Publisher: Mischief
Corner Books
Author: Toni
Griffin
Cover
Artist: Freddy MacKay
Length: 84,651
words
Format: eBook
Release
Date: 19th October 2016
Pairing: MM
Price: $5.99
Blurb:
"You
need to go to Atherton," they said. Easy for them. The higher-ups at
headquarters don't have their whole world on the line. When Detective Damon
Kelly's bosses send him across the state on a "simple" cyber fraud
case, he never thinks he'd meet his mate, then risk losing Kieran by doing his
job. No matter what other possible angles Damon works, his partner
Grant Davis is sure Kieran's best friend Corey's their guy, and Grant is bent
on bringing him in.
After
the birth of their Alpha's son, the Atherton Pack needs another beta. Kieran
Baxter couldn't be happier to accept. What Kieran doesn't expect is for all
hell to break loose his first week on the job. Clashing with his mate at every
turn, and fighting a human cop who wants to arrest Corey for hacking a
government database, wasn't part of the plan either.
As more
evidence piles up, a bigger, scarier picture comes into focus that could
threaten not only the Atherton Pack, but everything the world knows.
The Atherton Pack, Book Four
Series
Info:
The
Atherton Pack
Book 1:
Liam
Book 2:
Ben
Book 3:
Corey
Excerpt:
"I
don't like him," Damon's partner, Grant Davis said as he climbed into the
passenger side of their rental car. "The guy is guilty as sin. I mean,
just look at him." Grant waved a hand back towards the house where Corey
stood in the doorway watching them.
Damon
sighed. He knew Corey Jones was guilty of hacking the Australian Births,
deaths, and marriages database. Unfortunately, he had to try to convince his
partner that Corey wasn't the one they were after. How he was going to
accomplish that with the way Grant had latched onto Corey was anyone's guess.
Damon
started the engine and pulled the car away from the curb. Grant continued to
rail next to him about how Corey was their man; Damon tuned him out. His mind
stuck on one fact and one fact alone. With the way his body reacted as soon as
he stepped into Corey's home, Damon was positive his mate had been there, and
thankfully by the masculine scent, it was a man.
His body
still thrummed with desire. As much as he hated it, right now Damon was glad
Grant had fixated on Corey, as it meant his partner wasn't paying close
attention to him. He was also thankful that he was wearing underwear, or his
condition would have been a hell of a lot more obvious than it already was.
It had
taken everything in him not to question Corey about who else had been in his
house. His partner was already suspicious. Damon didn't want to add fuel to the
fire. Now all he could think about was ditching his partner and calling Corey
to find out who the hell his mate was. The fact his body refused to calm the
fuck down convinced Damon his mate had been in Corey Jones's house.
His life
had just become complicated beyond measure.
Damon's
emotions were all over the place. He couldn't decide if he was happy this had
happened or not. Now wasn't exactly the right time for him to be meeting his
mate, especially with his partner on the warpath. Damon was here to do a job,
and that job was ultimately to arrest Corey Jones. He already knew he couldn't
let that happen. He needed to keep his head clear, and finding his mate wasn't
going to allow him to do that.
Then
again, the idea of sinking deep into the man that was fated to be his, having
him writhing in pleasure under Damon as he breached him and bit, marking the
man as Damon's for all to see, had his heart racing and his dick aching in
seconds. There was no way Damon could explain why he would be all over another
guy all of a sudden, which meant he would have to wait until this was all over
and could take the time he wanted to get to know his mate.
"Are
you even listening to me?" Grant asked sharply, snapping Damon out of his
whirling thoughts.
"Sorry,
what?" he asked. He hadn't even really been paying attention to where he
was driving, which wasn't a smart idea. Luckily, he had driven them back to the
Atherton Hotel, where they were holed up. Accommodations in this little town
were few and far between if you weren't looking for a tourist hot spot. The
hotel sat right on Main Street with a decent pub attached to it.
"Where
were you?" Grant asked him. "You completely zoned out."
"Yeah,
sorry, just thinking about the case," Damon replied quickly.
"Anyway," he continued, not letting Grant say anything, "I'm
starving. Feel like a bite to eat?"
"Definitely.
We can grab some food, then go over the case again. I really would like another
run at Corey Jones."
Damon
sighed internally. "Sure. What do you feel like?" They were still
sitting in the parked car outside the hotel. They had been eating there for
dinner, and he was sure they would be again tonight, so he didn't particularly
fancy it for lunch as well.
"Let's
drive around and see what we can spot. I don't really feel like the typical
fast food though."
"Sounds
like a plan to me." Damon put the car in reverse and backed out of the
angled park. They slowly drove through town, turning off the main street and
heading down the parallel road. They kept their eyes open for anything that
caught their attention.
"Oh.
How about that place?" Damon motioned to a bakery called Sinful Delights
off to the right. His mouth was already watering at the possibilities.
"Hell
yes," Grant agreed.
The shop
looked to be popular, as all the parking in front was taken. Damon slowed and
indicated when he saw someone exit the shop with a bag of goodies and climb
into a car. He waited patiently for the man to pull out, and he parked.
"Let's
go. I'm starving." Grant rubbed his hands together as they walked the
short distance to the shop front.
As soon
as they entered, a number of scents hit Damon all at once. Delicious pastries
sat in a glass-fronted cabinet. In another, there were fresh rolls and
sandwiches already made up ready to go, and behind the counter sat a small
warmer with what looked to be homemade pies, pasties, and sausage rolls.
Everything smelled incredible.
"Oh
yeah. This is what I'm talking about," Grant said as he made his way
through the small crowd waiting to be served so he could properly see what was
in the cabinets.
Damon
let him go. What pulled him up short was the overwhelming scent of wolf.
"This
was a bad idea," he muttered to himself. There was no going back now,
though. Not that he really wanted to. This place looked and smelled amazing. He
just hated that he'd gone to a pack-run business, especially given the reason
they were here in the first place. What were the odds in a town of this size
that he would wind up here?
Normally
Damon always tried to support his fellow pack members wherever possible. With
Grant tagging along, though, he didn't want to risk his partner getting more
suspicious than he already was.
The
jingle on the door was constant with customers coming and going. Damon stepped
up behind Grant as his partner placed his order. Anyone would think that man
was a shifter with the amount of food he was ordering. Damon had just decided
on what he wanted when a man in a forest-green apron stepped up on the other
side of the counter. His name tag said Declan.
Their
eyes connected, and Declan paused for a moment before he hastily looked to
Grant and then back at Damon. He pasted a smile on his face, even though Damon
could tell the other man knew exactly who they were and didn't mean the smile
in the least.
"Welcome.
What can I get for you today?" he asked.
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4 out of 5 stars
Kieran is the 4th book in the Atherton Pack series. While Kieran could be read as a standalone, for a richer reading experience I highly recommend reading the previous books. I'll admit that I haven't read the book prior to this one but I wasn't lost at any point in the storyline.
Kieran is a fast paced read which picks up the story of the Atherton Pack after Corey hacks into the government's computers to add their newest pack member into the Births/Deaths Records. Damon and his partner are sent out to find the hacker and bring them to justice. Damon is well aware of who the hacker is but his partner has his eyes set on Corey and does everything he can to catch him. While all this is going on, Damon stumbles on the man who is his destined mate, Kieran. A chance meeting between them happens at a bar and results in Kieran marking Damon.
The road for Kieran and Damon is not smooth, and it leads to a lot of misunderstanding between this new couple. A large part of both their animosity and what leads to the misunderstandings is that they don't know each other. There wasn't a 'getting to know you' period in their relationship because the mark occurred on their very first meeting. Even with their mating link they don't seem to communicate very well. I will say that this frustrated me because they had so many opportunities to discover the other person but didn't take them. Or maybe they didn't think to use those opportunities to know their mate.
There are a series of events in Kieran that affect the entire shifter community and it will be interesting to see how those events shape any future books in this series or in the Holland Brothers series. While Kieran is a high impact book in the series, I just wish there had been more development in the relationship between Kieran and Damon. That really was the only lacking point to the story for this reader/reviewer. While that was a sticking point for me, I highly encourage other readers to see for themselves as what doesn't work for one reader may work for another. So I recommend checking out Kieran as a solid entry into the Atherton Pack series.
Author
Bio:
Toni
Griffin lives in Darwin, the smallest of Australia's capital cities. Born and
raised in the state she's a Territorian through and through. Growing
up Toni hated English with a passion (as her editors can probably
attest to) and found her strength lies with numbers.
Now,
though, she loves escaping to the worlds she creates and hopes to continue to
do so for many years to come. She's a single mother of one and works full time.
When she's not writing you can just about guarantee that she will be reading
one of the many MM authors she loves.
Feel
free to drop her a line at info@tonigriffin.net anytime.
Author
Links:
Website: www.tonigriffin.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonigriffinau
Email: info@tonigriffin.net
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