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An embattled author. Fanatical parents. A son who can’t stay out of trouble. It’s the last one that’ll probably kill him. When Emery Hazard gets drawn into a brawl at a monthly school board meeting, he knows he’s in trouble; his husband, John-Henry Somerset, is chief of police, and they’re already under enough scrutiny as they try to finalize their foster son’s permanency plan. Hazard’s actions, however, have an unexpected consequence: a woman shows up at his office the next day, and she wants to hire him to protect her mother. Loretta Ames is a famous—and famously troublesome—author, and a string of recent attempts on her life suggests that someone is determined to get rid of her. Under pressure from his assistant, Hazard takes the job, assuming that it will be two days of babysitting before Loretta returns to New York. Her murder changes everything. To find the killer, Hazard and Somers will enter a murky world of concerned parents, entitled teenagers, internet trolls, and a whole lot of grassroots crazy. But nothing is straightforward about the investigation, and even Loretta’s daughter seems to have her own reasons to want her mother dead. And when the killer abducts Colt’s friend, Hazard and Somers realize they are running out of time, and they must race to save him before it’s too late.
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What to say? My heart is full. I'm depleted. I'm happy. I'm sad. It's all true. ❤️❤️Way back when I read the first chapter of [b:Pretty Pretty Boys 36623175 Pretty Pretty Boys (Hazard and Somerset, #1) Gregory Ashe https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1511094676l/36623175.SY75.jpg 58383961] I knew I was in good hands. I wasn't wrong. In this, in what seems to be the final entry in the H&S series (I'm not mad about it) the case/mystery was to my mind unimportant. More like a frame onto which the MC get to continue the eternal tinkering of this thing we call life. The blurb pretty much encapsulates the kick off point and then the story moves on which is a good move. There are too many ways to get lost in the weeds with a subject like this. Instead we get the recurring thematic themes of this series as a whole: monstrous parents (even when they don't mean to be) and the ones who are doing their best; the past always returning like the tide (it recedes, it's never gone, and will come back); how things can and do change for the better (even when we're not looking); how people are more (and sometimes less) than what we imagine them to be and have layers upon layers that can take a lifetime to peel and parse. I'm sure I'll be doing a reread and will perhaps have more to say but in the meantime:I think this was a perfect way of leaving Emery & John-Henry, surrounded by old and new friends, family, though some can be a cross to bear. I loved how there were echoes of many of the things that have happened throughout the series. I loved that the ending was happy in a realistic, romantic, non-mushy but absolutely hopeful way. I loved that the two rather explicit sex scenes (a rarity for Greg) served a narrative purpose and were perhaps even not sexy at all. It wasn't the point.I loved that there weren't rainbows and unicorns raining down on everyone we've met in this universe but there's a path forward for them. I'm talking about Dulac and NicoFinally that last scene ... my heart stopped beating for a second because you could see things go not-optimally. But GA took pity on us the readers but primarily on his characters. Thank you.
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5 primary books6 released booksHazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand is a 6-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Gregory Ashe.
