Hammer's Thief Chosen Angels Book #2
Gay Romance, LGBTQ Fiction, Fantasy Romance, Holiday
Woods End Publishing
Nov 1, 2022
Kindle
427
Amazon
Eight nights to fall in love.
Running away from his foster home at eighteen, Locke struggles to survive the brutal winter streets in Atlantic City. Trust is a fickle thing, and Locke hasn't had much of it. He's worked hard for everything he has. When a helpful security guard takes him in during a Code Blue, Locke discovers that some things are more than they seem. His fantasy becomes reality, but sometimes reality is too good to be true.
Graced by God, Judah Maccabee has dwelt in Yahweh's kingdom for nigh on two thousand years, rising through His ranks to become a leader among the warrior angels. A blessing bestowed, Yahweh has found the one for him. Now Judah has only the eight nights of Chanukah to fall in love with the one who will complete him. The only catch - his other half must love him in return if he is to stay earthbound. But expecting Locke to fall just as hard and fast as he does rebounds in a devastating way.
When egos rule and demons lurk, can these two men pull together, trust in family and faith, and earn love? And can they do it in a single week?
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Yahweh has told Judah Maccabee that he has a gift waiting for him in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the gift Judah knows is his other half. Judah has the eight nights of Chanukah to find and get his other half to love him or he will have to wait another year to try again.
Locke is nineteen years old and has gone from one foster home to another until he finally found a home with his foster parents who he called Foster Doctors. Overhearing a conversation between them talking about joining Doctors Without Borders Locke assumed (we know what happens when we assume) that he was once again going to be sent to another foster home so without questioning what he heard he decided to jump the gun and leave before he was tossed out.
Living on the streets, freezing, starving and too proud to ask for help and too afraid of going to a shelter where he knows he will be tormented because of being gay he lives in cardboard boxes and eats out of dumpsters. He has been searching for his father who he has never met and whose name he is unaware of, but he keeps trying.
Judah has assumed the role of an off-duty security guard and offered his services to the Atlantic City Police Department searching for the homeless and bringing them to a shelter for protection. He is led to an alley where he discovers someone living in a cardboard box and knows it is his other half. What he doesn’t know is his other half’s name or if it is she or he. With Ari and Gabriel’s help, if you read book one then you are familiar with their story, Ari talks to Locke and convinces him that Judah is his cousin.
Trust is something Locke has little experience with, and he accepts Judah’s help while keeping his guard up and waiting for the axe to drop. Judah has eight nights to get Locke to love him, days he is returned to Heaven and nights back on Earth. He is also worried about the age difference Judah is twenty-nine in human years and Locke is nineteen. A nineteen-year-old who has known little or no love and has had to fight for everything he has so opening his heart to love, and trust will be very difficult for him.
This book is 427 pages long which I doubt because it seemed to go so fast, well it may be true, but I was glued to each page. I know there are many who would believe that at nineteen it is unrealistic to fall in true love, but I was married at nineteen and was married for sixty years. This story brought back my memories of celebrating Chanukah, dreidels, chocolate gelt, and lighting the menorah minus a visit from demons of course lol.
What happens with Judah and Locke is not something I am willing to reveal but it was quite a surprise.
LGBT/ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/DEMONS & DEVILS & ANGELS/WITCHES & WIZARDS – SERIES
