Tierney Macfayden, newly appointed hound of Heaven, is prepared to do whatever he can never to work for Hell again and to live with the pain it caused him. Tasked with finding all the betrayed souls, these hounds have a new purpose in life. But after saving the first hundred souls, they needed to create a home for those they helped.
Kicking and screaming, Kellan Short refuses to believe the story a kidnapper tells him about saving his soul. He’s an atheist for crying out loud! Seeing Tierney, and truly wanting someone for the first time in his life, Kellan can’t believe it. His stepmother’s manipulations warped him into trusting no one, and he denies that Tierney is real.
Tierney wants to be there for his mate, but how do you help someone that believes you are a figment of their imagination or a drug-induced hallucination?
By continuing to be there for him.
Will they ever truly be together, or will they forever be fighting insanity?
Ok, I just have to say this up front. This is by far my favorite Hounds of Hell book to date! As soon as I was given this ARC, I downloaded it to my Kindle and finished it within a couple of hours. I know my boss said something to me while I was reading, but not sure what. Oh well.
I love how Kellan is so quirky in the beginning. Makes you wonder why he acted the way he did in the beginning (see Excerpt below).
Like the other Hounds who found their mates, Tierney is tired of being alone at first. At least he works for Heaven now, saving souls instead of condemning them. Once he hears Kellan’s voice, he is thrilled he has found his mate.
Tierney has the patience of a Saint! Helping Kellan come to terms with his situation. Even taking Kellan to the doctor to prove he doesn’t have a brain tumor and that all of this is real.
I think one of my favorite characters is Ariel. I was touched when she tell the doctor about his son. Then again with the woman with the cattle farm. Kellan touches her heart and mine with his gift. I actually shed a few tears!
Once Kellan is convinced of his new reality, finding out Tierney is his mate was a piece of cake. He might actually have a real life now. That is, if the demon’s don’t get him first.
I really loved this story. They just keep getting better and better! 5 Heart Review!
Fighting Insanity Excerpt
(Chapter 1)
I had no problem adapting to the new way of our lives. My four brothers and I were thrilled. Honestly, the second Colton said switch from working for Hell to Heaven, that was all we needed to know. I didn’t care if I had to start my five hundred years of service over or that I might never retire. The three hundred years I spent dragging souls to Hell ate at me. We might have only taken the ones that sold their souls, but it still was always ugly.
There were the ones who did it for selfless reasons that killed me inside to deliver. And now recently, Ariel the archangel had told me those ones should have been given a free pass because they made the ultimate sacrifice—themselves for another. So the knowledge that I had taken souls that weren’t supposed to even be there weighed on me.
Heavily.
On the bright side, we were saving people now and I had a limitless supply of manual labor to work out my issues. Mondays we were going out with our angel partner and rescuing souls. The rest of the week, we worked on acclimating them to their new lives and moving their belongings to the new boarding school the angels built.
No, that wasn’t a sentence I thought I’d ever say either. And it had only been a little over a week so it wasn’t necessarily a routine yet but it also had promise.
I had just said my goodbyes to my angel, Nisroc, thanking him for his aid in my duties and looking forward to some rest. We were able to recover ten souls in one day because of him popping us all over the globe, which was huge, but also exhausting. Instead I was lugging in a sofa with my brother, Canice, from the moving truck of one of the richer families helping furnish the boarding school.
“I swear if you don’t stop, I’m going to beat you,” Dex Sethos growled, carrying a struggling young man over his shoulder. “Do we have a lockup for the unruly ones?”
“I changed my mind. I believe in guns now,” the man bitched as he pounded his fists against Dex’s back. “I wish I’d had a shitload when you broke into my house and kidnapped me! Yes, I’m being completely unreasonable.”
“My angel just flashed his wings and everyone we went for believed in what was going on real fast,” Canice chuckled, shaking his head. I wasn’t really paying attention though because that man’s voice triggered something inside me.
He was my mate. I knew it as surely as my name.
“We told you what’s going on. It’s not kidnapping,” Dex argued, his shoulders hunched in exhaustion. “Please don’t make me movie-slap you out of your hysteria.”
“Do not touch him!” I snarled, dropping the end of the couch and bolting over there. I didn’t think they heard me because the man was still struggling.
“Just because you slipped LSD into my water supply or something first doesn’t mean I’m going to buy angels and hounds came to kidnap me instead.” I heard a grunt that I suspected was Dex from something the man did. “Put me down!”
“Fine, you little shit,” Dex groaned and slid the guy off his shoulder. He would have landed hard to the floor if I hadn’t caught him in time. “Watch yourself, Tierney. He bites.”
“So do I,” I threatened as I coddled my mate, noting how every inch of him felt against me. “You will not slap him or instigate any other violence against this man.”
“As long as he stops kicking me in the balls and biting me, sure, he’s safe,” Dex drawled, blinking when I growled deeply at him. “Shit, man, I’m sorry. I won’t touch him again. Just be careful, he’s majorly pissed.” He held his hands up in surrender and took a couple of steps towards Canice—as if that would help him somehow.
“And atheist!” the guy snapped as he struggled in my arms. I set him on his feet, blinking my eyes when he immediately bolted for the door.
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