I DEVOURED this book, and you will too, if you love The Wicked Bargain. It's not abundently clear that you need to read that book first, but you really do in order to 1) understand this story fully and 2) avoid spoilers for it, because if you read this first you most definitely will be running after any and every book written by Gabe Cole Novoa. 

Dami was one of my favorite characters in The Wicked Bargain, and so I was so excited to get my hands on this and read about how they came to be who they are. I was not even a little disappointed. This felt like Indiana Jones, but gay. There is magic. There are puzzles. There's a treasure hunt. A dangerous island, curses, magic, and more. All the elements to an amazing story are here, and Gabe Cole Novoa Delivers with his excellent writing. My only complaint is that our main couple doesn't bond sooner. I feel like they could have had at least one real conversation before the 60% mark, but that's just me being greedy for more page time of them being soft with each other. In actuality, I did like how slow their romance was. How they hated each other in so many ways, and the caring kind of snuck up on them. Caring does that sometimes. Love has a way of catching you off guard. 

And DAMI. Bless their precious soul. I love them so much. They deserve all the best things in the world, and their ending was perfect. Now I'm just crossing my fingers for a spin off with Marisol.