Silent Knight: A Fog City Novel

Layla Reyne

May 2021 · Fog City Book 5 · Layla Reyne

About this eBook

An officer and enlisted can't be best friends. Definitely not a cop and digital assassin. Love is certainly forbidden…and inevitable.

Fourteen years ago, Braxton Kane’s feelings were forbidden. As an officer, he couldn’t fall for an enlisted… no matter how much he longed for Holt Madigan. Now—as a police chief in love with a digital assassin—his promise to always protect Holt is becoming harder to keep.

Holt doesn’t understand why his best friend has been pushing him away for months. But when Brax’s life and career are threatened, Holt refuses to allow the distance any longer. The Madigans protect their own, and Brax is family, whether he believes it or not.

Forced together, Holt realizes his feelings for his best friend have changed. His desire to explore the promise their single night together held is undeniable. His resolve to protect the man who has always protected him is unshakable. But if Holt wants a future with Brax, he’ll have to search and destroy the person who attacked him—before Brax activates the kill switch and sacrifices himself.

Silent Knight is the fifth book in the Fog City LGBTQIA+ romantic suspense series, and while it can be read as a standalone, it is best enjoyed as the final book in the series. For fans of Annabeth Albert and Annabella Stone, this swoony best-friends-to-lovers romance between military veterans on opposites sides of the law is sure to hit all the right romantic suspense buttons.

Ratings and reviews

I have to say I was not at all a fan of this story. the beginning was great but then felt to overly rushed after chapter 18 and so much not explained. felt like a lot of missing gaps. I was not at all a fan of Brex being a love slave for holt doing everything for holt because of his love for hilt for so long so unhealthy torments and the sacrifices he did to try and get with holt again and find it weird that he never found any one for him self, but yet holt found love and married and had a kid. I felt like holt was using him for his own benefit to live life even knowing the Brex loved him holt still married and all. to me sadly I love there relationship in the beginning but by the middle to end I have to say not a fan. to much hard to believe feeling and years invested. sadly not a fan of this series at all but I do love the chemistry between holt and Brex.

Silent Knight was EVERYTHING I hoped it would be and more! It checked all my boxes. I knew from the first hint that the friendship between Holt and Brax could be more, that their story would be EPIC and it was! Their history spans 14 years. They first met when Holt joined the military with Brax being his Commander. Friendship was all they could have. I really loved the Madigan clan. To them, family is everything and Brax was always family even though he was a cop who became the police chief. While reading Queen’s Ransom, I could feel Holt's pain because Brax was keeping his distance. I loved that the author gave us their past history on up to the end. She also brings the story arc, that has continued since the first book, to an understandable and epic close. There was the perfect amount of heat. There aren’t many scenes, but the ones she included? OMG! There is quite a bit of angst but that only added in my enjoyment. In this book, Brax is being framed and the Madigans investigate who’

Cool read. Holt and Brax's story, a rollercoaster with a few good twists. Excellent.

About the author

Layla Reyne is the author of What We May Be and the Fog City, Agents Irish and Whiskey, and Trouble Brewing series. A Carolina Tar Heel who now calls California home, Layla enjoys weaving her bicoastal experiences into her stories, along with adrenaline-fueled suspense and heart pounding romance. You can find Layla online at www.laylareyne.com or on social media @laylareyne.