Reviewed by Chris
TITLE: Wash Out 
SERIES: Anchor Point #7
AUTHOR: L.A. Witt
PUBLISHER: Riptide Publishing
LENGTH: 265 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 21, 2018
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Casey Olson has always known he was destined to be a Navy SEAL, and the best day of his life was when he was accepted into training. The worst day was when a snapping bone ended his dream.
After three combat tours in five years, Logan Carter left the Marines and self-destructed. Now he’s sober and, thanks to a forgiving ex with friends in high places, has a promising job as a civilian contractor. All he has to do is stay on the rails and out of a bottle, even when his demons won’t leave him alone.
Logan likes his job, and he really likes the gorgeous man at the next desk. Casey tries not to check Logan out, but who is he kidding? From the start, despite their best efforts, neither man can resist the other. Sizzling chemistry leads to sex so hot they can both almost forget why they’re stuck in this office to begin with.
It would be perfect, except Logan can’t stop reliving wars he’ll never forget and Casey can’t stop grieving the SEAL he’ll never be. And they’ll never have a future together until they can make peace with their pasts.
REVIEW:
To say that his stint in the Marines fucked Logan Carter life up, would be an understatement. Sure, the alcohol he used to help cope with the aftermath didn’t help any–nor did being an ass to his now-ex–but having to deal with the PTSD, the memories, the nightmares, and just the general lack of direction, has meant that when his ex gives him a chance to help unfuck his life a bit, Carter knows it might just be his last one. He might not be able to fix the mess he made of the relationship with his ex, but that doesn’t mean he can’t see a lifeboat when it’s two inches from his face. Even if the lifeboat is in the shape of rather boring office job as a civilian contractor for the Navy. Logan is determined to take the job and make something out of it. No alcohol required.
Things get a bit complicated when he finds out he will be sharing office space with a recently injured–not that it has hurt his looks any–Casey Olson. Casey, after having broken his leg so badly as to end any hopes of a SEAL career, is just the kind of trouble that Logan doesn’t need. Especially when it becomes clear that Casey isn’t quite over the loss of his dream job. Neither of them really need to falling into an office romance, but some things just can’t be helped. Or stopped. No matter how bad an idea it might be.
I’ve kinda come to think of this series, in my head, as the books about guys who shouldn’t fall in love, but most absolutely need to. And they are all so bloody good at doing it in slightly different ways that I have yet to get bored. Even seven books in. There are certainly fewer complications externally in this one (at least no one is risking court-martial or forced retirement in this one) but boy oh boy do these two have all kinds of shit messing with them internally.
I really liked the way their struggles built off each other, and fit together in some kind of messed up way. While I get logically where Casey is coming from in this book–it has to suck to have to almost daily deal with people congratulating you on dodging the bullet that was your life goal–I have to admit that I tended to lean much more towards Logan and his desire to not have Casey anywhere near the shit he had to go through. The way that Logan’s desire to keep Casey away from that naturally annoyed the fuck out of Casey, and I liked the way that tension built up naturally over the course of the book. They complimented each other nicely, even in their faults.
I wouldn’t say that this is my favorite of the series, but it was still a very solid entry. There was a bit more sex than I was in the mood for, but I can’t really complain about it since there is every chance that next time I read this book it will be just the right amount of sex. I’m just in a particular mood at the moment, and so I tended to do a bit more skimming on those parts than I normally do. From what I remember it is about on par with the rest of the books in the series, so if you have liked that part up till now you should be satisfied with what you get here. There is no denying that the two of them are hot together, so that helps as well. And since I have yet to catch up on all my reading from the two month’s my life was a bit of a mess, and so haven’t yet got around to reading book six in this series, I can confidently say that if you haven’t read any books in this series so far, you’ll have no problem jumping in here if you so desire. So by all means, jump in, have fun, and enjoy some hot military men who might be a little bit broken, but who are always well worth caring for.
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