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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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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
Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Destiny Pregnancy Heartfelt

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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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So the Novak family of strong bears got their own series. So cool! River has been running away from his mate. He is skilled and trained, a different omega. He doesn’t need salvation but one hunky bear from a Russian family might just be his better half. I really enjoyed the book. I loved that it includes kids and taking care of them just like Alphabits. The narration was awesome.

The Novak family

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This would be a light, fluffy, shifter mpreg without the added Brutality and Gore associated with two Mob families having a familial disagreement (by disagreement read kidnap). We have some of the Alphabits making an appearance, always fun. There is murder and some mayhem, all carried out with snarky humour.
River is scared that Vasily will want to control him, it gets very sexy while Vasily persuades him that's is not his agenda. This couple get an extremely satisfying HEA.
Kirti Graves does another great job of being all the characters in the book and just giving it that little something extra.

Bloodthirsty fun.

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i loved this so much.. the narrator hit these characters and who they are on the head for me.. it was sexy and mmm some spots were sooo soo hott. lol the story is as always amazing..and i loved it

loved this

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4.5 Stars!

I would suggest reading the Alphabits series, especially the last two books (6 & 7) before starting this series. They're interconnected and a lot of characters from the previous books appear in this one.

I wasn't too sure I was going to like Vasily at first, but he certainly was a different kind of Alpha than what I expected and I just loved that he was so patient with River and didn't try to smother his independence, on the contrary, he seemed to revel on River being part of STOHP. I liked River, but I was a bit fed up with his ideas of what the relationship between Alphas and Omegas really were. He did get better as he finally realized he'd been wrong, so there's that. Vasily and River had great chemistry and I loved seeing them work together and how great they were with Petey.

The case was interesting and I was captivated by the story. Kirt Graves is doing a great job with the characters, and his performance was nearly flawless, especially considering how many characters there are in the book, many with Russian accents. Very recommendable!

Great start to the series!

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