His Return

HIS Series, Book 3

De: Sheila Kell

Narrado por: Carson Beck

Four years without a word. Will she welcome him back?

Regrets are a bitch, but Jake Cavanaugh can't seem to escape his.

Haunted by that fateful night when he woke to find Emily Hamilton in his bed and a furious best friend banishing him, Jake flees. He leaves behind everything and everyone he's ever loved.

Returning four years later, Jake makes the journey to face Emily. Immediately, he's confronted with the danger she faces and the impact of their night together. Jake grapples with his new status and the peril surrounding them.

As the web of corruption unravels, Jake and Emily’s passion reignites. But danger lurks closer than they think. Jake will risk everything to make amends and keep those he loves safe.

Will it be enough to heal her broken heart?

His Return is the third book in the HIS romantic suspense series. If you like thrilling, second-chance romances with sizzling sex scenes, then you’ll love this installment of Sheila Kell’s best-selling series.

Get your copy of His Return to meet the hot-bodied men of HIS today!

Hamilton Investigation & Security: HIS series books do not have to be enjoyed in order.

• His Desire (Jesse & Kate)
• His Choice (AJ & Megan)
• His Return (Jake & Emily)
• His Chance (Devon & Rylee)

©2016 Sheila Kell (P)2018 Sheila Kell

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This was a good read. Not my favorite of this series, lots of melodrama, but still interesting. There is steam and story, which many authors forget to include something to keep the listeners interest. Worth the time spent.

This series is intriguing

Loving this series so far. HIS determination to protect the one's they love is admirable.

Great suspense!

This book has enjoyable characters and lots of great suspense. There is a heart wrenching scene near the end. The narration is expressive and good. Very entertaining!

Will his past and her danger rip everything they love apart?

His Return is the third book in the HIS Series by Ms. Kell. Emily has been in love with Jake for as long as she could remember. On the evening of her eighteenth birthday, she goes to him, but it all goes south quickly. Now, four years later, he’s back, ready to claim Emily, and bring her back to their family. But it’s not so easy. She’s hurt, has a child, and danger is stalking her. Can Jake keep Emily safe and win back her love, or will his past and her danger rip everything they love apart?

Holy smokes! Y’all, this book broke my heart and then mended it back together, at least twice! Jake and Emily’s story is tragic at times, with whirlwind romance, extreme passion, and deadly danger, with a side of humor, and an amazing little girl that rounds everything out. Mr. Beck did an awesome job bringing the characters to life, giving everyone a personality through his voice, and did amazing justice to Ms. Kell’s work! This series has been intense, but full of love, and this book holds a place in my heart. I highly recommend this series and this book to any romantic suspense lover!

Pulse-Pounding, Intense, Heartbreaking, & Super-Emotional

His Return is pulse-pounding, intense, heartbreaking, and super-charged with emotion. Sheila Kell has delivered another masterpiece with Jake and Emily’s story. From the first minute to the last, I was completely engrossed and couldn’t put this one down! The plot is all-consuming, and the chemistry between the two main characters is intense. I love how the alpha-male protector comes out of Jake and how his character works through the aftermath of his life’s multiple traumas. He is truly an immensely complex person who has survived more than his fair share and continues to do the right thing no matter the consequences to himself.

Emily’s development is fascinating, from her selfish and self-centered 18-year-old self who does something so very wrong for her own satisfaction at the start of the novel, to the woman she becomes by the end of the novel. It was really interesting to me that no one ever called her out on how incredibly awful, wrong, and inexcusable her 18 year old behavior was. She is really spoiled and coddled in addition to being selfish, and it shows in the choices she makes, and how she really doesn’t understand the ripples and the consequences of her actions. I just couldn’t bring myself to like her.

While this was not my favorite book in the series due to the seriousness of her crime and the fact that it is never addressed, the story is very well-written and brings clarity to some of the other characters in this series—particularly why/how Jake is the way he is and why the family behaves they way they do in subsequent novels (I’ve read them all; they are all great!) The emotions run high, and the action sequences are just wow! I cried multiple times during this story, and twice as hard at the end. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster with all the feels and so much more.

Narrator Carson Beck did an amazing job of bringing this story to life. He continues to impress me with his performances; the emotion and depth of feeling he conveys playing these roles is great. And the voices—he’s got so many different voices for all the various characters. I definitely enjoy him as an audiobook narrator and hope to hear him narrate the rest of this series.

Now, I don’t normally do spoilers, but I really feel this novel should come with a Trigger Warning for sensitive readers (stop reading here if you don’t want to know):

In the opening chapter of this story, 18 year old Emily sneaks into 22 year old Jake’s room and sexually assaults him while he is sleeping off a drunken stupor, and she is never called out on her crime. She justifies to herself that what she does is okay because:
1. She has been in love with him forever,
2. She is tired of him keeping her at arms length (even though she was a minor so he was doing the right thing), and
3. She decides that since she just turned 18 she is a woman now and has to have him before he left after college, even though she knows he is drunk and he is asleep when she goes into his room.

There are ZERO excuses for sexual assault of any kind. I was certainly triggered by her ignorance, selfishness, and terrible behavior, but what bothered me the most is that no one ever addressed what she did or shed light on how wrong what she did was. I kept waiting for it to be talked about and resolved at some point during the story, but it never is talked about at all. Emily continues to be angry and play the emotional victim through the story, thinking she was in the right and Jake had left her, when in fact she started it all and never once considered what she did was truly wrong or thought about how he must have felt when he woke up the morning after she took advantage of him. Her behavior is just inexcusable in my book, and it bothered me a lot that it was never called out for what it was and Emily never faced that supreme moral flaw in her past.

Another "must listen to " by this talented author

This is the third audible I have heard in this series, and as with the others, it’s another great audiobook. Though each one is a standalone, you would benefit in reading/listening to the books 1 and 2 since most of the characters participate in all of the stories.
This one I found to be more emotional than the previous two . The main characters are Jake Cavanaugh and Emily Hamilton. Jake was the foster boy that the Hamilton’s took under their wing, later became an FBI agent, went undercover and was captured and tortured.
Emily fell in love with him when she was 6 years old and when she turned 18 she went to Jake’s bedroom changing her and his life forever.
He was beaten and thrown out of the house by Emily’s brother AJ without knowing the consequences of that night. Everyone was filled with regrets and now that he is back , all their lives will once again change.
The plot is engaging and the characters are complex. The story is filled with suspense, bad guys, hunky good guys and of courses romance.
But it’s also a story about family, loyalties, integrity and sacrifices. Not everything is black and white and not everyone finds their happiness. Much like life which is what makes this one a very touching audiobook.
The narrator, Carson Beck, once again does a great job and brings the story to life.
I was gifted this audible. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

Second chance romantic suspense

HIS return was a steamy exciting page turner. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it. Sheila Kell wrote great characters, and I love a good second chance romance. Jake ran away after a night with Emily. I love family series, and this one has lots of twists and turns!