Promises: Part 1

Bounty Hunters, Book 1

By: A.E. Via

Narrated by: Aiden Snow

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's Summary

Duke Morgan owns and operates one of the largest bail bond companies in Atlanta. Not only does he bond criminals out of jail, he and his notorious group of bounty hunters will also track them down and ensure they show up for court.

Roman "Quick" Webb is Duke's business partner and best friend. Both men are in their forties and have given up on the happily ever after with the ranch-style home, and white picket fence. They'd both tried it and failed miserably. But they have their friendship and they have the business.

When Quick's son, Vaughan Webb returns - after seven years-from studying abroad with his law degree in hand, he's back to claim what he's always wanted...his fathers' best friend...Duke Morgan. Vaughan has always claimed to be a classic gentleman with an old soul. He was focused and dedicated to becoming the man worthy of Duke's love.

It's a complex and messy situation as Duke and Quick figure out how to still be best friends when one of them is sleeping with his friend's one and only son. But when Duke is hurt on the job, all the unimportant trivialities fall to the wayside and Vaughan and Quick put their heads together to save Duke.

Contains mature themes.

©2015 A. E. Via (P)2019 Tantor

First one down!

I have a hard time going through an entire series without losing interest. I grabbed this off my wish list and decided to see if I liked the characters enough to try. I was expecting something different from the blurb—maybe a build-up of the relationship between Duke and Vaughn before the accident—but the fact that the accident happened at the beginning of the story threw me off a little bit. And kinda turned me off this part of the story, tbh. It was pretty low key, which is not a bad thing, but certainly more boring than I was expecting. There wasn’t quite enough excitement to make this a thrilling “must listen” book, although the steamy parts were good. The only reason I’m continuing with the series is because of the peeks we get from Quick and Cayson and their story in Part 2. That was enough to make me want to keep going, even though the Duke/Vaughn chapters were slow and steady and a little hard to get through. Could this be a re-listen? Maybe. I can’t see it grabbing more attention the second time through, but you never know. And Aiden Snow? Freaking top notch. I doubt this series would be as well-received if anyone else had narrated it. He has an amazing range of deep voices for all the different characters (that are distinct and easy to pick out) and the southern twang is absolute perfection. After hearing from Judge, I’m tempted to pick up the Nothing Special series to get his story (although I’ll be skipping Part 1 due to the reviews about the random ménage).

Touching Story of Love

Aiden Snow is such a great narrator. He has all A.E. Via's characters to perfection

No real story here. You can see everything coming

The most predictable book I have ever listened too. The character are so unrealistic and no depth that it just drags on. The most perfect person with amazing looks and body are always single till the 2 meet and it is love instantly with no work. Give me a store with gay men and something real, not this crap.
No real story the people are living. And why does every straight person have to switch teams.

Loved It!!!

Another great addition to the series. Loved Duke and Vaugn and set up for book 2. I was so happy Duke got his happy ending.

Audio Gold

Duke and Vaughn’s story is even better in audio. Must Listen- hot, sexy, alpha bad boys.

Great Spinoff Series

AE Via has done it again!! Excellent and Aiden Snow - Awesome. A must have

Bounty Hunters

I had no self control when it came to this audiobook. It should have lasted me a couple days and yet here I am, finished the day of release. I love this series and characters and I absolutely love how the narrator brings them all to life!

Love! Love! Love!

Wow! I absolutely loved this book! I can’t count the number of times it had me smiling. Duke was so starved for love and affection and Vaughn was the perfect man to give it to him. It also set us up nicely for Book 2. As always, Aiden’s narration was perfection!

Absolutely Beautiful & Heartwarming

I love all of A.E Via books & series, Because they have the right amount of everything you need. Family, kinda Insta Love, Romance & fan yourself Hot Sex. Nothing Special Series Had Me Hooked & Promise Series, promise to be just as Amazing ‘bun intended’ lol.

loved loved loved

I loved V he was so bold and cocktail and the way he made Duke melt.....book was great a,d narrators voice was intoxicating!!

A good begiining full of Promise!

I am totally addicted to A.E. Via's Nothing Special series on Audible.

So I was very happy to see Promises: Bounty Hunters appear on Audible!

I have not previously read the stories in book/kindle format so these stories are all new to me and I LOVE them. Promises Part 1's story line was not as quite as enjoyable as Part 2. The story did not grip me as they usually do. It was great to find out more about Duke, but I was not overly keen on Vaughan, would have liked Duke and Quick to get together.

As always the top quality narration by Aiden Snow (that voice!) really brings these characters to life.

A fascinating premise of the story!

Story: I can't say too much because I hate spoilers, but the situation the MCs find themselves in was a masterpiece! I love how unique the story was and how the emotions were shaped around it! An age gap, medical problems, dad's best friend and a dangerous profession to boot!
The story is full of very strong characters and their feelings were captured really well (as ususal for AE Via). Looking forward to reading the next book, because it's bound to be good too!
Narration: Aiden Snow did a great job as usual! His voice and narration style is perfect for those stories and does the alpha characters justice!

I loved it.

I thought it was super hot, sexy with just the right amount of sweet. and I could seriously listen to Aiden Snow narrate anything. I totally recommend the audio and ebook version.

as fantastic as the ebook

The story is always full stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. Aiden Snow is one of the top 5 narrators (so far) for me to follow and I hope to get a lot more books from him. And really, his SEXY and DEEP RUMBLING VOICE is something you DON'T want to miss!!
I'm just not yet finish with the book, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B