Khan Bowen doesn’t want a mate, especially a human one. He pushes her away at every turn. But…no matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to let her go.
Monica Preston is hurt bad and not for the first time. It seems like every time she runs, Tony Barr, a homicidal stalker, finds her and hurts her again. Her boss, Marc Bowen, finds her beaten and takes her home to heal. All Monica wants to do is … to do is leave because Tony will kill anyone in his way to get to her.
Monica has had it up to her eyeballs with Khan ordering her around. The man doesn’t know how to ask, just order. She doesn’t want a mate either, whatever that is. But when Khan reveals who he and his family really are and lets his panther come out to play. Monica discovers a side of Khan that she can fall in love with, if she doesn’t kill him first.
Things heat up when the body count mounts as Tony tries to find her. In his twisted reality, Monica is the solution and the cause to all his problems. And he won’t stop until he has her.
Hot sex, danger and intrigue follow the fiery couple. Can they stay a few steps ahead of Tony? Can Khan keep her safe or will Tony play the final hand?
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‘Khan’ is the second book in Kathi S. Barton’s “Bowen Boys” series and if you remember from book one, Khan DOES NOT have that warm and fuzzy personality. No, even though he’s come to love his sister-in-law Caitlynne, he’s put himself into a self-imposed exile ever since she told him his mate would be human and put him through the paces. Khan doesn’t want a mate and definitely doesn’t want her to be human. Caitlynne wasn’t clairvoyant by any means but her prediction had scared the stew out of him. Marc and Reed have become vile towards each other with their continual fighting for over a week. Monica had originally been hired to answer phones and do the filing for Marc until she had solved a case within fifteen minutes after being hired that Marc and his investigators had been working on for weeks. He immediately made her one of his investigators. The mayor had asked Marc and his team to help with an investigation and since Monica needed backup Marc went himself. She’s been beaten and Marc takes her to Walker. Marc knows she’s not his mate but he feels protective of her like he feels towards Caitlynne. Evidently, Monica has a stalker that continues to put her in harm’s way, and even when she moves he somehow manages to find her EVERY TIME. Monica knows the situation could put the Bowen family in danger and wants to leave immediately but, believe it or not, Khan forbids it. Made me wonder whether the man would ever learn! This storyline is just as strong and compelling as book one with all the action, adventure, fear, shock, and awe that Kathi S. Barton brings to her stories. But then we also get love, loyalty, friendship, compassion, and empathy from this family. I can’t wait to read Dylan’s story with all the surprises he revealed in this one.
Out of all the Bowen Boys books, Khan was probably my least favorite of all the brothers.
Although I can understand Khan’s hesitancy about mating a human, I just didn’t like that he kept throwing up his pain from Rosann’s deception as an excuse to be an a$$. Monica has been stalked and forced to from place to place because a psycho set his sights on her, but not once has she treated anybody else with less respect or like crap.
But Monica doesn’t just roll over and let Khan boss her around. She gives as good as she gets. The perfect mate for the leader of their group of panthers.
**”And in case you didn’t notice, I’m a big girl and can make decisions on my own without the help of a big man. Why don’t you go back to the cave you came from and leave me the hell alone?”**
I’m not sure if the book mentions what Tony (the psycho stalker) suffers from, but I’m not sure how he was able to get out of the “special places” he was if he constantly was blacking out like he was. I’m not even sure what he was suffering from either…