Emerson is terrified when he goes into his first heat and has nowhere to go. Staying on the streets isn't an option and returning to the shelter is out since the guards often sell omegas into forced prostitution. With no other ideas he winds up in Burke's pub - the scarred older alpha who has been allowing him to take out rubbish in exchange for food.

Burke takes one look at the vulnerable omega and feels the least he can do is let him stay until his heat is over.

This was a low angst omegaverse with a scarred alpha hero and a young vulnerable homeless omega with no where to go and no one to turn to when he has his first heat.

I wouldn't say I was expecting much of this - but I was expecting better than it was. The heavier topics of homelessness and prostitution were never really explored. There was some weird subplot with the cook, Mark that never really went anywhere and the feelings between them were shallow and limited to they have sex. The end. It started off okay and then never really developed any further, just 188 pages of sex. Bad sex. Really really bad sex. It was actually rather painful to read. The sex was repetitive and frankly, got pretty weird ands somewhat traumatic. I know there's lots of kink out there but whatever this was, wasn't for me.

The biggest problem regarding the plot was Burke never had any feelings of any type before Emerson turned up in heat. It was hard to believe any genuine feelings resulted from that. If he'd had a crush or something it might have made it less ridiculous but he doesn't. And mind you - neither does Emerson. They just have sex and decide they're meant to be. I can get behind fated mates but this wasn't really that either.

Overall, a relatively low angst omegaverse romance let down by ridiculous and over the top repetitive sex scenes and an unbelievable romantic connection. 1 star. ( )

3.5-4 stars ( )