Captive Hearts
Deviant Hearts, Book 1
By: A.E. Ryecart
Narrated by: Dan Calley
Series: Deviant Hearts, Book 1
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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“Too young, too blond, too skinny. Billy Grace was everything my head told me I didn’t want. Too bad my heart had other ideas."
When Dashiell Slater uses his fists to stop a vicious assault, the last thing he expects is to be offered a job as reward for being a Good Samaritan. Out of work and short of cash, all he has to do is chauffeur Billy around. It’s easy money, so saying yes should be a no-brainer. And if the offer’s not quite legal, so what? Dashiell’s smart and savvy and knows how the world works. But there are strings attached, and Dashiell doesn’t want to get entangled. He’s ready to say no and walk away...until he sees the fear, despair, and fathomless sadness in Billy’s jade-green eyes.
“He was
everything I wanted, but couldn’t have. What was the use in dreaming when I was
already bought and paid for, the property of another man?”
Billy’s life
is a daily round of fear and abuse. One wrong word or one wrong look can mean a
beating, or worse. Dashiell’s everything Billy’s heart craves - a man who’ll
love and protect him and who’ll keep him safe and catch him when he falls. But
Billy can’t have what he yearns for, because, to give in to his heart means
breaking a promise he’s vowed to keep at all costs.
A
soul-searing kiss, a whispered promise, and the chance of a future together is
there for the taking. But life is never that simple, and danger surrounds them
at every turn. Imprisoned by devotion, duty, and obligation, Billy’s heart is
captive, but can falling for Dashiell finally set it free?
Captive
Hearts is the first book in the Deviant Hearts series.
©2018
A.E. Ryecart (P)2019 A.E. Ryecart
Cat gives this one 5 Meows Overall with a 3 Purr heat index...
Captive Hearts was a very
good story. It is unique where the main character isn’t all the fluffy hero.
Where he isn’t as bad as the bad guys… he is no angel. Yet he is very likable. Dashiell
goes to the bathroom in a bar where a young man is being attacked. He rescues
him to find he doesn’t look happy with the man he is with. The man offers him a
job to protect Billy and Dashiell finds himself in over his head.
There are many twists and turns, the story is quite captivating. Pun intended. I loved the characters and look forward to more in this series!
I used to tell my stories to myself. Now I tell them to the world. The stories I only ever told myself were set in a world where boy met boy, where best friends became more, where the hero rescued not the damsel but the hot guy he'd been secretly crushing on. I wanted to read those stories. I craved to read those stories. But those stories weren't out there. Or that's what I thought, until one Christmas, when I unwrapped a shiny new e-reader. All it took was a few clicks, and my world changed forever. I found my tribe. But there is life outside of MM & gay romantic fiction in all its configurations. Allegedly. When I'm forced to switch off the trusty, faithful word machine, there's a husband to feed and talk to, pubs to drink in, and cake to eat. I love to do all those things and more, before I rush back to write all the words. I'm a Londoner, born and bred, but I now live just outside the big bad city but close enough to hop on a train so I can get my regular metropolitan fix.
Want to connect with me? Then find me here, and say hello!
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