This dark series continues with a gleeful arsonist and a vigilante lawyer at odds on how to handle vengeance as a business. Nobody can control Jamie except fire, but he's willing to let Killian try.
From the Jamie blurb:
Burning is control. Craving Killian’s touch is surrender.
Jamie has never claimed to be good. He’s a former hacker, a convicted arsonist, and an ex-con who’s killed just to survive—but he’s found a home at Redcars. The men there aren’t just friends—they’re his brothers. And when the man who held Robbie gives up a name before dying in flames, Jamie uncovers a network of monsters. Rich. Protected. Untouchable. For the people he calls family—for Robbie, who was broken and caged—Jamie would burn the world down and watch it turn to ash to keep them safe.
Only Killian—a lawyer with secrets in his blood and a war room built on vengeance—wants him to wait.
Killian unsettles Jamie in ways he can’t explain. His presence is a spark too close to fuel. The fear, the pull, the heat—it all blurs into something dangerously close to want. Killian doesn’t try to fix Jamie’s broken pieces. And when his steady hands quiet the fire in Jamie’s chest, Jamie doesn’t know whether he wants to fight him… or fall apart in his arms.
Bound by revenge, addicted to control, and drawn to each other in all the wrong ways, Jamie and Killian are on a collision course of pain and need.
The monsters they’re hunting won’t go quietly.
But neither will they.
Jamie is a dark, obsessive MM romantic suspense featuring a man who found silence in fire, and hope in an unexpected touch, combustible attraction, found family, a lawyer with a secret identity who hunts monsters from the shadows—and two men who refuse to let each other self-destruct.
Trigger warnings for past abuse, murder by fire, intense obsession, and dark revenge.
SNik's review:
Second in series (Redcars), best if read in order. Found family. Dual POV. Heed content warnings.
Burning is about control for mechanic and hacker Jamie, and even when he is at odds with hotshot lawyer Killian, he willingly hands over that control to quiet the noise in his head. Killian understands Jamie’s darkness as he has his own jaded past, but he’s risking more than just his heart by becoming entangled with the former convict.
This story continues the overarching plotline of a morally grey group of people trying to bring justice to some terrible villains, protecting victims and seeking revenge for one of their own. Jamie constantly challenges Killian and at first Killian is not sure he can be what Jamie needs but eventually is unable to deny their attraction. Both men have to come to terms with their own personal demons and possibly find a way to work together on a personal level as well as managing their vengeance side hustle. There is the risk to Killian’s group of friends that isn’t really resolved as Jamie and Killian commit to a relationship, but overall I enjoyed Jamie and Killian’s dynamic, the heat between them, and their fall into a special connection. Enjoying this dark series.
Jamie is currently available as an e-book and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
Jamie is currently available as an e-book and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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