Review Tour: Their Property by K.A. Merikan #Review #Giveaway

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Length: 75,000 words approx.

Four Mercenaries Series

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Book #2 - Their Obsession - Amazon US | Amazon UK | Universal Link

Review

Their Property finishes out K.A. Merikan’s Four Mercenaries Trilogy. And wow…does it go out with a bang! You definitely want to read Their Bounty and Their Obsession first as you’ll need them to understand what’s happening in this book. Plus, you really don’t want to miss out on all the goodness!

When we pick up with Clover and his men, they’re all still reeling from the events that took place in book two. The perfect life Clover had been building with his four men seems to be falling apart and Clover is struggling with how to keep them strong and to keep them together. The five men are more than just lovers and friends, they are a team…a family. With one of their own having been taken, they must pull together as a team if they have any chance of being whole again. There may be five men in this relationship, but all five are necessary to the other fours happiness. When you find the type of connection these guys have found, you’ll quickly discover that you’ll do anything to protect what’s yours.

This book is a great finish to a really dark and gritty trilogy. We get to delve deeper into each of the guys’ lives a little more and get a better understanding on just how important this family is to each man. This series is really great and has so much sexiness, snark, heart, and pain that you can’t look away. Each man, whether they’re physically perfect or not, carries a weight on their shoulders. K. A. Merikan does a great job in really humanizing these men and showcasing the good, the bad, and the dangerous. I felt like I read many scenes with bated breath, just waiting for something else to happen. I also love that there is so much character development even here in the last book of the series. I came away feeling like I knew these men so much better than ever before. While this book is most certainly gritty and down right dirty at times, there is such beauty in that. The beauty is in seeing such different men come together for the things we all want…love, acceptance, family and a place to belong. Five star read for me, I couldn’t get enough of these guys.

 

Blurb

--- Bruised not broken. Loved. Always. ---

Clover’s life was perfect a year ago. He’d found four men to love, each essential to making him whole. Each one of them tough in their own way, part of a crew of mercenaries living on the wrong side of the law.

Tank was his loving Daddy, Pyro the wild one always pulling him into mischief, Boar taught him how to cook, and Drake showed him how to use knives in a wholly different fashion.

All Clover wanted was to finally be an equal in the group. So he trained, he pushed, and risked, but when real danger stared him in the face, he broke like a twig.

Now, with one of his lovers taken, Clover can’t find a way back to his former self. Each of the relationships they’d so meticulously built is fractured, and might never be the same.

If their group is to ever be whole again, Clover needs to find the courage he’s lost, but that means facing the monster who scarred him, and truths none of his men want to confront.

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THEIR PROPERTY is a dark gay harem contemporary romance, book 3 in the “Four Mercenaries” trilogy. The story contains scenes of explicit violence, offensive language, morally ambiguous characters and lots of scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes.


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Themes: polyamory, mercenaries, bounty hunters, albinism, commitment issues, dark past, male bonding, human trafficking, size difference, danger, alpha male, found family, size difference, distrust, shared, victim and protector, revenge, organized crime, angst, trauma, rescue, missing

K.A. Merikan are a team of writers who try not to suck at adulting, with some success. Always eager to explore the murky waters of the weird and wonderful, K.A. Merikan don’t follow fixed formulas and want each of their books to be a surprise for those who choose to hop on for the ride.

K.A. Merikan have a few sweeter M/M romances as well, but they specialize in the dark, dirty, and dangerous side of M/M, full of bikers, bad boys, mafiosi, and scorching hot romance.

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Seven sizzling LGBT romances to fan the summer heat

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Butterfly Wishes by Teodora Kostova

In school, Nico and King are best friends, and each other’s first love. But their lives take a different path and they lose touch.
Now, King is a famous musician and Nico is trying to make a name for himself as a journalist. When King’s life starts falling apart, fate brings them together on a private island, and reignites old feelings.
Can they make it work this time? Or are their worlds too far apart?

Alpaca My Bags by JL Merrow

Silver fox Scott Riley is holidaying on the Isle of Wight with his newborn granddaughter and her parents following the breakup of his relationship. A bit of fun in the sun with rugged alpaca farmer, Ryan, could be just what the doctor ordered. But when both men realise this holiday fling could be the start of something more, they’ll need to work hard to counter Scott’s family’s misgivings—not to mention their own.

Alpha Mine by Aimee Brissay

Away from home and its escalating conflicts, the last thing Andrei needs is to fall for the newest member of the pack. But he can’t help lusting after Sorin.
As the alpha, he can’t afford to be distracted, but neither he nor Sorin seem able to resist the burning attraction between them. Will this connection prove to be too much of a risk?

Everybody in the Place by Suki Fleet

Alfie Adams comes at life sideways.
After unexpectedly losing his job in television, and having the script he’s worked so hard on unceremoniously dropped, Alfie turns up at his oldest friend, Jam’s, birthday party drunk, pretty sure his world has ended, and that he’s about to hit rock bottom with a bone-cracking thud.
But it’s funny how Jam’s little brother, Benji, seems to know exactly what Alfie needs. For the past twelve months Alfie has thrown himself into his job and tried hard not to think about beautiful punk-loving Benji—tried not to see how the sweet kid he used to look out for, and who used to trail so adoringly after him, has grown up into a big lad with an even bigger heart. As Alfie sobers up, he begins to see things with a new perspective, and Benji has his full attention.
If only Alfie can admit what it is he wants.

Good Boys Don’t by K.A.Merikan

Nate doesn’t fit in with his friends from church. He isn’t all that religious. He likes music his parents wouldn’t approve of. He’s gay. He’s determined to stay under the radar, but a chance meeting with a handsome biker who flirts Nate out of his modesty might throw those plans out of the window.

Heart of the Dragon by Alina Popescu

When a power-hungry king threatens to drown the world in blood, a bastard prince and a prisoner suspected of hiding mythical beasts find themselves in an unlikely alliance. Driven together by loneliness and undeniable attraction, they struggle to trust their choices and each other. Should they fail, neither will survive.

Not so Predictable by Jessie G

Oliver Tryst yearns for excitement, fun, and a reprieve from the endless winter blanketing Upstate New York. But when a cruise with his best pals turns into a solo trip to paradise, Oliver finds himself mustering with the winter fling he wished hadn’t gotten away. With his cautious heart thawing in the Caribbean sun, Oliver will have to decide if he can leave stability behind for a chance to turn his holiday hookup into a happily ever after.

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Review Tour: Wrong Way Home by K.A. Merikan #Review #Giveaway

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Length: 70,000 words approx.

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Blurb

— ONE WRONG TURN. ONE RIGHT MAN. —

Colin. Rule-follower. Future doctor. Witness to murder. Captive.
Taron. Survivalist. Mute. Murderer. Captor.

Like every other weekend, Colin is on his way home from university, but he’s taunted by the notion that he never takes risks in life and always follows the beaten path. On impulse, he decides to take a different route. Just this one time. What he doesn’t realize is that it’s the last time he has a choice.
He ends up taking a detour into the darkest pit of horror, abducted by a silent, imposing man with a blood-stained axe. But what seems like his worst nightmare might just prove to be a path to the kind of freedom Colin never knew existed.

Taron has lived alone for years. His land, his rules. He’d given up on company long ago. After all, attachment is a liability. He deals with his problems on his own, but the night he needs to dispose of an enemy, he ends up with a witness to his crime.

The last thing Taron needs is a nuisance of a captive. Colin doesn’t deserve death for setting foot on Taron’s land, but keeping him isn’t optimal either. It’s only when he finds out the city boy is gay that an altogether different option arises. One that isn’t right, yet tempts him every time Colin’s pretty eyes glare at him from the cage.

Review

First a word to those who may need it—heed every possible trigger warning these authors put at the end of their written blurb—this novel does NOT fool around. Having said that Wrong Way Home is so incredibly well written that this story grabbed me by the throat and never let up. I read it in one sitting and considering I am not always a fan of reading about some of the acts done to Colin by Taron that says a whole lot about how compelling a novel this is. K. A. Merikan does not mince words but neither do they create violent and morally ambiguous stories merely to titillate or spark a reaction. Wrong Way Home was in many ways a love story--just one that took a rather twisted and circuitous route to get there.

The set up for Colin and Taron to move beyond captor and prisoner to something more was carefully hinted at from the very beginning. One gets a real sense that Colin is very unhappy with his life and not much of a people person. From there it is a bit horrifying how Taron justifies essentially kidnapping and imprisoning Colin—yes there is a locked cage—by sloughing off any sense of guilt or wrong doing in the name of end times preparedness. Taron is a survivalist—one that doesn’t like people and only interacts with them when he needs supplies or to scratch the proverbial itch. Being mute means he can often also fool others into believing he is deaf which gets Taron out of many situations where authority or strangers might question him too closely. Essentially he just wants to be left alone as he prepares for the great epidemic or catastrophe that will see the government collapse and lawlessness ensue.

Colin is trapped in a life he never really wanted with parents who continually remind him of how he never quite measures up to their standard. On the cusp of graduating and applying for med school, Colin just wants to break free—do something, anything that is outside the confines of the rigid norm that his life has become. When he takes a different route home he never ever suspects his life is about to be forfeit to a murderer who thinks nothing of locking him in a cage and using him for sex.

Two opposites come together just to discover how very alike they really are. Does their final living situation at novel’s end smack of Stockholm Syndrome where the captive comes to need and have feelings for the captor? Yes, in a certain way one could see that but I think the authors laid sufficient groundwork to actually make the case that Colin needed a radical event to free him from a life he hated and Taron provides the catalyst for him to do just that.

Wrong Way Home is not going to be a novel that appeals to everyone but there is no denying that it is very well written, fascinating to read and challenges everything one might think of when it comes to the ideas of romance. I enjoyed this novel and how it made me squirm just a bit. It certainly will prompt me to check out their other work in the future.

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“When Taron looped the heavy metal collar around the slender neck and closed the padlock, his body throbbed with the excitement of knowing he owned this boy.
Was it wrong? Yes, yes it was.
Was it so, so good? Definitely.”

Themes: prepping, alternative lifestyles, disability, crime, loneliness, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fish out of water, opposites attract, abduction, Stockholm syndrome, family issues
Genre: Dark, thriller M/M romance
Heat level: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes

This book is part of CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Each novel can be read as a standalone and contains a dark M/M romance.
Warning: These books are for adult readers who enjoy stories where lines between right and wrong get blurry. High heat, twisted and tantalizing, these are not for the fainthearted.

K.A. Merikan are a team of writers who try not to suck at adulting, with some success. Always eager to explore the murky waters of the weird and wonderful, K.A. Merikan don’t follow fixed formulas and want each of their books to be a surprise for those who choose to hop on for the ride.

K.A. Merikan have a few sweeter M/M romances as well, but they specialize in the dark, dirty, and dangerous side of M/M, full of bikers, bad boys, mafiosi, and scorching hot romance.

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