Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Love, Loyalty and Mayhem with three reviews




Title: Love, Loyalty and Mayhem:
A Motorcycle Club Romance Anthology
Genre: Motorcycle Club Romance/Romantic Suspense
Release Date: July 16, 2019



Blurb

Bad Boy Alpha Alert!

Twenty of your favorite MC authors come together to bring you brand new, never released stories from some of your favorite motorcycle clubs.

Love-
Life with a biker is an adventure full of twists and turns. When love is involved, MC men never back down from what they want—they fight for it.

Loyalty-
Loyalty is the foundation in any motorcycle club. Break it, they break you. There isn't a line they won't cross to protect who or what they claim as their own.

Mayhem-
These men live a life made by their own set of rules. Chaos tends to always find them. You cross them, the consequences are swift. 

Hold on for the ride as this talented group of authors come together to bring you an anthology like no other.

Your favorite clubs, new clubs, and everything in between can be found in this collection filled with suspense, action, adventure, romance and so much more!

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All profits from the Love, Loyalty & Mayhem: A Motorcycle Club Romance Anthology will be donated to Bikers Against Bullies USA.

BAB USA is a national not-for-profit organization created by bikers to raise awareness and empower the community to fight the terrible effects of bullying on young people through education, community outreach and fundraising. https://www.bikersagainstbulliesusa.com





REVIEWS
This is an interesting anthology. It has so many amazing authors and stories. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Swagger & Sass by Autumn Lake Jones 
I loved this story. We got to see some of our favourite characters, and got to know Rooster more.
I can't wait to see what Autumn Lake Jones comes up with next.
Heart & soul by Nina Levine. 
Omg I loved this story. It was so nice to see Tatum and see how she is still a bad ass. And loved catching up with Nitro.
Nina Levine blew it out of park again.
Bound by chance by Ryan Michele.
Damn this story was too short for my liking. I want to know more about Micah even though I didn't like him in his other books.
Ryan Michele did amazing job.
Blaze by Sapphire Knight
This book had me laughing a lot. And wanting more.
I can't wait for rest of story.
Forever Lo by Winter Travers
All I can say is WHY!!! This book had everything, then it suddenly ends. 
It was so nice to see Lo and Meg.
I can't wait for more.
Gus by L Wilder
This was a interesting story. It was nice to see how Memphis chapter came around. 

I can't wait for more.
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Getting to read stories by 20 authors some new and some favorites to most readers is amazing. That doing so helps out a needy group—all the better. Here are a few examples of these stories.

SICKO BY AMO JONES: This is a teaser prelude to an upcoming book to be published in 2020. It is very short and introduces Jade and Royce/Sicko her foster brother from the people who adopted her. He left home 6 years ago leaving her with a broken heart at 13. He was her hero and protector. When he left he deserted her into a nightmare. Now he's back. An officer in an MC and wants to run her life even though she just started college. 
This looks like a good read, I just hate cliffies when the rest of the story is unavailable.

SWAGGER & SASS BY AUTUMN JONES LAKE: Lost Kings MC is meeting up with three other clubs to start an annual meeting of clubs to support each other and commit to an alliance and of course, party. On the way to the meet three of the guys including Rooster come on a scene with a guy taking pics of a gorgeous woman standing (uncomfortably) on a bridge railing. When she falls in, the guy just watches her scream that she can't swim and struggle. Rooster doesn't know what is going on and jumps in to save her (in 4 feet of water). Needless to say, he is unimpressed with the guy and wants to punch and does. Womanizer Rooster wants her instantly but for some reason just comforts her and offers to take her home. She is surprised she feels safe with him and lets him... Oh yeah, she lets him.

The two are a great couple with her innocence and strength as well as a hot mom with a great attitude she has some things to hide. He feels differently about her than other women. He lives in New York. She lives in Texas. Now what?

Really liked this one. Fun club and brothers with their Old Ladies. Even a short one like this stands up to the authors usual great reads.

VOODOO VOWS: BY AVELYN PAIGE: Presley is actually scared to go meet Beau's family, especially his sister who runs her own auxiliary club. He is a big kid with video games, comic con, and his action figure collection—"not dolls!". She loves him. They've been together a year even though her brother is Prez of his club and not a all happy about the arrangement.

Their trip is full of meetings, acceptance and suspicion, and steam. Oh, yeah! She's a practicing phycologist and busy as well as his place in the club and this is their vaca and makeup time. And oh how they make up!

Another good short read.

THE ARRANGEMENT BY BINK CUMMINGS: If you are so young you can't imagine those just past prime don't get it on—this one will be a learning experience for you. Oh, and yeah, bring a cold drink and a fan. You're gonna need it. 

Loretta and Blimp have been buds with bennies for years. Now her son is grown and a patched member of the same club as Blimp. They aren't a couple in the traditional way. They aren't monogamous. They are hot together—steaming! 

Take a ride with them and see just how hot. The read is gonna be a lot shorter than that ride.

BREATHE FOR IT BY CHELSEA CAMARON: Crunch & Jennissey are high school lovers. She comes from a sad family on the other side of town, he comes from an MC family and is expected to join up after graduation. What he learns is that the joining up isn't only on his side. What is going to happen to the couple when their future separates them for now?

This is a teaser into a future story. 

MAMA BY NICOLE JAMES: Lily and Leo are making a home with his toddler whose mother died when he was a tiny baby. She was in the club life and loves their family unit as busy as she is. Not everyone is as happy as her family and his club family. Little Gray's grandmother doesn't approve of either one of them.

Are they going to keep the happy family or is there trouble to come?

SNOW WHITE AND THE BIKER BY GLENNA MAYNARD: This is no sweet fairy tale. No way. Biker son has to stand by and watch the man who killed his father and took his mother play with the club girls right out in the open. But he has to earn his patch to do more. When he's given an assassination assignment he's guaranteed the patch with his father's number on it. He'll do anything even take out this gorgeous sweet college girl—Won't he?

Once again this is the intro for a full-length story to come.

MY BROTHER'S OLD LADY BY NICHOLE JAMES: Paige and Travis have a history. Her husband was his club brother and best friend. She's been gone for two years, leaving right after her husband's club funeral. Two years later she's back. The woman he has loved and left alone for every day since the three of them met. Travis sees his chance to change things. Paige refuses to admit her feelings. As her club assigned protector, one day her truck breaks down and she has to call him. So ends their silence.

Will they admit their feelings? Will her dead husband continue to stand between them? 
A good short read, and complete story.
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Anthologies are a wonderful way to catch up on favorite characters or finding new authors not yet read. This anthology not only has that but is also donating ALL proceeds to BAB Bikers Against Bullying (USA)

There are many authors I already love featured in this anthology and their stories did bring back many of my favorite characters from favorite MC’s. I like reading short stories by authors I’ve never read before in order to get a glimpse at their work. Sometimes I fall in love, sometimes I don’t, but an anthology gives me the opportunity to meet someone new.

For the most part I loved this collection of short stories. My only issue with the collection is that instead of allowing a reader to enjoy a short story either by a favorite author or a new one, a few authors included stories with cliff hanger endings. I’m not against cliff hangers when I’m reading a series, a full-length book, but when it is part of an anthology, I feel it is a poor way to push an innocent reader to buy the authors full length book. Personally, I feel that if the author is talented, they don’t need such cheap stunts to get me to buy their books.

4.5 stars

Purchase Links

99c for release week only!!
(reg. $3.99)

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AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU
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Contributing Authors

Monday, July 8, 2019

Kings Ransome with review

Title: King's Ransom
Series: South Side Sinners MC #1
Authors: BT Urruela and CD Bradley 
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: July 2, 2019 Cover Design: FuriousFotog
Dimitri King is a killer … and an addict. Born into one of the most ruthless motorcycle clubs that ever ran the streets of St Louis, the only life he has ever known is destroying him from the inside out. A lifetime of trauma, bad decisions, and heinous violence has left him on the brink of complete disaster, but one mission will change everything.
Annalise Hale, daughter of Senator Ronald Hale, is the prima ballerina of the St. Louis Ballet. The picture-perfect trophy from afar, her life is a delicate facade that hides unspeakable pain. All she wanted was to escape.
She never dreamed of this.
Blameless in her father’s crimes, she is caught up like an exquisite pawn when the Sinners take her. Face-to-face with Dimitri King, like two sides of the same broken mirror, they have scars so deep, pain is the only feeling they know.
A match made in heaven but forged in hell, will they find their wounds fit together to create something beautiful or will the sins of their pasts be too great to overcome?

Not your typical MC story. You have the bad club. The bad players. The bad deeds. You don't have the typical romance, hot, steamy, and controlling. Here are two people from opposite live styles with the same painful life. Different circumstances but the same lack of family. The club should have bee enough for Dimitri, the son of the club president. Dance should have been enough for Annalisse as the Prima Ballerina. It wasn't. Each paid for their “privilage” that payent made them both want to end their way of life.

How would two such different people meet and become more? Her father made a deal he didn't keep with the club. She was the price and the ransom was for her return. As enforcer Dimitri did a lot of bad things, but take a woman—maybe even kill her—would he go that far even for the club?

During the wait for payment the two learn about each other and the lives they've lived. What will the price be for their budding relationship and the club's departure from even their code?

There are surprises and violence. A character study.
BT Urruela is a combat wounded amputee, purple heart recipient, contemporary author who has written both independent and traditionally published books. He is a RARE under 40 award recipient, Co-founder and Brand Ambassador for VETSports, People Magazine Tribute for Heroes winner, Cover Model, Motivational Speaker and Philanthropist. He lives in Florida with his two dogs, Kiko and Scout.
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I'm just a girl who likes to daydream and sometimes I write them down to share. Growing up, the literary world was my safe haven. A wonderful place of fantasy beyond the bounds of reality. As an adult, I put that behind me to practice medicine. My husband and I owned our own practice, had two children, and lived a somewhat normal life. Fate had other plans. In the span of a year, we sold our practice, bought a 96 acre farm in the hills of West Virginia, and adopted 3 of our patients (ages 1,3, and4). It has been an adventure of ups and downs and learning to laugh at ourselves. Yet, somewhere in the midst of kids, chickens, and toothpaste covered dogs, I began to write again. My late night / early morning escape lets me dream beyond all limits. I hope that you will enjoy the journey of the stories as much as I have writing them.
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Friday, July 5, 2019

Animal's Reformation with review

Title: Animal's Reformation
Series: Insurgents MC Series
Author: Chiah Wilder
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date:  June 18, 2019

Animal has no plan to settle like his MC brothers. He's happy livin' free and partying hard. Then a one-night-stand gone wrong shows up with the daughter he's been supporting and remembering on holidays but not seeing. She shows up and walks out sans Lucy his seven-year-old daughter. Her new man doesn't like kids and she's tired of being a mother. Animal loves his kid and tries his best to be a good dad--with no idea how.

Olivia has had it with guys. Selfish lovers, cheaters, and not much else. When she moves in next door to Animal and Lucy things are gonna change for them all. Olivia is a busy lady. Reading teacher for kids who need help, part-time Dental office receptionist, and online college. She doesn't have much time for a man even if she wanted one. A Biker? No way. No how. She'd lived the life with her brother and father in a hardcore club with no respect for their women or the vows they make to them.

Animal helps her out during her move in. Lucy needs reading help yet the school doesn't think she is slow enough to spend the money for extra help. Payback for his help, undeniable attraction they can't seem to fight and a little girl feeling abandoned they both want to help. Could they have a chance?

While life wages a battle to keep Animal and Olivia apart, a madman is killing women he meets online. Could Olivia's school project put her in the path of the killer? 

There is plenty of intrigues, great characters to include girlfriends, Animal's family, new friends for Lucy, work friends for Olivia, all ones you love and will have a problem figuring out the bad guy. There's plenty of steam and MC loyalty with his club brothers. A good story, good series with more to come I hope. Still got more brothers to match up with old ladies.
Sometimes the last person you want to be with is the one you can’t be without.
A member of the Insurgents MC, Animal is a rough, free-loving biker. Hanging with his brothers, riding his customized Harley, and partying with the ladies are his idea of the ideal life.
Years ago, he made a stupid mistake with a woman he barely knew, but he pays the child support every month and sends cards and presents to his out-of-state daughter on her birthday and on holidays.
He doesn’t want a steady woman, and he certainly isn’t ready to settle down and have a family. Life is just too good now, and there are always so many women who want to come and play with this rugged biker.
Then one afternoon, the mother of his child struts into the clubhouse with his daughter in tow and tells him she’s done. She walks away, leaving Animal and Lucy staring at each other.
What’s he supposed to do? He knows about bikes and hard partying, not seven-year-old girls.
He has to change his ways, and his new hot next-door neighbor isn’t helping to keep his libido in check. The way her long dark hair swings just above her sweet behind has him thinking all kinds of nasty thoughts, but she doesn’t give him the time of day.
What’s up with that?
Olivia Mooney is very aware of her neighbor’s good looks and his finely chiseled body, but she doesn’t want to get involved. He doesn’t realize it, but she’s his daughter’s tutor at school, and she can’t get involved. She spends her nights thinking about him and chatting with an intriguing man on an after dark dating site.
Then a series of murders occur in the surrounding counties, and it looks like they are creeping closer to Pinewood Springs. At first the cops are stumped, but over time a pattern begins to emerge: the women all used an after dark dating site.
As fear and danger slink closer, Olivia is thrown into the arms of the sexy biker, forever changing their lives.
The Insurgents MC series are standalone romance novels. This is Animal’s story. This book contains violence, abuse, strong language, and steamy/graphic sexual scenes. It describes the life and actions of an outlaw motorcycle club. HEA. No cliffhangers.
Sexy Siren’s Book Blog - “Suspenseful Romantic MC Read - Absolutely Loved It!!”
Michele DelRay - “I could not get enough of this book. I loved every single page.”
Amazon Review - “Loved it! Great story......drama and hot romance”
 
Chiah Wilder writes about rough, sexy men who know how to treat their women. Always a lover of books, she began writing at a young age and continued through college with collections of short stories. Figuring she had to grow up and get a “real” job, her writing was placed on the back burner. Her love of reading has always been center front in her life. Chiah’s love of bad boys both in and out of fiction has inspired her books. She loves an alpha male whose softer side is brought out by a passionate, spirited woman. In fiction there are no rules or boundaries, and fantasies can go as far as the characters want to take them. Steamy, romances with tough, sexy bad boys are her guilty pleasure along with brownies, cheddar cheese, and movie marathons. 
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