~~ Part & Parcel, by Abigail Roux

(Sidewinders series, Book #3)

This is book # 8 in the Cust & Run series.  This story takes us back to Tyler Grady and Zane Garrett moving on with their lives.  In this book, Tyler's brother Deacon gets married to Livi and they go to a private island in Scotland for the nuptials.

 

Livi's parents are loaded and own the private island they are staying on.  They want a small, quiet wedding since their family is getting a bunch of death threats that have increased since Deacon's daughter was born.  It starts with a man who is more than he seems - and he dies right before the wedding.

 

Zane and Tyler have brought Nick and Kelly.  (You may remember them from Ty's military days or from reading the Sidewinder series.)  Since they are there to help keep the family safe, they might as well help solve a murder, right?  

 

It soon becomes clear that there are several guests and local islanders that are hiding much about their lives and professions.  This mystery may be more than the boys can handle.  Good thing they brought extra hands!

 

Terrific character development and more than a bit of a weave to the story in this book.  If you love history, destination weddings, and amazing children - well your going to love this book as much as I did!  I give it a 5/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

This book continues with Cut & Run series book # 7. Zane Garrett & Tyler Grady are still partners in the FBI.  They visit New Orleans and their friends for a birthday celebration that turns deadly.  It takes us into backstory for Ty and Zane and gives us more insight to their characters.

 

Zane is thinking about retiring and wondering where to go with his future with Ty.  They are both puzzled as to what to do about their future as a couple.  Then Ty gets a distress call from his best friend, Nick.

 

Once in New Orleans, the boys end up protecting a crime scene for a murder and it all goes down hill from there.  Ty has old enemies in this town, and is worried he will cause more trouble than help.  The boys do their best to solve what seems like a clever crime.

 

Threats seem to be everywhere and come from all over.  The guys try to stay together to protect one another and it soon becomes clear the case is nothing like it seems.  It takes a whole lot of smarts and men with the talents to figure this one out.

 

Ty and Zane end up learning more about one another and it is a testimony to their feelings to one another that they can work through all they do.  Zane discovers he really does not know much about Ty, and vice versa.  Can they survive the secrets?

 

Once again I am amazed and pulled into a book full of love, mystery, amazing characters, witty banter and more history about an amazing city.  I recommend this book and give it a 5/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

Mike




Chloe



I must say Mike's story was the story I was looking forward too the most, after being introduced to him in the first book. I'm not exactly sure why, just some reason I was excited about his story.
He didn't disappoint, lol.

This story starts out with Mike being a man-whore. Actually the first word of the book is "Harder". He's gone out to drown his sorrows. Sam and Harry has the perfect lives in his eyes. They both have beautiful wives and baby girls that have them twined around their mans fingers. Mike feels like he doesn't deserve that so gets hammered and picks up the first woman who walks up to him takes a drink of his beer and puts a hand on his crouch. SO, as he's slamming into her as she keeps begging for him to do it harder, he realizes she likes the pain. As Mike is anti-anything that hurts a woman it automatically turns him off and through his drunken haze he runs to the bathroom pukes because he is sick with his own behavior and starts getting dressed. The longer he is in her apartment he realizes what he has done. Stooped to the lowest ever. As a former marine and cop, he starts seeing filth, drugs, and the woman is screaming at him bloody murder because she wants him to hit her. He gets out and runs home all 15 miles.

Chole has been in the hosptial all of her childhood. Once she got out she was shipped off to school in London for reasons that would be a spoiler if I shared. She was never close to her parents growing up but when they are killed she comes home to sort throught their belongings and realizes just how much she really didn't know about them. Which brings her to her meeting at RBK Security. I'm sure the blurb gives off most of the details with this meeting, so I'll spill that Chloe is Harry's long lost sister, but wow, I had no idea how long lost she really was. She spills the beans and automatically she is welcomed into the RBK family.

That first meeting before Mike knew what was going down with Chloe and Harry, he already had her in his sights to help, but almost instantly he has this strong pull. They both feel it. By the end of the first day Mike has given her an orgasm up against a wall while her new found bro waits down in the car, made a date with her, and decided that she was his. But fate has a way of laughing in your face, and when Mike is called in because of a woman claiming him to be the man that beat her, he realizes he isn't good enough for Chloe, not to mention Harry has told him hands off.



Six Months later, Chloe and Mike are going crazy, because they want each other but neither will say anything about it to the other, but when danger comes right for Chloe, Mike decides that Chloe is now his and Harry be damned he is going to protect her and have her no matter what.



This story was so good. I loved Mike's character. He was a really good guy, but just lost. He had seen his parents murdered at the age of 10 and never got over it. He used sex and alcohol as way to block out the pain. But when Chloe came around everything changed. He wanted to prove he was good enough for her and even at times when he struggled with being enough for her he still couldn't let her go. Chloe was so sweet. She had had a terrible childhood herself in a different way only to learn it had all been a lie. She was strong in her own way because she kept going.

I must say, if this was the end of this series I'm a little disappointed. I loved how through the series we got to see Sam, Nicole, Harry and Ellen relationships progress. I felt short changed because this book just ended. Yes, there was an epilogue, but it didn't give a lot of insight into their lives. I mean it showed where it was headed but compared to how much more we had got to learn about how Sam and Harry lives went. I just felt jipped. :( Maybe it's me and my constant need to know more about my book characters it just sorta annoyed me a little because the ending was so abrupt.

Anyway, the series as a whole was a great read. It had been on my list for a while and I had been wanting to get around to it and finally did. Great romances, hot sex, and lots of suspense and danger. I really recommend it!! :)

For the record, I am not a big fan of romantic suspense. I read quite a bit of it years ago and got burned out. But the author has been talked up by some friends, and I thought I'd give her a try. :)I ended up liking the book quite a bit :) I'll definitely check out her other books as well.