Stuffed Stockings by K.A. Mitchell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

K.A. Mitchell does naughty like no one else. In this short holiday story, Zane and Lucas are coworkers at an accounting office in NYC. It's a few weeks before Christmas and they have just started their intra-office Secret Santa, but Lucas has started receiving bonus gifts at his desk that are hot and dirty.
He's hoping they are coming from Zane, but according to office gossip, he's got a boyfriend and they are going to get engaged.

I loved the premise of the Secret Santa gift exchange. You could feel the tension in the air when Lucas got to his desk in the morning and a gift was waiting as he nervously swallowed and read the Open in Private tag.

Cute story, well written, a bit of kink, needs a bdsm warning, but overall well done.

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Bad Habit by K.A. Mitchell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was the best kind of angsty, rough, tortured romance you can read.

The MC’s were tough, hard driven, tattooed and angry. Angry at each other, angry at the world, angry at fate. And it translated into pure desire and lust.

Scott and Liam survived foster care together and promised each other a life together when they aged out. Plans changed when Liam had to take care of his drug addicted mom and disappeared.
Years later, they reunited and fell in love again and were on their way to making it work. Scott was working two jobs and Liam was in school to become a doctor. When he came home and found Scott with pills, he left.

Six years later they are both different people. Scott is still stuck in a rut and Liam has seen hell and lost a leg there but he’s on a journey of self discovery and he’s got a new boyfriend. The possibility of finding each other again and making it work seems like a lost cause this time around, but the love between them is palpable.

Scott’s character was angsty and tough and I wasn’t sure I was going to like him, to be fair, but he ended up being my favorite. He was repentant and had a heart of gold and loved like no other. His dry wit had me laughing so many times.

“Liam rubbed the back of Scott’s neck. ‘You’re going to hate me saying this, but this is how I know we’re going to make it this time.’
Scott pulled away. ‘Why, because I drove you to Delaware to eat a Tastykake in my car?’
‘Exactly.’”

Bad Habit was a really great dark love story with an HEA and is a perfect addition to K.A. Mitchell’s Bad in Baltimore series.

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