A New Empire
by Layla Reyne
Series: Fog City #3
Publisher: Layla Reyne (Self-published)
Release Date (Print & Ebook/Audio): November 11 (Ebook & Print); Audio TBD
Length (Print & Ebook/Audio): Approx. 52,000 words
Subgenre: M/M Romantic Suspense
Warnings: Explicit sex; explicit language; violence.
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Blurb
Legacies were made to be rewritten.
Assassin Hawes Madigan wants to do right--by his family, his organization, his city, and the man he's falling for, ATF agent Christopher Perri. But Hawes's rules are being challenged by someone willing to kill for the old ways. To save his soul and his empire, Hawes must make an impossible decision: fight from the outside or bend the knee to win back his throne from within.
Chris is used to being the inside man, the one undercover. Now, he's on the outside marshaling forces in support of the man and the ring of assassins he was supposed to take down. His mission shifted when he found something that's been missing for ten long years--a home, with Hawes.
As Hawes and Chris make a dangerous play for control, the lines between allies and traitors blur. Trusting the wrong person could destroy the legacy Hawes envisions for the Madigans. But not trusting anyone, or each other, could mean lights out on their love and lives forever.
The King and King Slayer fight together in this thrilling conclusion to the Fog City Trilogy!
Teaser
“Listen to me, Madigan.” He gritted through the pain of pulling his arm out of the towel sling, because dammit, he needed two hands for this. He framed Hawes’s face, holding his gaze, his attention, their world, steady. “The organization needs you. Your family needs you. I f*cking need you.”
“Why?” Hawes choked out.
“Because I don’t just think I’m falling for you. I fell, baby, the minute I walked into Danko and saw you across the room. Your head held high, like you f*cking owned the place. The second you called me Mr. Perry.” He gave him a little shake for emphasis. “I know.”
Hawes closed his eyes, and Chris’s heart skipped a beat, until they opened again, full of resolve. Of that same confidence he’d fallen for. “I fell for you that night I walked into my condo and saw the box of mooncakes. You got it; you got me. I know too.”
“Then we’ll get her,” Chris said, heart racing now. With love, and hope for the future. “And we’ll get justice for Isabella, for our families, and for us.”
“And then?”
“And then we’ll rebuild the empire, by your rules, better and stronger than ever before. Together.”
The king smiled, wicked, deadly, and f*cking glorious.
Release Blitz Q&A with Layla Reyne
Q: Secondary Characters: Why they are important to the story?
LR: For Hawes in Fog City, his siblings, Holt and Helena, are the bricks of his foundation, along with love interest, Chris, and friend and ally, Braxton Kane. Hawes, Holt, and Helena run both family businesses with him, he trusts them implicitly, he looks to them for input, and they each contribute differently to the family unit. He wouldn’t want to do this without them.
Q: If you listen to music while writing, share your playlist.
LR: Here’s my Fog City playlist, which alternated frequently with The Revivalists albums. I swear, every one of their songs seems to fit this series!
Q: What would a love letter between the characters look like?
LR: From Hawes to Chris:
Dante, I know. --H
From Chris to Hawes.
Madigan, I know. --Mr. Perry
Carra's Review
Just lay me down now, because after finishing A New Empire, Layla Reyne has totally wiped me out. I’m not even sure what to write that’s not going to just reiterate everything I said about the first two books of this series. Edge of my seat? Check. Incredible romantic suspense written so that you do not want to put it down? Double check. Still kept on my toes even once my suspicions of who was pulling all the strings to try and pull off a coup of the Madigan family’s business-behind-the-business were confirmed? Yep, that too.
Everything about this final installment revolves around trust—and while you can never be sure about who anyone should be trusting in this family and their business, it is completely evident now that the trust between Chris and Hawes is absolute. Where that will get them in the end with the uncertainty that surrounds them is anyone’s guess.
If you follow my reviews, you should know by now I wouldn’t steer you wrong. So when I say this series has been my favorite of this author’s so far, that’s saying A LOT…especially since I’ve run out of adjectives to describe how incredible I’ve found her romantic suspense series. A New Empire holds true to this, delivering on the action, suspense, and adding enough twists and turns that you can never be sure of, well, just about anything. Anything except the devotion between Chris and Hawes—there is no room for doubt when it comes to that.
I’m not saying more, because I really can’t without starting to spoil things. I’m happy with the way things went down, though I would have be good if the baddie got a bigger smack-down (I can be vengeful like that). And while the main issues of this series do get tied up here in this book, doors are left open for some of the supporting characters to get their own stories. I don’t know about you, but I sure would like to see what’s going on for Holt. Scotty too deserves his own tale as well. I’m just gonna kick back and wait a bit…
A New Empire is Layla Reyne again doing what she does best, and I find myself again dishing out another 5-star rating. Remember, this is the third book in the series, and you must read these in order or you will be lost. It’s a wild ride, but boy did I enjoy the trip. Trust me, you will too. Then you’ll be joining me while we wait for what comes next, so buckle up! And yes, this one’s also for readers 18+ for adult language and sexual content…because Chris and Hawes together…whew!
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