Will Jake and Mitch get a second chance at a happy ever after?Jake Tyler walked out of Covert Ops two years ago, a devastated, broken man after he discovered his sister brutally murdered by her husband, Riley. Since then he’s found a kind of peace running a rural bar. The last thing Jake Tyler expects is his former team to turn up with grim news. Jake’s ex-brother-in-law has escaped from prison … from prison and is heading Jake’s way. The team is here to protect Jake, whether he likes it or not – a decision reluctantly shared by their leader, Jake’s ex-lover Mitch Mitchelson.
Mitch is angry and hurting. The man he trusted – the man he adored more than anything – abandoned both his team and Mitch. Jake never gave Mitch a chance to help or come to terms with his desertion. Regardless of mission protocols, Mitch isn’t about to open his heart again to that kind of pain.
But the strong attraction between them can’t be denied. How are they ever going to work together when Mitch still resents Jake’s disappearance, and to Jake, the team represents everything that destroyed him in the first place? And meantime they wait for Riley to find them… and to settle the threat once and for all.
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Such a great start to a series full of unique and entertainingly flawed men, facing danger and drama, but building a team of friends they can rely on, face struggles with, and in many cases, find lovers for life.
I enjoyed the ebb and flow and slow burn pace of the story. There’s action and excitement, comedy and angst, drama and sadness, anger and cleaning of toilets with toothbrushes (I’m not sure if that’s a kink or not!). There’s the old Guard meets the new Guard, staving off food poisoning, there’s a prison break, a reunion, sleeping bags, dodgy windows, family and family, black clothing, guns, lots of guns, Marshalls, steak and fries, law enforcement officers, whiskey, IPAs, cleaning mirrors, lots of waiting, lots of talking and a lot of alpha gay men in a covert ops team!
The two main characters in this book have their main story, which at times is hard to distinguish from the secondary storyline because they mash into one really but it doesn’t really matter. It all comes together to make it a readable book.
The end of the story sets the reader up for book two in the series which I’ll be picking up shortly.
I really enjoyed reading this book and totally recommend it to you for your kindle today xx
I received a free copy of this book from the author and provide my honest review voluntarily
This was a good book and I loved it.
I received a free copy of Alpha Protect and that started me on this series. I’m glad I found it and after going back and starting to read the rest of the series I have to say this story sure is a contender for the best of the series in my opinion. There is so much emotion here. Plenty of action going on also. Mitch and Jake just fit but circumstance causes them to sort of break up. Jake feels he lost everything and has to start new. I love when two alpha men are in a relationship. After I started this story I could not set it down. There is heartbreak and heartwarming parts. There are parts when I wanted to yell. The secondary characters play such a big part. The characters are well developed. The story flow is great. This is just one of those stories that will be on my read again and again list.
I would rate this 3 stars
After J.T.’s sister Sharon is murdered, he resigns from a covert ops organization. Riley, his best friend since grade school and Sharon’s husband, goes to prison while JT just leaves his whole life behind, including his boyfriend Mitch and starts going by the name Jake. With the loss of Riley and Jake, the whole team crumbles as even two years later half the team thinks Riley is guilty, and half think he’s innocent. When Riley escapes from prison and makes his way to the bar, is he there to kill Jake, or something else?
Most of the characters are all veterans and ex or current law enforcement except for Howie, the bar’s co-owner. Jake seems a little clumsy for an elite ex-soldier. His abandoning his boyfriend without a word is a source of conflict for me. The one thing Jake and Mitch do right is sex, the talking not so much; even at the end of this I am not convinced they can have a mature adult conversation about their feelings. The other team members (Del, Si, and Ruiz) just seem to take this all in their stride and forgive Jake for disappearing, or at least there isn’t anything that shows differently. There is also a side insta-lust romance with Howie and Si. The foreshadowing is a little clumsy all heading towards a confrontation with the bad guy with a suprise plot twist coming out of nowhere. As a short novella, this is just a bunch of fun–nothing too detailed or angsty, with some mildly spicy sex scenes.
Very well written with believable characters. The story line is believable and the action moves right along. Well worth the read.