Reviewed by Tammy

TITLE: The Angel of 13^th Street                                   

AUTHOR: Eden Winters

PUBLISHER: Rocky Ridge Books

LENGTH: 202 Pages

RELEASE DATE: March 5, 2016

BLURB:

Noah Everett shed his rent boy existence for a bar and helping young men get a second chance at life. Haunted by those he couldn’t save, he keeps others at bay until his self-imposed loneliness is shattered by ambitious but homeless Jeremy Kincaid. Aged out of the foster system, Jeremy’s the perfect target for a ruthless pimp like Willie Carnell. He wants no part of any future that includes working for Willie, but without a strong ally, he may not have a choice. Noah knows exactly what Willie’s capable of, and if he’ll fight for strangers, he’ll fight harder for Jeremy. Even if it takes confronting his own past.

REVIEW:

Jeremy Kincaid is 18 years old and as such he’s now too old to stay in foster care. Having been told to leave his last foster home Jeremy has been making do with what he can so he can at least graduate from high school. He’s found an abandoned derelict warehouse that has an empty basement, nearby is a laundromat where he can at wash and sometimes dry the few clothes he has. He has one meal a day, lunch from the school cafeteria. No-one has asked if he’s still in foster care and Jeremy isn’t about to tell them he’s aged out and not entitled to his one meal a day! Unfortunately, Jeremy he has attracted the attention of the local pimp Willie Carnell and Willie isn’t about to let go of the idea of having Jeremy as one of his “boy’s”. Jeremy runs to the laundromat to wash his wet clothes after having been chased by his ex-boyfriend Trent who he has discovered works for Willie.

This is where Jeremy meets Noah Everett. Noah owns the bar beside the laundromat, the laundromat came as part of the deal. As far as Noah’s concerned the laundromat could burn to the ground and he’d be a happy man. When Noah see’s Jeremy going inside the laundromat he decides now is the time to meet the young boy he’s seen many times doing his homework whilst waiting for his clothes. Unbeknownst to Jeremy, Noah is the person they call the Angel of 13^th Street. Noah rescues young boys and girls who have either run away or have been thrown away and end up in Willie Carnell’s clutches.

Noah knows exactly what it’s like to sell his body just to have enough money to eat and have a roof over his head. Noah too was a foster child who got lost and forgotten, the only person he ever loved was Billy Cordell. Billy was a rent boy for the then pimp Stevie, he was Stevie’s best money earner until Stevie became worried that Billy wanted to take over his operation. That was when Stevie tried to kill Billy, he sliced his throat and threw him from a fast moving car. Unfortunately for Stevie, Billy lived and the day Billy got out of hospital was the same day Willie Carnell came to be, this was the same day that that Noah saw Billy for the last time. Until, he makes an appointment to see Willie to discuss his continued harassment of Jeremy.

After making a deal with Willie about Jeremy, Noah then does everything he can to make sure Jeremy says at school and gets the scholarship he’s been trying so hard to win. Things are going wonderfully for both men except for the fact that Noah is falling in love with Jeremy but Jeremy is only 18 years old. Jeremy might only be 18 but he’s packed a lot living and maturity into those years. Not only is Jeremy excelling at school but as one of his projects he’s turned the laundromat into a viable business that Noah agreed all the profits are Jeremy’s. Everything is going so well that when Jeremy learns that Trent is planning on taking over Willie’s business by killing him and Noah it comes as quite a shock. Before Jeremy can warm Noah, Trent and his thugs kidnap him but he manages to escape and finally warn Noah but it’s too late for Willie.

I absolutely loved The Angel of 13^th Street. I can honestly say I didn’t want the book to end. This is the first book of Eden Winters that I’ve read but you bet your bottom dollar it won’t be the last! I you haven’t read it yet you are doing yourself a massive disservice, go and get it.

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