The Ferrymen: Godless – L. Eveland

His bite marked me. His kiss ruined me. His return damned me.

LORENZO
I was built to kill—flawless, heartless, and loyal only to the man who made me. Now he’s my next target.

When a rare Judas Coin forces me to hunt Dionysus, I need his son: Rafael. A fallen priest I marked with my teeth years ago.

I don’t need a partner. I don’t need a conscience. But I’m stuck with both. And every moment we spend together reminds me what it feels like to want something I was never meant to have.

RAFAEL
I was damned the moment he touched me.

Now he’s back with blood on his hands and a contract on my father’s head.

I should run. Pray. Turn him in.

Instead, I’m hiding him in church basements, watching him bleed for me. Kill for me.

Lorenzo is temptation wrapped in violence, a sinner sculpted in scars.

And the more I fall, the further I drift from the God I once served.

If redemption is still possible, I’ll find it in him—or burn beside him trying.

GODLESS is a dark, high-heat MM romance about assassins, fallen priests, and what happens when the devil you fear becomes the only one who makes you feel alive.

Godless by L. Eveland, the second book in The Ferrymen series, expands its John Wick–style world of assassins steeped in Greek mythology. This time, the story follows Lorenzo, Luca’s best friend from Ruthless.

Once a feral child muzzled like an animal, Lorenzo was bought and trained by the South American Director Dionysus. His rather memorable childhood encounter with Rafael, Dionysus’s son, resurfaces twenty years later when Lorenzo is ordered to kill a cardinal. Rafael, now a priest, is sent to hunt the assassin, only to discover it’s Lorenzo.

The dying cardinal hands Lorenzo a Judas Coin, binding him to kill whoever ordered the hit, which turned out to be Dionysus himself, the man who raised him. Failure means death, but killing a regional director is equally fatal. Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, Lorenzo must also convince Rafael that the cardinal is tied to child trafficking. Reluctantly, the two join forces, pursued by Pantheon and Vatican agents, as they uncover a high ranking traitor.

When Lorenzo was introduced in Book 1, he was a drag race watching diva with fabulous hair. Here, he barely had time for a beauty regiment while fleeing from safehouse to safehouse with Rafael, Diego, and Jasper. We get glimpses of his playful side, had no qualms seducing a priest, but he’s mostly serious. He seems like a different person, understandable given their dire situation.

Rafael, ooh the good father brought all the angst and the pining, devastating and deliciously heart-melting. Not much Catholic guilt, he quickly abandoned his faith when he felt betrayed, a.k.a his mother’s and brother’s untimely deaths, things he was taught were lies and that he was sentenced to death for questioning orders.

He then turned all that intensity into a ferocious obsesession of Lorenzo, the only true thing in his life, discovering a biting kink he’s eager to explore. They were primal and savage that even right out in the middle of a storm they were a nuclear explosion. They didn’t even catch pneumonia. Their transition from enemies to lovers, building the trust, the teamwork and passion was fast but done convincingly,

The villain is as hateful and manipulative as in the first book. I hated that he used eagles for his evil machinations. It might be triggering for some but just know these magnificent birds did not have a happy ending.

The most thrilling part was Rafael and Lorenzo having to survive a labyrinth and defeat the bad guy for Lorenzo’s sentence to be reversed. It was a claustrophic and deadly experience, they were in pitch dark, lost their map and chained together at the ankles. However, it was never explained why the bad guy could somehow see in the dark.

The plot barely lets Rafael, Lorenzo, and their friends rest, moving fast, throwing curveballs, and keeping me intrigued with Pantheon politics. The mysterious head of the Pantheon, Zeus, has yet to make his appearance but his schemes have far-reaching consequences. We might finally see him in the third book.

Godless is a story of betrayal from the highest places and choices between lesser evils. Overall, it delivers an eye-opening mission, an all-consuming truth, and earth-shattering decisions.

Rating:
4.5 Stars – perfection is only half a step away

Soundtrack: Godless Soul
Artist: Sad Lovers & Giants
Album: Headland

P.S.

The Ferrymen books is best read in order.

Witness the Pantheon’s top assassin burn the world for a plant-daddy therapist in Ruthless,

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