Book 7 introduces our newest baby, Zarrie, a rare angle baby, and her father, Pinks. Pinks had been hiding in a safe house for a week after his friends, their babies, and Pink with his baby had been kidnapped. His friend managed to distract the kidnappers long enough for Pinks and Zarrie to escape out of the van, but they were still being hunted by the bad guys who had grown in numbers. Now, his rescuers were out looking for his friends.
Pinks supposed to stay inside the house with doors, windows locked, and curtains closed. His anxiety is constant; peeking out behind the curtains to make sure all was well through the day; this time something seemed wrong in the dense forest. Surveying the woods, for any hint of danger, he noticed a large gray blob hidden by the trees not far from the house.
Pinks had to know if this blob was something threatening to him and his baby. So, he checks on Zarrie before going out to investigate. Once close Pinks slowly crept towards the stone-looking blob. As he got closer, he realized it was a tall statue of a man. Of course, the man was physically appealing to Pinks, as you’ll read in the book.
Suddenly, the man’s color changed, and he was partially coming to life. Pinks took pictures with his phone and managed to talk to his friends for help, and then threw his phone at him, but it hit the stone part of the man and broke. Pinks finds out the stranger’s name is Galent, and that he was cursed and, for some reason, was drawn there in hopes something might lift his curse.
Pinks didn’t trust the man and wanted him gone; Galent needed to stay to find out what was there that might lift the curse, and then Pinks rescuers showed up knowing the stranger and that he should stay with Pinks. So, this is where Pinks and Galent begin to learn about each other.
The bantering is gentle and teasing, the attraction is strong, and Galent wants to put a baby inside of Pinks. Then there are problems with the bad guys that cause a lot of fighting. The book is well-written with humor as usual, and not full of those corny “pick-up” lines.
Once again, I highly recommend the book. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.