Hard Ride by Tara Oakes

The second book in the Slayers MC Series, Hard Ride, is now available!

*** Warning: this book is intended for those over 18 yrs old due to violent, sexual, and mature content. 

*** Dawson McCade, president of Riverdale chapter of The Slayers MC, has everything under control for the moment, although he knows it could change in an instant. The Conquistador drug Cartel is being held at bay thanks to the last minute kidnapping of the Cartel leader's daughter, Caterina Jimenez. Dawson knows they're nipping at his heels, though, just waiting for the opportunity to strike. It's up to him to think ahead and find a way to make this temporary truce between them last... otherwise it'll be an all out war. One Dawson has doubts about winning. He has a brand new Ol' lady, Molly aka "Angel" and a new family to protect. He has more than enough to lose if things don't go how he needs them to. It's up to Dawson and the club's enforcer, Chase Barrett, to find a way to keep everyone and everything that they love safe from the Cartel. What happen's if one of the very things the Cartel is after, is the one thing Chase discovers he isn't willing to give up?

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Caterina, "Cat, Jimenez is the twenty-three year old daughter of one of the most powerful drug Cartel leaders in Mexico. She hates the life she's been born into, hates everything about the power and wealth her family has amassed. Convincing her family to let her study Medicine across the border in Texas was her way of escaping the life that threatens to claim her just as it had her mother. She had done what she thought she'd never be able to... to be free. That is, until she's swept up and taken in the middle of the day on her way to class by a rough and tough biker named Chase. He says he'll let her go. He says she's not in any danger, but she knows better. She knows not to trust men like this, having seen first hand what they're capable. So, she does the only thing possible. Cat sets in motion a plan to escape her captor. using her feminine charms to seduce and trick him, waiting for the perfect moment to make her move. Cat has no idea how much is riding on her, how much depends on Chase being able to keep her. They're both about to find out, in HARD RIDE, book 2 in The Slayers MC series, meant to be read in order following book 1, FIRST RIDE.

You can now purchase Hard Ride on Amazon: http://goo.gl/T5kze1

Review:

I love Tara Oakes and I love MC books so this was a no brainer. This book mostly focuses on Chase, but there is a lot of Dawson and Molly as well as the trouble surrounding the Slayers MC. The Mexican Cartel has been giving the boys some trouble. At the end of book one, the club had devised a plan to gain some control over the situation. Also at the end of book 1, Molly had some news to share with Dawson; it was a heck of a cliffhanger. I’m happy to say that this book isn’t. The book is written from multiple points of view which is always a plus for me. Some of the story line felt rushed to me, but that didn’t distract me too much. It is clear that the plot is going in a specific direction with Chase, so sooner or later it was going to happen. Anyway, I give this book 4 stars and look forward to the next in this series.  

~Bookaholic Mama

I wish I read the first book, I feel like I am missing a little background, but not enough that I did not enjoy the book. Dawson is the President of a local MC and runs a tight ship. He does it respectfully and keeps people happy and willing to follow him, they trust him to do the right thing for everyone. He does have a bit of a temper and when the Cartel threatens his club, he does something drastic and ends up kidnapping the illegitimate "forgotten" daughter of the Cartel leader. While keeping her captive, he has his best man and club enforcer keep and eye on her. This is a club that is a little more gang like than any other MC book or show I have been entertained by and I think I like it a little more for that. I say think, only because I am not used to it. Chase and Cat develope a bond after she stops trying to kill him and Dawson puts the idea in his head to get her knocked up to add more leverage. When the MC learns about the truth of her relationship with her father and that her and her cousin Mateo want to over thrown the Cartel leader, things start to look up. Especially now that he has a woman living with him with her niece. He does what he can to keep her safe, and in the end they share very good news and everything wors out. The club and the Cartel are now working together and Cat stayed behind to stay with Chase and be used as leverage in case something happens between them. Especially since Mateo has a card up his sleeve as well. I am super ready for the next book and still want to read the first.

This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review.

~Kristen

More About Tara Oakes

Tara is a thirty something newbie author from Long Island, New York. She's a voracious reader, a passionate writer and obsessive junk T.V. aficionado. When she's not doing one of those three things she is attempting to garden, hanging with her hubby or partaking in some retail therapy. She enjoys connecting with her readers and is having a blast entering into this new world of publishing.

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