The Sinner's Touch: A Manwhore Series Book 2, Apryl Baker

A serial killer, a past with more heartache than one should ever experience, a future forged through adversity, and a blast from the past that threatens to shatter what's left of her heart.  Angel is in for a wild ride and her happily ever after might not even happen.  After witnessing a body dump by the serial killer plaguing Boston she's in major danger.  The FBI agent tracking the killer who comes to interview her is none other than the man that devastated and broke her years ago.  And the best part?  Apparently she's still married to the man and he forgot he was married at all.  They'll have a long way to go if they hope for anything together unless they don't catch the killer before he catches her.

Angel was a young girl with more maturity than anyone as young as her should have.  Her brother Peter is her world and his friendship with Kade brings a love into her life she never anticipated.  Their tumultuous relationship wasn't one filled with hearts and flowers but it was something she counted on, believed in.  Until one night destroyed everything she ever believed in, everyone she loved.  With a dead brother, a miscarriage, and a broken heart, she's left alone to pick up the pieces of her life.  She does well for years and has big plans for her college degree and business plans.  And then one small breather behind the bar she tends brings consequences she never saw coming.

When Kade walks into the bar to interview a witness it's the green eyes filled with fire and a solid punch to the jaw that wakes him up to a future he never thought he deserved.  He forgot to divorce the spitfire with red hair and a target on her back.  Unsure if it's luck, fate, or a cosmic joke, he's determined to protect her and maybe, just maybe, their chemistry can help him salvage what's left of his heart because that remaining piece is held solidly in her hands.

There's an intense amount of danger surrounding Angel and the roller coaster of feels just never stops in this book.  I was blown away by how horrible I could feel for her situation.  From her dealing with their past to what she has to endure at the serial killer's hands, there's almost no end to her turbulent emotions.  Kade stirs things in her she thought she'd never feel again and the weight of the life he chose to live without her is almost crushing.  The extent of what she suffered through is immense and as she and Kade work through their past and their current feelings it's their love and her inner strength that give her the courage to believe in a future, not just for her, but for them.

I despised Kade and yet wanted to see them work it out.  The whole "forgot" thing was the worst part of it all for me and even after reading their follow-up in Kade I still don't know how much I love the man.  I love him and yet I cringe hard any time his epic screw up is mentioned.  Each time she revealed something else she had to survive alone and how those revelations affected him I crowed inside because I wanted him to really see all that he left her alone with.  No amount of running and apologies was going to fix what he did.  Only when he commits to now and from here on out and fully understanding his role in everything can I accept them being together.

Their story isn't finished, though, and I'm actually looking forward to seeing them fight for their happiness and their family in Kade.  I have a lot of hope for these two because with how low, how destroyed they were, they deserve more, they deserve happiness.  Their souls couldn't find home with anyone else for a reason and their journey is nothing short of a violent storm.  Through forgiveness and redemption, though, they can finally find peace.  The entire Kincaid family is incredibly interesting and I'm definitely looking in to the Manwhore series as well as the rest of the men in the Kincaid Security and Investigations series.

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*Kade and Angel's story isn't over.

Their past is going to catch up with them,

and maybe the missing piece to their family is going to be found.

Read their continuation in Kade,

the first in a companion series featuring the Kincaid men and their friends.

Gut-wrenching, soul-searing grief has haunted Angel Kincaid for seven years, since she suffered a miscarriage. Just when she starts to think she’s come to terms with it, everything she thought she knew is cast into doubt when she comes face to face with a little boy, and  every instinct tells her the child belongs to her—that he is her son.

Kade can’t shake his wife’s reaction to the boy, and is determined to uncover the truth. He’d been an undercover cop investigating Los Muertos, a bloodthirsty Miami cartel, when Angel lost their child, but he knows one thing…

A mother knows her child.

When they uncover the horrifying truth, the race is on to save the son they never knew from a fate worse than death—and they have to face Los Muertos to do it.

With the help of the men of Kincaid Security & Investigations, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins to prevent the cartel from turning an innocent child into a soulless killer.

But will Kade reach him in time?