Threshold by Jordan L. Hawk and Victor Millais

L’introverso studioso Percival Endicott Whyborne desidera solo condurre una vita tranquilla insieme al suo amante, il detective ex-Pinkerton Griffin Flaherty. Sfortunatamente il padre di Whyborne, un grosso magnate delle ferrovie, è di tutt’altro avviso e decide di ingaggiare Griffin per indagare su alcuni misteriosi avvenimenti in una miniera di carbone. Whyborne, Griffin e la loro amica Christine raggiungono Threshold Mountain, luogo di oscure leggende da prima che la miniera si facesse strada fino al cuore della montagna. Un contingente di Pinkerton di cui fa parte anche Elliot, l’ex amante di Griffin, si occupa già di sorvegliare la miniera. Ma Griffin sa meglio di chiunque altro quanto siano impreparati i detective ad affrontare le forze ultraterrene che li minacciano. Presto, Whyborne e Griffin si ritrovano invischiati in scomparse misteriose, incidenti mortali e segreti sussurrati. Elliot è un alleato oppure desidera solo ricominciare la sua relazione con Griffin? E in questo caso, come può Whyborne sperare di competere con l’affascinante Pinkerton, specialmente visto che Griffin gli nasconde ancora dei segreti sul proprio passato? In una città dove gli amici divengono nemici e orrori segreti si nascondono dietro maschere umane, Whyborne non può fidarsi di niente e di nessuno, nemmeno del proprio cuore.

Dad hires your boyfriend
his flirtatious ex turns up
stupid space crayfish.

This review is for the audio book version. I'm loving this series and these characters. I also love that this has a storyline with a few sex scenes included and not the other way around. I so love Whyborne and hope he never loses his shyness. I'm looking forward to reading book three.

I'm really loving this series and keeping my fingers crossed that in the next books the characters continue to grow and mature. The cases they solve are almost incidental to the growing and evolving relationship between Whyborne & Griffin. At this point they've only been together a few months and suffer from misapprehensions and insecurities: Whyborne sees himself as unattractive, unworldly giant and can't fathom what Griffin sees in him and on his part Griffin sees himself as the poor boy from Kansas with an unsavory past passing as a gentleman in front of his betters and is always in fear that the silver spoon born Whyborne will see thru him and flee in disgust. In the meantime Whyborne is characterized a bit like the wallflowery yet plucky heroine of early romances who seems in need of rescue and aghast by many everyday situations but always saves the day in the end by bringing out a backbone heretofore unseen. He is amplifying his repertoire of spells and using them to good effect. And Griffin is the gentleman lover we all wish to discover in some nook or cranny of our room.We also have Christine an unflappable best friend that we all wish to have.I'll continue with this series. I like it. ;-)*** Two side notes: I got the Whispersync option with this and the narration by [a:Julian G. Simmons 7536615 Julian G. Simmons https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] isn't bad. I just didn't love it. He makes Whyborne sometimes sound fey or silly which doesn't read so to me on the page. But it does help to keep the book going while I'm walking. Another small caveat: be prepared to love the verb HASTEN. The author does. Big time.

About 3.5 stars for this one. Not as enjoyable as book one. The characters were in such a miserable place, I felt miserable with them. And while I enjoy a good horror, it felt a little cartoonish here.