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Peacemaker

Sharps and Springfield, Book 1

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By: Morgan Brice
Narrated by: John Solo
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Summary

Secret agents, forbidden love, danger, and magic!

Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men like them.

It's their first case together, investigating mysterious disappearances-including the two agents who preceded them. Grim evidence leads them to look for a darker purpose. Old ghosts haunt the railroad line, zombie rise, signs point to ritual sacrifice, and they suspect someone is trying to open the gates of hell.

Can Calvin and Owen stop the mayhem, thwart the vampires, and find true love, or will everything go up in smoke?

Contains mature themes.

©2023 Gail Z. Martin (P)2024 Tantor Historical Historical Fiction Romance Science Fiction Steampunk Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Paranormal Haunted Fantasy
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It’s 1897 and newly paired Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield are sent to St Louis to investigate a series of disappearances, including the previously assigned agents. The Police Chief seems corrupt and the bigwigs want to attract new business to the city so they’re covering up the worst of it. Owen and Calvin battle the forces of darkness using their fight-training and magical abilities. Gathering information and clues from a wide variety of sources doesn’t leave them much time to get to know each other, but they still feel that mutual forbidden attraction.

This steampunk / supernatural murder-mystery isn’t anywhere near as strong as Morgan Brice’s other works. I just couldn’t connect with the characters and I found myself pretty disappointed. Owen and Calvin are pretty much interchangeable characters, there’s no depth to them. They spend 90% of the story apart so the final romance doesn’t feel real or hard-won. The case is a confusion of dodging baddies and racing from one info source to another. Dying baddies conveniently spill their secrets, other sources spoon-feed our heroes—there’s so much telling and not enough investigating. Despite the historical setting, everything talked in a very modern way. 🎧 I love John Solo as a narrator, but even he couldn’t plaster over all the cracks.

Couldn’t connect with the shallow characters!

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