Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: Covenant
SERIES: The Firm Book 1
AUTHOR: Cora Rose and Lark Taylor
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 356 Pages
RELEASE DATE: May 23, 2025
BLURB:
The Firm can make any wish come true.
Money. A job promotion. Murder.
Whatever you desire can be yours—for a price.
The Firm has ruled St. Dismas for generations. To most, they’re just a myth.
But in truth, they are the last resort of the desperate.
I never understood why anyone would go to The Firm. There’s always a price to pay—a price you won’t discover until your request has been granted.
It was a path I swore I’d never walk.
Or so I thought.
When my brother is gravely injured, everything changes.
I have no choice but to go to The Firm.
I don’t know what they’ll ask of me, but I’ll give anything to save Jackson.
He has his whole life ahead of him, and I’ll make sure he gets to live it.
But when my price comes due, it’s nothing like I expected.
Not drug smuggling or murder. Not the darkness I braced myself for.
No, this is worse.
My price is to fulfill someone else’s request.
To give them what they asked for.
A marriage.
For anyone else, it may seem simple. But not for me.
Because the man I must marry is my worst enemy.
My rival.
The man I once trusted above all others—until he shattered that trust and threw it back in my face.
The idea of pretending to be Matthias’s doting husband for a year is my worst nightmare.
But I won’t do it for me.
I’ll do it for Jackson.
For my brother, I’ll pay the price.
Even if it means condemning myself.
REVIEW:
I found the premise of this story to be very interesting.
Wyatt is a man who used to have it all, until it fell apart around him. Now he’s struggling to survive, and to take care of his brother. There’s nothing he won’t do to protect him.
Matthias is a man who seems to have it all. But things aren’t always what they seem.
Wyatt has to come to terms with a lot in this story. He’s made to question evverything he thought he knew about himself. Who he is, what he’s capable of…it’s hard to figure out when you are thrust into a situation that you chose, even if you didn’t know what you were choosing.
Watching the relationship change and grow between Wyatt and Matthias is really fascinating. Both men have to find their way forward to get what they want and need, from life and from each other. It’s not an easy journey for either of them and neither of them has the upper hand, even if they think they do.
I love Wyatt’s relationship with his brother, and how it changes Wyatt’s whole life without meaning to.
Matthias’s relationship with his own family is just as interesting as his family also heavily influences how he lives his life.
Lark Taylor is one of my favorite authors, and I grab her stories as often as I can. Cora Rose is pretty new to me but they managed to write together seemlessly and I enjoyed their dynamic very much.
They’ve created a very interesting world for these character to exist in and I’m looking forward to more of it in the future. There’s a lot of possibilites with all the brother’s Wyatt and Matthias have between them.
I found this story to have really great writing, with character’s that I fell for almost immediately, even if I did think Wyatt was kind of a brat for a bit. These writers put together a compelling story that is complete. I didn’t find that I was missing anything, although I always want more of a good story.
I have no problem giving this a hearty 5 out of 5 and I am eagerly looking foward to the next book in the series.
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