Heat Lightning (Bangers & Mash #8)

M.M. Farmer's "Heat Lighting" came out recently. It's the eighth book in her Bangers & Mash series (which I was--am--pretty addicted to).

["It’s a race against the clock to prove that one alpha’s dream can be the salvation for omegas in heat everywhere….

Arlo
No matter what I do, I can’t catch a break. I might have been the hero of the Evan Mercer scandal in the fall, but now I can’t even find a job. The other thing I can’t do is forget the handsome, schmexy alpha scientist from Bangers & Mash who I spent one awesome day with back then. And when it turns out that Dr. Steamypants needs an omega about to go into heat to test his new solo heat system, I am all about that!
But is it really a good idea for the two of us to test the Heat Lightning system together when we can’t keep our hands off each other?

Holden
Heat Lightning has been my dream and my life for the last ten years or more, and now the entire project might be defunded if we can’t prove it works. My only hope of keeping the dream alive is to successfully test it on an omega. When Arlo Tozzi volunteers, I can’t help but say yes. To everything. Because Arlo is everything I’ve ever wanted in an omega and then some.
The sizzling attraction between us is either going to prove that everything I’ve been working toward for a decade can succeed…or it’ll destroy my career completely."]

This series, this author, is so great at balancing it all. The heat, the sweet, the angst? Perfectly balanced. Not too much angst, a whole hell of a lot of heat, and even more sweet. 

I was utterly torn during the first half of the book. I wanted desperately for Heat Lightning to work and for Holden's experiment to be a success. However, I also really wanted them to say "fuck it" and fuck.

They were so cute together, a perfect mix of supportive and encouraging. They saw each other, really saw them. And they weren't stereotypes, they were just themselves. 

Can't wait for the next one!

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