RELEASE DAY- Hurt Me Not- Davidson King

Title: Hurt Me Not
Author: Davidson King
Genre: Fae, Paranormal, Magic, Romance, LGBTQ Fantasy
Publisher: Independent
Release Date: April 26, 2024
Format: Kindle
Pages: 245
Source: Amazon

As a lieutenant at the Fool’s Pass Fire Department and a single father, Easton Kooper’s life revolves around his children. When he receives an urgent call from his son’s doctor, it upends Easton’s world. Suddenly, barreling into a burning building sounds like a piece of cake. With no idea of what to do or where to turn, he’s never felt more lost. And then in walks the answer he didn’t know he needed: a gorgeous fae with an angelic smile, bearing grand promises to turn the Kooper family’s life right side up again.

Finch knows the rules: don’t fall in love with a human. That’s always been simple enough to follow—at least until the Kooper family. Despite his best efforts, Finch grows attached to Easton and his children…attached enough that he’s tempted to turn his back on the fae and their laws completely.

Before long, the pair must brace themselves as both their worlds seek to destroy them. When the darkness crashes down, it’ll take every ounce of defiance and magic Finch has to keep the Koopers safe. Faced with immovable magic and unspeakable danger, is there really any way Finch and Easton’s love can prevail?
Fighting it is hopeless, but embracing it could mean ruin for them all.

Hurt Me Not is a standalone MM urban fantasy. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.

Review by Gloria Lakritz

Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild

Release Day for award winning author Davidson King….. Reading this story I must say this author has many topics she shares in her stories. It’s been heavy lately with murder, mayhem and mob bosses. Hurt Me Not is the balm for her readers, living in this complicated world we now inhabit.

Easton Kooper is a Lt in a local fire department in the small town of Fool’s Pass. His second job are raising his two children after losing his wife 3 years ago, when she died when a motorist hit her riding a bike and she was killed. The horror of this hurt the family deeply and Tru 13 and Milo 10 are finally settling into a life where Dad can be there for them more often changing his work schedule.

When Milo goes for his school check up and they run blood work, the Doctor calls Easton to ask if he can bring Milo over to the hospital immediately to draw more blood as they hope what they are seeing is wrong. As a parent myself, that call is chilling. Milo is scared and the person they meet at the hospital is going to change their lives.

Finch is the nurse on duty. He has blue hair, he is Fae but hides his wings and ears so he humans will not find out, Healing and his patients are his life as he is part of the Light Fae, not the Fae that lives in the Darkness like his Father and his sister and brothers.

Milo at 10 is very frightened of his surroundings and what all entails, Finch calms him and explains he is Magic and Milo will not be hurt (as he magically masks his pain). Finch knows the rules for him to remain in this world…..Do not fall in love with a human. He has been able to keep that until now, until Easton and the two children. This sweet story brings us to the good vs the evil. Finch slowly becoming more and more invested in this family; then invested in Easton as well.

With Finch’s Mother being the leader of The Light Fae and his Father the leader of the Dark, it seems there will be danger brewing and more at stake with danger for all of them. But Finch told Milo when they met that the words Hurt Me Not was Magic and he wouldn’t lie to the young boy. Would He?

Adorable story, 5 stars