I've been meaning to catch up on (binge-read) the rest of Romeo Alexander's works for a while now. I just realized that most of the Men of Fort Dale novels are relatively short, so here's to binge-ing. "My Surly Soldier" is the sixth and final book in the series
["Marco: Life is pretty good...for the most part anyway. A solid career in IT, a good home, and great friends who care about me. It’s a bit lonely. But I’m okay with that. I certainly wasn’t expecting to stumble across a bruised and battered stranger on a dirty street or to discover there was so much more to him than meets the eye. And I definitely didn’t expect to find that Carter, the grumpy, sharp-tongued stranger was the last piece of the puzzle that is my life…But that’s life, right?
Carter: Nothing in my life has been easy. The only way out of my crappy childhood was to enlist. That wasn’t any easier. The military hasn’t exactly been kind to me, even if it did give me a purpose. None of that mattered for shit when they put me on ice, threw me to the wolves and left me out to dry…at Fort Dale. But that’s life, right? At least that’s what I told myself until I met Marco, who honestly doesn’t play by the rules. I thought I knew how the world worked, and everything I thought I knew? Well, Marcus turned it on its head.
Can these two amazing men, who are complete opposites, find happiness? Will Marco be able to blast his way through the grumpy shield Carter uses to defend his heart? Or will Carter’s bad luck strike again?"]
Marco!! I'm so glad you got to have a story of your own after Dean was derailed by True Love (tm)! And I want to say that Carter was mentioned briefly in a previous novel, in passing.
Carter reminds me of someone, but I can't remember who. Carter was all angry, rough edges. He was judged for his past, or at least what his superiors wrote was his past. He was judged for his actions, without wanting to see why he did them.
Only Marco saw through his guise, or stayed long enough to see (because when Marco went on a tirade (more than one, actually) about Carter and his character, people slowly started to listen).
These two might stick with me for a while. I've got a pick of a book-hangover from them, tbh.
Trigger Warnings: war time action, alcoholism (sorta), violence, attempted rape, and more
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