Please help me give a big, warm welcome to Jory Dean, the hero of Rebecca Zanetti’s newest Sins Brothers novel, Total Surrender!

GraveTells (GT): Hey Jory! Welcome to GraveTells! We’re excited to have you. Jory Dean (JD): Hi DVK and GraveTells! It’s so good to be here today.

GT: All of the Dean brothers have some sort of enhanced physical trait. What’s your secret? JD: Well, we all have enhanced senses, but each one of us has an extra-enhanced sense or two. For me, I have both a knack for computers and code as well as the ability to see, or rather sense, vibrations in the atmosphere. I can see it with people, with their moods, and I can see it with vehicles. [...]

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Holy. Mother.

In for the Kill opens with all the addicting mystique of a spy thriller and rolls right into the story like a freight train on a bender. Ballsy, take-no-shit ladies and in your face, brutally honest men duel through the dialogue, cleverly filling in series backstory without being obvious or leaving confusing gaps. These people clearly have a payload of exciting (maybe ‘traumatic’ is a better word) history together, from woo-woo new “special powers” to jewelry literally designed to kill. We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto: Here there be [...]

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You know that scene from the reboot Star Trek movie where Scottie says “I like this ship. It’s exciting!”? Well that’s how I felt while reading this book. Blind Faith is most definitely exciting! The story has a lot of elements of romantic suspense and flirts a little with the genre boundary, but I’d say it ultimately falls on the side of contemporary romance with some paranormal elements.

Speaking of ultimate, the Gray/Dean brothers are a hell of a set of alpha heroes! Nathan—like his brothers before him—is serious and radiates a constant lethal edge, [...]

One of the things I love about romance books is how you can pick whatever kind of hero matches your mood or sparks your interest. The Gray brothers, named for their matching storm-cloud gray eyes, are definitely not your average every day guys, even for soldiers. They were trained since birth to kill, track, and work undercover, and are gifted with heightened senses: hearing, precognition, instinctively knowing the truth from a lie. It generally doesn't go over too well with your employers when you blow up their laboratories and training facilities and make off with their expensive property, especially when said property is four badass world-class killers with a conscience determined [...]