RELEASE BLITZ & GIVEAWAY - The Fifth Vital by Mike Majlak & Riley J Ford

The Fifth Vital 

by Mike Majlak and Riley J. Ford 

Genre: Nonfiction 

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Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him--the last flicker of hope--began to dim. His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive.

Somehow, he did...

HE NOT ONLY SURVIVED,

HE THRIVED.

Now he's a social media personality with millions of followers, and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim.

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About Mike Majlak 

Mike Majlak currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is the co-host of Impaulsive and the host of The Night Shift. He has millions of followers on YouTube and Instagram. 

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About Riley J. Ford 

Riley J. Ford is a NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author and UCLA graduate represented by Creative Artists Agency. She writes under multiple pen names and has sold more than one million copies of her novels worldwide. One of her books has been adapted into an upcoming movie for Netflix. 

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Hellion (415 Ink #3) by Rhys Ford

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Blurb

From the moment SFPD Detective Ruan Nicholls meets Ivo Rogers, he knew the tattoo artist was going to bring chaos to his neat orderly life. A hellion down to the bone, Ivo is someone Ruan not only doesn’t understand but isn’t even sure he needs to. Everything about Ivo is vibrant, brash, cocky and arrogant and Ruan wants no part of him.

Or at least that’s the lie he tells himself when he damps down his desire for the social wild child life tosses into his path.

For Ivo Rogers, his life revolves around two things; his family and 415 Ink, the tattoo shop he co-owns with his four brothers. His family might be stitched together by their battle scars from growing up in foster care but their brotherhood was tight—and strong enough to hold Ivo together during the times when he fell apart.

Now Ivo faces a new challenge when he falls for a cop with an old-school mentality on what a man looks and acts like. Ruan is the promise of a life Ivo thought he’d never have but their thunderous clashes threaten any chance of a relationship. Being the family’s hellion makes it easy to be misunderstood yet Ivo has faith Ruan will not only embrace who he is but love him as well.

Review 

My Rating - 5 Stars!

Hellion, the third book in the 415 Ink series, is an extraordinary novel by Rhys Ford. If you haven't read the previous books, don't worry, this one is easy to follow as a standalone.

Ivo is a complex and sympathetic character. His love interest is the cop who found him years ago. Ruan doesn't want to love Ivo, but he can't stay away from the younger man.

I love the way the two men complement and complete one another. A cop and a tattoo artist, yes please.  Ruan's a tough, strong cop, and Ivo's a tattoo artist with feminine features, while also being masculine.

These are two men from different times and with vastly different experiences. The author beautifully explores the struggle for an older man to be out and free now. Having hid his sexuality for his whole life, remembering a time when it was too dangerous to be out, Ruan painfully struggles with being with the out and femme Ivo. 

Their story is raw, real, and very heavy. It is not an easy read. But it's a wonderful one. They are two men who can save each other. Ruan allows Ivo to accept love and steadiness in his life. Ivo challenges Ruan to accept the freedom to be who you are, in addition to putting some color into his mundane life.

The writing is amazing, with two complex characters and a multi-layered story. She is almost poetic in her descriptions, in this tale of accepting and understanding each other's wants and needs. Ivo's way of dress is in conflict with Ruan's views, and causes a lot of conflict between the men. Ruan has to figure out if he can accept Ivo's presence and level of outness, despite it going against everything with which he's comfortable.

Hellion is an exquisite story of taking a chance. I love this amazing May to December, opposites attract romance. It's a powerful tale of being honest with oneself.