This is a repost of a review Suzanne wrote for Heroes & Heartbreakers. This fabulous book comes out TODAY, 11/28/17, so if you get that "OMG I NEED IT" feeling, you can read it right away! Grab some cookies and cuddle up.

It’s easy to assume that, given the similarities in premise - black spy heroine meets white spy hero during the American Civil War - the first two books in Alyssa Cole's Loyal League series would read alike. Cole’s trademarks are all here in A HOPE DIVIDED: beautiful writing with cutting observations and resonant imagery, a evident depth of research into both events and occupations, and a careful exploration of trust and loyalty. That said, this second novel is tonally very different from the first. While AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION pushed and pulled the two main characters together with acts of daring and heroism, including espionage and physical confrontations, A HOPE DIVIDED is a quieter story.

This post originally appeared on Heroes & Heartbreakers in 2016.

HARD WIRED is the third in Megan Erickson and Santino Hassell's co-written Cyberlove series and, while it wasn't quite as perfect as the first two, it was still a really solid read.