Savage by Rae Marks
Book 3 in the Hart Consulting series
General Release Date: 1st Nov 2022
Word Count: 84,013
Book Length: SUPER NOVEL
Pages: 345
Genres:
ACTION AND ADVENTURE,CONTEMPORARY,EROTIC ROMANCE,GAY,GLBTQI,MEN IN UNIFORM,THRILLERS AND SUSPENSE
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Book Description
A happily ever after only ten years in the making.
For ten years Mase has tried to tamp down his feelings for Jazz. Every time they come close to having something real, Jazz panics and disappears. They break apart only to collide again.
After three years away, Mase comes home just in time to see something that twists his insides. Jazz was slipped a drug that loosens his tongue just enough to let a bit of his past slip free. But he only calls out for one person…Mase.
They’re locked together for the next few weeks. Mase is determined to show Jazz that there’s something undeniable between them, even if Jazz fights him every step of the way. But their investigation takes a dark turn, and Mase’s past is trying to catch up with him and push Jazz out of the way.
Reader advisory: This book is best read as book three in a series. It contains scenes of violence.
Jazz was going to land soon. He could get in a hell of a lot of trouble before Mase touched down.
“Nervous flyer?” The woman next to him on the plane asked.
Realizing his knee was bouncing, Mase took a deep breath. He was an operator. He could be patient for the length of a mid-haul flight.
“Just in a hurry to get where I’m going,” he said.
“Where are you going?”
The woman leaned forward and tilted her head to the side. She was young, beautiful and sultry, but Mase’s mind was on Jazz.
“Meeting a buddy of mine so I can try to keep him out of trouble for the weekend,” Mase said.
“That’s too bad. I thought maybe you were looking for trouble.”
She smiled. She was sexy, but Mase wished he’d brought headphones so he could block her out.
“No, ma’am,” he said. “My wife would kill me if I got into any of that.”
The flirtatious light in her eyes died at the word ‘wife’, and Mase was glad. If she’d continued to flirt, it would have made her so much less attractive.
Another time, another place, if he were going to meet anyone else, maybe Mase would have considered her offer of trouble, but he was going to find Jazz.
“Is your friend as cute as you?” she asked.
Mase raised his brows at how quickly she’d moved on.
She shrugged. “You already said he’s looking for trouble.”
“I’m afraid you’re a little too feminine for him.” Mase winked.
“Oh. Well then, I hope he doesn’t find trouble.” She lowered her voice. “Many Texans can be very closed-minded about certain things.”
“That’s why I’m flying out last minute…to make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid.”
She nodded, and after a moment of awkward silence, changed the subject. But Mase’s mind stayed on Jazz. It was not a coincidence he was flying to Texas after going AWOL.
There had been a change in Jazz since the incident a few months before. That night had been pure torture. It was the first time in three years they’d been in the same room together, and everything had gone to hell.
Even two months later, Mase started to break out into a sweat when he remembered walking into that hotel room to find Jazz unconscious on the bed.
After ten years, Mase had given up hope that what he felt for Jazz would diminish. He did his best to hold himself back, but that had been impossible when Jazz had been calling his name.
The things he’d mumbled had been just enough to twist Mase’s guts but not quite detailed enough to let him know what he needed to do about it. Jazz had told him the man in question was untouchable.
Mase hadn’t realized why until Max had helped them put the pieces together. Martin Coleman. US Congressman Martin Coleman had gone to college and been in the Reserve Officer Training Corps with Jazz. And Martin Coleman had been at the gala that night. He also happened to live in Houston when he wasn’t representing the great state of Texas in Congress.
Jazz had only been sixteen when he’d started college, so it didn’t take a genius to figure out that the much older Martin had taken advantage of him in a way that had deeply affected Jazz—and was still affecting him to this day.
Mase’s phone pinged—then it pinged again…and again. He was getting messages from Wade and Max. Jazz was at Martin Coleman’s home. Max was working on accessing the security feed. He would remove any evidence of Jazz’s presence.
Mase sat forward in his seat, only to lean back. Leaning forward again, he looked around until he realized he was looking for a quicker way to get to Jazz, and that just wasn’t possible.
Jazz was on his own with no backup. He hadn’t even told them where he was going, probably because they would have tied him down to stop him from making such a crazy decision. Mase didn’t even try to stop his foot from bouncing on the floor of the plane. Jazz was the one person who could throw him into a tailspin.
“Your friend already find some trouble?” his seat partner asked.
“You could say that.”
And there wasn’t a damn thing Mase could do to stop the backlash that was sure to come.
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Rae Marks
Rae has been secretly penning romances since high school. It started with short stories that grew into full-length novels. When she received her first Kindle and had thousands of books at her fingertips, she became a little distracted from writing. Then one day she read a book that she would have written a different way. She began writing again and hasn’t stopped since.
When she’s not writing, Rae can usually be found reading, walking along the beaches of Half Moon Bay, or taking her geriatric dog to the vet, yet again.
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