Hell to Pay: Hellhound Champions Book 2, Macy Blake

Annoyance turned to affection, longing turned to satisfaction, hopes turned to reality...with a little help from an app, Solomon finally gets his chance with Cody.  We all knew there was something there between them, but I didn't grasp just how much was in Solomon's heart for the gregarious bartender until we got this story.  The softness of his heart blew me away and I can't adequately express just how much I grew to love this man.  Cody's fire and commitment to the family of Hellhounds that adopted him is fantastic.  He made the right kind of partner for the generally gruff yet caring bouncer that was hiding all kinds of tenderness under his abrupt, demanding exterior.  And the passion between them?  Incendiary.  All kinds of awesome in this book.

Despite where they ended up, I couldn't help but be annoyed at Cody's blindness toward Solomon.  It was hard to read at times because we're getting the full force of Solomon's yearning as well as his angst over how to turn Cody's head.  And to know that it's been that way for years was difficult to swallow.  But once they are on the same page, it's all kinds of great and I softened toward Cody enough to not only love  him for himself, but to love him for Solomon.

It's clear that we're heading toward a really big confrontation in their world and I cannot wait to get there!  What I like about this series is that we have one conflict that goes throughout the whole series, including the connected one and each book deals with a small part of it that both illuminates a piece of the bigger picture as well as including a small victory.  It's really tough to read a series that just sees failure after failure until the big moment comes and only then are all the pieces revealed and somehow everything works out.  This series is proving that it's getting deeper and better with each subsequent book and where Hell to Pay gives us more for the whole, it's on its own too with Solomon and Cody finding their place not only together, but in the supernatural world with their new roles and responsibilities.  Big changes are coming for the Hellhounds and I'm eagerly awaiting them!

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As a hellhound beta, Solomon has no complaints. Life is fine. His pack and his goddess-given duties as a protector of the human realm are enough. So what if he’s a little bored and a smidge lonely? Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. When his alpha’s mate suggests he pull his head out of his ass where one of their human pack mates is concerned, Sol cooks up a scheme to break through the wall between him and Cody, but it comes at the worst possible time. 

Cody is convinced the bar he works in is run by a group of elite mob enforcers. Nothing else makes sense. The funny thing is: he doesn’t care. They treat him well and he’s come to consider them family, but like any family, there’s always someone who stirs up trouble. For Cody, that’s Solomon, the bouncer who is constantly glaring at him from the back of the bar. Something is going on, but Cody has a new distraction in the form of an anonymous online lover who knows how to push all the right buttons.

A magical attack causes havoc for their pack, dragging Cody into a world he didn’t know existed. His new family is involved in a much more dangerous life than he could ever have imagined. Hellhounds and humans must join together to stop a terrifying creature hell bent on raining destruction down on them. Solomon and Cody must step up and fulfill their destinies, or risk losing the one thing they desire most: each other.