REVISED MAY 2019.Romance with another Agent is forbidden. Suddenly, Mike’s out on the street alone with only his savings and a duffel bag. A new father at nineteen of a little girl that must live with her grandparents for her own safety, he tries to juggle the life of being a freelance demon hunter with birthdays and Christmases where he’s only a friend of the family.Until Hope figures out he’s … figures out he’s her father. Until her grandmother gets cancer. Until his first love returns home to meet their daughter for the first time.
Mike’s one weakness will always be the women he loves–until Dr. Corinne Larkin saves his life after a savage beating. Independent, tough, smart, and beautiful, she slowly heals his spirit while becoming his best friend. But when he receives an offer he’s dreamed about for sixteen years, he has to take it.
Corinne’s E.R. residency has been pretty routine, until she finds a damaged man in an alley near the hospital. Mike is rough around the edges, but something about him calls to the healer in her. Through him, she makes friends in this new town, including his daughter Hope, and creates more ties than she ever intended–something way scarier than learning monsters and magic are real. Falling in love with Mike might be the greatest risk she’s ever taken, especially when she has to let him go.
Will Mike return to the possibility of a new healthier future full of love, or stay mired in a dysfunctional past?
OUTCAST follows the journey of a paladin doing his best to keep the people he cares about alive in a world where monsters are real and there’s a very good reason to be afraid of the dark. This story is intended for readers 18 and over due to adult language, sexual content, and adult situations.
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Magic. A land, Ossiria, that exists in an alternate dimension but impacts our own. Paladins, demons, witches, shifters and vampires. I’m so there. Also, superb addiction – as evidenced by my massive binge read through the prequel and first three books of Vivian Lane’s The First Vampires, namely Outcast, Protector & Goddess (Children of Ossiria, Book 0.5. 1, 2 & 3). I love the characters here, from Mike and his daughter Hope in book 1 (plus Hope’s former baby-mom Bathany, new interest Corinne, and future baby mom Catherine: its exhausting just listing then but it all works in the book), to Carys the Protecter in training and William the cursed vampire (who we met previously) and other great supporting characters (hello, Sarah). Really fun stuff. All extremely well done. Frankly, but for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed, and the fact that the publisher’s blurbs on these books are excellent, I could go on and on with praises. Each of these books definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that each book is most definitely one to read, and it is easy to highly recommend. I’m definitely looking forward to the next books in this series.
A story with intrigue, suspense, violence and romance that will take the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotional turmoil. The Author has created a land called Ossiria that exists in an alternate dimension.
The first in a series, the tale focuses on Mike and his troubled life.
Well written, a little slow at times, it has a vivid and colourful cast of characters involved in the plot and storyline.
There are paladins, ex- genies, witches and mortals. The interaction between them is good and they play of each other really well, each being strong and independent characters that support and enhance the storyline.
An amazing ride in the paranormal.
I look forward to the next book in the series.
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An relationship with another agent is forbidden and now he is out in the cold. He has a little girl to look after. Now he has to try to live the best way he can while looking after her and fighting monsters. Can he do both? See if he can
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Outcast is Book 1 in the Children of Ossiria series. This is a great start to a new series. It has an excellent, well-developed world and extremely well-developed, interesting characters. The storyline is interesting with suspense, intrigue, mystery and romance with many twists and turns. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and am looking forward to the next book in series to see where Vivian Lane will take us next. I recommend this book.
I JUST FOUND MY NEW FAVORITE READ!!
This book is amazing! A whole new world of things that go bump in the night and tbose that annihilate them ….Vamps , demons all the neat shit( can I say that??) I like that appeals to my paranormal side ..
I’m hooked! This book grabs ya from the start and squeezes till the end… where the heck have I been that i totally missed this author before this …this is , dayuuum., like Lestat, Eric , Sookie, Sasha , Carl, Rick, Mischonne all wrapped up in these pages…And ya know what?? THIS would be an awesome Tv series/ movie …my opinion , and id watch it…
Wow, just wow !
Can’t wait to get my hands on book 2!!!
Well done Vivian Lane ! A new fan here!
And I’d give more stars if I were able to do so!
I recieved this as an ARC book and this is my honest review! Vivian Lane
I rather liked this story. It was a bit different then the usual paranormal romance and demon fighting. It followed mostly Mike as we watch him grow from a young 18 year old and his ups and downs with Bethany and his daughter Hope. The story had twist and turns that made me laugh, groan, and really want to smack Mike and Bethany a few times. But it was rather addicting like a train wreck that you know must be going to happen any time but you still have to keep watching just to see when and where. Did not emphasize the demon hunting but the daily life of a hunter instead. It did keep me reading to the end in one sitting and laughed at the ending. Plus as I read it I could see where the series could be going and that totally makes me want to keep reading. Just a different but fun story with a bit of steamy but not nasty love scenes.
Vivian Lane has a hit with this one. It is slower to get into than most books I read, but if you give it a few chapters, you’ll be hooked! Her character development is one of the best I’ve read – the characters are both flawed and real and she is able to bring them to life in such a way that you care about them and what happens to and with them. The world-building is creative and enjoyable. I highly recommend this and can’t wait to read book 2.
OK…I want to start by saying that I thought this story was pretty good. I didn’t love it, but it was alright. There were several things that didn’t make sense to me, and I felt like there were parts of the story that weren’t finished. I still have questions about some of it that I feel need closure. Maybe the author plans to write more about these characters in the future, but I didn’t get that impression. I hope she does though. Also, it felt like the story went on forever, and it just didn’t flow right (if you know what I mean). It seemed like the story was going to be based on Mike and his career with The Agency, but then it turned into a story about his relationship with his daughter and then it turned into a story about him, Hope and Bethany, then it was about his relationship with Corinne and somewhere in between there was the unfinished story about him and Catherine. It felt choppy to me and didn’t flow easily. Overall, I liked the story, but I feel it could have been better.
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Michael was a very interesting character and the way the author described his feelings, his flaws and desires sometimes made me feel sad. Read the book slowly. So many things happened in the story that needed my concentration and a good mood to bear some characters. I was caught up in the story. Keep thinking about Catherine. There were some things that I didn’t understand about this character that I liked and caught my attention immediately. Still intrigued about the ‘Paladin’ thing. Much drama in this story and I wanted to know more about the characters. The story had suspense, intrigue, violence, romance, sex and a lot of emotions some good others not so much. Already have Protector, the next book because I’m really intrigued.