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Praesidio Corp #3
Mating Enigma
So...Earth was invaded by Aliens. That happened. I’m not joking. Fortunately for us, Humans developed latent abilities that enabled us to defend and protect our planet. We call ourselves the Praesidio. Years later the world is not the same. We know we are not alone in the universe. There are dangerous things lingering in the darkness.
Elena is an Agent in the global-reaching Enforcement Agency charged with tracking down criminals using a powerful and secret Praesidio ability. The new world has dangerous enemies that like to hide in the dark pits of society. Elena is reluctantly drafted into becoming a spy and meets a deadly ally in the ruins. Together they team up in order to combat a looming threat to Humanity and the Laren race. Along the way they discover far more than they were expecting; danger, treachery and a love so powerful it transcends every obstacle.
When a terrible disaster strikes Elena and her sexy-spy are transported off world and find a passion so raw in will leave them both branded.
Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over.
Elena is an Agent in the global-reaching Enforcement Agency charged with tracking down criminals using a powerful and secret Praesidio ability. The new world has dangerous enemies that like to hide in the dark pits of society. Elena is reluctantly drafted into becoming a spy and meets a deadly ally in the ruins. Together they team up in order to combat a looming threat to Humanity and the Laren race. Along the way they discover far more than they were expecting; danger, treachery and a love so powerful it transcends every obstacle.
When a terrible disaster strikes Elena and her sexy-spy are transported off world and find a passion so raw in will leave them both branded.
Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over.
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203 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 12, 2019
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July 14, 2019
Finally
I kept checking and checking for book 3. It is finally here and it was worth the wait. I loved Ramses and Elana. I am looking forward to Libby getting a book. She is my favorite side character.
I kept checking and checking for book 3. It is finally here and it was worth the wait. I loved Ramses and Elana. I am looking forward to Libby getting a book. She is my favorite side character.
February 15, 2021
Super spy, super picky
Elena has power. Seeing memories doesn't sound important, but if you already know how to interrogate people, hunting via memories is excellent. But, like all Praesidio, gifts are dual natured. She can hunt, but being able to access the brain means she can kill that way, too. A cop before the Kraith came and awakened her gift, she now uses it to hunt the human monsters who survived the attack. The guilty are rarely locked away. The EA have asked her to be a spy. They've discovered alien tech on Earth. Not tech that would have come through their tentative alliance. But, her biggest discovery is the Enigma she came across. And the bands that formed around her wrists soon after.
Spoilers ahead.
This is a darker book than 2. This touches on very dark subjects. Trigger warnings for trauma leaving a family member in a vegetative state, human trafficking, sexual assault, sexual assault on a child. The last one is how the story opens, her chasing a missing child, finding her, but not before the assault happens. She uses her memory gift in tandem with her empath teammate's gift to hide the memories and the emotional fallout from the abuse. The child, unless something works through the blocks will never even know she was assaulted. The only person told of the assault is the local empaths so they can watch for signs the memory is surfacing. That doesn't make it any easier for the readers to read. Same for the adult women rescued from horrific conditions. This book is night to Anabel's day. Elena's task is finding out where this tech is coming from, because this may be a human only/anti-alien hate group but they're willing to work with aliens enough for the toys. Ramses was sent for the same reasons. This book gives us a definite glimpse of the aliens doing this, and fires up instinctive memories that have something to do with a story we saw in the last book about a woman named Eliz. We get an answer, but it comes loaded with a hundred questions lol. Because, while this historical tale exists, the Laren don't remember the villain from it. They hate them on sight, but don't know why. I did laugh over Ramses being a foodie. How? He's a super spy, he is sometimes hunkered down in places where he's admitted to eating grubs, but whined over a microwave meal? It added much needed humor to some dark scenes. Also, maybe someone needs to inform Laren medics to not remove human implants. Again the story skips with time jumps, that cut out bonding moments.
The editing is not improving. There are 4 books in this series (3 plus a novella), and there are still a lot of errors. Plurals and possessives that don't need apostrophes that have them, misused words and homonyms, punctuation errors, of/off and their/they're swaps, and more.
Elena has power. Seeing memories doesn't sound important, but if you already know how to interrogate people, hunting via memories is excellent. But, like all Praesidio, gifts are dual natured. She can hunt, but being able to access the brain means she can kill that way, too. A cop before the Kraith came and awakened her gift, she now uses it to hunt the human monsters who survived the attack. The guilty are rarely locked away. The EA have asked her to be a spy. They've discovered alien tech on Earth. Not tech that would have come through their tentative alliance. But, her biggest discovery is the Enigma she came across. And the bands that formed around her wrists soon after.
Spoilers ahead.
This is a darker book than 2. This touches on very dark subjects. Trigger warnings for trauma leaving a family member in a vegetative state, human trafficking, sexual assault, sexual assault on a child. The last one is how the story opens, her chasing a missing child, finding her, but not before the assault happens. She uses her memory gift in tandem with her empath teammate's gift to hide the memories and the emotional fallout from the abuse. The child, unless something works through the blocks will never even know she was assaulted. The only person told of the assault is the local empaths so they can watch for signs the memory is surfacing. That doesn't make it any easier for the readers to read. Same for the adult women rescued from horrific conditions. This book is night to Anabel's day. Elena's task is finding out where this tech is coming from, because this may be a human only/anti-alien hate group but they're willing to work with aliens enough for the toys. Ramses was sent for the same reasons. This book gives us a definite glimpse of the aliens doing this, and fires up instinctive memories that have something to do with a story we saw in the last book about a woman named Eliz. We get an answer, but it comes loaded with a hundred questions lol. Because, while this historical tale exists, the Laren don't remember the villain from it. They hate them on sight, but don't know why. I did laugh over Ramses being a foodie. How? He's a super spy, he is sometimes hunkered down in places where he's admitted to eating grubs, but whined over a microwave meal? It added much needed humor to some dark scenes. Also, maybe someone needs to inform Laren medics to not remove human implants. Again the story skips with time jumps, that cut out bonding moments.
The editing is not improving. There are 4 books in this series (3 plus a novella), and there are still a lot of errors. Plurals and possessives that don't need apostrophes that have them, misused words and homonyms, punctuation errors, of/off and their/they're swaps, and more.
January 12, 2020
Series keeps getting better...great SciFi romance
While I very much enjoyed the first book, the next books in the series enhance the overall storyline. The meeting of two very strong-willed leads to humor, action, romance and new plot twists. I can’t wait for the next installment!
While I very much enjoyed the first book, the next books in the series enhance the overall storyline. The meeting of two very strong-willed leads to humor, action, romance and new plot twists. I can’t wait for the next installment!
November 24, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was another awesome book in an amazing series. Sadly I am all caught up and will have to wait for the next book. I really want Libby to get her own book. I absolutely adore her!
This was another awesome book in an amazing series. Sadly I am all caught up and will have to wait for the next book. I really want Libby to get her own book. I absolutely adore her!
September 12, 2020
A kick ass heroine who has her own team of special agents?
wow, it was a great read
wow, it was a great read
June 1, 2021
This was a good M/F romance novel with some steamy action.
October 25, 2023
Great series so far
I have stayed up late almost every night this week reading the series. It has a great storyline that engages you, but still gives you the HEA ending.
I have stayed up late almost every night this week reading the series. It has a great storyline that engages you, but still gives you the HEA ending.
July 22, 2019
Ok,just ok.....
What was this ?
Romance ? Well sorta... action/adventure ? Maybe . Sci Fi ? There are aliens involved,and some space travel,soo I guess.
Otherwise I’m just not sure what to call it.
Just like I’m not how to phrase how I feel about it. It’s in the O
so “fun” place/category of “I didn’t hate it buuuuuuut I sure didn’t love it” either.
We have Elena whom we meet in what felt like a short/abbreviated prologue where we are introduced to her as a
cop of three years ,and just a tad resentful about still having to “earn” her place. When at what she thinks will hopefully be just a “ routine” traffic stop 🛑,the invasion starts. And finishes quickly with her suddenly discovering her powers when she takes down an alien invader,after being stopped by him as she was fleeing back to the police station.
I think this was supposed to help give us some context and help with background and help “maybe” help build up her back story but for me it was way to short and condensed to do anything but make me wonder why it was there.
Just like the next few chapters, supposedly just six short years later where Elena are called into a community to find a missing child. Here we’re told a few things that later didn’t make sense to me. One) we’re told over and over in what was only two maybe three chapters if I remember right,( sorry but my brain 🧠 is already trying to forget it I think) we’re told by Elena herself that she’s cold 🥶 and detached ( digging around in ppl’s ( often ) horrible thoughts and or memories you’d have to something to protect yourself. A puta ,a “itch” ,Elena tells us this and she’s ok with it. It’s what the job needs at times to get done. I’m ok with that. It’s makes sense and is one of the many reasons I’ve never thought I’d make a good cop. I’m not wired to be hard like that or to compartmentalize like you need to survive doing what you have to do. But later she’s constantly losing her temper and talking about her “hit Latina blood” ,or saying “Dios Mío—My God” or “Mierda—Shit, Bullshit “ or telling some “Que te Folle un Pez—I hope you get Ducked by a Fish, Screw you” ( if you look the one up you’ll see ducked is of course a substituted word. Honestly it all felt like overkill at times designed to remind us yet again out h is Latina. I didn’t care about her ethnic background,what bothered me was how forced it felt like we needed to remember she’s either has a fiery 🔥 temper because she’s Latina or she’s Latina soo hers her fiery 🔥 temper which felt really odd and forced since the only reason those first few chapters made sense about the kidnapped child ( since they didn’t pertain to the rest of the story at all) was if it was there to set the foundation for her personally in the story. But it didn’t.
Then there’s the kidnapping,while any child being taken is awful ,it didn’t really make sense that Elena’s elite of “elites” team was sent out on this . The “town” had shifters and they had strong empaths and Elena’s team didn’t do anything as far as finding the girl that the ppl there couldn’t have done except hide her memories and heal her Spirit after what was done to her. Odd, and it didn’t help the story at all.
Then there was the supposedly huge changes done in just six years. Really ? In just six years where almost all the huge mega cities we rely on for so much almost all the works capitals are destroyed and over half the ppl on earth ,all that infrastructure and supplies but yet not only do we set up a new world government but we re home all the ppl to towns/cities in woods and jungles and forests or underwater ( Seriously? ) and create flying trains and hover cars and. AND start a colony on another planet 🌎 ( first book) . In just six years ? Come on!
Human superpowers or not ,sci fi / fantasy or not,the little to barely no world building doesn’t even begin to support that. In this kinda set up we’d be lucky to have our dead buried and found a way to still be functioning in six years. Twenty six maybe ,but Reno I got ppl to a city under the sea and hover cars and trains ? And ppl on another planet ? No ! I love PNR soo much I’d give almost anything to live it but even I can’t buy this. By the time Ramses, our H named like an Egyptian pharaoh, enters the pic I was soo tired of Elena and her supposed cold 🥶 the over hot 🥵 OTT flip flop behavior i hadn’t been able to connect w/I no longer cared and just finished out of boredom and Curiosity. They didn’t really work for me. It all felt forced. Elena seemed even though she knew about Laren mating to fight just because ,then ok,we might die ,let’s be mates. It just seemed to skip along here and there and by the end nothing felt resolved or really understood and these two strangers NEVER felt like anything but that. Only thing I loved was Elena telling ppl to go F a fish 🐟. It was usually well placed and confused the heck out the person it was directed at. Well I read more ? In this series probably not but I’d love to see her finish her RH
What was this ?
Romance ? Well sorta... action/adventure ? Maybe . Sci Fi ? There are aliens involved,and some space travel,soo I guess.
Otherwise I’m just not sure what to call it.
Just like I’m not how to phrase how I feel about it. It’s in the O
so “fun” place/category of “I didn’t hate it buuuuuuut I sure didn’t love it” either.
We have Elena whom we meet in what felt like a short/abbreviated prologue where we are introduced to her as a
cop of three years ,and just a tad resentful about still having to “earn” her place. When at what she thinks will hopefully be just a “ routine” traffic stop 🛑,the invasion starts. And finishes quickly with her suddenly discovering her powers when she takes down an alien invader,after being stopped by him as she was fleeing back to the police station.
I think this was supposed to help give us some context and help with background and help “maybe” help build up her back story but for me it was way to short and condensed to do anything but make me wonder why it was there.
Just like the next few chapters, supposedly just six short years later where Elena are called into a community to find a missing child. Here we’re told a few things that later didn’t make sense to me. One) we’re told over and over in what was only two maybe three chapters if I remember right,( sorry but my brain 🧠 is already trying to forget it I think) we’re told by Elena herself that she’s cold 🥶 and detached ( digging around in ppl’s ( often ) horrible thoughts and or memories you’d have to something to protect yourself. A puta ,a “itch” ,Elena tells us this and she’s ok with it. It’s what the job needs at times to get done. I’m ok with that. It’s makes sense and is one of the many reasons I’ve never thought I’d make a good cop. I’m not wired to be hard like that or to compartmentalize like you need to survive doing what you have to do. But later she’s constantly losing her temper and talking about her “hit Latina blood” ,or saying “Dios Mío—My God” or “Mierda—Shit, Bullshit “ or telling some “Que te Folle un Pez—I hope you get Ducked by a Fish, Screw you” ( if you look the one up you’ll see ducked is of course a substituted word. Honestly it all felt like overkill at times designed to remind us yet again out h is Latina. I didn’t care about her ethnic background,what bothered me was how forced it felt like we needed to remember she’s either has a fiery 🔥 temper because she’s Latina or she’s Latina soo hers her fiery 🔥 temper which felt really odd and forced since the only reason those first few chapters made sense about the kidnapped child ( since they didn’t pertain to the rest of the story at all) was if it was there to set the foundation for her personally in the story. But it didn’t.
Then there’s the kidnapping,while any child being taken is awful ,it didn’t really make sense that Elena’s elite of “elites” team was sent out on this . The “town” had shifters and they had strong empaths and Elena’s team didn’t do anything as far as finding the girl that the ppl there couldn’t have done except hide her memories and heal her Spirit after what was done to her. Odd, and it didn’t help the story at all.
Then there was the supposedly huge changes done in just six years. Really ? In just six years where almost all the huge mega cities we rely on for so much almost all the works capitals are destroyed and over half the ppl on earth ,all that infrastructure and supplies but yet not only do we set up a new world government but we re home all the ppl to towns/cities in woods and jungles and forests or underwater ( Seriously? ) and create flying trains and hover cars and. AND start a colony on another planet 🌎 ( first book) . In just six years ? Come on!
Human superpowers or not ,sci fi / fantasy or not,the little to barely no world building doesn’t even begin to support that. In this kinda set up we’d be lucky to have our dead buried and found a way to still be functioning in six years. Twenty six maybe ,but Reno I got ppl to a city under the sea and hover cars and trains ? And ppl on another planet ? No ! I love PNR soo much I’d give almost anything to live it but even I can’t buy this. By the time Ramses, our H named like an Egyptian pharaoh, enters the pic I was soo tired of Elena and her supposed cold 🥶 the over hot 🥵 OTT flip flop behavior i hadn’t been able to connect w/I no longer cared and just finished out of boredom and Curiosity. They didn’t really work for me. It all felt forced. Elena seemed even though she knew about Laren mating to fight just because ,then ok,we might die ,let’s be mates. It just seemed to skip along here and there and by the end nothing felt resolved or really understood and these two strangers NEVER felt like anything but that. Only thing I loved was Elena telling ppl to go F a fish 🐟. It was usually well placed and confused the heck out the person it was directed at. Well I read more ? In this series probably not but I’d love to see her finish her RH
November 24, 2019
Great sci fi
I really enjoyed the action with the women being harasses and the new aliens world. I can't wait for for the red demons story
I really enjoyed the action with the women being harasses and the new aliens world. I can't wait for for the red demons story
July 14, 2019
LOVED IT!!! 5 STARS!!!
This has a lot of action in it and it moved the story forward and kept my attention engaged so I couldn't put it down! Elena is a Agent in the Enforcement Agency who is drafted into becoming a spy because of her cool powers and goes into the ruins of earth society to find traitors/alien-invaders. She's such a strong badass character, I loved her! She knows her mind and is no Damsel in distress. Ramses is equally compelling as an Enigma (spy) from the Laren. They are draw together and the tension is intense. The sexy-times are hot and Ramses is my new book-boyfriend. I can't decided if I like him or Admiral Cassian from the last book more!
Can't WAIT for the next! We get a really awesome Epilogue II and I want it NOW!!!
This has a lot of action in it and it moved the story forward and kept my attention engaged so I couldn't put it down! Elena is a Agent in the Enforcement Agency who is drafted into becoming a spy because of her cool powers and goes into the ruins of earth society to find traitors/alien-invaders. She's such a strong badass character, I loved her! She knows her mind and is no Damsel in distress. Ramses is equally compelling as an Enigma (spy) from the Laren. They are draw together and the tension is intense. The sexy-times are hot and Ramses is my new book-boyfriend. I can't decided if I like him or Admiral Cassian from the last book more!
Can't WAIT for the next! We get a really awesome Epilogue II and I want it NOW!!!
August 10, 2019
Storyline continues
As this is the third book in the series, I have found at this point either an ending is soon to follow or it will continue on. This story takes a more in depth look into the Lorian & Human background as well as showing what each race has come since the alliance. The characters are detailed and woven into an interesting storyline. This series has a few directions in which it can follow at this point, while keeping the main objective interesting. The books in this series is more enjoyable then the last, a definite read. Although the H&h are different in each book and be read as a stand alone, I suggest you start this series with book one to better understand the overall plot and backstory.
As this is the third book in the series, I have found at this point either an ending is soon to follow or it will continue on. This story takes a more in depth look into the Lorian & Human background as well as showing what each race has come since the alliance. The characters are detailed and woven into an interesting storyline. This series has a few directions in which it can follow at this point, while keeping the main objective interesting. The books in this series is more enjoyable then the last, a definite read. Although the H&h are different in each book and be read as a stand alone, I suggest you start this series with book one to better understand the overall plot and backstory.
July 14, 2019
Enigma
I really didn't get into this book until halfway through. Parts of it I really enjoyed such as the friendships with Libby and the twins. At times the plot seemed to move slow. I really liked book one and LOVED book two. I liked the epilogue and really look forward to book four.
I really didn't get into this book until halfway through. Parts of it I really enjoyed such as the friendships with Libby and the twins. At times the plot seemed to move slow. I really liked book one and LOVED book two. I liked the epilogue and really look forward to book four.
July 15, 2019
Love this series
Great world building. Lots of action. This o e is a little different from the first three and it's still awesome.
Great world building. Lots of action. This o e is a little different from the first three and it's still awesome.
July 15, 2019
3.5 stars
July 18, 2019
Wonderful Series
If you enjoy Sci-Fi romance without the obligatory over-sexualization, this is definitely the series for you. Great drama and can be read as stand alone.
If you enjoy Sci-Fi romance without the obligatory over-sexualization, this is definitely the series for you. Great drama and can be read as stand alone.
July 29, 2019
Another great book!
Great characters, depth, and awesome story! It’s always fun to find and read a great book by a favorite author.
Great characters, depth, and awesome story! It’s always fun to find and read a great book by a favorite author.
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