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Book Blurb

Ten years ago, omega Alex Cary's fiancé broke his heart and left him with nothing. He's got a good career as a home chef, but he's lost his ability to trust.

Alpha Sol Delaney loved Alex more than oxygen, but he was dependent on his father's money. When his father demanded he break things off with the foster kid from the Bronx, Sol had no choice.

Ten years later, a freshly divorced Sol has returned to New York with his young son in tow. He wants Alex back, but it's not that easy: Sol's ex-husband and his mother in law are trying to drag Sol back, and there's no length to which they won't go.

This intense 85,000-word omegaverse romance is overflowing with passion, drama, and of course, clothes-ripping sex. Hot and descriptive bedroom action makes this gay paranormal mpreg romance suitable for adults only!

Book Review

Some reunions are easier than others, and ‘The Family We Make’ stars what must be one of the most difficult and traumatic ever. Ten years of forced separation, no matter how much Alex and Sol used to love each other, are not easy to overcome. Especially because Sol gave in to his father pressuring him to marry an “appropriate” omega for purely financial reasons. Alex felt betrayed – and after all the other people leaving him behind I can see why Sol was the last straw. Now that Sol is divorced and Alex runs into him purely coincidentally, they could have had a happy reunion and moved on. But, being the kind of men they are, that is not an option for them. What follows is a suspenseful story full of danger, personal and family drama, and some gut-wrenchingly painful character growth on both sides.

Alex is an omega from the Bronx, has already overcome numerous obstacles in his life when this story begins, and he is now a successful home chef. One of the biggest emotional traumas in his life was when Sol left him despite their engagement, but Alex has grown and changed a lot since Sol knew him. He is now a very self-sufficient man to the detriment of letting anyone close – his best friend, Buddy, is an exception to some degree, but there is always an emotional wall around Alex. And while I admired him for his resilience and hard-earned independence, the stress that loneliness puts on him is serious. Alex is so tough that he almost doesn’t notice what he is doing to himself until it is almost too late.

Sol is still a work in progress, as far as I am concerned. While he now, ten years later, rejects some of his father’s old-fashioned thinking, in other ways he is still far too dependent on what “people” will think if he gets close to Alex. Sol is not emotionally astute, he has more prejudice and bigotry inside him than he wants to admit, and he has no idea how to handle Alex. Sol falls back on being overbearing and rude, just because he has no clue what to do, but that is no way to behave. He has a lot to learn, and while he eventually redeems himself, I can’t say I liked how long it took him to get there.

Initially there is a lot of animosity between Alex and Sol. It takes a long time for them to just get back to speaking terms, which makes sense considering their past. Neither is willing to budge from their position, one is more stubborn than the next, and Sol’s ex and his despicable family interfering doesn’t help. Alex can be too principled for his own good, Sol is really bad with human interactions and dealing with emotions, and the result is a long, hard road to them defining a new life for themselves. I kept hoping they’d manage and kept cheering them on, but it was painful to watch at times!

The secondary characters deserve a mention as well. First there is Buddy, an older omega who stands by Alex through thick and thin. Then there is Sol’s son, Carsten, who may only be six years old, but sees the world in a unique way that makes both Alex and Sol realize what is really important. His nanny, Inge, is a great woman, and even Alex’s mobster friend, Jimmy Senior, is utterly charming despite his more than murky background. There are many more, and they make up a wonderful supporting cast!

If you like difficult reunions and hard-earned second chances, if stubborn men with more pride than is good for them are your thing, and if you’re looking for a read that is spellbinding, entertaining, and wonderfully sweet (in the end), then you will probably like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 280 pages/85000 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	21-February-2018
Price	$2.99 ebook, $10.99 paperback
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Family-We-Make-Romance-Hellion-ebook/dp/B079Z3RYCW