Hadn’t the Pleasure #53

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it

 

Detective Gabriel Ashby has never looked twice at another man, yet the criminal across from him, the man he’s interrogating, isn’t like any other. Gabe can’t deal with the sudden, intense need he has for one of NYPD’s Most Wanted. Everyone close to Angelo Pagan ends up dead, with the smug gang leader standing amid the rubble. Gabe would love nothing more than to bust Angelo’s ass and lock him up. So why is he seeing the bastard in his dreams at night?

Angelo Pagan knows attraction to Gabe is suicide. He’s resolute to ignore the chemistry…until a police raid goes wrong. He critically injures Gabe, changing the trajectory of both their lives. Now the two can’t get close enough. They settle into a forbidden affair threatened by lies and betrayal, living on different sides of the law with no way of breaching the gap between them. With the authorities looking to make an example of Angelo, Gabe has to decide if it’s really worth it to hate the sin but love the sinner.

 

Love the Sinner by Avril Ashton

(Brooklyn Sinners #1)

 First published 9th May 2012 by Ellora’s Cave

iBook, 244 pages

Contemporary Romantic Mystery ‘GFY’

“It’s about goddamn time one of you people showed up.” Detective Gabriel Ashby closed the interrogation room behind him and raised an eyebrow at the man who spoke. Draped in a chair, long dark hair flowing over and past his shoulders, Angelo Pagan scowled at him from behind dark sunglasses.

Series includes

Sinner, Savior, A Sinner Born