Pivot

by Kat Martin and Alexandra Ivy

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Great authors and wonderful writing Each story could stand alone but combined works even better.

Pivot is three novellas by Kat Martin, Rebecca Zanetti and Alexandra Ivy. They are all part of one of the author’s own series but I never felt lost with the characters since I was only familiar with the Rebecca Zanetti series, Deep Ops.

I liked that the authors used not only heroes and heroines who were connected but the antagonists were also connected throughout the three individual stories. The women all had different backgrounds but they grew up in foster homes which brought in trust and abandonment issues and abusive parents.

In Kat Martin’s tale, Meri Jones and her three-year-old daughter are on the run from Lily’s father. Joey has an issue with drugs. Meri inherited money from her foster mother which Joey believes is much greater than it was. He thinks Meri is holding out on him and he wants his fair share or he’ll take Lily. When Meri runs low on gas, she happens to meet Ian Brodie who is looking for someone to help clean up his father’s house which is in disrepair. Ian can tell the Meri is desperate for work and is obviously running from something. He takes her in and together they bring the house back to its former glory while Meri’s little girl breathes new life into Ian’s father. This was my first Kat Martin story and it was very enjoyable. It was also the only insta-love story of the three but we get by this with a general reference to the many days and evening that Ian and Meri work together to accomplish their goal of fixing the house. Meri’s kid is adorable and I enjoyed her playing off against the grumpy old dad and instead of being intimidated by him, she just ignores his bluster until he comes very used to this cute little kid.

Rebecca Zanetti’s story, features Michelle Peach, a friend of Meri’s, who was beaten up and harassed by Joey and his cohort for information on Meri’s whereabouts. She calls out to her friend Raider for help and he sends Evan Bolden Michelle’s ex-love and former marine to protect her. Michelle had a problem with Evan’s need for excitement and danger but she would never have walked way from him so Evan pushed her away. He realized his mistake almost immediately but now he realizes that action and excitement also includes too much blood and death. All he wants now is to settle down and convince Michelle that all he needs in is life is her.

The final story involved Detective Grey Hawkins who is trying to uncover police corruption in Seattle. He has been getting his information from Joey’s cohort, Bart Kowalski. Now Bart’s little boy is being threatened by the same people Grey is trying to uncover. He rushes to get to Donny first but he has run to see his teacher at the Youth Center. His favorite teacher turns out to be Melanie Cassidy, Grey’s old love, who he walked away from a few years ago. He also realized his mistake shortly thereafter. Grey is a friend of Ian Brodie, and call his friend Ian for some help to hide the little boy while Grey and Melanie track down the dirty cops and the men they sent after a little boy

These were really good stories and although they would be considered part of each author’s individual series, I never left left out on any of them. Each story would have worked fine as a stand alone but I liked how they overlapped the characters in the different stories giving the anthology a cohesiveness.

Received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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