Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

“Girl, I am learning so much about you already! Bonding for the win! So tell me more about your roots, my all-American country boy?” Caleb bounced in his seat like an excitable poodle. Taz considered flinging open the car door and throwing himself into moving traffic.

Jay Leigh does it again. This series is becoming very dear to me. I absolutely adore the unique way the author uses multiple POV in all the books. It brings something new to the action, the political aspect, as well as the relationships we get to follow. Only one romance is the main focus for each book, but we still get to keep up with the other couples. It’s awesome, and also sometimes angsty. I think this was the angstiest book so far, at least to me, and I loved it so much.

“I expect you to listen to me if you want to be rewarded. I expect you to tell me when I do something wrong. And I expect you to keep calling me Daddy while you’re being such a good boy for me.”

Taz. Wow, what a character. I highlighted so much of his chapters. He is the most adorable, awesome, scrappy, angry asshole, who is also a complete sweetheart. I’m so glad he found his GI Joe. They might have only used the words in bed, but Luke is definitely a daddy at heart. He’s a caretaker through and through, and he wanted nothing more than to take care of Taz and make sure he was happy. They were beyond sweet together.

I couldn’t recommend this series more.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Ex marine
FBI agent
Technical analyst
Found family
Daddy kink (in bed)
Political thriller
Book 3
Romantic suspense
Coworkers
Past trauma
Age gap
Abusive home life

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Death of a side character
House fire
Severely injured MC
Mass/public shooting
Domestic abuse (parent)
Physical abuse
Verbal abuse
Emotional abuse
Past self-harm and scars (mentioned)
PTSD flashbacks
Alcohol abuse (side character)
Poverty
Food insecurity
Mention of the death of a spouse
Subversive homophobia
Right-wing extremist rhetoric
Explicit sexual content
References to past kidnapping and hostage situation
Death of antagonists past and current
Gun violence
Hospitalization
Mental health struggles

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
OM/OW drama: No
Breakup: No
POV: 3rd person, multiple POV
Genre: Romantic suspense, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
Main characters’ age: 22 and 34
Pages: 311

Taz had learned two life lessons at a very early age. The first lesson was that it was very easy to avoid your problems if you absorbed yourself in someone else’s problems. The second lesson was that it was very easy to avoid people if you acted like an asshole. Therefore, Taz was pulling double duty as the most helpful asshole in the world […].

But every time Luke saw the doubts and fears on Taz’ face or noticed him shutting down, they sat together and communicated about it. Like adults. It was fucking bizarre.

“Instead of fighting against us, why don’t you give fighting for us a try? I’m not ready to give up on you. Are you ready to give up on me?” “Fuck you, that’s not fair.” Taz inhaled a shaky breath. “All’s fair in love and war, sweet thing, and I’ve seen enough war. Lemme see more love, eh?” “Oh my God, you even talk like shitty Hallmark cards. Why does that work?”


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