On the search for a serial killer, Detective
Anthony Parglietto and Flynn Parker learn that every man must make a
choice: to kill, to live, to love.
FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Someone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout
London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the
violence. Then he’ll return to the man he loves.
Tough, street-savvy, and used to dealing with
lowlifes, Flynn Parker is the last person Anthony thinks he has to
protect. Then the Bow-Tie Killer strikes close to home and the world
turns upside down. Right is wrong, black is white, and a policeman might
become a monster. But in the name of love, justice must be served. In
the name of love, pain can be endured. In the name of love, a man can
taste the very essence that defines him.
Wow this was an amazing book! One of my favorite elements of this book is
that we get to read the book from the POV of several different characters,
including the murder. I love crime
dramas on television that show the inner workings of the serial killer’s mind
and this book did the same thing. It was
just so creepy to be inside the mind of a seemingly innocuous person as he
morphs into a completely psychotic killer.
This story grabs you from the very
beginning and there is action and suspense all the way through. The ending is wonderful and gives us a little
peek into a relationship that will hopefully get its own book. Anthony and Flynn are such believable and
wonderful characters. They are not
perfect and they have to work on their relationship which is what endears them
to me all the more. This is a real
couple dealing with terrifying circumstances and we are allowed to watch them
struggle through it together.
This was the first book I had read by
Ms. Mac Nicol and I am looking forward to cruising her backlist for other
gems!
Anthony
walked down the hall. He reached the bedroom and gently pushed the door open.
He saw Flynn framed in the light of the lamp shining from the lounge. He lay,
apparently asleep, on the leather and wood divan Anthony had brought over from
Italy. Its dark burgundy colour contrasted with what Flynn wore, which was
nothing but a black thong lying stark against his pale skin. The divan was
under the window. The bed covers were rumpled, as if Flynn had been sleeping.
His robe was draped across the foot of the bed. Anthony moved towards the
gleaming body of his supine lover.
Flynn’s
face was turned away towards the back of the sofa. His dark hair was tousled
and his arms stretched above his head to the right. He wore a blindfold.
Anthony felt a stir in his groin seeing those lean, hairy legs stretched out
wantonly, inviting him to run his hands up and over his groin. Even appearing
asleep, Flynn had the power to excite him, to make Anthony hard and ready. He
stepped towards him, watching the rise and fall of Flynn’s chest with their
already hardened nubs. Anthony wanted to run his tongue over that chest, with
its smattering of fine hair, to take Flynn’s nipples in his mouth and suck them
until Flynn groaned in pleasure. As he got closer in the dim light he saw the
hands with their bonds of silk. Green bonds lay dark against Flynn’s wrists,
fastened to the wooden struts of the upright chair arm. His hands were tight
fists. Anthony chuckled softly, a noise that sounded loud in the stillness of
the room.
“Been
waiting long?’ he whispered as he took off his jacket. ‘I tried to get home as
soon as I could.”
Anthony knew the bonds
would be loose so Flynn could break free if needed but he also knew he
wouldn’t. It was the way the game was played.
Susan Mac Nicol was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in the
United Kingdom. At the age of eight, her family moved to Johannesburg, South
Africa where she stayed for nearly thirty years before arriving back in the UK
in December 2000. Currently, She lives in the rural village of Bocking, in
Essex, with her family.
Sue is a PAN (Published Author’s Network) member of
Romance Writers of America and a member of the Romantic Novelists Association
in the UK. Also, she is a member of a rather unique writing group, called the
Talliston Writer’s Circle, which in itself has a story all of its own to tell.
She has written nine novels, two novellas and a screenplay since February 2012
and clearly believes in keeping herself busy. She has found herself wanting to
stay in the sub-genre that is M/M Romance so more can definitely be expected.
Her plan is to keep writing as long as her muse sits
upon her shoulder. Her dream is to make enough money to give up the day job and
get that big old house in the English countryside overlooking a river, where
she can write all day and continue to indulge her passion for telling stories.
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