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Hunter
Series · 5 books · 2018-2021

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#1

Hunter

2018

Luis has spent his career chasing the darker side of life. First a vice cop, then an FBI profiler, now he lands in the Boston field office, and not by choice. He expects his case load to have a much lighter tone than he’s used to. He wasn’t counting on New England’s dark history, or their pride in it. He didn’t understand how close-knit the old towns could be, or how protective they were of their own. He soon finds he’s going to have to count on every skill he ever used in his time at headquarters, and a few skills he didn’t know he had, if he wants to keep body and soul together. Complicating matters is a new case Luis has just been handed, working with the Mass. State Police. Luis has history there, and ugly history too. Detective Donovan Carey is the guy who broke Luis’ heart over a decade ago. He wasn’t willing to even peek his head outside the closet, certainly not for someone like Luis. Can they put their history aside to deal with a mystery centuries in the making?
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#2

Absolution

2019

The would-be highwayman killer’s case is closed, and Luis has been cleared to return to work. He and Donovan are starting their new life together, and while they’re both a little new at this whole “stable relationship” thing they’re determined to make things work. When people start dying at Assonet Ledge, it seems like a typical case for Donovan until one of the victims turns out to be a missing person from out of state, bringing the FBI into one of Donovan’s cases yet again. The park ranger at the site is everything Donovan isn’t, and Donovan finds himself wondering if his partner isn’t falling into old habits. Luis struggles to understand Donovan’s jealousy, which puts a strain on their relationship and the case. To top things off, there may be forces at work here that go back long before humans showed their faces, forces Luis can’t hope to understand. Will those forces propel the case, and Luis and Donovan’s rekindled romance, off a cliff?
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#3

Faith

2019

Rebuilding a relationship isn’t as easy as either Luis or Donovan thought. Re-establishing trust while trying to take down a human trafficking ring in a hotel overflowing with ghosts? That might be impossible, even for these two. How do two people rebuild trust when they’ve been betrayed by the people they trusted most? Luis and Donovan want to stay together and make their love work, but the situation is tenuous. Boundaries must be drawn, and both are afraid to step too close to the line. Life has other plans. A human trafficking ring crops up at a luxury Boston hotel with a dark past, and Luis and Donovan are forced to go undercover to find out more. Between the dangerous criminals stealing humans from the hotel and the ghosts wandering the corridors, this couple has their hands full. They certainly don’t need complications from Luis’ past to throw a wrench into the works… A Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series.
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#4

Prodigal

2020

A Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series. Summer is back in Boston, bringing with it the anniversary of a protest that turned into a massacre. It’s a somber occasion, but one that blends into the sea of police brutality incidents across the country for Agent Luis Gomes – until his partner, State Police Detective Donovan Carey, is accused of a terrible crime. Donovan knows he was nowhere near the crime, but eyewitness testimony is conflicting and unreliable. His own agency is desperate to be seen doing the right thing after a string of scandals, and is more concerned about regaining public trust than about facts. Luis is assigned to investigate the case. Can he put aside his love for Donovan and find out what really happened? And when he does, will he be able to hold onto the principles he’s believed in since childhood? Prodigal includes discussion of police brutality and of Bostonians rioting, which has been a popular pastime since the late 17th century.
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#5

Phoenix

2021

In this thrilling conclusion to the Hunter series, Donovan’s new promotion has just brought its first tragedy. Two of his detectives and one FBI agent have been shot in a joint mission in western Massachusetts, and a manhunt is on for the killer. Luis is trying his best to be supportive, but he’s the key witness in the trial of a major predator in Boston. When an ally of the predator in Luis’ case takes desperate action to free the defendant, Luis is in more danger than he’s ever faced before. Donovan is torn between fighting for his men and fighting for his lover. Luis is fighting for his life in a place so dismal only the dead survive. And the clock is ticking.

Author

J.V. Speyer
J.V. Speyer
Author · 16 books

J J. V. Speyer writes LGBTQ+ romance novels heavily flavored with suspense, mystery, and adventure. She has lived in upstate New York and rural Catalonia before making the greater Boston, Massachusetts area her permanent home. She currently lives just south of Boston in a house old enough to remember when her town was a tavern community with a farming problem. J. V. finds most of her inspiration from music. Her tastes run the gamut from traditional to industrial and back again. When not writing she is a baseball fan, a hockey mom, and a devotee of all things weird and creepy about New England.

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