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Family Ties

The Family Novak, Book 1

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Family Ties

By: Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
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About this listen

In a world where the rules are gray, and the Don's word is a law unto itself, only one thing is sacred: family.

River Erikson is a man on the run. After scenting his true mate, he’s done everything in his power to escape. Just because he was born an omega doesn’t mean he needs to answer fate’s call and drop to his knees for some alpha. Especially not a smug mafioso who thinks way too much of himself.

Luckily, his job at STAHP - the vicious vigilante organization that works to police shifters when law enforcement can’t - keeps him busy enough that he can try to forget how his traitorous body reacts whenever a certain muscled Russian is around.

Vasily Novak is stunned when he scents his mate, but powerless to chase him when he flees. How can he? His focus is entirely centered on the precocious five-year-old he recently learned was his child. All he can do is trust the fates to bring his mate back when the time is right. Vasily is confident that River will be his eventually. He just needs to be patient.

When Vasily’s son is taken, River comes to help retrieve the boy who melted his heart the first time Petey called him “pretty kitty”. As the pair leave a bloody trail through the city on their search, will the fates give them a second chance at finding a forever in each other?

This is the first book in a new mpreg mafia series. Get ready for a world ruled by the Don’s iron fist, unique interrogation tactics, and a family that stands together, no matter what. At its heart, you’ll still find all the fluffy mpreg feels and crazy antics you’d look for from Susi Hawke and Crista Crown. This is a Team A.L.P.H.A. and Alphabits spin-off series.

Warning: You can expect to find naughty, knotty scenes of steamy passion, along with a lot of potty-mouth language and more violence than you’re used to from us.

©2019 Hawke & Crown LLC (P)2019 Hawke & Crown LLC
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Family Ties by Susi Hawke and Crista Crown (The Family Novak, book 1) This story and characters will keep you entertained from beginning to end. I really enjoyed this story. It was well written With a lot of action. If you like M/Preg and shifter this is the story for you.
The Narrator Kirt Graves did a fantastic job bringing these characters and stories to life.

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This was a very entertaining audiobook.
I loved the story and the characters.
I can’t wait to listen to more of this series.

Awesome

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This is the first book,in a spin off from Team A*L*P*H*A and Alphabits.

This centres around Cyrus's family of Russian bears. The first one is the story of Vasily and River. River is the brother of Leaf who we met in Cyrus's story.

Vasily has now got custody of his son after his other father was killed. He was the son of Vasily's family's rivals the Stanislavs.
But one day when he is in the shower Petey is kidnapped from under his nose.
Vasily will move heaven and earth to get his son back and gets the help of River who originally returned Petey to him.
They fall in love whilst rescuing Petey.

River is this big tough character that masks his scent from Vasily because he never wants to belong to anybody. He's an alpha in an Omega's body.

But Vasily slowly breaks him down. I loved seeing River fall under his mate's spell. He's tough but has a heart of gold.

This is written again by Susan Hawke and Crista Crown and narrated by Kirt Graves
who is a new to me narrator. I really enjoyed listening to him and his sexy Russian accent.

Family Ties are everything

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The Novak's are back. In this newest spin off series by these talented authors.
This is possibly one of the most enjoyable books of the whole world. I really enjoyed it.
Kirt Graves does a fabulous job narrating this story. Can’t wait for the next one.

All about family

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This spin-off series about the Novak Bears (Cyrus' mobster brothers) is a fun series to delve into and Kirt Graves does a good job with the Russian accented bears and the feisty Cat shifters from STAHP who come into their sphere, including Vassily's mate River. There's also a little boy who loves the "Pretty Kitty" who is revealed as Vassily's son with another now-dead omega. There's plenty of action and mayhem. Highly recommended for all Susi Hawke fans and lovers of MPreg.

The Bear and his Kitty mate

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