Deadly Alphas

The Hounds Duet #1

by Jove Chambers

When an omega passes her heat at a facility, she signs a waver just in case. Because accidents do happen.

I’m an accident.

Not a fatal one, but one where something went very wrong.

Now, I am nothing but instinct, barely human, only my savage omega self.

Kept as a curiosity in a lab for experimentation, I’ll never know love or acceptance. I’ll never have a family or a future.

When I escape, the facility cannot allow me to be free. Society at large cannot know about accidents like me, after all.

They’ve created other experiments from accidents just for this purpose. Feral alphas, trained to use their unerring alpha instincts to hunt down omegas.

But when these alphas find me, they are not trained to claim me.

They are trained to kill.

The facility isn’t counting on one thing, something so rare they don’t even know it exists. These deadly alphas are my scent match.

dub-con, warming, desperate desires, mating as comfort, male-male interaction, bisexual awakening, I-want-to-kill-all-girls-but-you, and one very cliffy cliffhanger. This is the first book in a duet.

Genres: Omegaverse

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2025

About the author

Jove Chambers is the dark romance pen name for USA Today Bestselling author V.J. Chambers.

Under the name V.J. Chambers she writes mysteries, thrillers and horror.

Under the pen name Val St. Crowe she writes sci-fi and fantasy.

She lives outside Shepherdstown, WV with her husband, son, and their kitty cat.

Reviews

[Mikky]

DNF at 37%

This is one of those wacky times when I choke on my words and reluctantly say how I need a little bit more plot and less smut in this book, in particular, in order to enjoy the story.

Look, I tried. The writing reads very immature. The characters are somewhat off-putting. The plot (the little there is of it) gets pushed forward in ways that are too convenient. It pulls me out of the story. This isn't for me.

P.S. I've been in the game for 13+ years, reading anything from regular contemporary romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, reverse harem, and omegaverse (quite a few of those on the spectrum of morally grey to black). So please believe me when I say that not much phases me nowadays when it comes to books. So color me surprised when one of the FMC's alphas tells her to suckle on one of the other alphas' soft dicks to calm herself (this happens more than once). Like his dick was a pacifier. I'm sorry, I didn't know whether to cackle or cringe. Again, for cringe to actually affect me, it takes A LOT. I enjoy cringe in so so so many books I read. This one was just plain weird and caught me SO off guard. It was laughable, but also... hmm, I haven't encountered that before just now. Here's hoping it never comes up again in any of the books I decide to pick up in the future!

[Bent Letters · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Stars

[Kenadee Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the darkest omegaverse I've ever read but in an intense way that I just want to read more. Calix gives Lotus some normal, arrow is like comfort, knight is like a dark knight protecting them from murdering others, and Striker is the leader who helps guide her. Learning their lives before and seeing them as different people after the trauma is so interesting. Striker being a priest before made me laugh. I despise Dr. Acker's character and honestly am not a fan of Carla either. I think she was cheating with the brother before Arrow went missing. And I fully believe that companies would be like this if a/b/o dynamics existed in real life. Can't wait for the rest.

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 it has promise but

Eh it's decent. Spicy scenes are a little odd and ill timed. It would be better with more plot less spice and Im shocked saying that.
My 2 favorite parts were someone's view on religion and their explanation of matriarchal society. I don't think I'll read book 2

[Jenni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lotus was an experiment, that went wrong, and now shes escaped only tp habe feral alphas sent after her in Strike, Arrow, Knight and Calix, what no one expected is these trailed k*llers would find their scent match in Lotus! Well written engaging  fast paced read i cant wait for bk2!

[RuinedLux · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dnf like 60ish%, I didn’t really like how Calix was introduced to the rest of the group. It put me off so much that I didn’t want to finish. It was so rushed that I just couldn’t 🥲 it’s sad bc the concept was really interesting.

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF 25%. This reads so badly and very immature. This feels like a middle schooler tried to write a fanfic for adults, not a published book. The concept could be interesting, but the writing and pacing is just not there.

[Jennifer Alvarez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

Wow. Super intense. A satisfying happy-for-now type of cliffhanger. Abuse is never ok but it’s possible to heal and move on—with help.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

5⭐️ 3🌶️

Holy storyline right off the bat! Fast paced, tense, and perfectly omega alpha steaminess. Love this new take on the omegaverse world.

[Lizzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just not for me.

Reads like a wattpad story. Love all of the concepts the writing just needs some work. I hate being left of a cliffhanger. Now the omega is taking charge.