Trey

The Gates boys always get me right in the feels. Trey was shot and almost died saving Sawyer's (one of the heroes of the previous book) life. Trey is a part-time Private Investigator and part-time journalist. His life story is one full of challenges and a whole lot of courage. His college roommate turned out to be a serial killer - who was only caught because Trey called the police after finding horrific evidence of the crimes. Trey and his roommate's mother have started over in L.A. helping women in terrible situations and trying to make new lives for themselves.

While he's recovering from being shot, Trey's former roommate escapes from Prison and starts killing again. And focuses in on finding Trey - to punish him for being sent to prison. Anders Nilsen is an NYPD detective on vacation visiting friends at the Gates when all of this happens. The roommate was originally from New York, and NYPD asks Anders to stay with Trey to keep him safe and help with finding the killer.

Trey and Anders, like the rest of the Gates crew, are just wonderful together. They aren't an immediate fit - even though the attraction is there. They both have to work through issues before they can trust each other completely. But the journey is worth the effort!

I loved the story - and the connections to Trey's past.

This entire series is worth a read - but you can read this without having read any of the other books.

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, but these opinions are all my own.

This is the first time I've read this author and it was the end of a series... and now I'm kicking myself I didn't read this series before. I am excited to check it out, and I want to read more, which is the best compliment I can give an author. I would give this five stars except it feels like this series is a little too dependent on reading prior books- events were not recapped well enough for this book to be read independently, and I don't like that. I also felt like the author makes one character a little too... broken, and then the subject of condescension, but that may also be tempered if I'd read the other books, so I didn't lower the stars too much. Otherwise the book was great and the writing was fantastic, and the story was compelling. I want to read more by this author- hoping more shows up at Netgalley.