Reviewed by Tammy

TITLE: Nothing Special VI: His Hart’s Command (S.W.A.T. Edition)

SERIES: Nothing Special

AUTHOR: A.E. Via

PUBLISHER: Via Star Wings Books

LENGTH: 313 pages

RELEASE DATE: 26 November 2018

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 Lennox Freeman (Free) is one of the best hackers in the world which has caused him to spend most of his life on the run. Never able to put down roots, he couldn’t trust anyone not to take advantage of him, even his own family. If it wasn’t for his best friend, Tech, shielding him, Free’s father would’ve sold him and his skills to the highest bidding crime family when he was still a student at MIT. Free owed Tech his life; so when his friend called for him to come to Atlanta to work with him, he couldn’t say no. However, he wasn’t expecting the overprotective group of detectives that made up Atlanta PD’s most notorious task force. And he certainly wasn’t prepared for the large-and-in-charge SWAT Captain that was responsible for their safety.

Ivan Hart has lived and bled one creed all of his life: To Serve and Protect. His intense focus and determination in law enforcement has led him to finally commanding his own team. He’d worked hard to put together a squad of badasses capable of backing up a very dangerous team of detectives. Being God and Day’s last line of defence came with a lot of responsibility that he took very seriously.

After his divorce was final Hart turned right around and remarried his job. He had his good friends there in the office with him every day, so it was easier to ignore the few quiet hours he spent at home alone each night. He’d settled well into his new routine and was comfortable with it. Then God decided to disrupt everything by hiring another tech specialist for his department. A man whose brains, trendy looks, and voice would leave Hart tongue-tied and captivated at their first introduction.

Free quickly awakens a passion in Hart that he long thought was dead. An attraction he didn’t know existed. He couldn’t fathom that the sexy cyber genius could be interested in an over-sized, big-bearded brute that served criminals the bottom line for a living. No matter what his best friend, God said.

A future with Hart could be potentially dangerous and often times full of terrifyingly close calls; but little did he know that so could falling for the most hunted hacker in the world. All Lennox Freeman wants in life is security, love and protection… Hart had all that to give and more.

This novel is a part of a series and contains previously mentioned characters, but CAN BE read as a standalone. No cliffhangers.

REVIEW:

 His Hart’s Command is the sixth book in the Nothing Special series. In this book we follow Swat Captain Ivan Hart and God and Day’s new tech guru Lennox Freeman who happens to be an ex hacker!

Free was bought in as the new tech support by his best friend Tech. The first time Free saw Hart he became obsessed with his beard. At the time Free has no idea that his obsession with Hart’s beard is going to get bigger with the discovery that Ivan has masses of body hair!

Ivan has a hard time believing anyone could like his beard since he spent 22 years being persecuted by his now ex-wife about not only his beard but his body hair. She used to make him shave his beard and body hair all the time so she wouldn’t have to look at it or touch it! After all the years of having to pretend to be something he isn’t, Ivan can now relax and be himself with Free.

Hart is a supremely confident man win the scope of his work as Swat Captain, providing back up for God and Day’s team. Being browbeaten and put down for so long about his body for so long has made him immensely unsure of himself personally. As he gets to know Free, he struggles to become confident enough to ask him out. Both men are equally confident and vulnerable, strong and weak but they are both perfect for each other as they balance each other perfectly.

As Free and Hart’s romance blossoms and grows so does the trouble surrounding God and Day’s team. We touch bases with all the men in previous Nothing Special books, which I love in a series. There are some tense moments in this book but the love between all the men and their respective partners is there in spades!

Nothing Special is an amazing series. S.W.A.T. is a spin off and if His Hart’s Command is anything to go by it’s going to be just as amazing as the original. Although you can read this book on its own, I don’t recommend that you do. Because all the characters are in every book you really need to read every book in order or you’ll miss the different story lines that are within each book.

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