Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Avenging Kelly

SERIES: The Lonely Heroes (Book 9)

AUTHOR: Sam E. Kraemer

PUBLISHER: Kaye Klub Publishing

LENGTH: 320 pages

RELEASE DATE: January 23, 2023

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One man is set on revenge, another man for justice. Can the two of them work together to find the answers to right two wrongs? 

Kelly Brown is finally free from the United States Disciplinary Barracks, where he took part in an experimental program that changed his life forever, and he’s got a few scores to settle—who kidnapped his sister at fourteen, and who got her pregnant?

London St. Michael is mourning the loss of his good friend, Mathis Sinclair, who is mown down in the prime of his life by a hit-and-run driver. The men of Golden Elite Associates-America are determined to find the unknown driver and bring them to justice.

When Kelly shows up at the Victorian with a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder and a list of questions as long as his arm, London is quick to take up the torch to help the man find his answers. Nowhere in their quest for the truth do the two men expect to find an attraction that can’t be denied.

This work of fiction is approximately 83,000 words and ends with an H-E-A. It’s book nine in “The Lonely Heroes” series. It is recommended that the series be read in the order released.

REVIEW:

Woo hoo! I get to hang out with some of my favorite heroes again!

Kelly Brown is paying for going AWOL when his little sister Mia got kidnapped and doing time in the brig got even harder when a set-up added to his time. Now his good buddy Mathis is dead and it looks like it could be connected to him and Mia’s case. Finally discharged but learning that he will never be totally free because of his involvement in a super top-secret experimental program he will always be connected to Operation: Jackpot and the that shit Poker Chips that The Gambler fill him full of getting him addicted and the tracking chip in his spine he’s stuck with forever. Or so it seems. When he’s released he heads for the Victorian in NYC that houses GEA-A. He needs answers and he knows if anyone’s knows it would be Gabe Torrente. But what he doesn’t expect is to run smack into one of the most gorgeous men he’s ever seen. So good looking he should be on the television. London St. Michael’s brain seemed to be short circuited by the handsome man sitting in the conference room with Smokey demanding to know what happened to his good friend Mathis on Christmas Eve.

The chemistry was explosive with these two men from first sight. But each man has his own personal hurts that makes them each leery and not easy to trust. But knowing that they were each the one for the other was huge. And I get each of their concerns. Falling for a man who is addicted to that crap the government invented is scary because you have no idea what he will be like when he is finally off it. And learning to trust when you have been screwed over by everyone in your life from your own mother, her evil and disgusting husband and the US Government would make you that way. But watching how careful Lon was with Kelly was touching. He wanted to take care of and protect the man he fell for.

I am discovering that I like Dallas, Landon’s brother that we met in the On The Rocks series. I love how those two series keep mixing together. Dallas is intriguing and I think he and Rafe will be quite the match up!

I first discovered and fell in love with Sam’s writing with this series. It is the series I still long for and all the men that are attached to it either through their service together in the Armed Forces of working together as a team of found brothers at GEA-A. As the series is drawing closer to a close (at least we still get Rafe’s story before it concludes) I am a bit saddened. These heroic men (even if some of their methods are a bit questionable) have become real to me. Sam has created a family that is not only believable but makes you desire to be around them. And leaving them is going to be really, really hard. That’s the sure sign of a great series!

This book had moments that had me holding my breath but I loved every single  moment of it even though parts of the storyline aren’t fun. There are very evil people in this world and this book spotlighted some of the worst kind of evil. But being in Kelly and London’s presence just made you hope and love. A huge thumbs up for me! 👍

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