Hot Wire Series
Length: 43,000 words approx.
Length: 48,000 words approx.
Night Moves
Peter Bauer is a career car thief with more skeletons in his closet than four-figure suits. Nikos Petrakis is a mechanic who's found himself on the wrong side of the law because of a secret of his own. Brought together by circumstance and a '65 Shelby Cobra, they'll have to navigate L.A.'s seedy underbelly in the sweet with heat world of Hot Wire.
Night Moves has been nominated for the Goodreads M/M Romance Members’ Choice Awards Best of 2018 for both Best Debut Book and Best Main Character. It contains themes of crime, suspense, family drama, hurt/comfort, dark humor, addiction, and abuse. Rated M for mature.
Backstreets
“Where there’s nothing to gain and everything to lose.”
It’s modest, but after a lifetime spent barely holding on, former car thief Peter Bauer is proud of what he’s managed to achieve. He’s got a legal, legitimate job as a mechanic, a firm grasp on his addictions, and a steady relationship with Nikos Petrakis—stable, handsome, and recently widowed. Nothing is going to upset that, not the ever-present memory of Nik's wife, not the claustrophobia Peter is starting to feel trapped in domestic bliss, not even the sudden reappearance of Peter's ex—the sexy and dangerous Stavros Giannopoulos.
But when Nik's daughter goes missing, Peter will be forced back into the seedy underbelly of the LA crime world, where anything goes. Can his and Nik's relationship survive? Can Peter?
Backstreets is the second book in Kat Cassidy’s Hot Wire series which contains themes of crime, suspense, family drama, hurt/comfort, dark humor, addiction, and abuse. It should not be read as a standalone.
3.5 Stars
Night Moves is book 1 in the Hot Wire series and Ms. Cassidy's debut book and as such, it was a good, solid start.
I am intrigued by the world Kat Cassidy has created here. Peter Bauer is part of a crime family, a car thief, although his father doesn't seem to think much of him. I definitely didn't like Peter's father, but I'm not sure I liked Peter's twin sister all that much either, even if she's supposed to be the 'good' one. I would've thought she'd be a bit more supportive of Peter after the abuse he'd suffered at their father's hands, but I guess since it wasn't her, it was alright? Not for me, but okay. *sighs* I'm aware Peter wasn't an angel, but he seemed to be a better man than anyone gives him credit for being.
And then we have Nik, mysterious and seemingly interested in Peter and after seducing him, it turns out he's married and straight or maybe bi? *shrugs* I don't really care if the wife wasn't really in the picture. I just didn't like that he was all righteous and didn't give Peter the chance to explain things. Plus I didn't really feel that I got to know Nik, which might be why I found it so hard to connect with him as a character. I didn't feel all that much chemistry between him and Peter either, but that might have been me. I liked Jordan better for Peter.
The book is well-written, although I'm not a fan of other POVs rather than the MCs, the interludes with some of the other players worked in this case. My favorite by far was Peter, and I'm interested enough in finding out how things are going to play out for him now to pick up the next book in the series. Recommendable.
*** Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure, a review wasn't a requirement. ***
About The Author
Her debut novel, Night Moves, has been nominated for the Goodreads M/M Romance Members’ Choice Awards Best of 2018 for both Best Debut Book and Best Main Character.
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