I’m not anti-relationship, but my life is good right now, and love is not a priority. Too bad my grandmother disagrees. People say she’s scary, and sure, some of her enemies went missing under mysterious circumstances, but she loves me and wants the best for me… which, right now, is marriage. The matchmaking is a lot, and she’s not letting up. What’s a demon to do except invent a long-distance boyfriend?
That backfires hard when the one-night stand I based my fake boyfriend on arrives in our tiny village. Garrett’s here to help our cut-off town assimilate with the rest of the Community of Species. He’s not expecting to find he has a boyfriend he knew nothing about.
It doesn’t take me long to convince him to agree to my new plan. I need the matchmaking to stop; he needs our insular little community to accept and trust him. The perfect solution: marriage. A business agreement with a time limit.
Just business.
Until he demands more. A sexy, nerdy hellhound in my bed isn’t a deal breaker.
But as we get closer to our end date, it gets harder for me to imagine life without him. And when my little cousin goes missing, it’s Garrett who saves the day… and reveals secrets the village didn’t know we had.
In this hilarious spin-off from the Hidden Species series, Gideon's cousins get their time to shine... beginning with Asher and his brand-new hellhound husband.
I fell in love with this author’s Hidden Species series, and then the Here Be Dragons series, so once the Demons-In-Law series was announced, I was excitedly awaiting the release of this first book, Asher.
I loved Garrett’s character. He’s reserved—for a hellhound—but you still get glimpses of the classic wacky hellhound characteristics coming through from time to time that endear that species to us (karaoke anyone?), plus he’s patient and wonderful with the schoolchildren. But the time we get to spend with him before he gets to the demon settlement presents a very contrasting peek at him though—one that shows he knows what he wants and is confident to step up and take it.
Asher is what you’d expect for a demon; seemingly serious (especially given the fact he works in the finance sector) but he also knows what he wants, and when you get these two together the sparks that fly are incredible. With both of them being so dominating and confident in the bedroom, it makes for some pretty hot intimate scenes. Even though we all know how their “arrangement” will turn out in the end, it was fun settling in and watching things unfold once those vows are taken.
I did think it was pretty obvious what had happened with Asher’s cousin, but the circumstances allowed Garrett to shine, which I loved for him. As for what’s uncovered near the end, I’m not entirely sold on the situation, but I trust that the author has more up their sleeve for the upcoming books in the series to keep things interesting.
Overall, Asher was a 4.5-star read for me, and is a great addition to the world the author has built. It also has some great laugh-out-loud moments as I’ve come to expect when reading this author’s work. This story is meant for readers 18+ for adult language and sexual content. While you could read this book without reading the prior series, I wholeheartedly recommend starting at the beginning with first the Hidden Species series and then the Here Be Dragons series as it will immensely increase your enjoyment of the story. If you’re a fan of M/M paranormal romance with snarky, fun characters then you’ll be hooked, I pretty much guarantee it.
About the Author:
Louisa Masters started reading romance much earlier than her mother thought she should. While other teenagers were sneaking out of the house, Louisa was sneaking romance novels in and working out how to read them without being discovered. She’s spent most of her life feeling sorry for people who don’t read, convinced that books are the solution to every problem. As an adult, she feeds her addiction in every spare second, only occasionally tearing herself away to do things like answer the phone and pay bills.
Louisa has a long list of places first discovered in books that she wants to visit, and every so often she overcomes her loathing of jet lag and takes a trip that charges her imagination. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she whines about the weather for most of the year while secretly admitting she’ll probably never move.
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