than friends.  Of course you know that it’s going to end poorly and that’s exactly what happened – 2 years ago.  Tyler ends up in Louisiana and Del is still in LA trying to rebuild her life now that she’s singer and a mom.  yup a mom.

Our 6th installment to the series opens up when Del has come to Tyler for help since she’s being hunted by a drug lord and an ADA who’s got a god complex.  She needs Tyler to protect her (their) son so that she can write her story and hopefully wrap things up.

If only life were that simple right?  Well we learn that Tyler has always had incredibly intense feelings for Del and they haven’t reduced at all over the years.  Seeing her again is the only thing that potentially keeps him from chasing other women and seeing his son, a boy that he never knew about, well that just about turns his life upside down.  This is where Ms Shayla Black does  an amazing job of giving us a completely different perspective of Tyler than we ever had before.

The story from here is one of a roller coaster – trying to figure out how to get the story finished, keep everyone safe and figure out what they are to each other now.  We see the help of just about every character that we’ve met come into play in this story and it’s a really sweet way to continue the saga.  They truly are a family who want Tyler to be happy and now Del and Seth too.

Let’s just say that while there is closure on some pieces of the story, there are still so many open ended bits.  We know that all relationships can;t be fixed and that’s actually ok.  We see a lot of death, injury and hints at what’ to come next for some of the characters which means that this series is long lived even after a 6th book! The passion and heat between our two mains is intense per usual and that’s exactly what we need to keep things going.  Where we had BDSM and kink in the last book, we have romance and emotion in this one.  A nice way to mix things up.

All in all, a great continuation and i can’t wait to see what’s next.  We saw an awful lot of Xander again on this book like we did in #5 so i can’t wait to get to the crux of what makes him tick and hopefully his brother as well since we know there’s a murder mystery there too.  So, i hope everyone takes a read – and enjoy!

Review: Belong to Me (Wicked Lovers #5) by Shayla Black

Title: Belong To Me
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 8/6/13
Length:   368 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #5

Overview

An FBI analyst goes undercover and gets in over her head in this Wicked Lovers novel from New York Timesbestselling author Shayla Black.

When Tara Jacobs’s fellow agent and best friend goes missing while investigating a sex ring, the FBI analyst goes undercover as a submissive in a Dallas BDSM club called Dominion. But no man can top a woman with Tara’s moxie convincingly enough—until an edgy, dangerous Dom takes control of the scene and sets her heart racing with a single, commanding glance. Too bad he’s also the man to whom she will never submit…

Navy SEAL Logan Edgington knows Tara will never forgive him for what he did in the past, but he has no doubt that he possesses the knowledge to guide her through an unfamiliar world of pleasure and pain. He alone can protect her on a dangerous mission that reveals both wicked depravities and terrible secrets. And no matter how much Tara insists their fling will end after this mission, he’s determined that she will be his once more—and this time, he’ll never let her go.

My Thoughts

In book 4 we heard a lot from Hunter about his concerns for his brother Logan, and how Logan was in such a dark place because of a broken heart all those years ago.  Add to that, he was the one to find his mother’s murdered body and well you know that he’s damaged goods.  So it’s about time that we got to see what was going on in his head.

In this 5th installment of the series – we see what Logan’s life has become – he’s on leave from his work with the SEALs and he’s getting out his energy at Dominion, a local BDSM club.  What’s interesting about him is that he will only control a scene and never finish it – and that’s where his buddy (sort of) Xander comes into play – he’s the one that will make sure the subs are fully taken care of.

It’s one day when in walks a duo of FBI agents who need training to go undercover that things get interesting.  From behind, the female who is training to be a sub reminds him of Cherry – the girl who he is broken from, and when he walks around and sees that it is her, his world comes crashing down again.  not just because of all the feelings that he has for her and has always had (i mean look at all his tattoos about her) but because she still has intense hatred towards him.

So this story that we have is a journey of how they find a way to work with each other, to be around each other when there’s clearly so much more between them, all while Cherry (or Tara) works to help solve the case that has gotten her best friend and fell agent kidnapped and sold into sex slavery.

Where they go as a couple is a tough game of cat and mouse.  There’s an attraction there that they can’t fight and it’s hot to see – knowing that Tara is walking away from her fiance because Logan is able to bring feelings to her heart that Brad never could.  There’s also the trust issue – that she has zero trust in him because of what he put her through in high school.  So it’s a hard story to read.

Add on top of that the quest to find out who’s behind the sex slave trade ring and when you learn who it is, you will both be surprised and completely expecting the outcome.  Personally i had part of the answer earlier on about unresolved cold cases and the fact that it all ties together, well it’s a nice bow put on it all.  I will say that there’s a character that i’m still on the fence about – really not sure what his motivation is and all, but i’m sure that we’ll get to see that in another story.

Anyhow, you get all the expected bits that Ms Black, our great author is known for.  Some of the hottest BDSM scenes ever, amazing connection between our characters and a story that is both loving and angst ridden.  So hopefully it’s something that will get you through this freezing cold weather since it’ll surely make you hot.  Enjoy!

Review: Surrender to Me (Wicked Lovers #4) by Shayla Black

Title: Surrender To Me
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 7/2/13
Length:   297 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #4

Overview

A secret fantasy turns into an uncontrollable obsession in this Wicked Lovers novel from New York Timesbestselling author Shayla Black.

Hunter had everything until a bullet put his career as a Navy SEAL on hold. Restless and in need of distraction, he accepts an intriguing proposition: share an acquaintance’s girlfriend and fulfill her fantasy of a ménage. It should have been just one night of sexual adventure among three consenting adults. But Kata is like no other girl Hunter has ever met. By turns audacious and sexy, then vulnerable and aloof, she’s a heartbreaker he is determined to master. But he needs more than one night. And he wants to do it alone.

Kata never expected to leave her comfortable relationship and explore something so dangerously forbidden with a stranger. Though she tries to resist, the guilty pleasure overwhelms her and she surrenders herself, inch by inch, to the hard-core warrior who wants her for himself. Consumed by blazing desire, they’re soon threatened by the shadows of the past. To keep Kata safe, Hunter makes her a bold proposition of his own. Saying yes will destroy her heart, but saying no could cost Kata her life.

My Thoughts

I don’t know why i assumed we would get Tyler’s story next but nope – it’s Hunter.  And in this 4th installment to the series, we get to see the serious brother come to life.  This is a story of a girl who’s too independent for her own good but has a birthday fantasy handed to her, courtesy of a casual bedmate and his buddy Hunter.  What happens in vegas usually stays in vegas except when it doesn’t – and that’s what happens here.

Kata and Hunter find themselves married after an interesting of drinking (kata), pursuing (hunter) and play (both).  What happens from there, they end up  married, she runs home and he runs to follow her.  Hunter is the kind of guy that we all want in life i think.  someone who’s able to dominate and control, but someone who also has the warmest heart.  it’s unexpected in a sense because we have seen how he was with Kimber in the other books, but i think that it’s expected in the sense that there’s no way that he can be sooo hard.

Kata has a tough situation now that the story is built around.  as a probation officer, she’s got her fair share of tough stuff going on, always on edge because of what she’s had to do to thugs and the like.  well, on her first day home, she finds herself at the wrong end of an assassin, and no one knows who’s behind it.  that’s where our story really starts to take shape.

Hunter gets to do what he does best – protect, and hopefully in the same breath he’s able to show Kata that they are meant to be together and that it’s not just a whim.  the roller coaster from there of course is a rocky one since Kata has a family background of a mother who’s been controlled and dominated all her adult life and that’s not something that she wants for herself.  Too bad Hunter isn’t her step father, and Kata is of the mindset not to be open to the fact that the men are different.  It takes her mother being put in the hospital, endless attempts at her life and the fact that they still don’t know who is behind trying to kill her, and these 2 find themselves pushed together even though she fights it.

There always comes a point where great chemistry isn’t enough, and although they have amazing passion and heat, Kata is so stubborn that she’s willing to walk away.  Ms Black our amazing author has a knack for pulling us back in through the way that she writes some of these scenes – makes them so steamy that you can’t help but to read faster, but to me, it tends to also lack a bit of something that makes it deeper than just the physical.  We have Hunter trying to push Kata to admitting something more psychological but it’s not an easy fight.

We end up seeing everyone set up, a huge gunfight that a few don’t make it out of – some characters that we have known of for the better part of the story don’t survive and it’s a heartbreaking end to the installment.  I think that we all hope for a happy ending and then a lead in to the next book, so angst is always welcome.

So, my guess is that it’s Logan’s turn next since Hunter’s brother came up quite a bit here – we even got teasers of what has made him so closed off these past 5 years, so i can’t wait to see what’s up next.  Happy Friday everyone!

Review: Delicious (Wicked Lovers #3) by Shayla Black

Title: Delicious
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 6/4/13
Length:   282 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #3

Overview

He can’t control his desire.

Luc Traverson’s entire future is planned out—but there is one very sexy obstacle in his path: Alyssa Devereaux. She’s a former exotic dancer turned strip club owner and restaurateur. Recently, Alyssa and Luc shared one night of wild abandon that left Luc terrified by his loss of self-control—and Alyssa desperate for more.

And that’s just the way she wants it.

Fulfilling a promise, Luc is the guest chef for Alyssa’s restaurant debut. The sight of her makes Luc wild, so how can he survive a week without letting loose and ravaging her—especially when she’s begging for it? Luc’s desire for her explodes when he realizes he isn’t the only man desperate to have her. But one of the others is deadly. And that’s not the end of Alyssa’s secrets…which are as dark and mysterious and enticing as her fantasies.

My Thoughts

You had to love Luc from book 2 of the series so it’s nice that we get to see his story unfold in book 3.  here we see his path cross again with Alyssa, the owner of Sexy Sirens, the girl that Deke had ‘feelings’ for at one point but the girl that Luc has always felt more for.  Where their story takes them is one that’s really quite complex

Luc is doing a return favor for Alyssa in the form of being the opening week chef of her new restaurant that she’s started in the hopes of doing something more with her life.  Of course that comes with stress since there’s clearly a HUGE attraction between them and Luc is afraid to act on it, but Alyssa is very adamant about making it a reality.  at least for a week.

So when things get deep for them, when they realize that they can’t fight each other anymore and that there’s something there, we see a great story begin for their relationship.  What’s added to the mix here though are a few more things that are based in a lack of trust.  There’s Tyler, the bouncer of the club and a guy that Luc is confident is having some type of relationship with Alyssa.  He is convinced that there’s more than just a friendship even though Alyssa denies it.  Luc knows what he sees in how Tyler acts towards her and it makes him incredibly jealous and aggressive.

Add to that someone who keeps breaking into her house, her car, her office, leaving threatening messages and notes and she’s terrified and no one knows which of the many guys around could be the culprit.  They are all on the defensive and it seems that they are constantly behind the eight ball since Alyssa keeps suffering.

Throw in a baby that Luc can’t father and doesn’t know who the father truly is, a marriage that’s destined to fail since they are both to each other about, and a crazy person from the past.  All in all we get to see quite a complex story come up.

The nice thing about this story is that we see people tear themselves down to the core in order to really become the strong people that they need to.  we also get to see other characters from previous installments get a larger role which tees up the next books in the series i;m sure.  i can’t wait to see what’s next for Hunter since i feel like there really is a heart in there.  and then there’s Tyler – the guy who deserves a happy ending even if he doesn’t believe it.  Enjoy!

Review: Decadent (Wicked Lovers #2) by Shayla Black

Title: Decadent
Author: Shayla Black
Publisher/Year:  Penguin Publishing 5/7/13
Length:   352 Pages
Series:  Wicked Lovers #2

Overview

She may not be what she seems…

How can a virgin seeking happily-ever-after with a hot pop star who has a penchant for threesomes win her fantasy man? Kimber Edgington desperately needs a plan to convince Jesse McCall, who’s been her secret crush since they spent a summer together as teenagers, that they are meant for each other. But all the tabloid stories about his sexual escapades make her feel oh so inadequate.

But she’s exactly what men want.

Determined to prove she’s woman enough for Jesse, Kimber turns to bodyguard Deke Trenton for sexual education. Bold and brash, Deke warns Kimber that playing with him is playing with fire. But he can’t bear to imagine the innocent beauty in someone else’s arms. So Deke and his super-sexy cousin, Luc, take Kimber under their wings and dangerously close to the edge of ecstasy. Though she’s saved herself for Jesse, Kimber soon learns he’s not the man adept at stoking her aching, endless need. That’s Deke, and he can’t resist when Kimber begs for more—and more…

My Thoughts

I’ve been looking for something new and light to read and i guess that’s what i got here when i stumbled upon a series that i had started a while back and never continued.  don’t know why to be honest but oh well.  So we’ve reentered the world of Wicked Lovers and this 2nd installment into the series takes us on a journey of Kimber – a girl who wants to be what her crush/love wants, and yet she’s all that encompasses innocence.

This is where she goes to Deke, a man who worked for her father when she was younger – a guy that she knows has interesting taste in women, and perhaps can help teach him everything that he knows so that she can perform for Jesse, and make him lover her even more.  What she doesn’t expect is that there were mutual crushing feelings back when she was younger, and more so a major physical attraction that created problems for everyone.

The story that we have here is a journey of a virgin (of course) who wants to know how to please a man who’s into menage.  And of course Deke being the derelict that we’re supposed to have in a story like this, he’s happy to oblige in teaching her yet really really against it at the same time.  He actually wants to scare her away because of his history in the past and because he has feelings for her that he’s not quite resolved with, but of course that doesn’t work.

There’s also the added benefit of Luc, Deke’s cousin and the one that he lives with.  Luc is also into menage and the one that’s able to really help ground Deke into reality when they’re with a partner.  Luc though is everything that Kimber could want – sensitive caring and gentle.  While Deke is rough and sharp edges.

You can imagine that Kimbers quest to be taught all about sex is going to complicate things when it comes to Jesse since you can’t expect her to come out of this unscathed – without feelings for the other guys.  That’s precisely what happens even though she fights it.  That makes the story more complex since we learn that Jesse has different motives in mind for Kimber and we get a second story line there.

Top that off with yet another story line – someone is out for revenge of Kimger’s father – a man who her father had put in jail for whatever horrible crime, and not just is he going after her father, but she’s become a target.  So all in all we have 3 complex story lines where people end up in the hospital, dire situations are to be had, relationships are build and broken, and where we hope the story will net out is one that may not be possible.

I’m curious where the other installments of this series pick up, so i may have to go on and read book 3 to see which character it covers off on.  So on that note, have a great friday everyone!