Point of No Return

Turning Point, Book 1

By: N.R. Walker

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's Summary

Book one in the Turning Point series.

Matthew Elliot is one of LA’s best detectives. He’s been labeled the golden boy of the Fab Four: a team of four detectives who’ve closed down drug-rings all over the city. He’s smart, tough and exceptionally good at his job. He’s also a closeted gay man.

Enter Kira Takeo Franco, the new boxing coach at the gym. Matthew can’t deny his immediate attraction to the man his fellow cops know as Frankie. But in allowing himself to fall in love with a man known to his colleagues, Matthew risks outing them both.

Matt and Kira work to keep their relationship and private lives hidden from Matt’s very public life, fearing it would be detrimental to their careers. But it’s not the other cops who Matthew should be worried about finding out his deepest, darkest secret.... It’s the bad guys.

Third edition - has new cover and has been re-edited, though no new content has been added.

©2016 NR Walker (P)2018 NR Walker

Loved Sean's Performance!

Matthew Elliot is closeted at work and at home. Unofficially the face of his fab-four narcotics team he spends his time afraid anyone will discover his deepest secret.

Kira "Frankie" Franco is the new instructor at the cop gym down the block. Matt takes one look at Kira and knows he's in trouble. Kira realizing Matt is closeted gives him the perfect out - even though Kira is out in his personal life, he has made sure to keep his private life complete private after starting work at the gym. So the two begin seeing each other in secret and their passion explodes.

But it's not all about passion. Matt finally has someone who understands every part of him - including his ambitions - and matches him at every stage. The two are quick to fall in love, and Matt is happier than he's ever been, but the case he's working on is heating up - and about to change all of their lives forever.

Told from Matt's single POV there's a bit of angst, some mystery that's woven really well throughout, action that (with Sean's performance) had me on the edge of my seat, and some pretty hot sex. But mostly, I loved getting to see the relationship between Matt and Kira deepen into a real abiding love.

I don't know if I was just in the mood for it this time, or if Sean Crisden's performance was just that great, but I enjoyed this so much more than when I read it. Sean Crisden was on point with his performance and even managed to drag a couple of tears out of me. This was a really enjoyable listen. Sean's voice was like honey in my ears and a warm blanket wrapped around me.

If you like cops, sexy boxers, some angst, a lot of romance and hot sex, and some kick ass narration - pick this up.

I cannot wait for the other books in the series to come out on audio!

Ticks all my boxes...

I'm a huge NR Walker fan and this book didn't disappoint.

The early relationship between closeted MC's Matt and Kira (both strong men) is low angst and feels right as it slowly develops, that is until Walker, who likes to put her MC's through their own personal hell, shoves the men into the open and they decide what (or rather who) is important.

Good guys, a great supportive cast of family and friends, and bad guys who get theirs in the end all make Point of No Return an excellent story to get lost in for a couple of hours.

As always, Sean Crisden does excellent narration and I hope he gives voice to the remaining books in the series. He did a great job of voicing the subtle venerability in Detective Matt Elliott’s character, something that can often be lost in alpha cop characters.

Get it you won't regret it.

First of all Shawn Crisden is a wonderful narrator, he gives life to all his characters.
The story itself was pretty good. It had everything I expected from this genre, good storyline, good plot great characters and we have some hot sex scene.
I will say that Kyra's mom is the best, and Sean does her accent so well.
There are two other stories that go along with this story and I'm so excited to read them.
Get this book you won't regret it.
Also the Steelers don't play on Saturday night!

Suspense and Love

Great story and kept me on the edge of my seat! The relationship between Matt and Kira was beautiful. Sean did a wonderful job as always narrating, I highly recommend this story you won’t be disappointed

A great and heartwarming story, with incredible narration

This was a really great story! I love the angle it was taken from and the characters were lovable. The narration was so great! The narrator nailed all of the characters' voices. Am I glad I read this? Absolutely! I can't wait to dive into Part 2! Is this a story I would keep reading over and over again? I don't think so. The romance came together too quickly. I wished the author had taken her time to really show a slow build and include more tension. I was just about at the point in the middle of the story where I felt I needed more. Thank goodness the kidnapping thing came along. Though it was a rushed conclusion, it was so needed to add tension to the story and add another layer that kept us engaged.

Another FRESH Series!!

The reason I began with this unknown author was, quite simply, because of Sean Crisden's beautiful voice!! I'd listen to his deep, sexy impassioned voice reading to me from Oxford! Matters not!!

However, N.R. Walker did a great job of fleshing out an interesting, caring, romantic M/M story..., causing me to immediately purchase book 2 in the series. I so appreciated her leading us into the heart & soul of the MC's, way before many authors do.

The tender feelings between our two men was completely believable and understandable; it fit the story, and their evolution perfecto! Very story-driven, with sufficient intimacy to keep things real. So enjoyable!!

Looking forward to continuing this delightful series!!❤

what a awesome book

I love detective stories or cop stories either or I found this by checking out different writers and I like them and I like the narrator He does a good job. a must read

Perfection

Loved everything about it. Kept me engaged the entire way through. About 3/4 of the way through, I thought I figured out what the ending was going to be but I had it wrong. Sean Crisden was the perfect choice for the narrator.

Highly recommended!

Wow!

I don’t know why but I was really surprised by how good this was. I really loved this story and all it’s characters. I can’t wait to listen to the next one.

One of my favourite NR Walker stories

I first read this story over seven years ago. I loved it then and l loved the audio version.

Matthew and Kira’s super-hot romance is brought to life by the talented Sean Crisden. It’s a fast-moving story but with plenty of time for their budding romance to develop and for the guys to fall in love. Kira’s parents were great and accepted Matt from the start. I loved the way Matthew’s colleague’s reacted when they found out that he wasn’t actually dating a Keira Knightly lookalike after all.

The tension at the end of the story was built up well and the dramatic climax was exciting.

Sean’s narration was spot on. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole story.

Enjoyed...

If you love your characters a little on the alpha side, then you'll love this story. I especially enjoyed the narrators vocals/accents for each characters, sometimes when listening to audio books you can lose the plot and you just don't know who is talking, but I found it quite easy to follow the story.

Woohoo!! It's the Matt & Kira show....

This is the first NR Walker audio I've bought, due to all of her other series so far being narrated by someone I'm unfortunately not that keen on 😕. Sean did a really good job with this first Matt & Kira story, and I can't WAIT to see what he makes of Tom & Cooper [Thomas Elkin series].

Great book, great start to a new series

She's done it again, a brilliant start to a series.
Trial and tribulations of a closeted police officer, lusting over a personal trainer.
A drug dealer looking for revenge.

Sean has done a lovely job with the narration, a joy to listen to. Would highly recommend.

Light blue touch paper .........

Realistic, dramatic cop thriller that pulls no punches. MCs you can like and respect, making hard choices to be in their chosen careers and lifestyle. Well written and well crafted to reach a exciting climax.

This writer knows how to bring home to bacon. Recommended. 8.5/10

Moving, balanced and relatable

Well, I really wasn’t expecting to be blown away by the wonderful writing and excellent performance of the narrator but this was a very enriching story, with some wonderful character development and an avoidance of cliché themes. Very impressed and can’t wait for the next in the series!

Another gem from N R Walker

Great story with several cliffhangers lots of love and lots of action, well narated and a good story to listen to and enjoy .

Terrible narration

I've read a few of N.R Walker's books and enjoyed them. But this book, from 2012 must have been one she 'learned' with.
Quite frankly I got whiplash with the jerky pace of the narrative. It was carelessly speed written, repetitive and there was no consideration of word choices. I hadn't expected such shallow fluff or such poor narration.

Sean Crisden flew through this narration as if he had somewhere else to be. I didn't feel like he connected with the text at all, and I certainly didn't connect with the narration.

Consider me disappointed!