ALL THE STARS FOR TOM & MIKE!!

Tal Bauer always comes out of nowhere for me. Like, I know I love his books and the way he can always touch the deepest parts of my soul but when I read a new one, I haven’t read before it is like I am rediscovering my love for his stories all over again.

“But his tower was in a lake, an ocean, an ocean made of tears, tears of all the men in all the years, decades, centuries before him, who had their dreams crushed, their lives destroyed, when someone found out their secret.”

Part love story, part political thriller Hush takes you on the journey of Judge Tom Brewer as he rediscovers a part of himself, he thought gone forever. That is until U.S. Marshal Mike Lucciano awakens that part of him, he never thought he would get a chance to know again. The man who could be entranced by the way another man’s skin felt against his or the way one look could change his whole outlook on the day.

For Mike Lucciano he is no stranger to another man’s embrace but there is something about Tom that has shaken him to his core. Always the strong one to hold everything together, he never let himself believe in that happily ever after but now that he is starting to experience life with Tom, he is seeing a whole new future of possibilities.

Until the day a terrorist attack in the heart of DC shakes up the very fragile life Mike and Tom are just starting to discover. With every eye in the world on Judge Tom Brewer he can’t make even one mistake, or it could be career exile for the baby judge. As the trial starts to heat up and secrets are revealed Tom and Mike start to realize that the happily ever after they were building seems impossible. Can these two keep their love a secret long enough to make sure no more lives are lost?

It is no secret Joel Leslie is not my favorite narrator but that might have changed after listening to him perform Hush. And that is exactly what he did, he performed it, and I feel like I might have judged him a bit too harshly before I got to see what he could really do.

Hush was so much better than even my hopes could have anticipated it being but now that I have finished this book it is time for Whisper. I might need the emotional hand holding for that one though, I know it is going to rip out my entire heart.