Such a touching and beautiful story. At first I thought Mason was going to be a royal pain in the a**, and he was in the beginning, but Laura helped him to realize that life was to be lived in the moment and to respect.

Mason is a young man with daddy issues, and his way of dealing with them is to be a partier, and cause trouble when he can with his father. Laura is a housekeeper in Mason’s family hotel. He meets Laura when she is one of the maids who has to clean up after him and his friends have partied all night. They are slobs… Mason notices her but doesn’t really pay much attention at first when he first saw her, until one day when she makes a comment about his naked body. Mason is in his early 20’s and when he is focused on work, he is a great worker and deal maker for the family business. He just needs to change his ways so that he can get more out of life.

Laura is a woman in her mid 30’s and has had to deal with more than her fair share of life while she was in college. That experience taught her that life is precious and should be valued. She is a positive woman who tries not to let things get her down. She is good friends with Jessi a baker in the hotel restaurant, and she lives by herself in a small apartment. She tells herself that getting involved with Mason is a mistake, he’s too young, and he is a partier. What good could come of a relationship between them. However, he catches her when she is weak and she throws all of those things out the window. Will it be a one time thing, or will they be able to make things work between them.

If you like a touching story where an alpha male is taught that the way he is living his life could be changed and that he could have a good woman by his side, then you should pick up this book. I give this book a 4.5 star rating and look forward to more stories with the characters in this book.

This was my first book to ready by Ruby Ryan, and I loved it. It is also the first book in the Gryphons vs Dragons Series. I quickly purchased the rest of the books in the series to find out what happens next.

Ethan Masterson, a 30 year old who spends his vacation with his college friends that he has not seen in years. They go to Belize and relive their college days with drinking and partying. They are heading back to their respective homes in a couple of days and have a tour scheduled of a cave in the area. With most of the guys hung over, they manage to make their tour, but things get a little weird in the cave and they cut the tour short. A bit on the geeky side, Ethan is not someone you would expect to show alpha tendencies, or attract women, but after this vacation, he has changed.

Jessica, hired from a temp agency to fill in at a company as a Systems Administrator. She finds the job to be fulfilling, but the boss to be a pain in the butt. She also finds that the person she is covering for has a weird filing system for the files on the system. Little does she know that there is a reason for the weird filing system. Jessica has done nothing to make her boss, Mrs. Arnold happy since she has been in the position. Jessica would love to have a permanent position with the company, but fears that it won’t work out because making Mrs. Arnold happy is not easy to do.

Jessica and Ethan meet up by chance, because Mrs. Arnold sends Jessica to pick up Ethan from the airport when he comes back from vacation. Little do they know that it may have been fate bringing them together.

This is a paranormal shifter story with heat, suspense, and a very good story background. I loved reading it and look forward to reading the remaining books in the series. I will seek out Ruby Ryan books when I am in the mood for a great shifter story. I suggest you do the same.

These were great starter stories in Craving Loyalty. I call them starter stories because they end so that you wonder what’s going to happen now. You want more of the story to continue. I do wish that some were longer, or that I could find the continuation of the stories. A few of them were okay, but in general this is a good boxset to read. I had only read one of the authors in this group, Ginger Ring, and I found her story “Taken to the Cleaner” to be a good one. I would have liked to read more of this story.

If you like mafia stories and to read about men and women who are looking for that one person to really care for them, love them, and be loyal to them, then you should read this boxset. I will have to look for more stories by these authors to see if they have continuations to these stories.

I give the boxset a 3.5 star review. As I said, some of the stories were okay. They weren’t bad, just okay.

DI Hillary Greene, a young woman who has her own investigative team. She is given a case to find out who murdered a man in his own home. The man was murdered and then put on a bon fire in his own backyard. Who would have had the means and the need to kill the man? There are several possible suspects.  His estranged son, his cousin, who is also his partner in a publishing company, or his tenant, that he is trying to get out of his rental house. DI Greene is a great detective and always has her teams back. Things are changing for her team as well as herself, it seems that DI Greene’s team is at a crossroads in their careers.

David Merchant, a very religious and pious man who is widowed and lives alone. His wife died several years ago, and he and his son are estranged. He lives in a nice neighborhood. He owns a publishing company with a cousin. He is a writer of religious books and believes that men and women should always follow the good word of the lord. He works from home and follows a very strict regimen and daily schedule. He has alienated his neighbors because he is so pious.

PC Mark Chang, a new member of DI Greene’s team. He has gained his position on her team by going to college and moving his way up quickly. His family owns a small store that is targeted by a Chinese gang that wants to have  Mark work for them on the inside.

This was a very good story. I enjoyed the twists in this story and was happy that it was not so easily determined as to who the murderer was. Ms. Martin did a great job with the plot and the twists in the story. She does a good job in making you wonder and work for who the murderer is. I really enjoyed reading this story and look forward to reading more in the future.

Ahhh, Simon Pierce. I love his broody disposition, his rules, and his soft side. He is a man who has been hurt, betrayed, and made to question everyone. However, this new case could be the medicine he needs to move on with his life and find his way to a happy life.

Lacie Hill (Yoga Girl), a free spirit who has been targeted for some reason and things are escalating, but she doesn’t see it. Her father, Mr. Hill, is the Superintendent of the school that Lacie works in as a Kindergarten teacher. Lacie happens to be a work, when she receives dead flowers addressed to Yoga Girl, and she throws them away. Her father is also in the office and notices them. He knows about the two previous attacks and now this. He is worried about his only daughter getting killed. Mr. Hill hires Pierce Securities to protect his daughter and find out who is targeting her and why. Simon doesn’t want to be the one to take the case, but all of his employees are otherwise occupied, so he it. Taking a job working at the school with Lacie, Simon will be close by her should anything happen, he will also move into the vacant house across the street from hers.

Little does Simon know that this case will help him solve another major case that he has been working on to protect his little sister.

The connections in this case to other cases in Pierce Securities will put all of the team in danger, but they are not strangers to hard work and life threatening situations. This could be the case to end the whole team though. Can Simon live with that? Will his team come through and show him that they are resilient and stronger than he thinks?

This story is great! I love the Pierce Security Team, as well as this series. I give this book a 5 star review. I highly recommend that you read the entire series and get to know the team.

Such a great series. I loved all of these books! Skyla Madi, you’ve done a great job with this series and I am sorry to see it end. However, I am happy with the ending.

Emily is devastated after the explosion at Skull’s compound, and Jai has not returned to her to lead her out of the woods. Joel is there with Monique and he finally convinces Emily to go with him and that Jai will meet up with them as soon as he can. She holds onto that hope for as long as she can, but when six weeks has passed and Jai still hasn’t shown up, she is helpless and agrees to finally go away with Joel, Ted, Monique, Hannah, and Huss, to start a new life in Europe.

Jai Stone, a man who would do anything to save Emily, even die for her to keep her safe,. He may have done that this time to end Skull and keep Emily and Monique safe from his twisted and macabre hold. Emily has to believe he is dead so that she can move on, but it doesn’t help. It is taking everything Jai has to stay away from Emily to keep her safe, but he can’t stand it any longer.

Joel and Monique have a good life now, a son, and a winery that it thriving. Emily the VP of the winery and lives on the property in her own place, but she is really only going through the motions of life and is not really living. Ted, Hannah, and Huss have moved on, but they still come around for special occasions and to spend time with Emily, Joel, Monique, and Jake.

This was a great series and I loved all of the characters in the story. I did have a love/hate relationship with Huss for a while, but he may have redeemed himself a little by the end of the book. I give this story and series a 5 star review, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading a story about men who are strong, caring, protective, and will fight with everything they have for family to keep them safe, even if it means that they have to give up that family for a time.

Another great book by Chris Collett about DI Tom Mariner. I hated to put this book down, the same as the others in the DI Mariner series.

DI Tom Mariner is a man that takes his work very seriously and it gets in the way of his relationship with Anna. She wants a family and to move to a small town in the country to start over. Tom is not really into that, but he is willing to try to make her happy. However, his job keeps getting his attention. Anna finds her life is going in a different direction from Tom and doesn’t quite know how to tell him. Being a Detective, Tom feels that something is off and he decides to find out what is going on. He reads Anna’s texts to find out that she is communicating with another man.

A baby is taken from a day care and Tom is called in just as he’s getting ready to leave for a week of vacation. This case has a lot of twists and deception. The police have planned a raid on a brothel and find a lot of young girls who have been taken as sex slaves. These young girls were told a story to get them to go with their captors. They were young and naive. DI Mariner is still trying to figure out who the young woman is in the picture on his office wall who was found dead several months ago.

Tony Knox works with DI Mariner and has his own personal problems. He and Mariner are good friends as well.  Charlie Glover another detective that works with Mariner. These men all work very hard at their jobs and are very caring men as well. The case of the baby that was taken from the day care, the death of the young woman that was found several months ago, and the women in the brothel are all interconnected and Detective Mariner, Tony Knox, and Charlie Glover all work long hours to solve the case of the missing child. When they start to figure out what is really going on and why the child was taken, the reader is pulled into their lives and the case. I was trying to figure out why the child was taken throughout the entire story and I loved all the threads that needed to be unraveled to get to the bottom of the case.

I love this series and can’t get enough. The twists and deception being uncovered in these stories are very detailed and deep. I love how Chris Collett draws her readers into the stories and how she tangles everything together with these characters. I love DI Mariner and hope that he can find the right woman for him to make him happy.

Thank you for another great story Chris Collett. I give this story a 5 star review, and look forward to more of the DI Mariner stories.

This was my first read by John Mayer, and it will not be my last. I loved this story!!!

Brogan McLane, a young man who had a rough start to life has turned his life around and is now a Member of the Faculty of Advocates in the Scottish Supreme Court, he became a lawyer. He had a beautiful wife that he loved very much, a very good, long time friend who was on the wrong side of the law, but he would do anything for, and a career that he was very proud of. Until everything went wrong. A judge was murdered and Brogan McLane has been arrested for the murder.

Judge Aldounhill, a man who is power hungry, and a has a lot of secrets, is murdered in his home late at night after a rather sketchy party. He is a judge who got his position by telling his friends that if they put his name in to be judge, he would do the same for them in the next go round. However, he never helped anyone else out but himself. He made a lot of enemies by being a man who lied, cheated, and did what he could to get further in life in an unorthodox way.

Big Joe Malarky, a man who has been arrested a few times, but nothing has ever stuck. He is a big man who has a lot of loyal friends. His son is arrested and convicted of a crime he did not commit. Wee Joe Malarky will pay the price that his father has never had to pay. He is sentenced and put in jail with no luck of parole or appeal for the conviction. Big Joe’s wife is beside herself when they receive the second letter telling them that their son will not be able to appeal.

This story was very well written and really drew me in. As I read it, I wanted to know more of the story and couldn’t wait to find out the truth of the murder. The characters were very well developed and made me want to scream at some and shake the hands of others. The story has a lot of twists, detail and the connections to crimes and convictions is well hidden and developed.

I give this story a 5 star review. I look forward to reading more of this series and more from Mr. Mayers. Great job!

We all have that need to find who we are and where we come from. There are those who were not able to find that while growing up with their natural parents, will want it all of their lives. It can help you to become who you should be, or it can make you become someone you think you should be. Either way it can harm you or help you. The trick is to overcome the bad and find the good in life to help you become the person that you want to be, not who you think you should be. The ones lucky enough to be raised by loving parents, whether they are blood or not, generally don’t have that drive or need to find themselves through who their parents were.

Loner is a story of young love, loss, and finding your way through life to be the person you should be. Lincoln Brandt is a young man who left home as a teenager to find the life he wanted with a young girl that he thought was his forever. Unfortunately, life had other plans for Lincoln and Savannah. After tragedy strikes these two Linc is left to pick up the pieces and amend his path and find a new one. He returns home to his mother and is taken down a new path that will open his eyes as well as his heart again.

Kelly is a young girl who makes her own path, she lives with her mother who is not a nurturer and finds her way by acting out. Kelly is a strong girl, with an attitude, but what would you expect coming from a girl who lost her father at a young age, and has been raised with a biker gang for years? She knows the life style and is not afraid to live her life to the fullest. When Kelly and Linc first meet, they find themselves in each others eyes. They both know that the other has had a hard life and that they are just trying to get through another day. Spending time together brings them together and their life takes a different path.

This was a great story and the first one I have read in the series. I look forward to going back and reading the beginning of the series. I give the story a 4 star review.

A story about a young woman who feels she has to protect those she loves by staying away from them and dealing with the death of her father on her own. Little does she know that the people who love her aren’t going to let that happen. This is Book 2 in the Until You Series. It’s a great story about young love and how two people can overcome past hurts and make a go of their relationship.

Samantha is in her senior year of high school when her father is murdered and she is shot at the same time. Her mother has withdrawn into herself, her older brother is away at college and doing his own thing, and Samantha is left to care for her mother, run the household, and stay on top of her school work to keep her GPA up, as the Valedictorian of her graduating class. She’s doing it, but she’s also shutting out the friends who love her and want to help her. She already distanced herself from Joseph because she didn’t want him to end up like her father or be in danger, but at what cost?

Joseph is in college and doesn’t know why Samantha broke up with him. He goes out to forget and get drunk, but ends up in more trouble than what he was looking for, thanks to Sam’s brother. Joseph knows he has to get through to Samantha to help her. He takes matters into his own hands and shows up on her doorstep the day after her 18th birthday with his older brother Fin, and Samantha’s FBI security guard, Michael in tow. They make their way into the house and find out what Samantha has been going through. They make her see that they are there to help her and start making arrangements to do just that.

I really enjoyed this story and I look forward to reading the Book 3 in the series to see more of Samantha and Joseph’s life. I also hope to see some books in the future with Fin’s, Matt’s, Joseph’s other brother, Michael’s and Victor’s stories. They all have great parts in this story and I would love to read more about them. I give this story a 4.5 star review, and I look forward to reading more of D.M. Davis’ books.