Book Review: Wildfire Sea Dragon (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew Book 3) By Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

Wildfires and demons? No sweat.

His bodyguard? She’s the real danger…

Noble. Dutiful. Serious. All words no one would ever use to describe sea dragon shifter Joe, Prince of Atlantis.

Screw destiny. Battling raging infernos with his bros as a wildland firefighter is infinitely preferable to sitting on a throne. Even with weird monsters stalking the crew…and him personally.

Bring it. He doesn’t need a bodyguard. Especially not her.

The woman of his dreams…

She is Seventh Novice. And if she’s ever to become a Knight of Atlantis—the first and only one who isn’t a sea dragon—she has to be perfect. Perfectly honorable. Perfectly dutiful. Perfectly in control of her deadly inner monster.

Which would be a lot easier if she hadn’t been assigned to protect the infamous Prince. A man with the common sense of a stunned herring…and a body that drives her beast into a frenzy of desire.

Now Joe has to thwart fate one last time. Without revealing his secret...

He can see the future.

And if he claims his mate, she’ll die.

My Review

Joe is a sea dragon shifter and he's got a huge secret...he has visions of the future so he knows that he cannot claim his mate because he's seen a vision of her dying if he does. He is a Prince but works with a firefighting group that he thinks of as his family.

Seven saved him from an attack and after a bit of a problem, she is named as his bodyguard but Joe and Seven both know that she's also his mate. 

Seven thinks that the reason Joe doesn't want to claim her as his mate is because of his playboy lifestyle and doesn't want to settle down but he's actually trying to save her life. She and Joe reunite with his Hotshot firefighting crew and they seem to know right away that Seven is his mate but there's a lot they don't know. 

When Seven witnesses Joe have a terrible nightmare, he tells her his big secret and why they can't mate and then they make a plan to keep everyone safe until the danger passes so they can mate later. So their romance is a slow burn even though they lust for each other and want each other but have to wait. 

But it irritated me a little that Joe decided not to tell his friends the truth about his visions. If he wanted to keep them safe, all he had to do was tell them the truth, I know they would have believed him and they could have helped him. So he and Seven work behind the scenes to try and keep his visions from coming true all the while trying to keep their hands off each other. But it was a wonderful romance, the characters are feeling so familiar since this is the 3rd book in the series I've read and the overarching storyline of the evil in the wilderness they've been dealing with is really interesting. Plus it's fun seeing so many different kinds of shifters. 

Because this is a spinoff series from the Fire & Rescue Shifters series, we get to see characters from that series at times and this was one of those times. I really liked that because I adored that series and it was nice to see some of those characters again. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received:

I ordered some groceries using Anycart from Albertsons and I received these freebies in the bags with my groceries. 

Orange flavored Luna Bar. 

Starbucks and Tim Hortons coffee samples. 

I also received $17.00 off my Anycart order since it was my 4th order. 

That was a nice surprise. 

I like these orange Luna bars. I've had them before and they do taste like oranges. 

Both coffee samples were good but I'd had the Starbucks one before. 

If you've never used Anycart and wondered about it, it was really easy to use and they delivered my groceries the same day. This post is not sponsored, I just like their service.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Wildfire Unicorn (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew Book 2) by Zoe Chant

 

Book Review

There's a shirtless firefighter at her door...and he's holding a baby unicorn.

Animal rescue officer Candice thought she’d seen it all. That was before the unicorn.

Or rather, unicorns.

When a smoking hot firefighter turns up at her emergency centre, the baby unicorn in his arms turns out to be the least unusual thing about him. And he wants Candice for more than her fully-equipped rescue trailer…

Unicorn shifter Wystan thought meeting his true mate would solve all his problems. Now he’s got an adorable and unruly mystery on his hands, the mother of all wildfires breathing down his neck, and dark forces closing in on all sides. How’s he supposed to romance this blunt, prickly, astonishing woman in all this? Especially when Candice guards her heart as fiercely as she protects the animals under her care?

But when unicorns are real, dreams can come true…

And so can nightmares.

My Review

Wystan is a unicorn shifter and at the end of the last book, he and his team find a baby unicorn in the bushes as they are fighting a huge fire. Unicorn shifters were supposed to be able to heal but Wystan didn't have that ability and he felt like a failure. So he did the only thing he could do in this circumstance, he brought the tiny unicorn to the nearest veterinarian. 

When we first meet Candice she's trying to help a rat that was left behind by its owner. I love rats so of course I already loved her. Candice is the senior animal control officer and she has tents set up at the camp for the firefighters to bring in the injured animals they found while fighting the fires. 

When Candice sees the baby unicorn for the first time she thinks it's an albino baby deer so there's no big drama around that. But then a powerful force that they've decided to call, nightmare follows them all back to camp and wrecks havoc all around them. There's also a powerful shifter that they've tried once in the first book to make contact with,  but they aren't sure if it understands them. If they are going to get out of this alive, the'll have to try and reason with the shifter and help the evil thing that's stalking them.

Candice and Wystan are very much opposites and each has some baggage but Candice is very standoffish because of what happened to her in the past which makes their love story a slow burn romance which I was fine with. They took their time and got to know one another before going further. 

There's a huge twist that leads to a really big secret and I liked it and thought it was a cool reveal. A lot happens in a short amount of time at this point and it kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next. I really liked how this ended though and am really looking forward to the next book. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Book Review: Wildfire Griffin (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew Book 1) by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

He's an alpha griffin shifter. She's autistic. He's met his match...

When firefighter Rory lays eyes on fire watcher Edith, he instantly knows she’s the one. His fated mate. 

Now, to win her heart, he just has to protect her from:

1. A raging wildfire (actually, she’s already got that covered, thanks)

2. The lightning-throwing invisible monster that started it (um, the what?)

3. Killer bunnies (don't even ask)

4. The appalling matchmaking attempts from his crew of misfit shifters (not only is this guy scorching hot, his dog is adorable too. And...weirdly smart?)

5. His own animal need to claim her. Now. (if only she could look him in the eye…)

Good thing that as a powerful griffin shifter, he can handle anything…right?

There’s only one problem.

The last thing this autistic woman wants—or needs—is to be protected…

Zoe Chant returns to the hot, hilarious world of the Fire and Rescue Shifters with an all-new series starring an all-new crew - now wilder than ever! 

My Review

Edith is in her fire watch tower watching for fires in the forest but when she witnesses a lightning strike out of nowhere and calls in the small fire, they don't believe her but send someone to check it out anyway. 

Rory and his firefighter crew were called to check out a wild fire when he comes face to face with Edith and as soon as he meets her eyes, he knows she's his mate. 

An invisible monster is lurking in the forest, ready to take over another animals bodies so it can watch the Hotshot team and try to find a way to possess one of them. All the while Rory is trying to get to know Edith a little better and find out why she's so skittish. But after finding out more about her, the team asks her to join their Hotshot team and fight fires with them and after a little persuading, she accepted the new position which was great since Rory wanted nothing more than to get to know her better before letting her know he was a shifter and she was his mate. 

But because she didn't tell anyone she's autistic, there's plenty of miscommunication going on that leads to personal problems that could have been cleared up if they had just talked. But in the end things end up the way they are supposed to and we get to see yet another twist when they find another kind of shifter that I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of. This series has an overarching storyline and after reading this book (book 1), I plan on reading the rest in short order.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Review: Daily Goodie Box- September

 

The Daily Goodie Box has been around since about July of 2016. I signed up for an account right after I heard about them. They are 100% free, you don't even have to pay for shipping. And for a free box it's a nice sampler box of products.

What was in the box?

Gloss Leaf - Collagen Iced Tea Peach - I'e had this one and have to say it's not bad. I don't like peach flavored tea but this is a good tasting tea. I would prefer a different flavor though.

Moon Cheese - Cheddar Bacon Me Crazy - This was definitely my least favorite thing in the box. It has a stale taste to it and the added bacon flavor just made it have a weird, not good taste to it. The funny thing is my dog loves them. He got a hold of one of them when I dropped it and it didn't upset his stomach. So he has some crackers now.

Zolli Candy - Boss Baby Limited Edition ZolliPops - These are great and my grandson likes them. They are small lollipops but they have a great flavor to them.

Zen of Slow Cooking - Tuscan Spice Blend - I used them in a pot roast in my slow cooker since it's still too hot to turn the oven on and the spices were great, had a great flavor.

Aroma Naturals - Lavender Beauty Oil - This massage oil can be used on your hands, face, neck or wherever. It also has Vitamin E so it's good for your skin and it smells really good. 

South of France  - Orange Blossom Honey Soap - This was my favorite thing in the box. It smells so good and even though it dries my skin out a little, that's okay because soap often does that.

Natrapel® - Lemon Eucalyptus Insect Repellent - I have one of these already and hardly have to use it because we really don't have a lot of mosquitoes around where I live. I will keep it in case anyone plans to go hiking in the mountains or desert anytime soon. 

All they ask you to do is try the products and leave reviews for the products you got in order to be eligible for more Free Goodie Boxes. As you guys already know, I'm a fan of all these types of boxes. I love all the different subscription boxes and it's really nice to be able to try new to me products for free. This is a great box to try for.

Oh and one more thing, if you visit their FB Page, they give away Goodie Boxes to people who interact with their posts. So if you've tried before and weren't able to get a Goodie Box, there's even more ways to get one now.

Daily Goodie Box. It's more than just Free Samples!

Have you signed up? Have you received one of these boxes?

I'm a fan of subscription boxes and love trying new products for free so this was a huge hit with me. New products+free box = Fabulous!

Disclosure: I was given and free box in exchange for a review but all opinions are my own.

Happy Raturday! (Hamster Edition)

 

Cuddles. There was a pet store in the mall that was closing and she was the last hamster they had and so I bought her and brought her home. But I didn't know she was pregnant, yeah, she had 5 babies. That was actually fun. 

This week I told you I would show you pictures of some of the hamsters we had. I actually didn't plan on having more than one hamster but things happen...

Buster was the first hamster we had. We got buster when one of my daughters friends mother came and asked if I would take him since she didn't want to care for him anymore. So I said yes. He was a really big hamster. Big enough that a ferret harness and leash fit around him and I would put it on him and take him for a walk. I got some looks. 

Smokey was a hamster that we only had for a couple of weeks because he passed away soon after we got him. Hamsters have short life spans and sometimes they pass away out of the blue for no apparent reason. 

The babies, Cuddles babies. Remember Cuddles from the first picture? These are her babies. She had 5 babies and I kept them all. They were Chinese Dwarf hamsters, about half as big as teddy bear hamsters and really fast.

My daughter was trying to hold all of them and they kept escaping. lol They just ran all over really fast.

We ended up with so many hamsters that Ken built shelves to hold some of the hamster cages. That bottom one isn't a cage, it's a large tupperware container with a bunch of hamsters toys so I had somewhere to put the hamsters when I cleaned their cages. 

When one of the hamsters would pass away we would drive up to Mount Charleston and bury them up in the mountains somewhere. 

*Chance* Roborovski Hamster. These kinds of hamsters are the smallest and the fastest and they will run! I had to give Chance a little piece of pumpkin pie just to get him to stop so I could get a picture of him. 

 Onyx loved to come out and get a snack. Hamsters aren't as friendly as rats but he was especially friendly.

Honey and Spirit the Gerbils. I also had 2 gerbils. That was an experience because they like to hop all over you. I would take them out on the couch with me and they would climb all over me and just hop really fast all over the couch. They were hilarious. 

Cinnamon we got when another of my daughters friends didn't want to keep her any longer. When the mothers in my neighborhood found out I would take in unwanted hamsters, they brought me several. lol 

Ken found out that if he sniffed really loudly with his face down by some of them they would sniff or squeak back at him. It was so funny.

Baby was a Chinese Dwarf hamsters and fast as heck. Hamsters usually only live for 2-3 years but this little guy lived for 4 1/2 years. 

Bambi was one of those hamsters that would would sniff back at Ken. She would run over to his face and rub herself on his jaw and squeak at him. He thought it was so funny and he started doing it to all the hamsters to see if they would respond.

Bubbles just wanted to sit on top of the couch and be left alone. She was the most laid back hamster ever. She just wanted to sit up there alone and look around.

A bunny that Ken found in the parking lot. Ken was talking with a friend in our parking lot and this bunny just came up to him. He picked it up and brought it home. We were going to keep it but my daughter who is holding him in this picture was really allergic to him. So we found him a good home with people who had other rabbits.

Cuddles. Some Chinese Dwarf hamsters will live together unlike Teddy Bear hamsters who will fight to the death if you house them together. But once she had the babies and they were weaned she wanted nothing to do with them and she would fight them so she got her own cage. She also became a biter and we had to wear thick gloves when we handled her. I have no idea why but I still took her out and let her play on the couch. When she got older she couldn't bite very hard and I didn't have to wear the gloves but she would still try to bite me if I got too close to her. 

Sniffy was from another of my daughters friends in the neighborhood and Ken would sniff at him and he would run over and rub himself all over Ken while sniffing really loudly back at Ken. We never did figure out why some of them would respond like that to him but Sniffy would run over to Ken and rub himself all over him. It was so cute. He was such a friendly little hamster. 

So those were the hamsters that we had before we had rats. I hope you enjoyed seeing their pictures.

Apartment Life #269

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 24 years here in a weekly blog post. 

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In the ongoing License Plate Thief Chronicles... Another neighbor told my daughter that she was approached by the thief and another woman who were selling stolen license plates in the strip mall parking lot next door and wanted to know if she wanted to buy one. O.o What? Yeah. I could hardly believe it either. 

Then the next morning my daughter spotted the thief's car with a *new* license plate. But I don't know if you can tell from this picture, the plate is all bent to hell. LOL She sure as heck didn't get this plate from the DMV. First off they give you 2 license plates and they are not bent all to hell looking like they've been through a trash compactor. Then the next morning I realized that the license plate was gone again. She only puts the license plate on her car when she's driving it. Otherwise she takes the plate off and leave her car backed into her spot in the alley. Not strange at all. 

She probably knows that the police have been driving up and down our street and the alley and she doesn't one of them running her plate. I mean, it's just so obvious and she'll get caught eventually. Plus as you can see, there's no registration sticker on this license plate. She'll get caught...again. What an idiot.

Maybe I shouldn't have posted the plate number but I don't care. It's not like it's her actual plate. It's so obvious it's stolen.

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I spotted the fire truck at the end of my street this week. Not sure what was going on but no police or ambulance showed up and they left a little while later. 

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I did see the police in front of my apartment building at 5am one day but my stupid phone wouldn't take a picture because it said the SD card was full and by the time I got my camera, the police were already gone. So that's why there's no picture. 

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The high this week was 101F/38C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Book Review: A Mate For The Dragon by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

A curvy woman with a broken heart + a hot dragon shifter with a haunted past + a deadly clan of evil dragons = one sizzling and suspenseful romance!

Dumped by her boyfriend and out of a job, curvy Holly Edwards just wants to forget about her troubles for a while. A peaceful vacation in a cabin in the woods seems like the perfect way to get some alone time and mend her broken heart. She thinks she can do without love in her life - at least until the drop-dead gorgeous Stefan walks into her life.

Dragon shifter Stefan Novak is the last of his clan - and unless he finds a mate soon, his lineage will die with him. But Stefan knows that even if he finds his mate, she too will be in deadly peril from the rival dragon clan who is hunting him. He's made up his mind he won't seek out his mate, even if it means he'll be alone forever - but he doesn't expect his mate to come looking for him.

The connection between Holly and Stefan can’t be denied, but old foes resurface, threatening to pull them apart. Can they survive the battle between rival dragon clans? Stefan's enemies will stop at nothing to defeat him - even if it means threatening Holly's life. Can he keep her safe and win her heart?

A Mate for the Dragon is an action-packed standalone paranormal romance. No cliffhangers!

My Review

Stefan has been in hiding from a ruthless dragon shifter who killed the rest of his clan, he's the only one left. He wasn't looking for his mate because he knows getting close to someone will put them in danger but he can't walk away once he finds Holly. 

Holly has lost everything in a short amount of time. Her boyfriend left her, and she quit her job because she thought she was going to be with the guy who left her behind. 

Holly decides to rent a cabin in the woods to try and relax and regroup after her life changes. But she meets Stefan out in the woods when she hurts her ankle and he helps her back to her cabin. He even stays with her and gets her some ice for her foot but she isn't used to someone being this nice to her and isn't sure what to make of it. So when Stefan shows her that he might be interested, she jumps at the chance to lose herself in this gorgeous man even if it's only for one night. But Stefan can't say goodbye to her once he starts to get to know her and they form a bit of a bond since they are mates and he doesn't want to leave but staying could put her in danger. 

Once the crazy dragon shifter finds them and puts both Holly and Stefan in danger, all hell breaks loose but secrets are reveled and so are the motives to the family feud that has been going on for years. 

I really liked the ending and will be reading more of this series. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received:

Water Wipes. 

CeraVe lotion. 

Think Bar. 

$30 Amazon gift card. 

Santa treat bowl with lid from Walmart Spark Reviewer. 

The Water Wipes are wet wipes. These kinds of things always come in handy when my grandson is over. Why are little boys so messy. LOL 

I already use the CeraVe lotion and like it. The Think bar was actually pretty good. 

I got the $30 Amazon gift card when I cashed out my points from Product Report Car survey site. It's a good site to do surveys and get paid for them. 

The Santa treat bowl is cute and will be nice for Christmas. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Jaxson by Alisa Woods

 

Book Description

hree brothers. Three Secrets. One hope to save the shifters of Seattle. Former SEAL Jaxson River would give his life for his brothers and his pack, but if he doesn’t claim a mate soon, he’ll be forced to step down as their alpha. There’s only one problem: Jaxson’s dark secret would kill any mate he claimed. With someone kidnapping shifters off the street—and only Jaxson and his brothers, Jace and Jared, to stop them—now is not the time for his secret to come out.

Curvy Olivia Lilyfield is a half-witch orphan with a dark secret of her own. She wants to atone for it by doing good in the world, so when she finds a wolf being tortured in an alley, she doesn’t hesitate to help… even though wolves and witches mix like matches and TNT.

Olivia’s dangerous magic means she can’t let anyone get too close—but Jaxson can’t keep his hands off her, and his kisses are more than she can resist. As they race to save the disappearing shifters of Seattle, the true danger lies in loving each other. They’re playing with magical fire… and their secrets could end up destroying them both.

Jaxson is a complete novel with HEA, the first in the Riverwise Private Security trilogy.

My Review

Olivia doesn't love her job as a reporter for a sleazy celebrity stalking paper but it's paying the bills for the most part and with her so far behind on the bills after a set of bad occurrences happened including getting hacked, she can't afford to drop this job. But that's exactly what she does and on her way home she spots a couple of guys torturing an animal, before she can think about what she's doing, she tries saving the animal from more abuse. 

Except the wolf wasn't just a wolf, it was a shifter. Once the bad men ran off the animal shifted and thanked her for trying to save him. 

Jaxson had sent Olivia off after she tried to save him. He hasn't had much luck getting her out of his mind since then but since he was the alpha of the River Pack, he had a lot on his plate to keep himself busy. 

Jaxson needs an an office assistant and Olivia needs a job so they come to an agreement and since they both seem to have the hots for one another it works out well for both of them. 

Shifters are going missing and Jaxson and his wolves are trying to figure out who is behind it. So when another shifter goes missing he and the other wolves go out to find her and that's when a lot of things start happening fast. This story is filled with secrets, twists and so many hot male wolf shifters that seem to be keeping secrets of their own. The three brother's all seem to have some deep dark secret of their own and I'm looking forward to finding out what they are. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Book Review: A Mate For The Christmas Dragon by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

Jasper Heartwell has five days to win his mate's heart.

Jasper is a dragon on a mission. If he doesn’t find his mate by his twenty-fifth birthday, he’ll lose his ability to shift, and be stuck as either a human or a dragon forever. Luckily, his birthday is on Christmas Day. What woman could resist the spark of romance during the most wonderful time of the year?

Abigail George hates Christmas.

Most wonderful time of the year? Abigail knows that's a lie. She hates the fake snow, the cheesy carols, the hordes of shoppers that save their Christmas cheer for everyone except shop workers—and most of all, she hates going home to her empty apartment on Christmas Eve.

Jasper knows Abigail’s the one for him the moment he sees her. But can the Christmas dragon win his mate’s heart, when Christmas is the one thing she hates the most?

A Mate for the Christmas Dragon is a steaming hot standalone dragon shifter romance. HEA guaranteed!

My Review

Jasper has been traveling the world in search of his mate but has had no luck. With his 25th birthday just a few days away, he'll have to make a choice to either give up his dragon half or his human half. But then he spots his mate while visiting his sister and he sets out to make her love him. 

Abigail dislikes Christmas and just wants to get through the holiday season. Her luck seems to be about to give out when she finds herself falling from a roof of the store she works at but Jasper is there in a blink of an eye to catch her as she falls. 

Abigail finds herself very much attracted to the man that caught her when she fell but she doesn't think she has any chance with him until he asks her out and wants to spend time with her. She really dislikes Christmas and he loves it but he does everything in his power to make her comfortable on their date. When one date leads to another and they end up spending the night together, he thinks she might fall for him and things are going really well until there's a bit of a misunderstanding. 

Watching Jasper try his hardest to be the funny, gentle, romantic man that he hopes she can fall for in a short time was really fun. Jasper's nephew was such a fun secondary character. He was such a rambunctious toddler who just happened to also be a dragon shifter. He was so full of life and his antics just made me laugh. 

Watching Abigail go from Scrooge to wanting to have a nice Christmas with him was very satisfying to see. This was such a fun book. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Book Review: Edge Of Darkness by Lara Adrian

 

Book Description

Hunters. The most lethal Breed vampires in existence--and Knox's cold heart thaws for no one . . . until a strong-willed beauty enlists his help in protecting an innocent child from a powerful, small-town family and a chilling evil that knows no bounds.

As a survivor of the horrific Hunter program, Breed vampire and former assassin Knox is a solitary man, closed off to the pain of love--and loss. A loner by choice, Knox deals in death and dark justice, expecting nothing in return. Until one snowy night he drifts into a remote town in northern Maine, where a determined beauty enlists his lethal assistance, tempting not only his hunger, but his wounded heart as well.

Lenora Calhoun has lived in tiny Parrish Falls all her life. Owner of the local diner that’s been in her family for generations, Leni’s as stalwart and stubborn as the tall pines that surround her. That unshakable resolve doesn’t sit well with everyone, least of all the most powerful family in the logging town. Leni’s been the target of their animosity for years, but with their escalating threats now putting an innocent child’s safety at risk, she takes a desperate chance on a dangerous stranger--a man who is something more than human. Knox’s deadly skills and turbulent gaze should be warning enough for Leni to guard her heart, yet she cannot deny the yearning he stirs in her blood. For the merciless Breed male is the only man she can trust in a town full of secrets, and where taking a stand could rip away everything she holds dear.

Book 3 in a brand-new Midnight Breed spin-off series of standalone vampire romance books that can be enjoyed in any order. Complete HEA and NO cliffhangers!

My Review

Knox has been on the road ever since he lost someone close to him. He doesn't want to get close to anyone else at this point but when he meets Leni in her diner, he's drawn to her. 

Leni is in her diner when Knox comes in from the cold just to warm up a bit. She knows he's a Breed when he takes off his gloves and spots the glyphs on his hands. He's a vampire Breed from the Hunter program. He's a trained killer but she's not scared of him. 

Knox is sitting in Leni's diner, just trying to warm up a little before moving on when a couple of guys come into the diner and give Leni a hard time. Leni is raising her 7 year old nephew and his father is getting out of prison soon. Her sister was brutalized by Travis but then pressed charges against him when she found out she was pregnant. But she went missing after she gave birth and Leni hasn't heard from her sister since. The father's family doesn't like Leni because she's keeping the child away from them. Knox tells the guys to leave and then he walks away only to find that someone attempted to kill her later that night by pushing her car off the road. Knox saves her and goes back to her house to make she she and her nephew, Riley are safe. But he finds as he looks around that her house isn't very secure and he takes it upon himself to install new locks on her doors and windows. Leni let's him stay in the room in the attic and they find themselves getting closer after he finds out that she has the Breed mate mark. 

But when Riley's biological father, Travis gets out of prison he lets Leni know that either she let's him be in the kids life or he'll take her to court and take Riley away from her. Since Travis's family has a lot of money and pull in that town, she knows that she'd lose Riley if it came to that. After that Knox does whatever he has to in order to keep her safe. We meet a couple of the other Breeds that come to help when Knox calls to enlists the help of The Order. 

Travis and his family are even worse than I could have ever imagined and when the horrible secrets they and others in the town have been keeping come to light, we get what I can only describe as a satisfying conclusion to this book. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

 

Since a lot of my readers are new-ish and weren't around several years ago when I had rats, hamsters and gerbils. I thought I would show you some of the rats that I've had over the years. I'll show you the hamsters next week.

This was Lucky. He was my 3 legged rat that I adopted after a pet store employee called my daughter and asked her if I would take him because they were going to euthanize him because he had 3 legs. You can read Lucky's Story.

Lucky was the sweetest rat and not having a front right paw didn't slow him down one bit. 

Romi was my very first rat. She had a little bald spot on her face and was so affectionate. She always wanted to be out of her cage sitting on the couch with us. I got her from a neighbor who no longer wanted her. 

You guys know Flower from my post a couple of weeks ago. She was my only hairless rat.

I also had, Ares, Hades, Brodie and Jasper. They are eating cereal in this picture. They had a big cage and I would open the door next to the couch and they would run onto the couch and run back and forth from the cage to the couch and play with us. They were big rats. Brodie, the one in the back was the smallest of them. They were all cage mates.

This was Dusty and Oreo. They were both so sweet. They loved to be out of their cage and just sit on us. They were cage mates.

This as Scribbles. He was not as friendly as some of my other rats. He did not like to be picked up and held so I would move his cage to the couch and let him come out on his own. He would come out and sit by us and let us pet him but he wasn't as affectionate as some of my others. In the morning when I would clean the cages, he would come out to the table his cage was on and look for a treat while I cleaned his cage.

I bought a lot of toys for the rats so they had something fun to do when they were out of the cage. Scribbles liked this ball pit. He would toss the balls around. 

This was Marbles. He was my grumpy boy. He even looks grumpy. He loved treats but didn't like to be held or petted so I let him come out and run around on the couch and let him do his own thing. He would sit next to me as long as I didn't try to pet him. The fact that he always looked so grumpy made me laugh.

This was Fang. He was cage mates with Bandit, Marbles and Patches. Fang was the only rat I had that ever bit anyone. I got these 4 rats from one of my daughters friends who no longer wanted them and they were not socialized much at all. But especially Fang, hence the name. He never bit me and always wanted me to hold him and I do mean always. But he bit Ken 4 times. Once Ken bent down too close when Fang was laying in my arms and Fang jumped up and bit his nose. Ken kept trying though and would feed him bits of food through the bars of the cage and eventually they became friends. Fang would sleep like this all the time. His little arms would just dangle over the sides of the hammock and he would sleep like this.

Patches and Fang were a bonded pair. Patches and Fang were always together, laying on each other. Poor Patches was sick when I got him and even though I gave him antibiotics and medicine from the vet, he only lived a few months after I got him. After Patches passed away, Fang became very clingy to me. If I opened their cage door, Fang would jump on me and either lay down in my arms or crawl inside my shirt and want to stay there and cuddle. So I held Fang all the time. He wasn't very friendly with Marbles and Bandit but he tolerated them. 

This was Bandit. He was the friendliest of the 4 cage mates. He loved to come out and play with us and be petted. I had their smaller cage on the couch and the big cage is in the background. I put them in the big cage and Ares and Hades in the smaller cage since they were older and were having a harder time getting around. I didn't want them to fall from the upper level so they got a single level cage and these guys got the big cage.

This was the big cage. 4 rat were very comfortable in this cage. I changed up all the hammocks and cubes each week.

I didn't have all of these rats at the same time. But when my rats would start slowing down as they got older, I would adopt more rats. Sometimes I got rats from my daughter friends when they realized they didn't have enough time for them. 

And if you want to see how Ken wired two extra cages together that we had to make Flower a 2 level cage, you can find that post here. 

Apartment Life #268

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 24 years here in a weekly blog post. 

Last week I told you that my neighbor got caught stealing another neighbors registration sticker. The police were called and they took the entire license plate because it was also stolen. 

So on Sunday, the thief walks down to where me and my daughter are and says that someone stole her license plate. *Eyeroll*

So I say, Didn't the police talk to you a few days ago about the stolen plate and sticker? She of course acts shocked and says no. When I know damn well they did. So my daughter and I inform her that the police got called because "someone" took the registration sticker off of someone else's car and put it on hers. The other lady called the police, they came out, took a report and told everyone who was standing around watching that they were also taking her license plate because it was also stolen. The thief then says someone is setting her up that the sticker and license plate were hers. 

Two days go by and my next door neighbor catches my daughter outside and he tells her that the thief was talking all sorts of trash talk about me and my daughter telling him that we called the police and are telling everyone that she stole a sticker. LOL Ok, I already knew she was a crazy woman and loves to gossip but wow. So we're just waiting to see if she steals another plate or tries to go to the DMV to actually register her car. I don't know what will happen if she actually goes to the DMV. 

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Sunday afternoon and evening I spotted the police by the managers office. I have no idea what they were doing but they stayed out there for about 4 hours. There were also 2 unmarked cars with police officers sitting in them like they were all waiting for something but I have no idea what. Nothing happened, no one else showed up and then they left. Maybe they were waiting to see if someone got home. Not really sure but it was weird.

The high this week was 102F/38C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.