Whole By AM Arthur
Genre: Paranormal, Omegaverse, Non-shifter, Romance, Alternate Universe
Released: May 10, 2018
Publisher: Briggs-King Books
Series: Breaking Free, Book 5
Two broken hearts…one perfect fit.
Alpha Morris Danvers likes his quiet life as a paralegal and as the uncle to his beta brother Morgan’s infant son Aeron. Raised by an abusive sire, Morris and Morgan have relied on each other for years, and Morris doesn’t trust himself to do right by an omega mate. When a tragic accident leaves Morris alone to raise a baby, he reaches out to his boss Ronin Cross for help—and gets more help than he ever imagined from Ronin’s mate and their friends. But Morris can’t take bereavement leave forever and Aeron needs a caregiver.
After surviving an abduction and months of torture, all omega Jaysan Rowe wanted was to give away the baby he never asked for and move on. But after months of acting out, Jaysan finally hits rock bottom on the one-year anniversary of his child’s birth. Desperate to get his act together, he meets with an alpha who needs full-time daycare for his infant nephew. But the instant Jaysan sets his sights on little Aeron he knows: Aeron is his biological child. Even Morris’s nose can tell the pair belongs to each other. His nose also tells him something even more shocking: Jaysan is his bondmate.
Both men feel the bond, but neither is ready to mate, period, so they come to a business arrangement. Jaysan wants a relationship with Aeron, and Morris needs a sitter. It should have been perfect, except for that pesky mating bond. A bond that draws them together, over and over, no matter how hard each man fights it. Jaysan swore long ago he’d never mate or let another alpha touch him during heat—except everything about Morris makes him feel safe. Wanted. Whole. But Morris deserves an unsoiled mate, not someone as dirty and used as Jaysan, and Jaysan will do anything to prove it to the stubborn alpha…even if it means giving up his son a second time.
NOTE: This is a non-shifter Omegaverse story with alpha/omega/beta dynamics, heats, knotting, and mpreg. In this world, omegas are second-class citizens with few civil rights and almost no protections under the law. Trigger warnings for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. This series is best read in numerical order.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Jaysan gets his HEA!
The Breaking Free series is one best read in order, but, if you don’t have time to read them all, I think that Whole could be read as a stand-alone. We met Jaysan in book 4, Found, where he gave up his baby for adoption – a decision that he is now regretting deeply. We know from the book blurb that Jaysan unexpectedly finds his son when he goes to interview for a governor (governess) position with an alpha who needs help caring for the nephew has custody of.
Whole is such an emotional book. Morris Danvers is beside himself with grief when his brother Morgan and his mate, Brody, are killed in a car accident and he is left as guardian to their infant son, Aeron. Morris and Morgan were very close and now Morris has no family left to help share his grief. When Jaysan interviews for the job to care for Morris’s nephew he meets Aeron and immediately recognizes that he is the son he gave up for adoption one year earlier.
There is so much to this story. Morris has dark things in his past he doesn’t share with people and Jaysan doesn’t want to talk about what happened to him when he was forced to fight other pregnant omegas in an illegal fighting club. I really don’t know how to say much without going into too much detail about the book.
My emotions were all over the place. The things that both Morris and Jaysan endured were horrible. The emotional scars left on both men has deeply affected their feelings about taking a mate. Whole is really an emotionally gritty story, one that the author could have easily stopped after Jaysan and Morris finally acknowledge their feelings for each other. I’m so glad she didn’t stop at that point, though, because the events that happen afterward give her an opportunity to tell more of their story and also introduce another character that I hope she plans to write about next.
A.M. Arthur does an excellent job of breaking this reader’s heart and putting it back together again; I hope she plans to continue this series.
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O Factor: Scorcher
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A.M. Arthur was born and raised in the same kind of small town that she likes to write about, a stone’s throw from both beach resorts and generational farmland. She’s been creating stories in her head since she was a child and scribbling them down nearly as long, in a losing battle to make the fictional voices stop. She credits an early fascination with male friendships (bromance hadn’t been coined yet back then) with her later discovery of and subsequent love affair with m/m romance stories. A.M. Arthur’s work is available from Carina Press, Dreamspinner Press, SMP Swerve, and Briggs-King Books.
When not exorcising the voices in her head, she toils away in a retail job that tests her patience and gives her lots of story fodder. She can also be found in her kitchen, pretending she’s an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments.
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