Rayne's Return

Love in Mission City, Book 4

De: Gabbi Grey

Narrado por: Michael Dean

Everett

After my infamous half-a-night stand with the mysterious Rayne, I moved on with my life. Success as a lawyer demands long hours and giving a hundred and ten percent to the job. I do carve out enough time to hang out with friends some weekends, but it's depressing to watch them pairing up while I'm relentlessly single. Then one morning, the man I can't forget shows up bruised and bedraggled at my office door. Rayne has a whopper of a story to go with the bruises, and seeing him again strikes wild sparks I can't deny, but can I trust a man who ditched me without a word? Or will he be gone again by morning light?

Rayne

As a private investigator, I've done some dubious jobs for some very questionable people. The assignment that brought me into Everett's world was one of the worst. Now, someone's trying to kill me and until I figure out who and why, I need a safe place to hide. All I could think of was Everett. The hot, by-the-book lawyer I hooked up with once doesn't owe me a thing, but he's the only person I trust. I'll do my damnedest to keep danger from reaching him, and hope like hell I can walk away in the end with my heart intact.

Rayne’s Return is a gay romantic suspense novel with an uptight by-the-book lawyer and a PI who never manages to stay out of trouble. The age-gap opposites attract novel is the fourth in the Love in Mission series.

©2025 Gabbi Grey (P)2025 Gabbi Grey

Who is Rayne and what is he running from?

On the run, Rayne returns to Everett and Mission City...

This is book 4 in the series, Love in Mission City by Gabbi Grey. Michael Dean did the narration of this one and did a fantastic job, as usual. He's one of my favorite narrators!

To answer the question I posed in Rayne Check, a short story set in this world, you do not have to listen or read Rayne Check before reading or listening to this one. It will give you insight on how they met and the animosity Everett feels, which is an added bonus but not a necessity.

I will say I wanted to slap Rayne upside the head for being so stubborn in revealing more about what has happened to him. I loved Everett's family and how they opened their arms to Rayne and treated him like one of the family.

This story dragged in parts and bringing in several past characters was unnecessary to me. I know that bringing in past characters from other books is a current theme for authors and most readers love this. I want to focus on the main characters and their story. I want to understand who they are and how they got to where they are today. These are my pet peeves and like I said above most readers love this, I read it all the time in other reader's reviews.

Would I recommend this book, yes! If you love Gabbi Grey and this series set in Mission City I'm sure you'll enjoy this one as well.

Opposites attract, age gap, secrets abound, just who are the bad guys

Good Audio

I really like this series but this one didn't hit the same for me. I really didn't feel the connection between these two. It's like they boned and that somehow made them in love. It just didn't feel authentic. I liked the mystery elemt as well but it did fall a little flat for me. I love seeing the side characters though so that helped.

Good but not what I expected

I will preface this by saying, that reading/listening to Rayne Check prior to this is a must or you're going to be very confused. Also you should probably just read the entire Love in Mission series because otherwise you'll meet a bunch of characters/couples and be hella confused (like me lol).

Also: being thrown in midway through a series is absolutely my fault and that did not color my review whatsoever.

Howeverrrrrr, I wasn't a fan? I mean I liked it, but at the same time it frustrated me. After listening to Rayne Check, I was super excited to dive into Rayne's Return and while I overall enjoyed it, I think I expected more suspense and action in the book, but not much happened for a guy who reappeared in Everett's life all banged up and on the run. Plus I found Rayne's ongoing evasiveness ridiculously annoying after a while.