Model
Investigator
Narrated by Brian
Hutchison
Series: Haven Investigations,
Book 3
Length: 9 hrs. and 7 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-14-19
Language: English
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Press
4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (11 ratings)
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With his lover, Kade,
missing, androgynous former model turned private investigator Ollie Petroskovic
is ready to kick some ass to bring him home.
Ollie and his ex, rock
star Jacob Elias, need to find Kade and free him from the clutches of his
manipulative family. But with Ollie suffering from chronic migraines and Jacob
unable to bear loud noises, they are hardly the dynamic duo. It takes a lot of
sweet talking on the part of Jacob—and patience Ollie doesn’t have—to find
Kade. Only Kade’s not whole anymore. The fight for Kade’s heart and mind is far
from over.
It’s Ollie’s turn to guide
Kade through nightmares, self-doubt, and PTSD. Kade’s memories are scattered,
fragmented with possible horrors, and he’s not quite sure what is real. Ollie
will have to draw on his investigative skills to clear Kade of the terrible
accusations his family has made and help Kade unlock the truth. But in doing
so, he ignores his own health, which could have catastrophic consequences for
everyone, especially when digging up the past could be lethal for them all.
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Cat gives
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This is a series that
needs to be read or listened to in order. Model Investigator picks up after
Model Bodyguard that left us with a little cliffhanger. Kade is missing and
Ollie is bound to find him with the help of his annoying ex-boyfriend Jacob
that is injured and unable to perform. While recuperating he is staying with
Ollie until he figures out what he is going to do with his life in turmoil.
This book has lot of
action, some mystery and we keep getting more questions about Nathan’s past and
how he and Kade were connected. This series just gets better and better.
Brian Hutchison did a good
job of narrating, but I will admit I was hoping since this was mostly in Ollie’s
view, we would get Mike Pohable back since I liked his voice for Ollie. I do
like Brian Hutchison and I liked him better for Kade. I do like this series no
matter which narrator both were excellent, and I enjoyed listening while doing
chores.
Excerpt…
Prologue
Ollie
IT ALL happened so
fast. Everyone said that sort of
thing after a traumatizing event, but it was true. It had all
happened so fast. Levi hit me in the head and disarmed me. Jacob was bound.
Kade was then shot with my Taser, then his own gun.
Kade, the love of my life,
bleeding.
A gun pointed at my head
with an order to drive. Kade trying to reassure me while he bled out fifteen
feet away. The cops chasing us first with sirens blaring and then just in a
silent flash of red and blue. Everything else was lost in soundless bursts of
memories until the blockade.
A police car in the road,
and Kade shouting my name as Levi came at me. I swerved and slammed on the
brakes. Then we were spinning, and my already pounding head hit the steering
wheel, dropping me into darkness.
THE STEADY beep of a
machine woke me from the reoccurring nightmare. I couldn’t remember ever being
so tired, groggy, and light-headed. The hospital was familiar, but I expected
to wake up to find Kade by my side, only it was Jacob, my ex-lover, a rock
star, and perpetual pain in my ass, not Kade, who sat dozing in the chair next
to the bed. My heart raced as I remembered the blood pouring from Kade and the
sound of his pained scream.
Jacob jerked awake like
he’d ripped himself out of his own nightmare. Maybe about the very same event.
He glanced at me and sat up. His headphones were back on. Jacob’s hearing had
been damaged by a bomb planted in an amp before a show. If he was wearing the
headphones, he was still experiencing pain from a burst eardrum. He held up a
finger and bolted to the door. Hope filled me. Maybe Kade had just stepped out
a minute to get something to eat or some air. Maybe it had all been a
nightmare. Maybe he wasn’t hurt and it hadn’t been his blood I kept seeing
creep across the floor of the tour bus toward me.
Only it was Will, San
Francisco Police Officer and my elder brother’s best friend, who appeared in
the doorway a few seconds later. His handsome face was set in a serious frown
and his salt-and-pepper hair askew like he’d been running his hands through it.
“Where’s Kade?” I couldn’t
stop myself from asking even though my voice sounded like I hadn’t spoken in
weeks.
“You should rest,” Will
told me.
My blood turned icy.
“Will….”
He shifted Jacob’s chair
away so he could hold my hand and still be at eye level if I turned my
head. “You really should rest more first. One too many hits to the head.”
He was trying to be funny
to distract me and failing miserably. There was no tube in my nose or throat.
No catheter. Just the IV in my arm. So I couldn’t have been that badly hurt.
Even if my head still hurt, I could see okay, ignoring the little sparkles of
light on the edges of my vision, and while I ached a little, it seemed to only
be bruising. “Tell me,” I demanded.
Jacob returned and stood
at the end of the bed, notepad in hand. He’s gone, he wrote.
I frowned and shook my
head, at first thinking the worst but knowing it couldn’t be true. “He’s not
dead….”
“No. Not dead,” Will
assured me, holding my hand tightly and glaring at Jacob. “Missing.”
“Missing? We were all on
the same bus, Jacob’s tour bus, how can he be missing? Levi shot him through
the leg. His injured leg!” Kade’s right leg had been badly damaged by a
roadside bomb over a year ago. He had trouble with it ever since. The sound of
the shot and Kade’s pain made my gut churn, and it was only a fading memory.
Then the gun had been pointed at me, and I couldn’t do anything. Didn’t do
anything. Just did as told and drove. I could have hit Levi, lunged for the
gun, tried to shield Kade. Something….
“It wasn’t your fault,”
Will whispered like he could somehow see inside my head. “You were in shock. In
fact, I think you’re still in shock. Why don’t you rest some more, and then
we’ll talk about this?”
“No,” I snapped at him,
coming back into the present, though a panic attack was beginning to make my
lungs heavy and my chest ache. “Tell me.”
Will let me go and sat
down in the chair Jacob had vacated, making it creak under his weight. “He was
already gone by the time I arrived. When I started asking about both of you,
the hospital staff got all bitchy. Apparently the closest place to the crash
was some tiny Catholic hospital. Shouldn’t have been an issue, but when I
brought up that you were each other’s emergency contact, they got stony. I
ended up calling Ty in. They wouldn’t even answer any questions about you.” He
let out a long sigh. Will must have been desperate if he’d gone to Tyler for
help. He and Tyler didn’t get along on a good day. Tyler was another one of my
ex-boyfriends, only he also happened to be a powerful attorney. “By the time I
got in to see you, made sure you were okay, Kade was gone. The hospital claims
they released him to his family.”
“I’m his
family,” I growled, struggling to sit up. I was so going to hurt someone for
taking him away from me. “We’re his family. We have all the documents in place
and tied so tightly together we might as well be married. And he was shot. How
can a hospital release a badly injured man to anyone?”
Jacob held up both his
hands and waved at me to indicate I shouldn’t get up and shook his head.
Will just put a heavy hand
on my shoulder and shoved me back onto the bed, which actually really hurt. I
sucked in several deep gulps of air as the room spun. The left side of my
temple began to ache with a rising dull throb.
“You’re not going anywhere
yet. Concussion and a couple broken ribs. Your doctor is most worried about the
concussion. There will be tests. Lots of tests,” Will assured me.
“I can’t just sit here. Do
you have any idea what his family did to him the last time?” Just the idea of
them putting him in another mental institution and loading him with drugs to
convince him he was crazy made me nauseous. I had to get to him before it was
too late.
“Probably better than you
do,” Will said quietly. He had been the one to save Kade the last time. No one
should have to be rescued from their biological family. “We’re looking, Ollie.
I promise we’re looking. Britney and I, Ty and Tomas, even Jacob’s got people
searching.” He glanced up at the rock star, who still lingered at the end of
the bed.
“They won’t use his name,”
I told Will. “They’re smarter than that.”
“I know.”
“You’ll have to search by
other factors. I have everything on file. His DNA, blood type, medical records,
dental records, everything. Hell, even the serial numbers for the pieces in his
leg and hip.” Kade had been amused by my need to know so much, but he’d
complied. “I have everything on my computer.” Which had been in my car. I hoped
they’d recovered it from the scene.
Will patted the back of my
hand. “We’re looking. We’ll find him.”
“I should get up and
help.” It was just a bump on the head and a few broken ribs. I could function
with those. Maybe, probably.
“You are going down for a
head scan in a little bit,” Will told me. “Jacob is your escort.” He glanced
out the open door toward several men dressed in suits with their backs to the
door. “And his guards.”
“You’re going to look for
Kade?”
“Of course,” Will said
like I was slow. “I’m sure by the time you’re ready to get out of here, we’ll
have him back.”
But my heart hurt, and
fear lodged itself in my throat. Kade had been badly injured. I remembered the
mess of bone and tissue that had been his damaged right leg. The horrible stink
of burned flesh. Apparently, the Taser and his replacement pieces didn’t mesh
well. How would he recover if his family was too busy fucking with his head?
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