As with the other books in this series, the author has created great characters and storylines that have impact. And she has built a beautiful family dynamic within the Dragon Runners MC that is carried throughout the series.
In this one, Fauna is a strong, determined woman, true to herself. She’s had to be. In her professional life as a chef, she’s been held back, in part because she’s a woman and in part because she’s multiracial. Even in her personal life, her mother (a Black woman) has pushed her to shove aside her Black heritage in order to better fit into the world her mother has made for herself. Dodge has his own baggage in a father who has always been rather aloof and in a drug-addicted ex who keeps dropping in and out of his life. Both of them take Dodge for granted, and his kindness keeps him from standing up for himself when he should.
That’s the kind of thing I love about this series… the very real issues that exist for the characters. The author digs deep, exposes the shadows to the light. I appreciate that, because life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Those shadows, those experiences… they form a person. There’s a real level of hope in reading stories like this one, that from the bad can come the very good.