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The Brown Brothers #2

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Nicolas Brown is the epitome of speak when spoken to. He doesn’t volunteer information or even his time. He’s one that observes from the shadows more than one that craves the spotlight. His attention has fallen to a certain woman, and she is one that enjoys the game that’s being played. However, he’s not the only chaser.

Ross McIntyre is the woman you see often but never recognize. In her line of profession, she blends right in with the crowd but stands out to one. She’s as sweet as they come but has violent tendencies when pushed. With a mind like hers, unpredictable is an understatement.

Neither one wants to be anything other than loved by the other. When it all comes down to it, the distance between them only made the bond that much stronger. Thinking alike is a thrilling experience.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2024

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6,250 reviews131 followers
December 23, 2024
I'm not sure about this one

The story just kept going off the rails for me. I could not find a place to connect with the story. It was mindsplitting. See what you think. 2.75 stars.
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48 reviews24 followers
December 18, 2024
This book? A time was had lol. Nico is unhinged but then Ross pulled up matching his crazy, and I was weak. They’re both on the same unwell ass energy 😭 10/10 would recommend!
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167 reviews26 followers
January 7, 2025
If silent but deadly was a person it would most definitely be Nicholas Brown!

Nico definitely got Xander beat 😂 I thought he was crazy but Nico is nuts! I loved every minute of him & Ross’s story! They matched each others crazy so well! He manifested the life he wanted with her & didn’t stop until he got it! Ross was literally just as unhinged as him! She didn’t play about her man & as independent as she was she was Nico made her feel safe enough for her to be submissive & I loved that!.

I hated to see Rena go through what she went through with her husband but Nico to the rescue 😂 he didn’t play about his family or any of the people around him! That man stood on business & did what needed to be done!

I loved seeing Ross tame him & give him exactly what he wanted in the end! I love a good happy ending! This was such a good read!
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45 reviews1 follower
June 29, 2026
No plot, just vibes and booty cheeks in the wind. 🌚
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550 reviews77 followers
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December 16, 2024
DNF

Idk what it is about how she writes the brown men but I can’t get into the stories. Like I don’t mind an obsession, I enjoy an unhinged character or two but the rest of it sis so childish most of the book. I like Nico he’s chill do his lil stalker thing Ross lost me though. Here my thing if you set it up as a mutual stalking where they both been gathering intel the overly possessive and questioning attitudes don’t make sense. She was stank when he was on the phone even tho she knew he had a sister, so the context clues should’ve told her that. Next up tearing up Nico office cus she couldn’t get in touch with him. Like are you a toddler lmao cus WTF?? You this PI Investigator Sherlock Homegirl if you will, put on ya trench coat and solve your man mystery. I couldn’t finish this because I knew it would piss me off. Like how you a stalker but don’t know about his occupations? Had the blueprint to his building but didn’t know he be going on side quest??? Cmon now Connie
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355 reviews32 followers
December 29, 2024
The Mortician and the PI

Entertaining . The MMC Nico just as mannish as his big brothers. He stalked from a distance but was never to far away. The long distance made for an interesting twist. The time jump made the fast pace love story more palatable. FMC Ross was her own boss which gives her a certain level of confidence that was fun to read. I would recommend this read.
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443 reviews2 followers
April 27, 2026
Ross is my favorite FMC so far. Strong. Independent. Strong willed and those crashouts🤌🏾🤌🏾 top tier.
Niko was silent and intentional about his love
I love how this book started off as stalking very original🤭
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1,031 reviews37 followers
December 14, 2024
Loved it. Nico is my man, my man, my man. I loved how he didn’t about the ppl he loved. Great read!!
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85 reviews13 followers
January 17, 2025
This one was okay as well. The stalking with them both got me at the beginning. Ross and Nico are both nuts 😂
262 reviews4 followers
December 31, 2024
Not for me

Took me a while to get into this book. I wasn't with the neantherdal, controlling disguised as protective attitudes. I wish somebody would make me give up a career I love just to make them feel better about me always being home, preferably carrying babies. The insta rush love, the weird getting upset for anybody of the opposite sex to look at your woman, this didn't do it for me, couldn't relate at all. What was the so called trauma that made Nico so...weird???? He came off more as supremely insecure with abandonment issues who really needed some therapy, his jealousy wasn't cute at all, it screamed he needed psychiatric help.
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33 reviews3 followers
February 17, 2025
Ugh I didn’t care for Nico

I reallly enjoyed the first book, but upon reading this one it took me forever to get done with it. I really didn’t like Nico he just seemed too controlling and it was his way or no way at all. She loved her career and wanted to continue doing what she loved and he just wanted her at home to appease him.
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809 reviews40 followers
June 15, 2026
⭐️1.5 stars

This book left me with the strange feeling that I had witnessed two entirely different stories fighting for custody of the same couple.

And the wrong one won.

The first half gives us two freaks. And I mean that lovingly. I was completely sold on the strange symmetry between Nico and Ross. Their relationship begins as a mutual cat-and-mouse game. Two obsessive people circling each other, watching each other, deriving pleasure from being watched by each other, engaging in a bizarre little panopticon of mutual desire. They're equally strange. Equally guilty. Equally invested in this creepy dance. There is something almost perversely egalitarian about it. Neither occupies the moral high ground because both are deeply weird and weirdly devoted.

And that's why I enjoyed it. I don't mistake pathology for romance, but I think fiction has always been the place where excess becomes thrilling. Desire, jealousy, obsession, possessiveness—none of these things are obviously healthy, but they are fascinating. And the beginning of this book promised me two dangerous weirdos finding their match in one another. I was all in...

Then the book decided that what these two really needed was caveman mentality masquerading as romance.

Ross enters the story as a successful private investigator. Her entire profession depends on independence, intelligence, mobility, and suspicion. She is observant, capable, and interesting. More importantly, these are precisely the qualities Nico falls in love with. Which made what followed all the more baffling. Because there is something almost tragicomic about watching a man fall in love with a woman because she has a life and then interpreting his desire to become that ENTIRE life instead as romantic. Apparently the qualities that made Ross desirable become inconveniences once access is guaranteed.

And that's where I checked out. Because Nico doesn't change. He gains. BUT Ross adapts. His world remains expansive. Hers gradually contracts. His desires become shared goals. Her ambitions become negotiable. He remains himself. She increasingly becomes “his.” And somehow I was supposed to interpret this shrinking of her world as the highest expression of love.

No, thank you!

At some point in the second half I stopped reading “that's my woman” as devotion and started reading it as “I have no personality outside this relationship and neither should you.” And if you question my wants, needs, and rules you obviously do not love me.

What frustrated me the most, however, was how narrow the book's understanding of masculinity ultimately became. Beneath all the protect, provide, possess shenanigans lies an incredibly fragile performance of manhood. And the irony is that the book accidentally reveals this elsewhere, too.

Apparently a stay-at-home mother is the ultimate romantic fantasy, but a stay-at-home father is pathetic enough to justify infidelity?! I'd love to say this was satire, but the book seemed entirely sincere. Which is fascinating because it reveals that dependence itself isn't the problem. The issue is who is allowed to depend. Domestic labour is labour. Full stop.

The issue is that this book seems deeply invested in the fantasy that happiness naturally flows in one direction: man provides, woman orbits and looks cute. This book treats it as the pinnacle of devotion.

Which is wild.

Because somehow the clandestine undertaker empire required less suspension of disbelief from me than the romance.

I could believe the hitmen.
I could believe the mutual stalking.
I could even believe two lovable lunatics finding each other.

What I couldn't believe was that Ross McIntyre (a woman whose intelligence, independence and career are exactly what made Nico fall in love with her) would happily become a fantasy that had her face but very little of her former self.

I wanted two dangerous weirdos.
What I got was Tradwife: The Homicide Edition.
And that was far less interesting....
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2,717 reviews112 followers
December 29, 2024
These Brown brothers are something else! Xander was definitely on his unhinged behavior tip, but Nico is not far behind. How are you following and watching a woman from the shadows for a year, taking care of her and such, but you all have never had a conversation? You just decided she was going to be yours? 👀 See..... just crazy!!

Well, Ross ain't much different I guess as she just rocked with the ish Nico was putting down! 😤 When Nico finally revealed himself, these two just fell into the crazy together, and she claimed that man! 👀 It was amusing to see these two try to one up each other with their possessiveness, and wild behaviors.

At the end of the day, Nico just wanted to love and be loved, as he was deprived of motherly love. Yes, he had Kitty Mae, but it is not the same as having your mother dote, love, and nuture. you. Ross was it for him, and he poured all the love he had for his mother into her, even if it pushed him into the zone of obsession. I don't know what it is about these book baes with these behaviors, but I can't get enough of them. 😂
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62 reviews1 follower
June 18, 2026
Yeah so this book was good, Nico was crazy but in a different way. I think I liked big bro a bit better. Xander was my kind of crazy. Like in your face crazy! Nico was like the stalker type and um nonthanks. Lmfao.

But little bro deserved love too. I was glad he stepped behind sis-in-law at the end I expected nothing less but also like DAMN. I did think the judge was gonna try him before the book ended gonna lie but these brothers clearly too smooth and in charge of everything in front of them. They built that family compound up frfr. I was also hoping to get more on little sis snd her situation in this book but maybe she will grt one of her own.

Good story overall.
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194 reviews
May 30, 2025
Silent and Unhinged Part Ii

Ross and Nicholas were both absolutely nuts, lol! I don’t know what I expected going into this book, but it was definitely entertaining. I still think Xander’s book was a bit better overall, but Nico’s story was wild in its own right and honestly… kind of fitting.

The fact that they both stalked each other for a whole year, and neither thought it was certifiable was CRAZY work. But ultimately it was good to see Nico get his happy ever after like Xander. I just wished there was a little more drama in the book.
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307 reviews14 followers
January 28, 2025
3 ⭐️ Easy Quick Read . There were some parts that didn’t make sense to me lol that is why I gave it 3 stars . It was very similar to the first book in some ways and kinda repetitive . I did absolutely love the two main characters Nicolas and Ross .
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444 reviews19 followers
September 17, 2025
a great read

They were delulu but I was here for all of it. I loved this read and found myself engulfed in the crazy. I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next. It ended up being a cute story and I’m here for that.
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221 reviews11 followers
April 14, 2026
An unhinged FMC meets an unhinged stalker MMC. Oh this book was a tiiiiime! I wish we got to see their initial
Meeting but I loved how it turned out even though he’s definitely my least favorite Brown brother.
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4,135 reviews
December 25, 2024
loved

These brothers are something else boy! I don’t know which one is he lesser of the 2 evils. But I think I chose Nico!
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58 reviews7 followers
April 16, 2026
3.75⭐️

I loved Xander’s book and I couldn’t wait to dive in Nicholas book..

Nicholas has been observing Ross from the shadows for over a year and finally decides to step out of the shadows and get the women he loves.
Ross is a PI that has a dark side to her and she’s very aware of her shadow..

I enjoyed it but I didn’t love it as much as Xander’s book since some parts of the book I did ask myself how did we get here lol but it is suppose to be fast paced and insta love so it kind of made sense lol
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330 reviews
December 20, 2024
Ate this book up !! I love everything about Nico ! Ross is ME ! “Who gives a f***, she ugly.” Is a favorite of mine ! I literally live by this !
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52 reviews2 followers
June 18, 2026
Nico isn’t as psychotic as his brother, Xander, but the Brown brothers are handsome ass monsters who don’t play about their family, nonetheless. Nico and Ross were perfect for each other, she matches his crazy so fits into the Brown perfectly. This was a good read though.
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68 reviews1 follower
May 3, 2026
This book was cringe. I don’t mind a possessive MMC…but this was too much. Just chaotic. It also lacked a real plot. I’m not sure what the purpose was.
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580 reviews34 followers
January 29, 2025
Lots of grammatical errors. I would’ve DNF the book, but I like to finish a series. The chemistry between the two main characters was very dry. The smutty scenes were very awkwardly placed, and the structure of the story seemed to not flow as well as the previous book.
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922 reviews1 follower
August 26, 2025
Q: What do you do when you realize someone is stalking you? What if they are interested in you but are not ready to approach you? What do you do!?

A: Use your P.I. skills and stalk them back while delusional falling in love with a man you’ve never exchanged words with 😂😂😍😝!!!

My girl Ross realizes she’s was being perused by a man of few words but very impactful actions. For 492 days he tracked her, showed up where she was, sent gifts 🎁 but never said a word😂😆. She liked what she saw so she accepted his invitation for crazii behavior lol and did her research on him and prepared for their day of collision.

Nicolas was absolutely unhinged and saw Ross smile once and said yes, she’s my forever …. After all this time he finally makes his presence known and baby was it a world win love. To already love a woman u have never shared air with is crazy 🤪….

I loved their relationship so bad, it was a little delusional lol, but the way Ross brought peace to Nico with her presence was amazing and I loved it for him. Nico made Ross feel like the most special and beautiful girl ever even without talking to her and once they finally did he was not coming up off her, attitude and all.

I love how Ross didn’t change herself for Xander or anyone else. She stuck to her Guns and was just as unhinged as her man. Their communication was beautiful too because she didn’t allow him to be in his feelings over anything. When there was a misunderstanding or something going on she would force him to talk through it and come to some common ground so it never disrupted their peace and he needed that. This was a good time definitely. I truly enjoyed it.

The only thing I wanted a little more of was the story of his parents. I would love to know more about their mother and who Xander doesn’t talk about her much or with Nico.
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508 reviews9 followers
April 6, 2025
Nicolas aka Nico

This man is very different than his brother Xander, but not too different! What had me speechless was the beginning of Nico & Ross relationship! Listen I wasn’t ready for what I learned -🫣! Ok so check it, this entire time I thought they been together but just keep it private. Well I was wrong! Not only were they not together these two never met! I’ll leave that here do I’m not telling too much - lol.

Nico, was definitely a man of few words, but when he needed to speak he did and when he needed to pop off he did that too. This man was definitely a quiet storm! He played no games when it came to his family, respect, hood money and his woman! My guy was unhinged and he was calculated, if that makes sense! His heart, focus and love was for one woman. A woman he stayed in the shadows to protect and provide for over a year and when that times came to get make hisself known he approached her - Ross! From that day on there was no turn back!

Ross! My girl just as unhinged as Nico- 🤣! Listen not only did she know what was happening, she did the same thing - watching him! When I say I was floored, that’s exactly what I was - lol! The love she had for a man she’s never met was diabolical but it worked for her! What I emptied the most was he didn’t out allow her to change to be with him. She was able to remain true to herself.

Xander and Zara, is still with the shenanigans and it worked for them. Both Xander & Nico relationship is true to the statement - I am my BROTHERS keeper!!

Again, there’s a lot more that can be discussed, but don’t want to give the book away. Just know even a man with a few words deserves love and to give love, but the action will always shine! Love this book down! Plan to dig more into this authoress work!
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374 reviews
January 5, 2025
Unhinged and Weird Part 2

❤️My 2 Cents❤️

This book had me like “WTH” from the first page. I’m glad the author brought back in Xander and Zara, however Xander from what I read is still psychotic and even more unhinged than in his own book…Anywho Xander’s brother Nicolas “Nico” Brown has a lady crush, but he never actually meet her in person which gave me the stalker creepy vibes. I mean how does one give a woman everything from designer bags and custom shoes without even talking to her? He just follows her around like a stalker and a creepy person. Nico is for sure giving off his brothers crazy ass vibes about a woman being his before she even knows it. I’m not even going to get started the woman Ross Mcintyre. That heffa is also bat shit crazy to be falling for a man that she never met only received expensive ass gifts from him and she was literally ok with him following her around..Im floored at this point. 26 pages is enough for me to say “This book is stupid as F**k.” After finally finishing this book, let me tell you that it got a little crazier and a tad bit weird. The one thing that I can say that pulled at my heart strings was when Nico took Ross’s sister and kids in. I mean after her husband beat her within an inch of her life, Nico took swift action with his brother Xander and took care of him. Nico moved Ross’s sister and kids to the family compound into his guest house. I loved how Nico thought and how he moved when it came down to the woman he loved, it was just his delivery that made me say this book was way beyond normal.
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647 reviews16 followers
January 6, 2025
I was so excited to finally get Nico’s story because although he isn't as open with his crazy as Xander I knew he was low-key unhinged and I wasn’t wrong! Connie Easton really has me out here worried about my sanity because Nico is bae! Ooooo I love this man dowwwwn😫
The way this book started I was slightly confused and then the thrill of the chase finally clicked and I have to give this author her flowers because this storyline was superb! Everything about Ross and Nico was beautiful if not a little toxic. However, they thrived off of each other's lunacy and recklessness which was hilarious if not a little troubling.
I’ve realized I love unhinged men and I'm here for a woman to match that energy. I hated that this book ended I wanted more. The character's development, trauma, and acceptance of each other were what kept me glued until the end. I would definitely love to see more from them in the future because my girls Kelis and Rena need happy endings!
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