Maddox

Vested Interest, Book 3

By: Melanie Moreland

Narrated by: John Lane, Maxine Mitchell

Brought up in chaos and fear, Maddox requires order and control to cope with life. He has his career and two closest friends. That is all he needs.

Until Dee enters his life. She brings forth feelings he has denied himself his entire life - and threatens his control. He wants to hold. Keep. Love. Live.

Damaged by her past, Dee cannot admit her feelings for him, fighting him at every turn. Is he strong enough to show her - to prove love is worth the risk for both of them?

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Moreland Books Inc. (P)2018 Tantor

Perfect ending for Maddox Aiden and Brently

John Lane gave another emotional performance bring Maddox to life. Terrific story of confirmed bachelors

Maddox & Dee

It was great to once again experience the camaraderie between Bentley, Aiden, and Maddox. Maddox’s love story moved at an even pace with no lows. There was plenty of humor, some drama and no angst. The MMC lost his mom at an early age, grew up with an abusive father and had to have order and control in his life. The FMC grew up watching her mom depend solely on her father and he just left them. She did have a hushed short relationship with a coworker who used her and was marrying someone else. She had a phobia when it came to relationships and love. Narrators did a great job.

damage done

Enjoyed this series, but Maddox was my favorite. His story tugs at my heartstrings. sweet endings with a beautiful future.

Maddox deserves to be loved

Melanie Moreland has created a very interesting group of friends.
This romance was long due and I liked how it worked out.

great story. I want more about the BAM crew!

love how each couple has their own story - not the same. it is nice how the misfits find their own family - good for entertainment that each one has an over the top problem of some sort to throw in to the storyline.

Melanie did it again!

Another good book in the series! Maddox’s confidence and dominance is a literal turn on. Instant love for him lol. I love the trio so much and the family they’ve created.

Maddox & Dee

Dee and Maddox were red hot fire together. The chemistry was off the charts. I loved how giving and protective not only Maddox but all the men in this series are to their women. Dee is averse to love and marriage after seeing things in her childhood. Mad Dog has also had a troubled childhood but where Dee doesn’t want love Maddox does with Dee. He wants it all.

Their story was full of emotion and heart. I loved their growth and how they finally came together. What I love is the brotherhood that this group of men have. How they will do anything for each other no matter what.

Maxine Mitchel and John Lane brought the story to another level with the narration. It was great to listen and feel the emotion of Melanie’s words brought to life.

I can’t wait to continue on this journey and get to Reid’s story. He is the one I have anticipated the most.

Numbers never lie.

RomCom
Spicy 4/5
Drama - some
Multiple point of views
quick read/listen
Series - Book three

Maddox is book 3 in the vested series.

In the first book and the second book you only get some bits and pieces of who Maddox is until the third book when it's all about him, his friends and of course D.

The Prologue of Maddox during his younger years as a child, teenager and young adult helped me understand him so much more as a person and how he became the man he is now.

Maddox - A silver fox in his early thirties. He loves numbers. A numbers guy who truly knows that, 'Numbers never lie.'

Strong, serious & funny. A banter machine amongst his friends, Bentley and Aiden.

As we, ourselves, personally struggle with past trauma, past mistakes or even just overall memories we want to erase; knowing what Maddox has gone through and continues to struggle with pulls at the heart strings. He is a passionate lover and really cares and believes in love.

Dee is a very independent person. Works hard and is very straight forward of what she wants. She has to make a decision for herself eventually but with her thoughts running rampage and her thumb wearing thin she gets close to the breaking point.

Maddox and Dee. There relationship starts off not being a relationship but more of a discussion on how to proceed with themselves to fill a void. I think those two communicate well when they are together but sometimes their demons tend to mess with them and they shut each other out.

I really enjoyed the progression between the two of them and how serious things got.

There is more than romance here. Wait, there is more than SPICY romance here, there is some drama that happens that really fills up the story nicely. I think it helped bring them a little closer to knowing what they really wanted.

Swoon worthy

I thought Bentley was my favourite, but I was wrong. Oh my word, Maddox has me tied up in knots and he will not let me go.

This series has been fantastic. Each book just gets better and better and Maddox truthfully blew me away. I really loved the pairing of Maddox and Dee, both damaged by their pasts and not looking for love, but both so worthy of finding love with each other.

Melanie Moreland drew me into the story from the first page; I kept thinking just one more chapter. I loved the characters of Maddox and Dee and all the secondary ones and having already read Bentley, Aiden and now Maddox, I can say that this is one of my favourite series of 2018.

The story was extremely well written, engaging and it was great to see the growth of both Maddox and Dee as the book evolved. Neither Maddox or Dee wanted a “relationship” so friends with benefits suits them both, until it doesn’t.

I really didn’t want to start this book as I have been anticipating reading Maddox since I finished Aiden. Ms. Moreland well and truly delivered a story that had me engrossed from start to finish, not to mention I have a new book boyfriend.

There is so much to love about her characters, the depth and layers that she weaves throughout her stories reminds me of the peeling of an onion, layer by layer and Maddox was just such a book.

The friendships between Maddox, Bentley and Aiden is truly overwhelming, the love , laughter and obvious care they have for one another is swoon worthy in and of itself. Throw in the ladies they love Dee, Emmy and Cami and you have a group of people anyone would be proud to call friends. I know I would love to hang with these people and call them friends.

Entertaining,

I have enjoyed every book in the series. This one was worth the wait. I especially liked the crossing of characters from "the Contract". Very Entertainment.