Audiobook Review: Promises Part 3 (Bounty Hunters #3) by A.E. Via

Bradford (Ford) King was sure he had the rest of his life mapped out. Life was simple, no distractions or complications - at age 46, that's all Ford wanted. What he didn't want was his work partner, sniper/watchman Dana, giving him s--t all the time.

Dana Cadby had grown up labeled a roughneck from the wrong side of the tracks. Dana pulled himself up by his own boot straps and made a name for himself in the marksman community. He'd been Duke's bounty watchman for five years. At 33, he was trusted, well-respected by his peers, his bosses, his friends...so why couldn't he earn the same respect from his partner?

Dana knew he was bisexual before he graduated high school. He also knew he was attracted to the huge, 6'3" SEAL from the moment he and his brother came to join their team.

When Duke sends Dana and Ford out to track down their most dangerous bounty yet, they both embrace the fact that they make one hell of a team...but they fight tooth and nail against the powerful intimacy brewing between them.

Contains mature themes.

Listening Length: 7 hours and 48 minutes
Narrator: Aiden Snow

(story is 3.5 rounded up for the AB)

Reviewer: Annery



The men of Duke’s Bail Bonds continue on the highway to love. The road isn’t always smooth but it’s a certain destination and Aiden Snow, once again, delivers it without a hitch. This turn we have Bradford “Ford” King an ex-Navy Seal, 46 y.o. giant of a man, who’s taciturn on his best days, and on the tail end of a losing the battle with an overwhelming attraction to Dana Cadby. Dana is 33 y.o., DBB’s resident marksman, and anything but immune to Ford’s presence. So what’s the problem you ask? I’m happy to say it’s not the regular or expected. The blurb kind of gives everything away but I’ll try not to be too specific.

After saving his brother’s life, Ford is back in a civilian life which he only finds tolerable by taking care of his brother and hunting criminals. He has no social life to speak and never did anything that can be confused for a relationship. He finds them too messy. The thorn on his side is how Dana befuddles him by being a consummate professional but having a seemingly chaotic social life. And also that pesky attraction. Meanwhile Dana can’t figure out why Ford is so hard on him but desperately wants to impress Ford and not just in the professional arena. Their coming together takes some time, logically so, but once it happens it’s a no-nonsense affair. Dana embraces his long dormant bisexuality and Ford, at his age and with his life experience, just can’t be bothered by what others might think.

The thing I like best about the world that A.E. Via has created is it’s boundless optimism. I say this because these men who work in what we can all agree is a relentlessly macho profession have zero problems with homosexuality. Not a single one. Not about their own same sex attractions or those of their colleagues. I’d love to live in that world. I’m not being sarcastic. Alternatively I’m convinced, having been from Bk.1, that these stories would work perfectly in some kind of shifter universe. These men are consumed by body hair, scent, and the lure of the hunt. Their senses override any kind of logical thought and it never steers them wrong. See! Shifters! Anyway … this isn’t that kind of ‘verse but you can still have a good time with men from DBB particularly in Aiden Snow’s delivery.