The Alpha's Gamble

Mismatched Mates Series, Book 10

By: Eliot Grayson

Narrated by: Chris Chambers

Cut off from his family—and more importantly, the family fortune—Blake Castelli stakes his future on one last throw of the dice: he'll go to Las Vegas and use his line of credit at the Morrigan casino to replenish his bank account.

But the Morrigan's under new ownership. And while Blake doesn't remember handsome, arrogant Declan MacKenna from their ill-fated encounter ten years ago, Declan remembers him. And he wants payback.

Declan offers Blake a humiliating, degrading deal he has no choice but to take even though it's all kinds of wrong. While Blake may be an alpha werewolf, so is Declan—and he out-alphas Blake at every turn. Blake shouldn't enjoy what Declan does to him. He shouldn't crave things no alpha should ever accept. Declan's turned him into someone he doesn't recognize helpless, needy, and out of control.

Declan wants to keep hating Blake, but he can't. Blake wants to trust Declan, but that's impossible. When magical and mundane attacks threaten them both, Blake has nowhere to turn. If Declan doesn't realize his feelings run deeper than desire in time to save them both, they could lose everything . . . even their lives.

Contains mature themes.

©2023 Eliot Grayson (P)2023 Tantor

the best

I love love love this book so much i has to buy it and read it every week

LOVED the Irish Accent!

This is a really well-written enemies-to-lovers story with a believable reason for them to be enemies (or at least for Declan to feel justified in the offer he makes to Blake) and then Blake's redemption felt very believable too. And the alpha-on-alpha sex, sometimes hate sex and sometimes not-hate sex, was so hot! Please, let's find an Irish friend of Declan's and make him an MC for the next book!

OMG I really enjoyed Blake and Declan!

Chris Chambers has really grown on me, after experiencing his Irish accent I am all aglow with him now. The heat between Blake and Declan set me ablaze and although there were no mention of the first several couples in this series it didn't matter...."The Alpha's Gamble" definitely stands on it's own. Blake may have started out as an @.s.s.hole but his experience with Declan helped him to do some much needed soul searching...he's not completely useless, there is hope for him yet!

5 starz - I would listen again

Perfect combo

I cannot get enough of the combination of Eliot Grayson's characters and stories, and Chris Chambers' velvet voice. Declan's accent is the cherry on top.

Hard Read but still good

I have to agree that there were parts of this book that was hard for me to keep going with it but I wanted to see the hopefully good end which it was a good end but an odd one. if you don't want to read about technically extrortion that plays a fine line to sexual assault this isn't a book for you. its not ideal for me either but I did hope things would get better for them which it did. out of the whole series I think this was the hardest for me as SA is something I don't agree with but it was technically consensual as the one being extorted for sex did agree cause he didn't want to go to prison for fraud but he also was very messed up from family issues so it's hard for me to think he had really been okay with it at first. I did stick around cause I think all the books had hard to read parts but all really were great reads and made me keep going with the series. this one was definitely the hardest for me but I do still think it was worth it.