Out of a fix

If you put a family back together, how can you ever leave them? Through the years, Nash Miller has watched all his buddies fall in love and get married. It was romantic, and he’d wondered when he himself would find the one. Now, older, wiser, he realizes that what he’s always wanted—a husband and a family—just isn’t in the cards for him. And that’s all right. He has wonderful friends, a good life, and he gets to help people, which has always been his true calling. So, when the time comes to protect a family in a tiny town in Washington State, he’s more than willing to get on his white horse and ride.
This one appears to be the end of the wonderful Torus Intercession series with us meeting the last of the original fixers. show more 52-year-old Nash Miller has taken a job in a small town in Washington state. A woman that had left her family behind is now in the WITSEC program and her brother is concerned since the family's safety wasn't a priority for the FBI. He hires Torus to make sure that they are protected during the trial. Seems simple enough.

However, we and Nash Miller soon learn that that’s not at all the case. The woman's ex-husband is absent on his job site. The children are in trouble, and Nash is desperately needed there to "fix" it on so many levels. That's what Torus does...they're all "fixers".

Mary Calmes quickly turns this last story into a heartbreaking and then finally a heartwarming story of a family rescued. This is an engaging emotional story about people that have found their hearts and home rebuilt into a new beginning, thanks to their very own "fixer".

It's no surprise, after all it IS Mary Calmes, that the book so well written. The family will grab at the reader by your heartstrings just as they did Nash’s. The Behavior of one of the sons has placed him in the worst possible situation. Nash sees that all these are children are fragile and need help immediately.... and he sees to it that they get it. The exact issues are slow to be revealed...but you can almost guess what they might be. There are also issues with the father, Luke Duchesne. He doesn’t get an immediate pass, but there’s also an effort made to understand and help him address them and make the effort for his family to do...to be, better. Needless to say, from reading this far that therapists should and do have a prominent role here and that’s a very positive twist to this story. For each of these characters have seemingly countless issues to overcome.

The story moves along quickly, and we find that the romance is not; like the first six books in this series usually was, the center point of the story. The forming of the family was mainly the point in this one, which meshed in nicely with the new dynamic of Nash and Luke. It felt realistic.

It was great to see all the characters from the Torus Agency reunited at the end. We see where each of them is at in their own lives and their relationships. This has been one of my favorite series by one of my long-time favorite M/M Romance authors. I own...are your surprised? all 7 of the books so I can eventually sit back and revisit the Torus Agency at my leisure. I can highly recommend this entire series to anyone that likes M/M romances and appreciates good investigation skills. show less

This started as a roll call for the first Torus Intercession books, and it probably would have helped if I’d read any of them in the last year. Oh, well. Good reason for a reread (eventually). Other than that, a fun book, with fun kids, who had Nash’s number from the get-go. Exactly what I was expecting.