Prince of Killers by Layla Reyne
Series (name + # in series): Fog City #1
Publisher: Layla Reyne (Self-Published)
Release Date (Print & Ebook): June 10, 2019
Length (Print & Ebook): 216 pages (52K words)
Subgenre: M/M Romantic Suspense
Warnings: Explicit sex including mild kink; explicit language; violence; instances and/or discussion of homophobia; off-page instances and/or discussion of PTSD, drug use, and abuse of minor characters.
Book synopsis:
No indiscriminate killing. No collateral damage. No unvetted targets.
These are the rules Hawes Madigan lives by. Rules that make being Fog City’s Prince of Killers bearable. Soon, he’ll be king—of an organization of assassins—and the crown has never felt heavier. Until the mysterious Dante Perry swaggers into his life.
Dante looks like a rock god and carries himself like one too, all loose-limbed and casually confident. He also carries a concealed weapon, a private investigator’s license, and a message for the prince. Someone inside Hawes’s organization is out to kill the future king.
In the chaos that follows the timely warning, Hawes comes to depend on Dante. On his skills as an investigator, on the steadiness he offers, and on their moments alone when Hawes lets Dante take control. As alliances are tested and traitors exposed, Hawes needs Dante at his back and in his bed. But if the PI ever learns Hawes’s darkest secret, Hawes is sure to get a knife to the heart—and a bullet to the brain—instead.
There’s no shortage of twists and turns in this new romantic suspense trilogy from Layla Reyne. Prince of Killers is book one of three. Fair warning: buckle up, cliffhangers ahead!
Blue lights flashed down the narrow exit walk, and sirens screamed by on the street as police cruisers sped to the alley on the opposite side of the yard. They had to move, now.
Hawes snatched up the knife he’d dropped mid-fall and followed Dante, the two of them creeping down the dark walkway. A few feet shy of the street, Dante paused and tucked his gun back into his waistband where Hawes had first noticed it earlier that night. Not more than two hours ago, and yet the world had turned upside down in that short amount of time.
And it kept turning. Dante rotated to face him and held out his hand expectantly. “The knife,” he demanded. “You can’t go running out into the street with it, and as attractive as that fitted suit is on you, there’s nowhere to hide that blade that won’t be obvious.”
Hawes hesitated, unwilling to give up his sole tactical weapon to the man with a gun and a good thirty pounds on him.
“I trusted you at the restaurant earlier,” Dante said, as if reading his thoughts. “And I gave you information that proved to be true. Now I need you to trust me.” Here in the shadows, his big dark eyes were bottomless black holes. Dangerous celestial objects with enough gravitational force to draw Hawes in and snuff him out for good. Hawes already felt the pull to this stranger who’d told him the truth and saved his life.
He handed over the knife. “I need to get to my brother and sister.”
Dante strapped the knife into an ankle holster under his pant leg next to another blade. “I can get you there.” He righted himself and led them out of the shadows and onto the sidewalk. “But there’s a catch.”
“What kind of catch?” Hawes asked, walking close at his side.
“How do you feel about riding tandem?”
Hawes followed the direction of Dante’s fond gaze to a rainbow parade of fiberglass crotch-rockets. Surely not. No—there, right at the end, pearlescent midnight-blue and gleaming chrome… “The Harley?”
Dante smirked. “The Harley.”
Hawes’s gut clenched, again. Damn, this was gonna be a thing.
About Layla Reyne:
RITA Finalist Layla Reyne is the author of the Agents Irish and Whiskey, Trouble Brewing, and Changing Lanes series. A Carolina Tar Heel who now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home, Layla enjoys weaving her bi-coastal experiences into her stories, along with adrenaline-fueled suspense and heart-pounding romance. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and its Kiss of Death and Rainbow Romance Writers chapters. Layla is a 2019 RWA® RITA® Finalist in Contemporary Romance (Mid-Length) and 2016 RWA® Golden Heart® Finalist in Romantic Suspense.
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Get to know more about Layla Reyne in this fun Review Tour Q&A!
- Do you listen to audiobooks? If so, are there any you’d recommend?
Yes! One of my day jobs is as a legal resource editor, and I always have an audiobook playing when I’m doing that work. The Tales of Verania series by TJ Klune, narrated by Michael Lesley, is an absolute treasure.
- What are your five favorite words?
I just need one: Fuck, especially the way Tristan James says it narrating audiobooks 😉
- Do you have a favorite cover from one of your books?
This one! Cate Ashwood who did all the Fog City covers sent me the cover concept for Prince of Killers first, and I screamed “Holy Shit!” so loudly that my dogs startled. And I kept repeating “Holy Shit” for like the next week. She deserves so much credit, as does Wander Aguiar for the gorgeous photos, and Patrick Sean (the model) for just being that damn gorgeous.
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