Lost. Stolen. Forgotten… until the Alphabits step in.A Team A.L.P.H.A. spinoff series.Sam Remington, former leader of Team Beta, has a new dream: to lead a team whose sole purpose is to protect those most vulnerable—shifter pups.His new mate, Dean, shares his passion. As a child counselor, Dean is all too familiar with the darker side of the world when it comes to pups. If Sam can rescue them, … comes to pups. If Sam can rescue them, Dean will do his best to help fix them.
Sanctioned by Team Alpha’s bossman, the great Ray Perkins himself, Alphabits is Sam’s baby. This new hand-picked team consists of five highly-trained wolf alphas—and one bumbling bear who couldn’t take a hint. As always with a new team, personalities will clash. But at the end of the day, they all share a common goal help lost, missing, and hurting children—starting with the needy wolf pup who lives across the street from Sam and Dean.
The Alphabits aren’t vigilantes. These former soldiers and officers of the law have to do things by the book—even when it tears them apart to do so. But once all their ducks are in a row, the bad guys had better beware! You do not want this team of protective alphas on your tail.
This is the first in a new series in the Team A.L.P.H.A. world, but can definitely be read as a stand-alone novel. You can expect to find naughty, knotty scenes of steamy passion, along with a lot of potty-mouth language and some violence. Prepare your box of tissues and lock up your heart, because this book contains a fluffy little wolf pup who’s about to steal it away. HEA definitely included, intended for 18+ readers only. Seriously, would you expect anything less from Susi Hawke and Crista Crown?
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*WARNING* contains adult m/m sexual situations
Sam and Dean are expecting their first child, moving into their new home, and Sam is leading the new Alphabits team. They are all sorts of happy when a knock at their door changes everything.
Rescued is a great start to the spinoff series. I like that this one focuses on the rescuing of children and punishing those responsible. This story shows how the child suffers lasting trauma and things aren’t immediately all sunshine and rainbows. Can’t help but feel for this child and have an extreme dislike for his jailers.
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What a great start to a new series in the Team A.L.P.H.A universe. We first met Sam and Dean in Decked where they spent Christmas with Ray, Papa P and the Team A.L.P.H.A guys and their families. I liked that we got a more in-depth story about them as they move into their new house, setup and start their new division called Alphabits and have their baby. Man, it was heartbreaking about wee John and everything that he’d gone through in his short life but he found his loving home with Sam and Dean and having some uncles made up of the guys from Alphabits. I think that each team member is going to bring their own unique qualities to the team and I’m really hoping that the twins eventually end up getting closer and not making everything a competition between them because as Dean said 95% of the time they don’t get along but 5% of the time when they do it’s golden. I’m looking forward to reading Pierce’s story next while him and Cyrus try and solve the cold case they’re working on. I’d definitely recommend this book, series and both authors to everyone.
This is my review of the audiobook:
This is a spin-off of a series I haven’t yet experienced, but it worked fine as a standalone. I never felt lost due to not reading or listening to the prior series – though I’m planning on doing that soon. All of the Alphabits team members are great men. This book focused on Sam and Dean, who were already mated and pregnant at the beginning of this book. When a young traumatized shifter came into their lives, they couldn’t get him out of his dangerous situation fast enough for me. Sweet little “John Smith” was adorable and afraid, and he just broke my heart. I loved that boy, and I was so glad that he had Dean and Sam, as well as the rest of their team, on his side. There was a lot of humor here, as well, which these authors did a great job with. There were only a couple of times I felt like the laughs were happening when I was still upset about the drama that had just occurred. Overall, I felt like the tears and laughs were well balanced.
The narrator did a really good job, and I give his credit for being able to give individual voices to the many different characters.
I was very impressed with this book, and I will definitely listen to the existing Team A.L.P.H.A. audiobooks. I will also watch for the next release in this series. I love these guys, and I can’t wait for them to save more children.
4.5 stars
Heat Level: 3
A fantastic start to the spinoff series!
Another winner from Susi and Crista! Loving their stories and all these awesome characters!! They always manage the perfect balance of thrill, emotions, steam, and humor, although this story has an already mated couple with a baby on the way as the focus so not as much knotting fun as their other stories.
I loved Dean! He’s so caring and wonderful. He had such a big heart. I enjoyed the interactions he has with his mate Sam as well as the rest of the Alphabits Team.
Honorable mention needs to go to Cyrus. A loveable, somewhat socially clueless bear shifter that you can’t help but love!! I look forward to more stories with him in it and I really hope he’ll find his mate too! He’s a large lovable teddy bear LOL!
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I didn’t realize when I started Rescued that it was a spinoff of another series. Believe me, I had no trouble following along, but it sure made me hungry to read the A.L.P.H.A. series by Susi Hawke and Crista Crown… or in my case, listen to the series.
Rescued is narrated by John Solo, and his skill set is perfect for this one. The variety of voices he uses for these characters blows me away. Everything from a host of gruff Alphas, to a female vulture shifter, and even small children. Mr. Solo adds personality and depth to each of them, and brings the whole thing to life.
There’s a fascinating story here and I can’t wait to get into the remaining two books in the series. A team of male shifters who are dedicating their lives to finding and rescuing shifter pups in need? I love it. I doubt Ms. Hawke and Ms. Crown will ever run out of stories for this one (at least I hope they don’t).
an audiobook copy of Rescued (Alphabits #1) was provided to me for the purpose of my honest review