Rating: 4.25🌈
Grayscale is the second book in Vinni George’s action adventure fated mate shifter series, ORCA. That’s both a family of orca shifters and an agency that they’ve formed to work together, Organization for the Return of Criminals and Assets (ORCA).
Each novel is working on an overall series mystery involving a family painting and matriarch while the brothers investigate and find their fated mates.
I believe I enjoyed Grayscale even more than Black & White, the first book in the series. Grayscale, which picks up right after the conclusion of Black & White, starts right in on enlarging the characters of orca shifter, Cal Hunter and his sometimes lover/competitive enemy, great white shark shifter, Jack Grayson. They’ve been in and out of each other’s missions and beds for 2 years, but Cal has been hiding from Jack and his family the fact that Jack is his fated mate.
This is one of those pull me/pull you relationships, where neither person is exactly communicating but their reasons makes sense actually. Their chemistry is hot, the fact they are fated mates totally believable as is the dynamic between them. Jack Grayson, confident of Rueben the enigmatic shifter who has been directing the team, has his own secrets too.
The characters are engaging, their personalities perfectly made for each other, and the story pulls in all the different characters as well as continuing the overall theme of the mysterious paintings and the grandmother’s connection.
I really got into this one. Loved the romance and characters and it really set up the next book to come.
Was it perfect? No. There’s a tremendous amount of subplots and history that was relayed in the first novel that was missing from this book, but the dynamic couple and adventure are still powerful enough to keep me connected from beginning to end.
Highly recommended. And loving the covers.
ORCA:
- Black & White #1
- Grayscale #2
- Full Color #3 – TBR early 2025
- Outside the Lines (short story)
Cover Design: Alison Millsaps, Ozark Witch Cover Design
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Grayscale: An MM Shifter Romantic Suspense Novel (ORCA Book 2)
Blurb
Cal Hunter didn’t hate Jack Grayson the moment he met him. He actually kind of liked the arrogant great white shark shifter… until Jack left Cal zip-tied to a bed and stole Cal’s job. Now, every time their paths cross, things get heated, and they both have the scars to prove it.
Jack has always worked better alone, but there is something about Cal he can’t get out of his system. So it shouldn’t be a problem when they are forced to work together to figure out who is after one of the most famous pieces of stolen art in the world.
But both men are keeping secrets that compromise their mission, and when Jack’s life is threatened, Cal has to decide if holding on to his own secrets is worth it. Turns out fate has one hell of a sense of humor.
Grayscale is book two in the Organization for the Return of Criminals and Assets (ORCA) series, featuring an orca shifter former mercenary who hates taking orders, a great white shark shifter who’d rather work solo, and a worldwide chase to track down a missing painting that ultimately forces them to cooperate in more ways than one!
- Publisher: (October 3, 2024)
- Publication date: October 3, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 215 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 