Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: Quick steamy read with intensely strong, stubborn characters.

Opening Sentence: She had him pegged for a cop the second he stepped out of the beat-up pickup truck.

The Review:

The Promise of Surrender is a novella and one of the quicker reads that I’ve had during the 1001 Dark Nights series. This is a story that is more about an interrupted relationship moving forward than about the actual plot of the gang after Mia, that part of the story is kept unresolved, I’m not sure if that is because it plays out in the actual novels in the series. I have not read anything else from this series.

Mia left Zeke years ago because he just couldn’t get over doing his job. Mia and Zeke were both undercover officers but Zeke just couldn’t get over the rush while Mia had to get away from the terrible things that could happen while being undercover. Zeke put his job before Mia so she walked away. Since then Mia has opened up a pawn shop and lived quietly in the town of Surrender, Montana. Then one day a biker comes into her shop looking for an item and threatening her shop and life if he doesn’t get it back.

Zeke is continuing in his undercover work when he shows up at Mia’s shop. Zeke has an ulterior motive because he isn’t done with Mia. He wants to prove that he belongs back in Mia’s life. Zeke is still doing his job as an undercover operative, because he knows why the bikers have targeted Mia.

Mia is an uncompromising, strong willed woman. I liked her and her purple hair. She is tough because she had to be. I really enjoyed her character. Zeke on the other hand is quite a big man and it used to the adrenaline he gets from the job. He understand that life can’t always go on like it has and he is ready to move on. My only issue was the fact that this relationship can only develop because he is finally tired of doing his job. He has finally seen what Mia wanted him to a long time ago, so really this relationship can only move on because he’s finally ready when Mia was years ago.

Overall, this was a really quick story that really didn’t complete much except for moving on to the next step with this relationship. The ending was kind of depressing and didn’t resolve anything with the gang after Mia. What I did really like about this book was the heat that poured between Mia and Zeke and the funny banter that they had together.

Notable Scene:

By the end of the second game, he was starting to worry that he might be doing the laundry and dishes after all. He’d won the first game. Barely. And she’d taken the second game that had been equally as close as the first.

“You want to quit?” she asked.

“Are you forfeiting? Because if you forfeit that means I win.” He waggled his eyebrows and said, “And I’ve been seeing my handprints on your ass in my head ever since I mentioned it.”

“You’re a sadistic bastard, McBride.”

“You never used to complain, baby.”

“Your break. Unless you want to forfeit. I’ve got a pretty amazing fantasy going through my head too. I’ll let you wear my apron while you’re doing the dishes.”

“I’m just adding a tally of strokes that are going to show red on that sweet ass of yours. Keep talking, sweetheart. My hand is itching.”

The corner of her mouth curled up in a smile and he recognized the look in her eyes. It was the look she had just before he usually found himself flat on his back with her hot mouth around his cock.

FTC Advisory: Evil Eye Concepts, Inc. provided me with a copy of The Promise of Surrender. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review. ( )