Release Day Review: How Much for a Life of Lies by RJ Scott

19 July of 2024 by ButtonsMom2003

How Much for a Life of Lies By RJ Scott

Genre: Action/Adventure, Romantic Suspense, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Romantic Suspense, crime, single dad, action-adventure, kidnap, left for dead, hate to love, impossible decisions

Released: July 19, 2024

Publisher: Love Lane Books

Series: Shadow Team, Book 3

Length: 60,000 words

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

Posing as a couple leads to passionate nights and dangerous days, but when their undercover mission implodes, revenge is everything, love is impossible, and they have nowhere left to run.

Zach has always been a man torn between duty and family. Strong, capable, and fiercely dedicated to being a SEAL, he’s made countless sacrifices to ensure the safety of his son and his country. Driven by guilt, he leaves newborn Charlie in the care of his estranged twin brother, and no one, not even his self-destructive team mate, Kai, can make him change his mind. Their partnership can never be anything but a clash of personalities, with Kai’s fiery nature and Zach’s stubborn focus on duty, but as they navigate their latest undercover mission, one more stolen moment is all it takes for every barrier between them to disintegrate.

Kai, former 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron, raised in a survivalist environment, is a skilled helicopter pilot, a loner, and never wanted a partner. When he’s kicked out of the service for not being a team player, he moves from black ops to the new Shadow Team, alongside Zach. The team wants his ability to color outside the lines, and challenge authority—he just wants a job that gets him into the action.

As their covert operation in the Canadian wilderness takes a dangerous turn, they run for survival, hemmed in by imminent dangers. With no one else to trust, they must lean on each other. But as their bond deepens, and passion explodes, will they live to see another day?

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

So much action and suspense and love.

RJ Scott’s books always hit me hard in the feels; even her action and adventure ones. How Much for a Life of Lies has so much action and adventure, as well as danger for the two MCs, Kai and Zach, that I was on the edge of my seat for much of the story. Note: How Much for a Life of Lies is connected to Miracle from RJ’s Single Dad series but I don’t think you have to read it to enjoy this one.

This is such a great hate-to-love story. Zach and Kai first meet when Zach’s SEAL team helps Kai’s Canadian 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron out of a bad situation. They don’t exactly hit it off too well but hate turns to lust and they have a “moment” before parting ways. Later they end up reluctantly being partners working for Shadow Team.

This review would be way too long if I were to try and give glimpses of all of the different things that happen in this story. I could hardly believe that it’s only 60,000 words long; it seemed much longer (in the best way). I’ll just say that some of the things these two go through before they get their HEA had me nearly sobbing – sometimes because it was a bit sad and other times because the moments were just so very touching.

I love epilogues and the one for Zach and Kai is set five years into the future and it absolutely perfect!

I have to add one more thing…I love everything that RJ Scott writes, and she writes in all types of genres, but I think she really excels at writing this type of story. If you haven’t read her Lancaster Falls series or her Lake Prophet Mysteries (co-written with Eli Easton) I highly recommend them if you like action, adventure and suspense stories.

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O Factor: Spicy

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About Author

RJ Scott, author of M/M romance.Writing love stories with a happy ever after – cowboys, heroes, family, hockey, single dads, bodyguards

USA Today bestselling author RJ Scott has written over one hundred and fifty romance books. Emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, single dads, hockey players, millionaires, princes, bodyguards, Navy SEALs, soldiers, doctors, paramedics, firefighters, cops, and the men who get mixed up in their lives, always with a happy ever after.

She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.

The last time she had a week’s break from writing, she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a box of chocolates she couldn’t defeat.

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