Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
Legacies were made to be rewritten.
Assassin Hawes Madigan wants to do right—by his family, his organization, his city, and the man he’s falling for, ATF agent Christopher Perri. But Hawes’s rules are being challenged by someone willing to kill for the old ways. To save his soul and his empire, Hawes must make an impossible decision: fight from the outside or bend the knee to win back his throne from within.
Chris is used to being the inside man, the one undercover. Now, he’s on the outside marshaling forces in support of the man and the ring of assassins he was supposed to take down. His mission shifted when he found something that’s been missing for ten long years—a home, with Hawes.
As Hawes and Chris make a dangerous play for control, the lines between allies and traitors blur. Trusting the wrong person could destroy the legacy Hawes envisions for the Madigans. But not trusting anyone, or each other, could mean lights out on their love and lives forever.
The King and King Slayer fight together in this thrilling conclusion to the Fog City Trilogy!
A New Empire (Fog City #3) by Layla Reyne is the series finale of a trilogy that started with Prince of Killers and our introduction to assassin Hawes Madigan, his siblings, their family crime empire, along with ATF agent Christopher Perri and his mission to bring them all down. Of course, from the start, things weren’t that simple, from the men, women, businesses (on both sides), and convoluted plot, nothing was going to be as it seemed on the surface. There was a labyrinthine path of story threads, thrown about clues, shocking twists, turns, and yes, betrayals.
Mixed in with hot, hot, sex, and love.
There was also a couple of cliffhangers because the author has a love of serial thrillers and threw that into this trilogy too.
Now comes the time to pull it all together and the author does an amazing job. You as a reader must come to this novel having read the previous stories as this is not a standalone in any way. It picks up immediately upon the events occuring after the cliffhanger ending of King Slayer. So be prepared to dive head on into heartstopping action and complex situations that you must have background knowledge from prior stories to make any sense of the happenings here.
That said, the action is fast paced, heart stopping, and full of suspense. Everyone is suspect, every plan that is put forth on shaky ground because no one knows who to trust. This makes for great reading and yes, the novel flies by. I won’t go into details here but there were still some shockers I wasn’t expecting, and I thought I figured out quite a few. Love that when it happens.
Layla Reyne still does a commanding job with her characters, fleshing them all out realistically within her universe building. Her action scenes are wild and fast, the thriller situations full of suspense and twists. I loved that the women characters were just as strong and complex as the men. Great job and definitely appreciated.
Need a new trilogy to read? Here is one to recommend! Grab the first and read right through to the end! It’s a thrill you will love and a romance to take to heart!
Cover art is great, eye catching and works for the characters.
All buy links or pre-order links:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Empire-Fog-City-Novel-ebook/dp/B07Z6P2944/
Book Details:
Kindle Edition, 192 pages
Published November 11th 2019 by Layla Reyne
ASINB07Z6P2944
Series Fog City #3
Fog City Series
A New Empire series finale
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 