Madison Stevens

Madison Stevens' Series Reading Order

Luna Lodge

• Sol #1
• Titus #2
• Lucius #3
• Marius #4
• Apollo #5
• Apollo and Val #5.5
• Remus #6
• Justus #7
• Zeno #8
• Varius #9
• Servius #10

Allen Securities

• Reed #1 ~ My Review
• Kace #2 ~ My Review
• Liam #3 ~ My Review
• Ryder #4 ~ My Review
• Cage #5 ~ My Review
• Mason #6

Kelly Clan

• Finn #1
• Conor #2
• Noel #3
• Riley #4

Luna Lodge: Hunters Of Atlas 

• Magnus #1
• Nero #2
• Lucas #3
• Sergius #4

Road House 

• Letting Go #1
• Holding On #2
• Standing By #3

Privileged

• Privileged #1
• Elite #2

Shadow series

• Shadow's Embrace #1

Special Forces

• Trent #1
• Johnny #2

Shot Serial

• First Shot #1
• Second Shot #2

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Cage (Allen Securities #5) By Madison Stevens

Buy link: Cage

Cage spent most of his life as a carefree bachelor. It was a good life with no attachments and a solid job working with his brothers to catch bad guys. Everything changed in an instant when he was crippled on the job, and he watched a man die to save his life. 

Now, months later, Cage is still confronting the demons of self-worth and his guilt over the other man’s death, along with growing feelings for Whitney, an attractive vet who seems to think he’s still a shallow playboy. 

Whitney doesn't want to get tangled up with a playboy. She thinks she knows Cage’s type and would rather be alone than risk her heart getting torn apart. 

When someone starts leaving strange items at her vet clinic, she finds the only man she can trust to help is the one man she’s afraid of getting to know. 

The two are forced to confront their feelings as they race to figure out why Whitney is being targeted.

After reading all the others in the series I do have to say this has to be the best one. It still needed more improvement on the actual story line, but I think I enjoy the characters more and the actual story behind the romance one. 
I liked how she didn't let him get away with shit, like the date they go when she finds out he did it to every other girl he had ever been out on a date with. She took it in stride and still gave him the benefit of the doubt, but when she finds out he's doing the exact same routine she storms out. I was like 'go girl' 

But then we have the same issue with all of them, and that is the background story. There's a part in the book that a girl is mentioned, who Cage's new friend's brother once rescued as a kid or something and he's trying for parole, but nothing, and I mean nothing was said again, but when it was mentioned it seemed crucial to the story line, but nada. NOTHING!!!
When the vet's assistant finds out who Cage is related to she acts really weird, and very tight lipped about HOW she knew them. I thought it had something to with the comment about the girl and the parole case, but again NAADDDAAA. It's useless information, or pointless. It drove me insane. 

But I really loved the care she has for her animals and how she wishes she could take them all in. Then the little boy they help off the street, I really swooned over it. I love a book when they are kind to do that. 

3*

Liam (Allen Securities #3) By Madison Stevens

Buy Link: Liam

Meg Allen traveled to London to learn new skills for her brother’s security firm and try and bury her feelings for a certain sexy co-worker, Liam. A summer away in London hasn’t cooled the flames of passion. Equipped with a defiant attitude and a new hairdo, she has to face the man she’s pined after while also dealing with an unknown enemy targeting her home. 

Liam Grant is still coming to terms with his deepened and shocking connections to the Irish mob. He has to make a choice of either his blood family or the Allen family and his career at their security firm. With Meg threatened, he pushes aside his own concerns to focus on the investigation. Though he tells himself that his family connections are just another danger to Meg, his passion risks burning away his objectivity and could blind him to the truth of who is actually targeting the woman he desires.

I really should have gave up reading these, but one I paid £3+ and they really are addictive in a way LOL
This one disappointed me the most. I've moaned about there being no background story to any of them, but with this one, with Liam, it really did need more. It did give more than the other stories did, but I found it still missed out a lot that a reader should know. I had so many questions I nearly gave up reading. 
And although I'm complaining I still liked the story line and where it was going. I just wish it was written better. 

Liam has been in the series from the start, but in this book it's BAM he's the mob bosses brother. Step brother. How??? god knows. Because he went from a cousin to a brother. So how did that happen? Ask the author. I got that his mom was attacked? Maybe? I'm not sure. The book flew by too quickly as it's not that long. Especially for £2+ that you would normally pay separately. 

I honestly didn't find this book any use to the series apart from the couple who had been struggling from the beginning got together. 

I loved the dog plot in the book and that is the only reason I may or may not read the next book. I'm not sure. All depends. 

2.5* 

Kace (Allen Securities #2) By Madison Stevens

Buy Link: Kace

Jessica Tamm is just trying to get ahead in life and escape the cloud of her father’s criminal past. Though, it’d probably help if she hadn’t taken a job managing a club owned by the head of the local Irish mob. As far as she’s concerned, her own discomfort is a minor price to pay to earn the money she needs for her sister’s education. Unfortunately, the Russians interested in taking over local organized crime don’t seem to care that her job has nothing to do with the criminal world of her boss. 

Monitoring the Russian and Irish mobs is just another step in the promotion ladder for cop Kace Allen, or at least that's what he keeps telling himself. Babysitting a mob boss club isn't what he’d call a fun time, but the scenery, particularly the sexy manager, is nice. Too bad he can't trust the daughter of a criminal who works for a criminal. He’s sworn to uphold the law, and no one, not even a beautiful woman, has made him question that before. 

When the temperature rises between the Russian and Irish factions and Jessica’s caught in the middle, Kace starts to see the lines between good and bad, law-abiding and criminal, are a lot blurrier than he ever realized.

I will say, Kace was the best storyline out of the series so far. Still problems with not elaborating enough, but I think after reading two books already like it I did sort of get used to it. 
Kace is a police but when lines are blurred he struggles to see which side of the law he should actually be on. 
I've just found out also this series ties with another series of Madisons called the Kelly's. It's Finn's story who is one of the mob bosses who is Samantha's boss. 

From when I read Ryder's story I expected the story to be a bit more excited. I really did expect a lot when this was one of the main story plots that actually made sense more than the others did. I finally got an understanding of what was going on. That is only my guess though, so I could be way off line lol

4* 

Reed ( Allen Securities #1) By Madison Stevens

Buy Link: Reed

Olivia Cross left behind her abusive alcoholic mother to move on to a better life, a new job at a library and a chance to actually get ahead. All of that is threatened when her brother drags her back into the seedy world of greed, violence and corruption she’s tried desperately to flee. 

Private security contractor Reed Allen isn’t about to let a burning attraction rope him in again. He’s already felt the sting of letting his heart rather than his head lead him. He’s just there to do the job and get paid, even if a certain spunky beautiful librarian has him feeling things he thought long since buried. 

Keeping Olivia safe is the easy part. Resisting their passionate urges could prove to be much harder. 

They’ll have to mend their broken hearts and move on from their painful pasts for a chance at a future.

Oliver Cross finds herself in the crossfire when her brother Ben drags her into the world of the seedy, violence, greed and corruption. 

She's not new to the violence, or the greed part in life as she grew up with an alcoholic mother and violent boyfriends. 

But she's determined not to turn out like her mother. She wants a good life. So starting her new job at the library she's shocked to find her little brother bringing his troubles to her doorstep. 

Reed is a private investigator and is currently undercover for someone higher up in government. But when a feisty, passionate, vulnerable Oliver gets in the way he's at mixed emotions on what to do. 

Apparently he's been burned before, but as I said in Ryder's review, nothing ever is elaborated.  I got a bit of what happened, he was on a job, bla bla bla, the woman burned him and nearly got him and his brother killed. But how did they meet? How long were they together? Did he love her? Is that why he didn't see what a liar she was? Nothing was ever mentioned and it started to get my back up because Ryder, which is the first book I read, but is book four, is the brother who nearly got killed with Reed. But even in his book, nothing about his scar was actually explained. Like how he did it. It's still driving me mad now and I know it's only a book LOL 

Anyway, Reed decides to protect Oliver, but he sure likes to make an ass out of himself and does the unthinkable when they first have sex. I would never have forgiven him or felt like I could share a bed with him again, but after a night away, Oliver flew back in his arms. GRRRRR. LOL 

The story has the mafia, made men and a lot of twist and turns. I also got confused on who was who in a lot of it because again, nothing was ever explained. It's like we got the outline of a story, but my God the stories are so freaking good. 

4* because I did still enjoy the actual story. 

I will warn readers who are going to buy this, it does need editing, grammar checking and another read through. 

Ryder (Allen securities #4) By Madison Stevens

Buy Link: Ryder

Irene wants to believe all she needs to heal after an emotionally abusive relationship are her friends and bakery, but Ryder Allen keeps intruding into her thoughts. Something about the huge man calls to her heart and body. Afraid to even think about loving again, she does her best to convince him that his affections are better directed elsewhere. 

Security contractor Ryder has lived for years choked with bitterness and anger about a bad job that left both his heart and face scarred. His attraction to the shy Irene has left him determined to be with her, despite her insistence they just wouldn’t work together. 

When a local biker gang recruits new help and begins making waves around town, neither Ryder nor Irene worry it’ll be much of a problem for her bakery other than some vandalism. Not thinking much about the trouble, Irene decides to take a camping trip with some friends, leading to unexpected terror in the woods that’ll require some skilled protection, which Ryder is more than ready to deliver. 

I read Ryder thinking it could be read as a standalone like most series like this do. This was my own mistake by not looking further into it. The description didn't say anything about reading it as a series, or if it was a standalone. 

I got confused throughout the whole book. The story line was freaking brilliant, but parts just weren't detailed enough and I'd be like, 'huh? why the hell did he say that for?' or 'where did that come from'. It really did need BETA'S or someone reading through it because it's such a shame. I hate reviewing storyline's like this. I always feel like I'm rating two books. 

The first rating is the story plot... 
Then the second it's detail, the editing, grammar etc 

So, based on story plot, I'd give it a 4* 
but everything else, including the flow of the story I give it a 2.5* 

It's why I gave it a 3* as a whole. 


Anyway, Ryder is in love with a baker and from what I made out reading this he has been for some time. 
When her ex comes back into town, which is an example about things not being explained, her cousin and friend plan to go camping with her. 
Alone. 

First, let me go back to her ex boyfriend.... he was a complete jack ass and from I could guess he wasn't all that nice. But what I don't know is how or why? Did she run from him? Or was he abusive? there really wasn't any back story at all. It's one of the reasons I decided to read the rest of the series, but you'll see if that helped in the next reviews. 

So, they go camping alone in the woods and some bad guys come after them and Irene has to put all her trust in Ryder. 
Who by the way I loved. For someone so freaking scary and scary looking he could be so sweet. It was adorable. Especially when he was with her. He really did like her. 

The story continues on... I don't want to give too much a way as it's not really a long book. But I did enjoy reading it. 
I will say it does need editing, checking over and probably a bit more backstory added in. It's nothing an author can't go back and change. 

The best part was how the story went, how much action and stuff was going on. I also liked the two main characters Ryder and Irene together. 

3*