Reviewed by Jen
TITLE: The Bounty
SERIES: Redemption Inc. #2
AUTHOR: Layla Reyne
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 70 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 22, 2025
BLURB:
Inspector Theodore Wagner should refuse the job offer that’s too good to be true. But life has been the opposite of good for so long that when six figures and an exit from his reality are on the table, he jumps at the chance.
Catch the bounty. Take the money. Start a new life.
Except when Wags finally bags the bounty, he finds the attractive young hacker too sexy to resist. And with a target on Blaine’s back, they’re soon on the run from all the wrong people. But the biggest threat of all—to their safety and to Wags’s new-life plan—might just be the one bed they’re supposed to sleep in…together.
The Bounty is a prequel novella in the Redemption Inc. series. This M/M age-gap romantic suspense features a former spy in the middle of his mid-life crisis and the snarky, irresistible hacker he’s been tasked to retrieve.
REVIEW:
This interesting little novella appears to do exactly what it sets out to do – set up the storyline for the Redemption series. It seems to be putting the pieces into place, i.e. the various team members, who are being vetted and tested to be a part of the organization. Here, we have Wags, an ex-military “inspector” who helped who be believed were the good guys (the Redemption founders) put away the corrupt bad guys of the organization he was working for. Needless to say, he is awaiting his walking papers. But the Redemption founders have sought his expertise and made him an offer wherein if he completes the bounty and brings in Blaine (who is on the run in connection with previous corruption involving his family and whom they also want to join their ranks at Redemption, Inc.), he too will be offered a full-time position.
Looking at picking up the pieces of his crumbling life, Wags takes the offer. What he didn’t count on was Blaine and their attraction. They quickly must rely and trust each other, and things pretty much explode from there.
This was a super quick read that has all of the elements of Ms. Reyne’s other series, especially Agents Irish & Whiskey and Fog City, and teases and promises more to come. I am glad I was able to pick this up, having read both of those other series and loved them, and cannot wait to sink into another well-rounded, exciting and smexy series.
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