Buying Options

Read for Free

OR

Kindle Price: $4.99

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Forbidden Lover (Exit Strategy Book 4) by [Jocelynn Drake]

Follow the Author

Jocelynn Drake

Forbidden Lover (Exit Strategy Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Jocelynn Drake (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

432 ratings

Book 4 of 5: Exit Strategy

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$4.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$12.99

$12.98

—

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles $4.99 to buy
Paperback
$12.99

4 New from $12.98

Devlin Relic was off limits.

The sweet man had already lost a husband and nearly lost his life when someone put a contract on his head last year.

He needed to focus on raising his adopted son and finding a nice, normal man.

Kai was anything but nice and normal.

He was an assassin, and that did not fit into Dev’s neat and tidy life.

But when a dead body mysteriously appears in Dev’s bathtub, it looks like an assassin is exactly what he needs.

Maybe this time Kai will be brave enough to fight for Devlin and finally put his exit strategy to use.

Print length

256 pages
Language

English
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
Publication date

June 11, 2021
File size

3553 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Next 2 for you in this series See full series

Total Price: $9.98

Jocelynn Drake
459
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Jocelynn Drake
442
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Jocelynn Drake
426
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Jocelynn Drake
777
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Jocelynn Drake
373
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Jocelynn Drake
44
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $9.99

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08XW7JYL8
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 11, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3553 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #45,099 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #355 in Action & Adventure Romance (Kindle Store)
- #628 in Gay Fiction
- #1,177 in Gay Romance

Customer Reviews:
432 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Jocelynn Drake

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

New York Times Bestselling author Jocelynn Drake loves a good story, whether she is reading it or writing one of her own. Over the years, her stories have allowed her to explore space, talk to dragons, dodge bullets with assassins, hang with vampires, and fall in love again and again.

This former Kentucky girl has moved up, down, and across the U.S. with her husband. Recently, they’ve settled near the Rockies.

When she is not hammering away at her keyboard or curled up with a book, she can be found walking her dog Ace, or playing video games. She loves Bruce Wayne, Ezio Auditore, travel, tattoos, explosions, and fast cars.

She is the author of the urban fantasy series: The Dark Days series and the Asylum Tales. She has recently completed a gay romantic suspense series called The Exit Strategy about two assassins falling in love and trying to create a life together, as well as a MM paranormal romance series featuring a family of vampires.

She has co-authored with Rinda Elliot the following series: Unbreakable Bonds, Ward Security, Pineapple Grove, and the Weavers Circle. She has also co-authored with AJ Sherwood the Scales 'N Spells dragon series. She can be found at JocelynnDrake.com.

Customer reviews

4.5 out of 5

432 global ratings

5 star		67%
4 star		25%
3 star		5%
2 star		2%
1 star		1%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Kindle Customer

Good Read👍😁!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

Verified Purchase

This story has everything a good book needs, adventure, mystery, sex and romance. I enjoyed the carryover of "G" and "J" from previous storyline being in this book also😏. On to the next book😁👍!

Helpful

Maijie G

A thrilling love story between an assassin and a scientist

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2021

Verified Purchase

Forbidden Lover is the 4th book in the Exit Strategy series by Jocelynn Drake. The characters from this book were introduced initially in Final Lover. Reading that will help give more context in some of the things mentioned but this can be read as a standalone.

Coming from the high of finishing the first three books of this series, I had some really high expectations. Add in the fact that the character types and the tropes used are right up in my alley is an added bonus. Things didn't really turn out the way I expected it to be.

Devlin Relic has just come out of a very sticky situation involving a bounty on his head. He is slowly getting back on his feet when once again his life gets turned upside down when he discovered a dead body in his bathroom. With no one else to turn to, he asks help from Justin and Gabriel. Unexpectedly, this brings him in contact once again with Kai, the assassin who was once contracted to kill him. Right from the start, the attraction between the two can't be denied. Their lifestyles might be night and day but the chemistry sizzling between them is as true as it can be. But when corpses seem to follow wherever Dev is and the message is clear Kai and Dev had to navigate their feelings and wants while trying to keep both of them alive.

Jocelynn Drake crafted a thrilling story with an interesting mystery interwoven with some tender moments and really hot sexy scenes. She made lead characters that are relatable with their insecurities, imperfections, wants and wishes.

Kai as the assassin is a cool, no-nonsense kind of guy, always in control with everything planned including his exits when completing a contract. He is also kind, gentle, sweet and protective of the one he cares for. He also thinks himself not worthy of Dev because of his past. Dev is a brilliant, gentle and kind-hearted soul wanting to change the world in a non-violent way. But he can also be stubborn as a mule and have some low self-esteem issues.

The romance between the two MC may come off as insta-love but as the story progressed that notion was immediately dashed. It was good to see Devlin and Kai navigating the dynamics of their relationship and taking some time to consider if their feelings were genuine or not. Watching them consider the consequences of them getting involved is gratifying and seeing their happily ever after is a nice reward in the end.

The plot of the story is intriguing and guessing who could've been after the two of them was fun. The pacing is pretty great as well. However, there were times when the Dev's uncertainties and naivety bordered on the annoying and Kai's inner monologue of not being worthy of Devlin's love got really old fast.

Another point that was pretty jarring for me at least was how Kai was described as Asian. Asian meaning that of East Asian descent. It's very stereotypical and just lumps all Asians into this one mold and not distinct from each other.

Overall, I'd still recommend this book despite all of the issues I had mentioned above. It is still a fun, thrilling story and Jocelynn Drake's writing is wonderful to read. I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5.

I received an arc copy of this book via GRR and I have chosen to publish my fair and honest review.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Angelica Holmes

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2022

Verified Purchase

This is a very sweet story between Dev and Kai. really enjoyed seeing their story play out. I hope book five is just as good.

Helpful

Rosemary

Pretty good addition to the series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2021

Verified Purchase

This was a good mystery and the "perp" was a true surprise. I really liked Kai and Devlin as a couple and thought the author's take on Kai's coming to terms with his past and profession dead on. I also thought his vulnerability and confusion about how to cope with being in love for the first time were very real. Both men had a hard time with their pasts and I thought the author handled it all sympathetically. All in all, a good read.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Zinnia Rodriguez

Assassin's find love

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2022

Verified Purchase

I loved reading about Kai and Devlin. It was a great continuation of the Exit Strategy Series. There was mystery, danger, action, adventure, suspense, laughter, romance and hot sexy times. I liked finally finding out more about Kai the Ghost.
I recommend this story.

Helpful

Okay

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2021

Verified Purchase

This story was an easy distraction, full of moments of heat, humor, mystery and some action. With the chemistry between Dev and Kai set up in a previous book, there was some higher expectations with this book. However, I found it much lighter than expected. Kai didn't act at all like a bad*** assassin. He was pretty sappy and made some contradictory decisions. One being when Dev asked him to show him self-defense he was angry and told Dev it was pointless because it would take years of training to go up against a trained assassin. A few chapters later he's insisting he teach Dev self-defense. To be honest I liked the mystery/murder plot much more than the romance. I think this story needed to be dark and gritty and instead the campy-ness of it just felt off to me.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Misanthropic

Kind of fun

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2021

Verified Purchase

It’s hard to make assassins into cinnamon rolls but the author seems to manage. Somewhat predictable but engaging and escapist.

Helpful

Luciensmama8515

Dev and Kai are just...sigh

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2021

Verified Purchase

My heart is so happy!!! I adore everything this woman writes and this time is no exception. A great mix of heat, fun, action, intrigue and an HEA.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Cadiva

Another good assassin caper

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2022

Verified Purchase

While I liked this book, I don't think it had quite the same impact as the previous three.

Mostly this was because obviously Devlin isn't an assassin, so there's less of the banter between rivals that we'd got with Justin and G Love.

That's not to say that I didn’t enjoy this book, I did. Finding out more about Kai, aka Ghost or Casper as Justin calls him, was an interesting plotline, as was the continuing romance between him and Devlin.

What did drag it down a bit though was the repetitive introspective inner thoughts of unworthiness on both men's part.

I mean, if Dev said he couldn’t understand what a sexy assassin would see in his dad bod boring life once, he said it at least half a dozen more.

Same with Kai and his "oh my god, I'm an assassin, I'll put him and his kid at risk" worries.

That's my main niggle, the bad guy was a credible opponent, his weird obsession felt like it worked as the main narrative tension.

We get a couple of check ins with my favourite married assassin pair and there's a very cute Epilogue.

AshPenny37

Dev and Kai are awesome

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 14, 2021

Verified Purchase

I love this addition to the Exit Strategy series. Kai and Dev met in the previous book - yes, it's best to read the series in order, I think - and have both been pining for each other. So the question is, how do a very active assassin who's used to flying solo and a single dad scientist with some legitimate middle-aged concerns overcome their differences so they can be together? Especially when of them has a past complication that won't stay in the past...

Forbidden Lover is a great read. The blend of super cute / hot (opposites attract) romance and intriguing mystery / action is pretty much perfect. Dev and Kai are fabulous MCs: Dev is certainly still naive to the details of an assassin's life, but that doesn't mean he's not a capable man willing to fight for what (and who) he wants. Kai, meanwhile, finds it easy to let his softer side show with Dev but every now and again he has to go all scary alpha assassin - they're a fantastic pairing. Also, I love the cameos from Justin and Gabriel.

It's 4.5* from me and I'm already looking forward to the next in this seriously entertaining series.

Kindle Customer

Kai and Dev

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 20, 2021

Verified Purchase

As uaual, it was murder, suspense, love and a bit of joy and laughter.
I enjoy reading this author, her writing is smooth, engaging and full of energy. The plot was not what I expected even though the blurb was spot on.
The plot had me engaged and hoping that everything worked out. If course we met up with Gabriel and Justine.
Good story 4.5stars.

mapasa masila

Another hit exit Strategy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 15, 2021

Verified Purchase

Absolutely loved Kai and Dev story the actions and the way their chemistry flowed was great m. Possibly this line “My name doesn’t matter. Just call me yours and I will always find you.” Turned me into a soppy mess. I think after Justin and G love nothing could match but this was a well written page Turner.

Rowan

Another Beauty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 14, 2021

Verified Purchase

So far there’s not a single book by this author that I wasn’t blown away by. This ones about Dev and Kai’s get together, and it was a amazing as Justin and Gabriel’s story. Just a little niggle, I didn’t think the cover did Kai justice

Buying Options

OR

Buy for others

Buying and sending eBooks to others

Follow the Author

Forbidden Lover (Exit Strategy Book 4) Kindle Edition

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Product details

Videos

About the author

Jocelynn Drake

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries