In the game of love, summon the means to win.Jasper didn’t set out to fall in love with his best friend and professional gaming partner, Zach—hell, he never thought it an option. But when an accident took his wife’s life, leaving him a single parent, the two found comfort in each other. Happy again, he couldn’t have wanted more. Until the newbie spitfire redhead in their guild smoked them both in … their guild smoked them both in a duel, and subsequently agreed to join their team.
Quick with her spells and even quicker with her words, she’s got a soft spot for his daughter, and a growing place in his heart, as well as Zach’s.
Only problem? She won’t see them outside the game.
Zach has been happy with his partner Jasper and his daughter, even though they came together under less-than-pleasant circumstances. But as happy as they are, he can’t deny his growing attraction to their guildmate and fellow teammate Shira. So when Jasper confides in him a desire to include her in their family, he’s on board.
But how are they going to convince her of that, when they can’t even get her to meet them in person?
And if they succeed, what will become of his relationship with Jasper?
Shira has three rules: don’t date in person, don’t hook up with guildmates, and most certainly don’t believe an android can find love. After being fitted with life-saving cybernetics, she lost her modeling career, her dating life, and her confidence. She retreated inward, taking up a new gaming hobby due to new friends she made in the hospital.
Pairing up with fellow guildmates Jasper and Zach for player vs. player activities, she slowly finds her confidence again and embraces this new life, doing her best to escape her past. However, growing close to these two men tests her rules in ways she never expected, especially when they insist on meeting her.
And if they can summon her, what could become of them if her past comes back to haunt her?
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SUMMONING THEIR ELEMENTALIST is part one of a duet and does not stand alone, ending in a cliffhanger. Part two is BINDING THEIR ELEMENTALIST. This is a MMF Ménage romance. There are sexual encounters in the duet parts containing MM, MF, MFM and MMF situations.
Author’s Note: Summoning Their Elementalist tackles the topic of acknowledging and overcoming trauma. Reader discretion is advised.
LOOKING FOR GROUP
Spellbinding His Ranger (#1)
Protecting His Priestess (#2)
Summoning Their Elementalist (#3, duet part 1)
Binding Their Elementalist (#4, duet part 2, coming soon)
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Playing both worlds
—>>> Review Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars – I have not had the chance to read the first two books in this series, but I did enjoy delving into the gaming world as well as the more advanced world of cyberkinetics and meddling household AI. The day-to-day lives of the main characters were given a lot of detailed attention as were all their insecurities and how they worked through them, to include the daughter’s fears, with the pace picking up when they were actually playing in their gaming world and finally moving forward with their real-life relationship development.
I’ve been addictively reading along with each of the books in Shannon Pemrick’s Looking For Group series. No surprise then that I’ve been looking forward to Shira, Jasper and Zach’s story (and definitely Serenity’s story too, as she’s so adorable I want to have another child – something I’m long past being capable of). There have been so many hints of this story in the first two books that I thought I knew what to expect, but Summoning Their Elementalist (Book 3) proved me wrong. It had so very much more. Still a perfectly done combination of totally believable near future world with equally believable future tech immersive virtual reality RPG (role playing game for those not gamers) world. This “Friends-to-Lovers Ménage Romance” also had a fantastic and beautifully complex romance. I’m a lifelong gamer (in excess of a half century, gulp, with all but 13 of those years didn’t gaming), a lifelong reader of fantasy books (double gulp: over a half-century) and a lover of romance books. Summoning Their Elementalist satisfies any cravings in all three of these areas. Really my only complaint is that this is the first book in the series that ends on a cliffhanger. I’m going to wait waiting for the next book. Notwithstanding that, but for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises. The book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, and it is easy to highly recommend. I’m definitely looking forward to the next (cliffhanger ending) book in this series.
The third book in this series may be the most amazing yet, and that’s a high bar. Watching the characters deal with trauma, family, and falling in love was rush of highs and lows that are just “Wow”. And that cliffhanger… I can’t wait for the conclusion.
Wow another fantastic addition to the series! This story is absolutely packed full for amazing friends, gamers, and an adorable little girl. I quite literally couldn’t put it down until it was finished and HELLO CLIFFHANGER!!!! I know this is part 1 of 2 but dang what a way to leave a girl hanging. If you haven’t started this series you are truly missing out on a fantastic series and can I say, When is this game gonna be real because I would love to play!!!
I was gifted an ARC and will gladly provide a voluntary and honest review.