The Coachman is a historical paranormal romance of two opposites meant to be with each other.
From the blurb:
As you draw your final breath, the coachman waits…
Awakening in a dreary, unknown cabin with no recollection of how he arrived there, Livingstone Wright is about to discover that hell is just a coach ride away.
Mysteriously cursed to serve the dark lord, he is now responsible for ferrying freshly freed souls to the fiery depths. As he struggles to come to terms with being resurrected, given a home in purgatory, and learning a new profession, he discovers that he is not the only servant of a higher being biding their time as death creeps closer.
For if the devil is waiting to lay claim to a soul, then so too must the Almighty be.
It’s during the sometimes long wait for a person to breathe their last and the final judgment be made that Livingstone meets Hamiel, the light to his dark. The rainbow walker is fair-skinned with golden locks and wide amber eyes behind wire-rimmed spectacles, a soothing aura, and a highly inquisitive mind. The two soon become unlikely friends and then much more as they set out to unravel how it was that Livingstone came to be in Lucifer’s employ.
The Coachman is an M/M historical paranormal romance with two leading men who could not be more dissimilar, a horse with a need for unearthly speed, a manservant who would rather poke holes in reality than mend them in trousers, a hellacious boss, stolen moments in a nether carriage, and a heavenly happy ending.
Content Warning: This story has references to off-page child and adult death.
Molly Otto's review:
The cover is what drew me into this beautiful piece of writing and can say full heartedly that the story matched the cover in its beauty. I do not tend to lean toward period romances and yet this one had me captured from the very first page. Livingstone, upon his untimely death, is sentenced to be the coachman, of the souls bound to below. One of his counterparts, Hamiel, a carrier for those bound to go up, intrigues him from their first aquantiance. Over the course of time, Hamiel assists Livingstone in finding how he passed, and the two build a bond that no being can break. It's such a unique and intriguing story unlike any i have read before. Allowing the reader to see just because you work for the underworld does not make you inherently evil, just your time is meant to be at this point until your next adventure.
SNik's review:
Standalone. Paranormal. Found family. Slow burn. Single POV. After his untimely death Livingstone takes up the job of one of Lucifer’s coachmen delivering souls to hell. He soon meets his heavenly counterpart Hamiel and begins a quick fall into a burgeoning relationship that just might be forbidden. This is a quick read with a fast work build that lacked explanations at times but I still very much enjoyed the story. Even with only Livingstone’s POV, it is clear that both men fall completely for the other although I do wish there was more background and relationship building. Both Hamiel and Livingstone were likable and kind (especially to the downtrodden imp Delmar), they appreciated the importance of their jobs and embraced each other as they recognized each other’s caring. A sweet couple happy to spend eternity together.
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