Sol by Madison Stevens

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Erica Scott is good at sniffing out embezzlers, frauds and other financial criminals, or at least she was when she had a job. 

After an unfortunate lay-off, her options are limited. One path is to work with a narcissistic creep, her best friend’s boyfriend. The other is Luna Lodge, a place controlled by the mysterious hybrids, the super-soldier products of a horrific genetic engineering project. 

Sol, a hybrid and the head of security at the lodge, doesn’t know how much he can trust Erica. Suspicious that the woman may be a spy for his former masters, the sinister Horatius Group, he is determined to keep an eye on her, but his body wants a lot more than that. 

When someone targets the lodge, the suspect list quickly grows. Sol and Erica will have to fight against their burning passion and keep their focus to save themselves and the lodge.

Sol

Genetically enhanced hybrids that are free from captivity!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️😮☺️😍

The heroine: Erica – she is a forensic accountant who recently lost her job and hasn’t had any offers for new ones, though she is not in a huge hurry to get one since she still has 3 months left of severance pay. Her best friend Kate talks Erica in to going with her and her boyfriend Mark for the weekend to the Luna Lodge for a convention. It is a new facility run by the reclusive new tribe that has been in the news lately. there has been a lot of opposition to the recognition granted to the tribe and the land they received. Though Kate thinks it will be a fun time since few people are offered the chance to go to the lodge.

The Hero: Sol – he is the head of security for the Luna tribe and is a bit grumpy about having to show up at the big event at the lodge and appear on TV. He especially didn’t like having to wear a suit and having brown contact lenses because of his yellow eyes that would make people wonder at how different their tribe really was. As it is, his leader Titus is asking him to appear because people are already suspicious of them since Titus is the only tribe member the public ever sees. But the tribe is trying to establish themselves as a community and their freedom depends on it.

The Story: Sol notices Erica right away at the event that night. He has an unusual reaction to her that surprises both him and Titus. Later, he sees a sketchy looking man talking her up, and after she escapes to the balcony, he goes to find her. While they are together, a bomb goes off and the place catches fire. Sol saves Erica, but in doing so, he outs himself as not completely human. He, Titus and the General that has been helping them end up having to explain in a press conference that the Luna tribe are hybrids and were created via genetic experiments by a company called the Horatius Group, who are still after their “property” and were probably behind the bombing.

When Erica discovers that someone is stealing from the tribe, they offer her a job. I have been a big fan of the paranormal via genetic engineering trope, and I loved the fact that this series is taking place after the hybrid’s escape from captivity. It reminds me a bit of the Breeds series by Lora Leigh and Laurann Dohner’s New Species series, both which I really enjoyed.

I really liked this one from the start. This book was plenty steamy and had a good storyline as well. Just because the hybrids are free from their captors, doesn’t mean they are safe. The Horatius group wants a hybrid baby, and they still have other hidden facilities. Plus, there are bigots against the Hybrids, and a man called “The Pale Man” who wants to take the hybrids down. He was a scientist for the Horatius group who used the serum on himself and is stronger than the hybrids. This is shaping up to be a good series.

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