Reviewed by Sadonna

TITLE:  Matchstick Men:  Hunter Dane/Camden Snow Origin Story

SERIES:  Hunt&Cam4Ever

PUBLISHER:  Self-published

LENGTH:  248 pages

RELEASE DATE:  September 26, 2019

BLURB:

Sometimes it’s the cop who needs to hit the floor…

Haunted by the worst case of my career, I knew only one way to exorcise the images from my mind, the victim from my soul …

1. Inside the club, I scanned the room. He was here—Camden Snow—a sex god in the guise of unpretentious youth. Only his ice-blue eyes gave evidence of the Dom who took whomever he wished, whatever way he wanted, with a look and a nod. Merciless. Cam found me watching him and fixed me with his arctic gaze. This time, I didn’t walk away. He cocked an eyebrow.

Well?

The last thing I needed was mercy. I dropped to my knees.

Three days after their explosive first encounter …

It was munch night at the most elite underground BDSM club in the Rockies…

…relaxed and informal, highlighted by the weekly Matchstick Challenge game. Detective Sergeant Hunter Dane, reigning champion, looked forward to a relaxing evening to start his 3 days off. A few beers on the deck. A sexy interlude. Stumping a challenger with a new puzzle. Home early for a decent night’s sleep.

But some people are so deadly serious about their games.

Now Hunt has a fresh body and a new puzzle to solve in twenty-four hours if he wants to find a killer.

And Dom Camden Snow comes along to help with a few games of his own in mind. Sherlock and John were never like this!

REVIEW:

Hunter Dane is a homicide detective.  He’s just been through the absolutely more horrifying case of his life.  He’s a switch who belongs to the most exclusive BDSM club in Denver.  Tonight he needs someone to take control and make him forget – release the demons.  That man is Camden Snow.  For years, they’ve danced around each other, but tonight he’s the thing that Hunter needs most and so for the first time, Hunt kneels to Cam.

A few days later, they are back at the club for Munch night and the weekly Matchstick game.  The game definitely doesn’t go as planned.  Instead of three days off, Hunter is back on a new bizarre murder case that seems to be a deliberate taunt to him.  It’s a race against time to figure out who the murderer is and what their real motive might be and Cam is there to help – in more ways than one.

Holy hell batman!  This story!!  Whoa!  Just wow wow wow.  This story has everything.  Amazing and complicated main characters.  A curiously diverse cast of secondary characters. An absorbing mystery not easily solved with real tension.  Incredibly hot sex.  Super smart and sexy protagonists.  The kink is very well described without being so graphic as to pull the reader out of the scene.  The connection between Hunter and Cam is so interesting.  Told from alternating POVs, we really get to know both men and just how different they are.   Both men and their motivations are so intriguing – and we’ve just scratched the surface in this book. The age gap plays into their interactions with each other, but the the D/s elements are probably some of the best articulated in any story I’ve read.  I read On His Knees (the first part of this novel) a couple of years ago and I’m not sure why I didn’t move on the rest of the series.  Believe me that has already been rectified and I’m well into the next book at this point.  Compelling and fascinating story telling.  Highly recommended.

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