The cliffhanger and revelation at the end of this book literally made me yell ‘WHAT’ and I am already impatient for the next book.

This is not your everyday immortal and Atlas is certainly not the most typical human and watching them figure out how to compromise, be vulnerable with each other, all while avoiding the people who want to harm them made for a perfect read. One aspect about this series I really appreciate, particularly for a paranormal story like this, is that the power dynamics-both in and out of the bedroom-go against expectations in really beautiful and tender ways. I thoroughly enjoyed both the intrigue of the plot as it progressed as well as watching these two characters' relationship develop. They must also confront their own feelings, a few unspoken truths between them all while Atlas is also brought to the very scene and events that haunt his literal nightmares. Our heroes are tasked with piecing together the grim goings on in their surroundings that appear connected to their own circumstances. The plot explodes outwards and we see new places and meet new characters, all who may or may not have their own agendas. Building on the revelations of the previous book, we follow Cristian and Atlas as they flee the country in pursuit of answers to the horrifying creatures who are after them and Cristian’s family.

Picking up where *Rare Vigilance* left off, the second installment in MA Grant’s *Whitethorn Agency* series is yet again a fantastic read that I didn’t want to put down and wished continued on for another 300 pages. Stalked by the past and uncertain of the future, Cristian learns he does have something to fear after all…

Searching for the missing vampire draws them into a web of betrayal and half-truths that reaches further than Cristian ever could have imagined, and they uncover a string of grisly murders that bear a striking similarity to the attack that changed Atlas’s life forever. With him is Atlas Kinkaid, a former marine turned fierce bodyguard…and fierce lover, albeit a hell of a complicated one.Ĭristian’s cunning is tested by the politics and intrigue of the vampire families of Romania, and the warm welcome he and Atlas were assured of quickly turns to ash as they race to unravel the mystery of an old friend’s disappearance. After he was betrayed by the man he called an uncle, leaving upstate New York for the Carpathian Mountains of his childhood is more a matter of practicality than fear.

Especially those who live in the shadows.Ĭristian Slava doesn’t fear much.

The Iron Crown by M.A. Grant