Blurb
Liam Davis is a man without a past. That’s what he wants everyone to believe, anyway. Hell-bent on erasing any
memories of his previous life, he knows that starting over is all he can do.
Hiding who he is, where he’s from, why he’s running, and especially who he’s left behind, Liam has
run away from everything he’s ever known. His plan
works perfectly until one day when Parker Ryan threatens to expose his
carefully concealed world.
Parker Ryan is a man without a future. Sure, he’s a partner in one of New York’s most prestigious law
firms, but he’ll never be more than a failure in
the eyes of his boss, his father. Rather than break away from his father’s standards, he finds himself mindlessly pursuing them, in turn sacrificing
anything that would actually make him happy.
When Liam’s and Parker’s lives collide, the ugly truth about who they really are, and who they
hope to become reveals itself when they least expect it. As both of their lives
become wrecked beyond all belief, they’ll learn how to rely on each other in their journey to become Repaired.
ARC received for an honest review
I adored the previous m/m book by Melissa Collins that I had read, so the chance to read her latest was a no brainer.
Repaired is a beautiful love story that I was hooked on from the moment I started reading.
I love a good "opposites attract" story, and that is exactly what Ms Collins has given us here.
Liam and Parker could not come from two more vastly different backgrounds, but that just makes their attraction the sweeter. Everything that seems to be wrong about each other, only makes it all the more right.
There is a bit of darkness in the background of Repaired, and as we learn more, my heart just broke even more for Dylan. His past is still haunting him, affecting his present and future. I adored how Parker, in his own ways, got Liam through the darkness.
At one stage, the story took a turn that I was certainly not expecting, and loved how things played out. Brought a great big smile to my dial!
I have loved everything that I have read of Ms Collins, but I have to say, she really has a knack for writing m/m romances.
And I hope we keep getting more.
Can't wait to see what she has for us next

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EXCERPT
The loud bang on the garage doors scared the shit out of,
making me jump out of my skin. “Shit,” I
yelled after hitting my head on the bumper. Despite calling out, “One second,” the banging
continued. More than a little dizzy, my anger mounted as I walked toward the
door. “Chill
the fuck out,” I
muttered as I wiped my hands on a work rag. The row of windows stretching
through the mid-line of the door was tinted so that only someone on the inside
could see out. They were designed that way so anyone peering into the shop
wouldn’t be
able to see what kind of cars were parked inside—a security tip I
offered to Paulie after I’d started working here.
The man standing on the other side must not have heard me
because he continued his relentless banging. At this rate, I’d be surprised if
his knuckles weren’t all
bloody and cut up.
Knowing he couldn’t see me did nothing to stop me from staying to the side.
My initial intention was simply to check out who the hell was trying to break
down my door. The last thing I needed was some psychopath ruining my night, but
as I peered out the window, the last thought running through my mind was that
he was a psycho.
Dressed in a modern grey suit, he was the epitome of
class. The baby blue shirt underneath made his eyes pop, of course the anger
simmering there amplified them as well. Pinching the bridge of his nose, he
looked like he was trying to ward off some massive headache. Either he really
was a psychopath, playing his part of the deception perfectly, or he was in a
bind and genuinely in need of help. Watching him run his fingers through his
thick dark brown hair, he let out a deep huff of breath. The door muffled his
words, but I swear I heard him say, “Just my fucking luck.”
Having uttered that phrase more than a few times in my
own life, I decided I’d let
him in and see what he needed. The fact that my dick was twitching in my pants
at the mere sight of him didn’t hurt his case much either.
He stood at attention as he listened to me unclicking the
locks. The doors rolled open revealing his long, lean frame. This guy was
money. It was written all over him, from his shirt to his shoes, from his shiny
cufflinks to the BMW key dangling from his finger.
“Can I
help you?” My
voice was gruff, and I hoped he thought it was from his less than polite
request to be seen, rather than the reaction I was having to him.
He eyed me, scanning my body from head to toe. Annoyance
was written all over his face and my attraction quickly morphed into annoyance.
“Excuse
me,” I
prompted when he still hadn’t spoken a single word. “You knocked on my door. Is there something I can help you with?”
“Uh,
yeah,” he
answered, running his hands through his hair once again. “Hit a pothole down
the road,” he
explained somewhat distractedly. He pointed in the direction in which I assumed
his damaged car sat.
“Let me
grab the keys to the tow truck.” Walking away from him, I felt his stare on my back.
By the time I walked back out of the office, he was gone.
“What
the hell?” I
mumbled to myself, wondering where the hell he’d gone. For a split
second, I actually wondered if I’d conjured him up from thin air to keep myself occupied as I closed the
shop by myself. But the smell of his cologne still hung in the air, his heat
like a shadow lingering in the open space.
Melissa Collins has always
been a book worm. Studying Literature in college ensured that her nose was
always stuck in a book. She followed her passion for reading to the most
logical career choice: English teacher. Her hope was to share her passion for reading
and the escapism of books to her students. Having spent more than a decade in
front of a classroom, she can easily say that it’s been a dream.
Her passion for writing
didn’t
start until more recently. When she was home on maternity leave in early 2012,
she read her first romance novel and her head filled with the passion, angst
and laughter of the characters who she read about it. It wasn’t
long before characters of her own took shape in her mind. Their lives took over
Melissa’s
brain and The Love Series was born.