Beyond Regret

Dark Court #2

by Stormy Glenn

Dark Court, Book 2

Doc has quietly loved Rocky through their years together as Marines. But their arrival at the Seelie court and a lust-fueled encounter shatter all his expectations. One stolen passionate encounter unravels years of friendship. Devastated, Doc volunteers to lead the search for Monte, a Seelie elf missing in the human realm.

Locating Monte doesn’t turn out to be nearly as difficult as Doc expected—a small mercy now that Doc is sharing a cell with the elf. Despite the dire circumstances, Monte appeals to Doc on every level. He’s sweet, passionate and utterly open to Doc.

Shattered by Doc’s departure, Rocky sets out to rescue the man he loves. Discovering Doc with another hurts, but as their escape turns dangerous Rocky finds that to love Doc, he’ll have to make room in his heart for Monte too.

A Romantica® gay erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

Publisher’s Note: This book was previously published as Monte’s Marines. It has been revised for Ellora’s Cave.

Genres: M M Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Menage, M M M, Fae, Romance

187 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2010

About the author

About Me
I believes the only thing sexier than a man in cowboy boots is two, or three men in cowboy boots. I also believes in love at first sight, soul mates, true love, and happy endings.

I live in the great Northwest region of the USA, with my gorgeous husband and soul mate, two boxer/collie puppies, one old biddy cats, and three fish. When I'm not being a mother to my six teenagers or cleaning up after my two 70 pound lap puppies, you can usually find me cuddled in bed with a book in my hand and a puppy in my lap. Or on my laptop, creating the next sexy man for one of my stories.

I welcomes comments from readers, so drop me a line. stormyglenn@hotmail.com

What do I do ?
I'm a writer of erotic, paranormal, werewolf, futuristic, contemporary, gay, and Ménage a Trois romances. I'm currently published with Siren Publishing, Torquere Press, and Noble Ellora's Cave.

Reviews

[Serena Yates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like in the first book of this series, there is male pregnancy (though with an added complication), tension, deep emotions and a larger story that is revealed as we move through the series.

Doc has been in love with Rocky for a long time and when he feels rejected he goes on a mission back to the Human World to help him forget. He promptly runs into Monte and falls in love with him too. Monte is an elf and a prisoner in the human world until Doc comes to save him. Rocky ends up having to save both of them in turn and then the emotional complications really start.

A wonderful "fairytale" which had me glued to the pages from beginning to end. I can't wait for the next volume!

[⚣Michaelle⚣ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Stars

I remember Stormy Glenn's books as being some of the first I ever read in the MM Genre, and I'm thinking my tastes have definitely changed.

There was nothing wrong, per se, just that it all felt so rushed, so superficial. I wanted more relationship development than was on page, and I read the re-released, expanded edition and at almost 200 pages there should have been, in my opinion. And I don't think that reading the first one would have helped. The backstory on the Fae world & developments was well-rounded, I wasn't lost on what happened previously, it was the romance angle I needed more from...especially considering we have Rocky - who is new to being in love with another man - Doc, who's been in love with Rocky for years and Monte, the elf, who kind of brings them all together in way.

I do have to say that I *AM* kind of interested in what happened between Sareed, an Unseelie, and Conall, a Seelie prince. There's so much animosity between the two Courts that this would seem an unlikely pairing...but I love those kinds of Enemies-to-Lovers stories. So, I checked the series page and considering the last book was published in 2011 (and it's not about them) it doesn't look like that's in the cards for me. *sigh*

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man, this is just starting to get good! In this book we have Doc and Rocky from the last book and Monte who is Gunny's son. Doc goes to find Monte and gets captured so now they're together in the research facility. They have sex, Monte gets preggers, they fall in love. Then they escape and Rocky finds them. Uh oh, Rocky is Doc's first love but now he has Monte. It takes a few hours (lol) but Monte falls in love with Rocky too. Now they can all have hot 3-way sex. Yay! Still trying to figure out how the humans are getting through the veil. Must. Read. More.

[ReviewerLarissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: this review might contains spoilers, depending on how you look at it!

While I liked the previous book and I liked this one as well there are several issues I had with this one. Again don't get me wrong, I liked it and there are some really likable characters in this book (Sareed for one and Doc for another!)

One of them being the spelling and grammar mistakes and the name switching, though it is minor and can be fixed.

The other is the time span in which events occur and the assumptions made. One of the main characters meets up with one of the captives and within a day he is ready to trust him with his life. Bit short.

Another is all the simple assumptions and the quick decisions made based on those assumptions. Starting almost from page one it's a recurring event that gets old quickly. The book is fast paced, but some of these assumptions are ridiculous.

My impression is that this book was rushed and not thought through the way it was supposed to, which is sad, because I like most books by this author. Only the many mistakes in the last couple of books have me wondering. I hope the writing improves, because it would be a shame to have a great storyteller's talent go to waste.

[Caroline Brand · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first book in this series a good while ago but the story is quite easy to pick up and follow.

The premise is another world next to ours that you have to pass through a veil to enter. This is where the elves live and their world is split into two - essentially the good and the bad.

Male royal elves can become pregnant and someone on the human side of the veil is kidnapping elves in order to get them pregnant with a human male and produce a super soldier.

Rocky and Doc, who you meet in book 1, are aware of the elves and have already been involved with one rescue. Doc has been in love with Rocky for years. When they end up in bed together Doc thinks he may have finally got his chance until Rocky says something crass causing him to run.

Doc volunteers to return to the human side of the veil and rescue another missing elf named Monte. He finds him but is also captured and ends up getting Monte pregnant. Doc falls for Monte over the next few months but can never quite forget Rocky. When Rocky arrives to rescue Doc and Monte things get difficult when all three men find themselves attracted to each other.

[Zoé · Rating 3 out of 5]

Next.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Squee! Marines, elves, a gate between worlds, mpreg, bad guys, friends-to-lovers, and ménage? Yep, you guessed it. Stormy Glenn is to blame in this second installment of her 'Dark Court' series. I was fascinated by the first novella and now to read about Rocky, Doc, and Monte had me all discombobulated. There are plenty of things I can't reveal, however, as they'd be spoilers, but I'll do my best to intrigue you.

Rocky and Doc have been best friends and were in the same unit for years. Zack was their CO and Gunny was their gunnery sergeant, so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that when Gunny calls them for help with Zack and his elf pregnant male lover, these guys are going to come running. And end up across the veil in the Seelie court. Typical men, Rocky and Doc manage a huge miscommunication (so not surprising) and Doc takes an assignment to go back across the veil to search for Monte, a half elf, half human, who disappeared at the same time Eljin did. Monte also happens to be Gunny's son he didn't know about with his soul mate he thought lost many years before.

Doc finds Monte all right… when he ends up captured and put in the same facility and then forced to breed. Monte and Doc recognize each other in a way, they each recognize the soul deep loneliness and need to be wanted, and loved, that they each carry. They bond in the Seelie way and then try to figure out how to escape. Doc shouldn't have been so upset with what he perceived happened with Rocky, to not realize that of course his best friend was going to come and rescue him, regardless. I'm not going to reveal what happened after Doc, Monte, Rocky, and the two other prisoners Doc saved, got out of the lab and on their way. What I can say is that for a guy who views himself as a bit of a meathead, Rocky bowled me over with his sensitivity and sweetness.

The mystery and intrigue continued right up until the end, so I know the next installment is going to be super exciting. The love story, first between Doc and Monte, and then all three of them was very sweet and insanely hot. Just what I expected from Stormy.

NOTE: This book was provided by the author for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

With this second book in the Dark Court series Stormy Glenn continues in her saga about the special elf people whose royal male member can give birth; it’s a series all centred around the male pregnancy theme, and plays a lot with all the stereotype of this type of stories: big and sturdy men who fall in love for little pretty boy and have to face the unthinkable, the possibility to become father; unthinkable not only since their partner is a man, and so it was pretty much impossible to have an unplanned pregnancy but also since this strong men don’t have any idea how to treat little baby and even less how they have to deal with the fathers of those baby, ethereal beautiful men, fragile like porcelain both in body than in will.

Doc, one of the Marines that in the previous book helped Zack and his elf lover Eljin, is sent on a special mission, retrieve Monte, who is not only Eljin’s cousin, but also the son of one of his best friend, Gunny. Doc has just had a lovers quarrel with Rocky, the man he is love since years, and sincerely he sees this mission as a way out to avoid having to face his feelings and being hurt. When he meets Monte, in dangerous circumstances, he falls in love for the beautiful man, and maybe even this is a way out to not face his real feelings for Rocky, it’s easier to love Monte, even more “ordinary”: true Monte is an elf, and a man, but he is pregnant with Doc’s baby, so, in a way, more comply to normal society.

In a way, with this ménages a trois, Stormy Glenn is deploying two different type of man on man relationship and so trying to match the taste of different readers. Rocky and Doc are the all male but gay version of a M/M relationship, both of them are everything other than effeminate, strong in body and in will; true, Doc is maybe a bit more emotional than Rocky, but indeed Doc has always known he was gay, and instead Rocky is living a “gay for you” situation, where he is thinking to have a relationship with a man, not since he suddenly feels attracted by other men, but simply since he fell for Doc, and Doc is a man.

Doc and Monte, and later Monte and Rocky, instead have the classic M/M relationship where one of the two men involved is more feminine, if not for the anatomical difference, he could be easily mistaken for a woman, and he is for sure pretty like one. Plus, in this series, these elves are also fragile and submissive, they very much depend from their men and in a way, they expect their men to treat them as precious things. Indeed they are pretty much spoiled brat, and very aware of that, with no intention to change.

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[Tereza · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the cases where sequel is worse than the original (first) book.

I mean, I did like the characters, the plot was... well... fine.

The grammatical errors were still there and that was really annoying .







Also, while the MCs, all three of them, were likeable, I was not convinced by the whole: “I’ve known him for a DAY and after this day he means the WORLD to me.” So no, the whole insta everything didn’t work out for me.



Just no.



Then there was the infamous: “Sue me.” sentence said by Monte who is fae/elf and should not have known what it means and therefore should have not used this.



I must say that I was under an impression that Aes Sídhe were FAE and I was a bit confused that they were referred to as elves in book 2.



Oh well. My bad.



2.5 Stars.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am torn between two ("it's okay") and three ("liked it") stars for this one. In the end, I am going with two to denote that I didn't like it as much as the first one. I usually don't have a problem with MMM romance, but Rocky felt superfluous to me in this one. We don't get a chance to know or like him before we watch Doc's relationship with Monte form. Then, when he is reintroduced, we don't get to know him any better before Monte has a case of "insta-love" and suddenly says his feelings for Rocky, whom he has only had maybe three conversations with, are equal to those he has for Doc, whom he has been talking to almost constantly via telepathy for months. It felt very contrived and inorganic to me. I would've liked the book better if it had just been about Doc and Monte with no Rocky in the picture.

I am on the fence about whether or not I will read the third book in the series. I guess I will check out the blurb, but if it doesn't grab me, I'm going to pass.

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

I find that I always love the first book in Stormy's series but then I get disappointed with book 2. While this series is fun and silly and light reading. It was also badly edited and full of stuff ups. Like an elf who knows little about humans says 'sue me' (when elves know nothing of suing people for money etc)

That might sound like I am being really picky - but the truth is that this book is full of similar problems.

I will still get book 3 and find out where this series is going. But I do so with a bit of trepidation because if book 3 disappoints me like this one.

[adrienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

typical stormy glenn romance. nothing fantastic, nothing so bad it can't be finished. what is typical stormy glenn? imagine a shorter harlequin romance but with no t&a (see, i was going to write no surprise pregnancies, but... yeah.).

laziness dictates i will use this as my template for all books by the following authors unless a book is remarkably good/bad :
stormy glenn
lynn hagen
scarlet hyacinth
joyee flynn
carol lynne
gabrielle evans

[Brandilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

It has been months since I read the first book in the series, but other than not remembering the back story of some of the minor characters, it didn't really matter. Because I pretty much just read the same story again... way too much of the plot played out just like the first book for my taste... but hey it worked for this, the "g" in my read the month challenge, and finished off my shelf-a-thon challenge...

[Stephanie]

Christ this shit was bad, I wanna pretend I never read it. You definitely tell this was written by a straight woman who gets off on male/male relationship as a kink. Kinda hoped it would be more thought provoking and romantic the way The Brothers of the Wild North Sea by Harper Fox was but it wasn’t.

Written like a 12 year old having just discovered gay relationships and deciding to write a wattpad story.

[Miralinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Меньше понравилась, чем первая книга из-за мелочей. Во-первых надуманна причина, по которой Док бросает Роки в начале. Потом, слишком неожиданно Монти и Роки влюбляются ни с того ни с сего,отношений между ними не показано, просто влюбился как факт. К сожалению, я считаю, что автор поленилась построить любовную линию и просто кинула героев в любовь, без накала так сказать.

[Janean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as part of my QGB Q3 Challenge picked by Amanda. The more I read about this world, the more I am intrigued. I am looking forward to more of this series.

[Nerine Petros · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars

[Arzu · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 stars

[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yep, just plain old trashy short story

[Daesy]

I dont like book with menage. How the hell can u share your lover like that with someone else? i could never.

[Julie scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beyond Regret [Dark Court 2]

This was great I Loved it even though I think it's a redo book or whatever they call it doesn't matter it was still great...