Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Second Match
SERIES: Perfect Match Agency (Book 5)
AUTHOR: Wendy Rathbone
PUBLISHER: Eye Scry Publications
LENGTH: 203 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 29, 2023
BLURB:
One failed attempt with the Perfect Match Agency leads to a second—will this omega be The One?
Morgan is a handsome, wealthy businessman who attracts young omegas easily, but most are looking for a sugar daddy and never stick around.
Signing up with the Perfect Match Agency sounded like the best bet for finding his perfect mate, but Morgan’s first match ended before it could get started.
Now, the agency has found a second match for Morgan. He’s been skunked before. His heart is yearning, but his mind tells him not to get his hopes up. Will this omega, finally and forever, be his perfect match?
Would anyone want an omega who can never go out in the sunlight?
Riley has lived his whole life in isolation in a cult community that believes he is a demon because of his severe allergy to sunlight. Rejected by the cult and never forced to go to church, Riley shares nothing of their beliefs.
Still under guardianship of his parents and their backward ways, Riley is about to go into his first heat. It is church law that demands all omegas have husbands before that happens.
So far, Riley has rejected two horrid marriage prospects and no one else in the community wants anything to do with him.
Without Riley’s knowledge, his parents sign him up for Perfect Match, deciding any marriage, even with an alpha outside their beliefs, is better than nothing.
But what Riley really needs, more than marriage, is to be rescued from his bleak and toxic environment. And Morgan, when he meets Riley, may be just the alpha to do it.
Omegaverse, MM romance, matchmaking, instant attraction, heat and rut, virgin, age gap, rescue, disability, caretaking alpha, wedding, mpreg, HEA.
Perfect Match Agency is a multi-author gay romance series. The stories are non-shifter omegaverse, with high heat and low angst. Male pregnancy is possible in the world. Each book can be read as a standalone, features a new couple, and a satisfying happily ever after.
REVIEW:
I have been waiting for Morgan’s chance at love after his supposed match to Kace wend awry and Kace and Morgan’s Best Friend/Assistant Storm found out they were the Perfect Match.
Morgan seems to have it all. He’s very handsome, well off financially and a true catch. However it seems that the omegas he’s dated only want him to be a Sugar Daddy but not the forever mate he longs for. When the match with Kace went awry he gave up. But now, after all this time, Perfect Match Agency says they really do have the perfect match with an almost 98% match level. But the young man is 2.5 hours away, lives with his parents in a cult, must be married before they can even touch and has to be married before his first heat which is approaching soon! When Morgan and Riley meet there is instant attraction and sends them into their ruts/heats. The two marry immediately but the Cult’s Senior Arch Lector Carter wants the “demon child” for his own. Can they have the fated mate life they both want or will the cult prevail?
These two men more than deserve happiness and love. Morgan is the quintessential good guy. He’s always looking out for those that he cares about and makes sure they have what they need. He is the perfect mate for sweet Riley. And Riley…that poor, neglected, sweet young man. He may have had the comforts to exist but his mental abuse will leave lasting scars. Thankfully Morgan will see to his every need physically and mentally. The love that will be showered upon him will be everlasting. This young man fills his caregiver heart completely. And as gorgeous as they both are their babies will be so beautiful.
But don’t get me started on the level of abuse and neglect that Riley’s fathers and family dumped on him. Along with their evil and backward cult. How they went from a very devastating medical diagnosis (xeroderma pigmentosum XP) to believing he was a demon or some kind of vampire is beyond me. And to ostracize him for something that is generic and not under his control is just cruel. It was bad enough that he couldn’t socialize but to be shunned by his own family and literally kept in a gilded cage was the ultimate betrayal of your duties of bringing a child into this world. Thankfully they enrolled him in Perfect Match Agency and Morgan rescued him. Morgan also showed him that just because he was afflicted with this devastating disease didn’t mean he was any less wanted and desired.
I was so thrilled that Kace and Storm were a part of this story. From Kace befriending Riley to Storm being there for his best friend. And that toast at the rehearsal dinner just humanized Storm even more. And then him going all alpha on Carter made me cheer!
I am so appreciative of the author giving us Morgan HEA. He not only deserved it but truly got his own special prince.
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