The Fighter by Leslie Georgeson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
She’s my daughter’s new nanny. I’m a prime killing machine. She might think
she’s safe with me. But she’s not.Anna
Jobless, homeless, and stuck in a violent city, I need a way out before I become a casualty of Augusta’s gang wars.
Then a job offer comes from an unlikely source. A sexy single dad who needs a nanny.
Jacob
I committed the ultimate betrayal. All to protect my daughter.
Now I am an outsider. Hiding in the shadows. My dreg brothers don’t trust me anymore. Some even want me dead.
That is the least of my worries. My kid needs me to take care of her. But I am just a wounded soldier, not a father. In desperation, I hire a nanny. She is gorgeous and kind and pure temptation. My daughter loves her, and I too am falling under her spell.
Then an unexpected betrayal forces me to become what I don’t want to be. Something more dangerous than any human.
The Phantom of Death.
But if I am to survive this hell, I’ll need more than my fighting skills. I’ll need my dreg brothers. The very ones who cast me aside.
Will they come to my aid—or will they turn a blind eye and leave me to rot?
The Fighter
The phantom and the nanny!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤓😘😄
The Hero: Jacob (a.k.a. The Fighter) – He is one of The Dregs. They were brought into a program as children, experimented on with all kinds of drugs and animal DNA, imprisoned, tortured and trained to be elite super soldiers. All along knowing that if they got too badly injured to be at 100% of their abilities, they would be killed, because the program couldn’t allow them to be released into the population since they were too dangerous and unhinged. Jacob was unparalleled when it came to fighting. His Dreg brothers called him the phantom of death because of his ability to move so fast the human eye couldn’t detect him when he was in fight mode.
The heroine: Anna – she lived in Augusta which is now overrun by gangs and gang violence. She used to be a volunteer at the homeless shelter where she now lives, having nothing to her name but the clothes on her back. She should have left weeks ago but is now stuck in Augusta with so many others. Her job as a nanny ended when the family fled weeks ago, and she is still hoping to find another job. When she sees an add posted for a live-in nanny to a five-year-old girl.
The Story: After the Dregs escaped captivity when they were supposed to be executed. Jacob was found by the General. The crazy psychopath in charge of the program for The Company. The General wanted his best soldier, The Tracker back and planned on using Jacob to get what he wanted. The General knew that Jacob had a five-year-old daughter Hazel with a prostitute that he had allowed to come service the guys while they were captive. The General killed Hazel’s mother and took the girl captive to force Jacob to betray Tracker. Though they have since killed The General, Jacob is now persona non grata with his brothers who can no longer trust him. He is left to hide out from the bounty hunters after all of them and raise his daughter alone.
“I’d been ‘recruited’ by a man who called himself ‘The General’. He was a decorated war hero but a complete bastard underneath. His ultimate goal in life was to create the perfect soldier. So, he snatched kids off the streets and ‘bred’ kids at his facility by forcing his soldiers to f*ck whores. He ‘recruited’ boys in any way he could. Then he turned us into his lab rats, injecting us with numerous experimental drugs, and different types of animal DNA, trying to create the perfect soldier.” I drew in a deep breath, then forced myself to go on. “He subjected us to horrendous torture, brainwashed us, fucked with our minds, forcing us to become stronger, to become merciless killers.”
This story wasn’t your typical single father falls for nanny trope. Anna had no idea who Jacob really was, what he did for a living or just how dangerous he was, though she did pick up on the fact that he was dangerous pretty early on. Jacob was also teaching Anna self defense so that she could protect herself and Hazel. Though she didn’t understand why it was so important and who she would be protecting herself against. The fact that they were practicing self defense moves together brought them into pretty close proximity and the attraction between them was ramped up.
One thing I can never understand in books and movies, is when a character is forced to betray his friends because someone else is threatening or holding a family member hostage. I mean if that character doesn’t want to betray his friends, why tell those friends what is happening and ask those friends for help. Chances are that if Jacob told Tracker that the General was threatening to kill Jacob’s daughter, Tracker would have given himself to the General in exchange and the Dregs would have had a plan to fix things. Though I suppose that doesn’t further the story like betrayal does….
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