paranormal, m/m-romantic-suspense, m/m-romance, m/m-mystery, urban-fantasy, ghosts, contemporary, serial-killer, local-law-enforcement, medium, clairvoyant, South Carolina, small-business, gay-cops, PTSD, investigations, unputdownable, friction, friends, erotica*****

*The cop who still can't believe what he witnessed and had to move to another law enforcement area when his superiors figured him for a nut case.
*The professor who is a real clairvoyant and support person for others with similar "gifts" as well as running a magic shop with local tours and more.
*A crazed evil magic user/serial murder who is murdering untraceable magic users and is coming the professor.
*A romance that arises between two opposites.
All this and the bestest narrator ever! Yay, Kale Williams! ( )

This is a favorite trope of mine and Ms. Brice did a brilliant job with it. The characters were believable and flawed. I found the under belly of Myrtle Beach interesting and quirky. ( )

I read this as a NetGalley ARC ebook. Plot and characters - loved both. There was some repetition of reasoning. I assume Brice doesn't mean to insult the reader. It wasn't terrible, and for me the two guys and all the side characters and the rising difficulties were all really good, compelling, believable. I added the next book to my wish list.

The one failure is the magical instant hard-on to signal interest. Both guys. More than once. As if the author is unaware of other ways males can reveal lust. As if neither man has reservations, when we are being told that they actually do. It read as uninformed, simple. Luckily those scenes are short. (And I have read far worse, sad to say.) ( )

Less on the melodrama, please, and more focus the drama and this story would sing. Simon's got a major martyr streak that is kind of off putting. And, despite "cop's" instinct, Vick should've resisted the desire to check out Simon's background. Not the way to get a relationship off the ground. And, more actual talking than sex every time they're in each other's vacinity, and I might buy into their relationship. ( )

Since this is my 350th book of this year and will complete the challenge on Goodreads, I thought I would end it with a reread of a favorite...a favorite series...a favorite author...and a sexy, hot favorite couple....Simon Kincaid and Vic D'Amata. I've have to confess that this is the third reread of this series and I have reread several of her other series as well. I am well assured that this won't be the last time for this one either. I can't seem to leave the guys for very long. Simon and Vic are perfect. Perfect in their chosen professions...perfect in their love for one another and perfect and comfortable in their own skins. Vic, the cop, and Simon the professor that was fired from the university in Columbia, South Carolina where he taught a class on folklore and mythology. A students rich, influential father made accusations to the board that he was teaching devil worship. Leaving the city behind he found himself in Myrle Beach running a shop that sells books, protection charms, gives physic readings, and leads ghost tours. He has many interesting friends that only add to the stories. In this opener...a serial killer with supernatural abilities is killing people with various levels of physic talents. Vic reluctantly brings Simon...who he had only just met... in as a consultant. This brings Vic and Simon together both on the job and then into one another's lives. I have read three of Morgan Brice's series...several times... and all of them are 5 star quality. She brings characters from all her other series into each of her books, so we get to always see out "old friends". I wish the books were longer, but there is that thing known as the "reread" that I have honed to an expert level. ( )