Crooked Shadows: A Vampire Bodyguard Romance

M.A. Grant

Dec 2021 · Whitethorn Agency Book 2 · Sold by Carina Press

About this ebook

Everyone has secrets. Especially those who live in the shadows.

Cristian Slava doesn’t fear much. After he was betrayed by the man he called an uncle, leaving upstate New York for the Carpathian Mountains of his childhood is more a matter of practicality than fear. With him is Atlas Kinkaid, a former marine turned fierce bodyguard…and fierce lover, albeit a hell of a complicated one.

Cristian’s cunning is tested by the politics and intrigue of the vampire families of Romania, and the warm welcome he and Atlas were assured of quickly turns to ash as they race to unravel the mystery of an old friend’s disappearance. Searching for the missing vampire draws them into a web of betrayal and half-truths that reaches further than Cristian ever could have imagined, and they uncover a string of grisly murders that bear a striking similarity to the attack that changed Atlas’s life forever.

Stalked by the past and uncertain of the future, Cristian learns he does have something to fear after all…

Losing the man he loves.


Whitethorn Agency
Book 1: Rare Vigilance
Book 2: Crooked Shadows
Book 3: Imitate the Dawn

The Darkest Court
Book 1: Prince of Air and Darkness
Book 2: The Marked Prince
Book 3: The Iron Crown

Ratings and reviews

Audiobook Review: Overall – 5 Performance – 5 Story – 5 I can’t wait for the next one! I have no idea how many more books are in this series but I want the next one STAT! 😊 After listening to book one just a few days ago, I suspected that Crooked Shadows would also end in a cliffhanger. And boy did it – it was epic. I’m new to MA Grant’s writing and this is only the second book of hers that I’ve read. I actually listened to it and that was primarily because I love John Solo. I listened to book one a few days ago so I decided to wait for the audio of book 2 even though I already had a review copy of the ebook from NetGalley. John did another fantastic job with this audiobook. I’ve heard him say that he’s not good with accents; well, I think he did a great job giving the many different characters in this series accents. I don’t know how authentic they are to the various countries but each character voice was distinct enough that I could tell who was speaking. I’m sure I would have liked this book if I’d read it with my eyes but John Solo made me love it. This story was full of non-stop action and a fair amount of bloodshed and I absolutely couldn’t put it down. My only complaint is that after listening to books one and two back-to-back, it’s killing me to have to wait for the final one in what I now know is a trilogy. 😊 A review copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley but this did not influence my opinion or rating of the book.