Mason by Nyssa Kathryn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Falling for each other was never part of the plan…

Doctor Sage Porter has moved to Marble Falls to be the private physician for a group of men unlike any the world has ever known. But she has a second, secret reason for moving to the small town. A reason she can’t share with another living soul…

Especially not the men under her care.

Mason Ross is a born guardian. Protecting his team and their families comes naturally, and he’ll do anything to keep them safe—but what if the peril is less than obvious? Like the gorgeous doctor who’s caught his attention. She’s hiding something. And Mason is more than aware that secrets can be deadly, and sometimes the least likely threat poses the greatest danger.

Getting close is a risk; both Mason and Sage have a lot to lose…including each other, if they can’t work together to survive the coming menace.

Mason

The super soldier and Sage!

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

The heroine: Sage – she is the doctor that has spent the last few years studying the DNA of the genetically engineered soldiers that were a part of Project Arma. The soldiers were held at a place known only as “The facility” somewhere in Italy until the government of the US and Italy rescued them. They paid reparations to the men who now own Marble Protection in the small town of Marble Falls. Sage’s twin brother got a new job with Project Arma three years ago and has spent the last two years in hiding from them. She misses him and he just sent her a text message telling her he needs her to break into Marble Protection for him.

The Hero: Mason (a.k.a. Eagle) – He is a former Navy Seal and one of the owners of Marble Protection. Since Sage came to Marble Falls to help Lexie with her pregnancy and stayed to be baby Fletcher’s doctor, as well as doctor for the enhanced men, Mason hasn’t trusted her. He couldn’t get her delectable body out of his mind, and he knew she was keeping things from them. He had been following her off and on, had broken into her home and found some hidden items in a go bag, and even put some spyware on her phone, so he could read her messages, and he knew she got one from her brother asking her to break into Marble Protection.

The Story: Mason caught Sage after she broke into their offices, and though she lied to him about why she was there, and even admitted to stealing Lexie’s key, all he did was take the key and let her go. Well after sharing a steamy kiss with her, that is. Mason doesn’t think Sage is a threat to them or to Lexie and Fletcher, though he is determined to keep an eye on her in case her brother, or whomever is pretending to be him shows up in Marble Falls.

I am really into the genetically enhanced super soldier trope lately; I am currently in the middle of more than a few different series with the same theme. I kind of get on to one trope and stay on it for a while and then move on to something else. This one has some good storylines, and I like the fact that this group of guys are leading a relatively normal life. One thing I disliked about this book was though the world building was pretty good; the author never fully described the characters at the start of the book. The fact that they both had blue eyes was mentioned more than once, but it didn’t say anything about what color hair they had until about 20% in. I like to picture the characters while reading and it is hard to do that without something as basic as what their hair looks like.

The story in this one was pretty good, especially the relationship drama, since Mason didn’t trust Sage at first, he had been auditing her text messages to and from her brother and didn’t know when to tell her what he had done. Of course, as it is in all things like this in romance, he waited too long. There were also some storylines about Project Arma trying to kidnap Sage to get the information she knows about Fletcher’s DNA. I was most interested in what happened to her brother. It wasn’t too hard to figure out some of it by looking at the authors list of books (see related series). I definitely plan to read more of this series, I am hoping the guys eventually get back at the people behind Project Arma and rescue more military men that have been taken and used as guinea pigs.

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