REVIEWED by Jen B.

TITLE: Final Lover

SERIES: Exit Strategy

AUTHOR: Jocelynn Drake

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 246 Pages

RELEASE DATE: August 16, 2019

BLURB: Two assassins meet, don’t kill each other, and fall in love.

It’s happily ever after, right?

Not so fast.

Reformed mercenaries Justin Mallory and Gabriel Prescott have taken the big leap of living together. They’re even working together.

But “one last job” has them taking a falsely accused man and his young son into their home for safe keeping.

While dodging bullets and fellow hitmen out for the $27 million bounty, Justin and his G Love realize that falling in love was the easy part. Building a life together might be more than they bargained for.

Join Justin and Gabriel for their final adventure as they protect an innocent man and uncover the missing piece to their forever.

REVIEW:
G Love and Special Sauce are back in this final installment of the series. The guys are working on renovating their home and adjusting to life together as they try to phase themselves out of the mercenary business. Unfortunately, their handler is still giving them little jobs, although they are now more on the keeping people alive side of the spectrum, as opposed to the taking people out side of the business. The latest job is something they feel drawn to accept. A young man is on the run with his young boy (Devlin and Jake) after Devlin’s husband was murdered. There is an absurdly large contract out for him, and the guys need to find them before someone else carries out the contract.

There is a lot more to the story surrounding Devlin and Jake – Devlin and his deceased husband were scientists involved with a groundbreaking green environmental project which is believed to be the cause of the threats. In addition to keeping Dev and Jake safe, Justin and Gabriel must get to the bottom of who actually ponied up that much money for the contract in the first place, as well as thwart any other mercenaries/assassins who couldn’t resist that kind of money, even if it meant taking out an innocent man and child.

I love these guys. They are so much fun, and it is easy to see how they’ve changed each other and their lives for the better. Things ramp up a bit when one of the mercs looking for Devlin and Jake happens to be Kai, someone Gabriel had hooked up with once in the past. Justin’s jealousy is sparked which makes things a bit more interesting, but not in such a way that it causes any major issues. Their solid relationship never wavers even with Kai’s presence. When Kai is told that he received misinformation and took on a contract involving a child, he decides to help keep them safe instead. I would have liked to have seen a bit more of what Justin was seeing with Kai and Devlin but I am definitely interested in seeing that play out in another story.

Needless to say, things are good for these guys, and they definitely needed some peace after what they’ve each been through. We get a happy ending, closure on a number of fronts and while I am sad to say goodbye to Justin and Gabriel, this was a nice ending to a fun and exciting series that I’m sure fans of Ms. Drake will enjoy. You can’t go wrong with any of Ms. Drake’s series/books, but this would also make a great start for anyone looking for a new author to try.

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