Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: A Hard Call

SERIES: Stonewall Investigations #1

AUTHOR: Max Walker

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 240 pages

RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2018

BLURB:

Zane Holden hasn’t had the easiest go of things. His childhood was rough and adulthood hasn’t been a walk in the park either. The only good thing in his life would be Stonewall Investigations, an investigative company he found to work primarily with the LGBTQ community. Things were ok and Zane was finally healing from a personal tragedy but the reemergence of a serial killer turns his world upside down.
Lorenzo De Luca is a cocky defense attorney dripping in Italian charm. He’s well known as one of the best lawyers in New York City, a title he worked hard to achieve. When he picks up a difficult case, he finds that he needs extra help. This leads him to Stonewall, where he meets Zane for the first time and instantly feels himself falling for the mysterious and stone-cut detective.
The two men have their own hangups to work through, but both men are having a hard time denying the connection between them, even though they’re trying.
When fate insists on pushing them together, Zane and Enzo give in and start exploring their feelings. They’ll need to balance their budding relationship with the stress of Enzo’s case, which takes them both on a twisting journey toward the truth, all while a bigger threat looms on the horizon.
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A Hard Call is the first book in the Stonewall Investigations series. It’s a full-length, steamy gay romance novel.

REVIEW:

You can’t imagine how excited I was when I learned that there was a new spin off series to the Sierra View series.

Zane Holden is the owner of Stonewall Investigations. We first met Crow and Shepard Kensworth’s cousin in the Sierra View series, where his company helped out with several investigations. He has had a rough time of it in life. His parents irresponsibly left him and his siblings in foster care. He love of his life was brutally taken from him by the sadistic and evil serial killer “Unicorn”. And he has taken some solace in the fact that the Unicorn was dead but now it looks like the dead man they had thought was the Unicorn is probably not the right one and the gay community is back in high alert in the New York City area. Lorenzo “Enzo” De Luca strolls into his office in need of help with a case he is defending. Zane and Enzo have instant chemistry but Zane tries, in vain, to fight it. An unexpected dangerous event literally throws the men together and there’s no turning back.

Both men captured my attention right from the start. Zane, with his connection and loss from the Unicorn, and Enzo, the strong, handsome charismatic Italian who doesn’t take “No” easily, made for fireworks coming my way. Both men are take-hold, in charge kind of guys and I was wondering how that would go but I loved how tendering and considerate they both were of each other when Zane finally accepted Enzo.

Being the huge fan of Max Walker I am I jumped on this new spinoff series. I was wondering, when reading The Sierra View series and Stonewall Investigations kept popping up, if there might be a series coming. I can tell this is going to be a terrific new series and can’t wait for more. I highly recommend this newest book from Max Walker.

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