Review: Fortune is a favorite
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
Fortune's Favor is the fourth in Marie Harte's Power Up series of psychically enhanced agents for the government.A year after the program is disbanded; the former government agents are all working in a gym in Bend, OR. Funded by an unknown benefactor, they're sent on jobs to retrieve stolen artifacts that have psychic or mystical ability.Nathan is the playboy, whose sex life is a revolving door of men. But with his history, he doesn't want to get too close to anyone. And he's been lusting after someone in his unit for sometime now, but he's not gay, so there's no hope there. With his ability to read items with a touch, he has to be careful not to absorb too much from the things that surround himAvery is a by the book, always in charge kind of guy. Bi-sexual, he's never really hidden that fact, and he's eyed Nathan for awhile now, but with no intention of becoming part of that long list of men hopping in and out of Nathan's bed. But he's seen into the future and knows that he and Nathan get together, but as just lovers for a short time or more like he wants, that's the part he can't see.Sent as partners on a mission to retrieve a mystically evil knife, a knife that calls for blood, this sends them back to Nathan's home town. And into the pain of his past to find his Uncle who now has the knife in his possession, the Uncle who abused him while he was growing up. And along the way partners become more than that, they become lovers. And as Avery helps Nathan deal with the pain of his past, they move past partners, lovers, and friends and into love.I fell in love with both of these characters. They are both so real and believable, Nathan with his easy going charm and Avery's by the book orderly life. You knew that Avery was the perfect man to help Nathan through his past trauma with both order and love.