Title: STAKED IN THE MIDLIFE
Series: Fanged After Forty #2
Author: Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff
Publisher: Lia Davis
Publish Date: 10.01.2021
Category /Genre: Paranormal Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing: received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from: L.A. Boruff
Goodreads link: Staked in the Midlife
Date completed: 09.19.2021
Description from the publisher:
Vampire.
Bounty Hunter.
Middle-aged babe. Maybe?
Now that Hailey is solidly settled in Philadelphia and her new vampire life, she's setting roots, tracking down criminals, and taking names. Things have happened so fast starting the moment she moved into her new home.
But she's not one to sit on her duff and let life pass her by. Even an undead life.
With her best friend, new friends, and her Mr. Buttinski Brother, Hailey is ready to take on the world and deal with what life has given her, one night at a time.
But she didn't bargain for taking on the vampire elder council. Yeesh. This may be a little more than she can chew... er, suck. Bite?
Somehow, Hailey must pass their challenges and survive the next bit of shocking news coming her way. Something a certain vampire maker is going to drop in her lap during the big trial with the elders.
She's going to make it work and get herself and Jax out of this mess. These elders got nothing on Hailey Whitfield.
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STAKED IN THE MIDLIFE is the second book in the Fanged After Forty series. You will definitely want to read this series fully and in the order of release. There is some cross-over from the Witching After Forty characters and you will enjoy it more if you are also reading that series, but it is not strictly necessary.
If you’ve read the first book, you knew it was coming. Hailey and Jax have to defend her existence to the Vampire Elder Council. They don’t seem to have a snowball’s chance in Luci’s home, until Hailey is given a challenge that appears to be in her wheelhouse of skip-chasing. Then the council starts adding rules that basically tie her hands behind her back. Hailey and her friend’s prove their intelligence in finding loopholes, locating resources, and standing their ground.
Just when it appeared that success wouldn’t even prove victory, Jax pulls out his secret.
I guessed early on what Jax’s ace-up-the-sleeve was… it’s kind of obvious… but it is oh-so-delicious when that bomb is dropped towards the end of the book. Plus, it sets us up for the next story in the series. I’m looking forward to where this leads us!
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Fanged After Forty Series:
1. Bitten in Midlife
2. Staked in the Midlife
Also from Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff:
Academy’s Rise Series:
1. Hell Fire
2. Dark Water
3. Dead Air
Lucifer’s War Series:
1. Devil’s Consort
2. Devil’s Assassin
Witching After Forty Series:
1. A Ghoulish Midlife
1.1 Cookies for Satan
1.2 I’m with Cupid
2. A Cursed Midlife
2.1 Birthday Blunder (releases 10.06.2021)
2.7 A Girlfriend for Mr. Snoozerton
3. A Haunting Midlife
4. An Animated Midlife
5. Old Magic and Odd Mothers
6. A Killer Midlife (coming soon)
Also from L.A. Boruff:
· Literary Yours (Southern Soil #1)
· Secrets of the Specter (with Molly Fitz) (releases 10.12.2021)
Demons and Demigods Series (with J.L. Burns):
1. The Devil’s Delight
2. Chaotic Creations (releases 01.05.2022)
3. Divine Deviations (releases 03.31.2022)
An Immortal Midlife Series:
1. Fatal Forty
2. Fighting Forty
3. Finishing Forty (releases 10.06.2021)
Immortal Quest Series (with J.L. Burns):
1. Realm or Ruin (releases 10.20.2021)
2. Echoes of Ancients (releases 11.03.2021)
3. Heart and Shadow (releases 11.17.2021)
Mystic Hollow Series (with Helen Scott and Lacey Carter Andersen):
0.5 Cookies and Cover Ups
1. Karma’s Spell
2. Karma’s Shift
3. Karma’s Spirit
4. Karma’s Stake (releases 12.29.2021)
Prime Time of Life Series:
1. Borrowed Time
2. Stolen Time
3. Just in Time
4. Hidden Time (releases 12.29.2021)
5. Nick of Time (releases 02.23.2021)
Shifting into Midlife Series:
1. Pack Bunco Night (releases 11.30.2021)
The Tales of Clan Robbins Series:
1. Outlaw of Ladies
2. Princess of Thieves (releases 09.09.2021)
3. Alpha of Exiles (releases 10.01.2021)
An Unseen Midlife Series:
1. Bloom in Blood
2. Dance in the Night (formerly War of Fire)
3. Bask in Magic (releases 10.20.2021)
Also from Lia Davis:
· Awakening Fate (Crimson Moon Hideaway #8)
· The Big Bad Wolf
· Bounty’s Flame
· Claiming Her Dragons
· Dragon’s Web
· First Contact (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
· Ghost in a Bottle (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
· Hexed with Sass (Sassy Ever After)
· Imperfect Mate (Harmony Springs #4)
· Interviews, Aliens, Seduction
· Marked by Darkness (The Dark Fae Hollows #8)
· Ravished before Sunrise
· Reborn (Wicked Reform School: House of Phoenix)
· Rogue Alliance (Wolves of Chaos Valley)
· Their Royal Ash (Once Upon a Harem #4)
· Royal Enchantment
· Rune of Passing (Immortal Keeper)
· Sunstone’s Fire (Cursed in Stone #1)
· Shadow Mage (Nightshade Guild #4)
· Tempting the Wolf
· A Winter Mating
Academy of the Phoenix Series:
1. Ghost Hunt
2. The Devil’s Mage
3. Crown of Temptation
Bears of Blackrock Series:
1. Bear Essentials
2. Bear Magick
3. A Beary Sweet Holiday
4. Bear Marked
Blood and Stone Series:
1. A Vampire Christmas
Coven’s End Series:
1. Kane
2. Voss
3. Quin
4. Jillian
Dark Scales Series (with Kerry Adrienne):
1. Dragon Undercover
2. Snowed Undercover
The Divinities Series:
1. Forgotten Visions
2. Death’s Storm
3. Dark Divine
4. Divine Awakening
Dragons of Ares Series:
1. War’s Passion
2. Ashes of War
3. Chaotic War
4. Bound by War
Gods and Dragons Series:
1. Artemis’s Hunt
Pleasures of the Heart Series:
1. Business Pleasures
2. Red Hot Pleasures
Shifters of Ashwood Falls Series:
3. Winter Eve
4. A Tiger’s Claim
5. A Mating Dance
6. Surrendering to the Alpha
7. A Rebel’s Heart
8. Divided Loyalties
9. Touch of Desire
10. A Leopard’s Path
11. A Jaguar’s Judgement
12. Bundles of Pink
13. Alpha Challenge
14. Mating Chaos
15. A Tiger for Two
16. Claimed by the Alpha
Shifting Magick Series:
1. Moon Curse
2. Moon Kissed
3. Moon Mated
Witches of Rose Lake Series:
1. Marked for Them
2. Fighting for Them
3. Hunted by Them
4. Bound to Them
Wolves of Whiskey Hollow Series:
1. Charmed Wolf
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