A review by mal_bookdragon
Defending Allye, by Susan Stoker

4.0

I’m a huge Susan Stoker fan. I’ve been waiting for this series to start ever since we were teased with Ryder’s book Claiming Felicity.

Gray is a ex-Navy SEAL who now works for the Mountain Mercenaries and is also an accountant (of all things!). He leaves the SEALS after a mission destroys him and finds a new band of brothers. With them he’s able to keep saving people, along with help from their boss, Rex. Speaking of Rex, he intrigues me. I really hope we see more of him in later books. And more of the team! And Dave!

Allye is a dancer with Waardenburg syndrome characterized by two different colored eyes and a streak of white hair. This uniqueness, which made her own mother reject her as a child, attracts the attention of a collector, Nightingale, who literally collects unique humans and keeps them in cages like animals.

After initially escaping his grasp, Nightingale starts hurting people lose to a Allye in the hopes of drawing her to him. With time running out for her friends can Allye and Gray get past their own history and save each other?

I received this ARC for my honest review.