"Crash & Burn" by Abigail Roux

The is the ninth and final book in the "Cut & Run" series, and it finds FBI Special Agent in Charge Zane Garrett overseeing the Baltimore office while his fiance, former FBI Special Agent Ty Grady, rehabs the old building they bought into a book store.  But all hell breaks loose when Ty's best friend and fellow member of Marine Force Recon team Sidewinder shows up at their house injured and on the run.  This leads to Zane, Ty, one of their former enemies, and the rest of the Sidewinder team trying to dodge the Vega cartel and others who want them all dead.

I'm sad to see the end of this series, but Roux gives the boys an action packed send off in style.  Ty's entire family and part of Zane's make appearances, with Ty's grandpa making a memorable show of taking on the bad guys in West Virginia.  Zane and Ty's chemistry is still at full throttle with no signs of the hate part of their love/hate relationship that characterized so many of the books.  Roux has done an excellent job of wrapping up the series; I will really miss these awesome, original, and action packed stories with two of my favorite fictional characters who finally get their happy ending.  352 pages (Kindle edition).

"Bad Company" by K.A. Mitchell

Book one in the Bad in Baltimore series features rich guy Kellan Brooks, whose father has just cut him off for doing nothing but leading a hedonistic life and ruining his third engagement.  To get back at him, Kellan decides to "play gay" with the son of a man Geoffrey Brooks ruined over a decade ago.  Nate Gray is the editor of a local weekly and is out to expose Geoffrey as an immoral businessman out to dupe the people of Baltimore.  He'd also like to get revenge for what the man did to Nate's father, but Kellan deeply wounded and betrayed Nate when they were 15 and best friends.  Can Nate forgive Kellan long enough to get even with the man who ruined his father, or will he suffer even more when Kellan gets his revenge by humiliating and exposing Geoffrey?

This was an interesting story with well-written characters and lots of angst.  Kellan is desperate to get back at his dad while trying to stand on his own.  Nate was a real jerk to him at first, but the author made it clear that Kellan deserved it.  There was plenty of snappy dialog with some great one-liners delivered by Nate's friend Eli that had me chuckling out loud.  And there was a lovely kitty, too.  224 pages (Kindle edition).