Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Hiding the Moon
SERIES: Fish Out of Water #4
AUTHOR: Amy Lane
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 216 Pages
RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2018
BLURB:
Fish Out Of Water: Book Four – A Fish Out of Water/Racing for the Sun Crossover
Can a hitman and a psychic negotiate a relationship while all hell breaks loose?
The world might not know who Lee Burton is, but it needs his black ops division and the work they do to keep it safe. Lee’s spent his life following orders—until he sees a kill jacket on Ernie Caulfield. Ernie isn’t a typical target, and something is very wrong with Burton’s chain of command.
Ernie’s life may seem adrift, but his every action helps to shelter his mind from the psychic storm raging within. When Lee Burton shows up to save him from assassins and club bunnies, Ernie seizes his hand and doesn’t look back. Burton is Ernie’s best bet in a tumultuous world, and after one day together, he’s pretty sure Lee knows Ernie is his destiny as well.
But when Burton refused Ernie’s contract, he kicked an entire piranha tank of bad guys, and Burton can’t rest until he takes down the rogue military unit that would try to kill a spacey psychic. Ernie’s in love with Burton and Burton’s confused as hell by Ernie—but Ernie’s not changing his mind and Burton can’t stay away. Psychics, assassins, and bad guys—throw them into the desert with a forbidden love affair and what could possibly go wrong?
REVIEW:
It’s great that this book was released so closely after Fish Out of Water #3 because Ernie and Burton (that never gets old) were begging to have their story told. The majority of this story is happening along the same time line as FOW #3 but don’t make the mistake of assuming that it’s just going to be the same thing told from a different perspective. I was a bit worried it might be but I was wrong.
I loved this book, and I loved these characters. After having met Ernie previously, he wasn’t what I was expecting at all. I pictured him as the vulnerable, innocent psychic who needed the big tough hitman to keep him safe. And yeah, he did need the big tough hitman to keep him safe, but to be fair there was a bunch of trained psychopaths after him. But vulnerable and innocent?? Hardly. Ernie describes himself as a sexual genius, a man who wielded his wiles in order to shield his mind from psychic chaos. But until he met Burton, all of those men were just a means to an end.
The plot of this one will feel much deeper if you’ve read the other FOW books and I’d recommend reading Racing for the Sun too. Ace and Sonny (Racing) actually feature in this book much more than the MCs from the FOW series. This one carries on an over arching plot that runs through the FOW books about a secret and dirty branch of the military that is training psychotic killers who unfortunately tend to go off and do their own murderous things. Could it be read as a standalone? It’s hard to say because I’ve read all of the others, but seriously, this book is a combination of my two favourite Amy Lane couples, so I absolutely recommend you read all of them!
The sex between Burton and Ernie is ridiculously hot. Ernie was right, he’s a total sexual genius. More than the sex, the connection between the two men was gorgeous to read. Yes, there is a psychic connection, and I’m not normally big on books with psychics, but these guys were just too freakin’ cute with their psychic link.
I’m guessing most Amy Lane fans will have already read this series, but if anyone has been umming and ahhing, you won’t be sorry if you give it a go.
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