Bøger af Marialisa Demora

Legends are born from moments like these. Folktales spun around a single point in time so perfect, you can almost hear the click resonating through the universe as things align.George Bell, aka Twisted, knows the odds are against him. Have been all his life. Born in a Louisiana bordello, raised around the rough and rowdy men of a motorcycle club, he's never been the lucky type. But he believes luck can change, so when fate gives him a glimpse of breathtaking beauty, he's more than willing to roll the dice. Chancing upon what could be the woman of his dreams, he's prepared to push this streak as far as he can.Penny Dane's background gives her an edge in the life she's chosen to lead. Raised in a can-do family, she's resilient, rolling with life's punches and landing on her feet. But, when the past holds painful secrets-when a single misstep can turn deadly-can she trust the passion this man stirs in her?On the surface, Bell and Penny don't work. Their mismatched worlds are too different. But like a backwater bayou, what you see is not the whole story, there are mysteries buried underneath. Penny is the red-haired beauty caught up in a web of lies. Bell is like no one she's ever met before. The problem is, he knows it.*Please note this book is part of the Neither This, Nor That MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: This is the Route of Twisted Pain (book #1), Treading the Traitor's Path: Out Bad (book #2), Shelter My Heart (book #3), and Trapped by Fate on Reckless Roads (book #4), Tarnished Lies and Dead Ends (book #5).

Benny Jones grew up fast, much faster than anyone in his family realized, in the backwoods sticks of Wyoming. Blessed with movie star good looks he didn't lack for female attention, and his first girlfriend set the tone for his romantic life. Older, beautiful, rich, and generous, she wanted to have a pretty toy to play with, and a prettier boy on her arm. His worth became defined by her needs, which left him feeling empty and hollow.Ben found an escape from the sordidness of his world with music, and frequently lost himself in the sounds and rhythms he could create, trying to set aside the increasing feelings of worthlessness and betrayal. He knew eventually it would all catch up with him, and he was right. It did, the night he nearly died. Fortunately for Ben his older brother was there to save him. Again.Now, he's attempting to navigate the world as a sober artist, digging in and holding onto his dreams by sheer determination alone when Lucia walks into his life. Sweet, beautiful, caring, and oh-so off limits Luce makes him think there are better things in store for him. There are problems, though. Not only doesn't she fit the mold of his previous ladies, but her father is one of his brother's best friends. No problem, right?

Gypsy had lost faith in his fellow man and was drifting through life when he found the Rebel Wayfarers MC. Having forever been a stranger to love, he was stunned when it beckoned to him from a darkened room in faraway Oz. The route to hold the woman of his dreams might be turbulent, but now that he's found her, he's determined to keep her...no matter the cost. Full description: Douglas Tatum was a decorated police officer and considered himself a community servant loyal to the shield ... back before he lost the faith. Betrayed by a man he considered a brother, he cut all ties with his past existence, drifting until he found a home with the Rebel Wayfarers MC, and their president, Mason. With renewed purpose, Gypsy, as he's now known, threw himself into building a new life, earning his way into a trusted position in the club. Dispatched overseas to help fulfill a club debt, Gypsy didn't expect to find his destiny under an unfamiliar canopy of stars. It took just a single trembling glance for the dark-haired, blue-eyed beauty to own his heart. Kelsey had spent months in captivity, serving men's sadistic whims. Endless days of living moment to moment, in darkness and pain, she had given up hope of escape until Gypsy walked through the door. With one word from him, her heart settled in her chest, and she knew she was safe. From that moment he had taken control, dispatching her enemies and her nightmares, giving her a chance to be fearless for the first time she could remember. Now fate has thrown them another curve, and they'll have to partner with an unlikely crew to help save another girl. In the series timeline, this story sits alongside 'Fury' (book #11). Story in the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, timeline matches book #11, Fury. Gypsy's Lady #11.5. *Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5), Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), Bones (book #10), and Fury (book #11). Upcoming titles in the series include: Cassie (book #12).

Annie lived for her sisters in the club, but she was closest to Coates. They had founded the riding club together, and the women looked after each other. Always. In the search for even greater stability for their sisters, things had gone sideways and Annie had to scramble to find her center when Coates was brutally murdered. Enter Domino, one of the few men who knew enough about her recent errand to warrant suspicion in her sister's death, but there's something about him. Something different. So different, that even in this moment of grief, Annie knows it is rare and worth exploring. 18+ due to explicit content.Short story in the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, timeline matches book #9, Watcher. Gun Totin' Annie, #9.5.*Learn more about the Rebel Wayfarers in the books currently available in the series, and be sure to put upcoming titles on your "need to have" list! Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5), Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), Bones (book #10), Fury (book #11), and Cassie (book #12).

Fate is a fickle mistress. No matter a man's desires, she tends to give with one hand, and take with the other. Good or bad, it doesn't matter to her, as long as there's balance.Ralph Lewis, otherwise known as Po'Boy, made one decision that changed the trajectory of his entire life. On the losing end of a schoolyard fight, he'd been on his back in the dust, glaring up at the boy who'd flattened him. Had watched unbelieving as that same boy stretched out his hand, offering to help Ralph to his feet. Against every instinct, he had accepted.In that instant, he went from friendless pariah to having a partner and ally. For the first time in his life, he was respected... and feared. Po'Boy spent the next decade defending his position at his best friend's side. Life was good. Fate has a way of taking back the reins, though.A long-ago action places him directly in the crosshairs of their enemies, and circumstances force Po'Boy's hand. Members of motorcycle clubs, men like him who live an outlaw's life don't treat kindly with traitors, and in their world, that is what Po'Boy has become.With events threatening to pull him away from everything he holds dear, he's made to walk a careful line to keep those he loves safe. Bound by silence, for his brothers' sake, he'll suffer through the worst thing that can happen to a man who lives and breathes the brotherhood. Out Bad.*Please note this book is part of the Neither This, Nor That MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: This is the Route of Twisted Pain (book #1), Treading the Traitor's Path: Out Bad (book #2), Shelter My Heart (book #3), and Trapped by Fate on Reckless Roads (book #4), Tarnished Lies and Dead Ends (book #5).

Meet Jase Spencer. He's just your everyday kinda guy, a hard-partying, hard-living professional hockey player. Nothin' special.Good-looking and ripped, the man has moves, on and off the ice. But, he's also jaded and alone, and tired of living out of suitcases.For as long as he can remember, hockey has ruled his life. He's chased pucks across more than a dozen countries, and had his pick of women in any town he visits.Then he met HER. And now, he's about to turn his life upside down because of HER. Because he can't get the one night of passion he shared with a smokin' hot biker babe out of his head. Unfortunately, DeeDee wasn't interested in anything long term, and she's gone before he's ready.Life becomes complicated and difficult when Jase is traded to another team, and as he tries to settle in his new hometown, everything seems to conspire against him, determined to go wrong.Dancing around their mutual attraction, one day he and DeeDee find themselves face-to-face and body-to-body, but will they be able to set aside their past pain and focus on the future they could make together? Can he make her reconsider her relationship fears and trust him?Jase is on a mission to show her what they have together is worth fighting for, to convince her to take a chance on him. His attempts will bring him squarely into the path of a motorcycle club, earning him the attention of Mason, president of the Rebel Wayfarers MC.Jase says, "Bring it on."You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky*Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5), Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), Bones (book #10), Fury (book #11), and Cassie (book #12).

Andrew Jones grew up in a small town in Wyoming, and as a teen watched his family implode following his father's death. Driven by the need to provide for his little brother and remaining family, he begins looking for work, restlessly traveling from job to job on his Indian motorcycle, looking for something he cannot define.Meeting Davis Mason, President of the Rebel Wayfarers MC in Chicago is a central point in his life. Andy earns the name Slate, and over the following years gradually assumes the persona as first a prospect into Mason's MC, then as a full patch member. He has finally found the brotherhood he longed for, a sense of connection and belonging...a family and home. The only thing missing from Slate's life is a woman who can love him...all of him. He finds his match in a daughter of the MC, and his dreams become filled with silent smiles, unruly red hair, and her soft curves. She's wary and afraid, having been hurt in the past, but Slate works to gain her trust, slowly building something between them. Just as their relationship begins to grow, ghosts from their previous lives threaten to ruin everything. His brother comes to town, bringing his band and his own brand of troubles. Slate watches helplessly as events conspire to put the woman he loves in grave danger. Can he save his woman from the dangers brought to her doorstep by the past, or will she and their love be a casualty of conflict within the club.*Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5). Upcoming titles in the series include: Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), and Bones (book #10).

Shattered following a devastating betrayal that results in the death of his friends, Lane Robinson finds himself in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a world away from his previous life as a Marine. Robinson is trying to forget the past, but healing from the deadly deceit that cut blood deep is hard, and memories of that treachery taint every interaction in his life. He misses the comradery and bond he had with his brothers in arms, and now can't help but view everyone around him with mistrust and suspicion.Robinson meets a member of the Rebel Wayfarers motorcycle club, and with an introduction into the biker's circle of friends, he finds that elusive sense of home that has been missing from his life for too long. Initiated into the club and now called Gunny, Robinson buries himself in his new life as a Rebel member.Secure within his newfound family, Gunny fills his days with solitary work and finds he possesses a gift for motorcycle restoration, forming a career out of this exacting passion. Trying to leave behind the man he was before the club, unfortunately his feelings of cynicism aren't so easy to set aside. Even within the club, surrounded by members he readily calls brother, he grants his trust to only a few. One of those is Davis Mason, national president, and a man he is proud to call friend.Into this meticulously constructed life dances Sharon Elkins, the one woman who seems to possess the ability to tear down the walls he has spent so long building. She is the first person who sees beyond his surface façade, the first he's let get close in so long...can he trust the emotions she stirs in his soul?As she becomes an ever more important part of his world, darkness from their former lives collides in a dangerous cascade of conspiracy and schemes. Can he protect the woman he has come to love, and will they be able to fight their way clear of the chaos that threatens to entrap them?"These towering walls you have built to protect your heart do nothing more than imprison your spirit." - Dean Jackson*Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5). Upcoming titles in the series include: Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), and Bones (book #10).

What thoughts go through the mind of a psychopath when they know they're about to die? Is it a gloating recitation of favored successes, or an internal rendition of failures? For Ray Nelms, the peace knowing his pain is about to end grants him insight into how he became the monster he hated.***Ray Nelms wasn't born a monster. He had a fairly banal young childhood in West Texas, trailing around after the older brother he idolized. Ray didn't enter the world evil. No. He was made that way.A character warped at the hands of his father, a young Ray was guided on the first tentative steps down the path of darkness in an effort to save his brother. Reuben was everything good in the world, and Ray desperately wanted him to stay that way.Through the years, the wicked machinations of his paternal mentor branded twisted trails into Ray's psyche, leaving him always searching for the next intoxicating high.Only Ray's addiction wasn't borne on illicit drugs. It came from a place deep inside him, where the blackness clamored for violence and blood.Through the years, he kept it fed very well.This is the tale of how it finally came to an end.Abbreviation map:RWMC - Rebel Wayfarers MCFRMC - Freed Riders MC

Mad Dawg is practically obsessed with his business neighbor, Elodie Forrester, the woman who owns the yoga studio next to his bike shop. He can't get her out of his mind, and hopes it's the same on her side. She does visit, mostly when loud bikes interrupt her yoga classes, but a visit is a visit, right? He's pretty sure she flirts with him, too. Pretty sure. Mostly sure.Elodie isn't mad when a gorgeous biker opens a shop next to her yoga studio. Watching him walk from his bike to his door is her daily secret pleasure. And Mad Dawg is courteous about the quiet hours needed for the classes. Mostly. The problem is he doesn't seem to return her interest. Bummer.Things between them start to heat up, as past miscommunications are sorted out. Can the rough and tumble biker convince the graceful and calm yogi their lives should be intertwined in a way that's lasting?

Graeme "Horse" Nass is happy with where he stands in life. Enforcer for the Freed Riders, a position which demands respect from members of his club and outsiders, the role allows him to hold firm against all comers. It's rewarding, feeding his soul in its own way, and he gives it back to the club with everything inside him. Joining the club had been a watershed moment in his life, a point in time where his morality and beliefs swung freefall over a chasm of doubt, but he's come out the other side of the crucible stronger.The only thing missing from his life is a woman willing to put up with the aggravation that comes with being in the center of all club business-good and bad. He's about given up on that desire, until he meets Glenna. She's a tiny, feisty whirlwind of a woman who blows into his life and turns everything upside down with her humor and biting wit. Pair her smarts with the stunning beauty of the woman, and what man alive would pass up on a piece of that?Horse has taken the bait, hook, line, and sinker, but the joke's on her, because what they're about to go through will tie her to him just as tightly.

Sexy as hell chef. Rough and ready biker. Controlling and determined ... Dom?What happens when we begin living out our dreams? Are you brave enough to push past society's barriers to see who you are? Kevin Hartley is, and he's willing to take us along on his path of discovery, promising to grant glimpses into secret worlds.Road Runner's Ride was first published as an 18-installment serial sent out in my emailed newsletter. This version is greatly expanded, and I hope everyone enjoys seeing even more of Kevin and his Aurelie. Goose's story cried out to be told, and a one-sided short featuring Kris Clarke and Francine was originally published in one of the Biker Chicks anthology books. This version is expanded, too. Hope you enjoy this small window into his part of the RWMC.

Get ready for dancing, dining, and dunkings, because when you open your door on Christmas Eve to see Santa on your front porch, what else do you do?Meet Peter Teravest, also known as Truck, a nomad biker who finds himself sitting in the Florida panhandle alone one Christmas Eve. Truck has seen challenges in his life, and made his way out the other side with the help of his brothers in the Rebel Wayfarers MC. Ready to start a new chapter, he's purchased a home sight-unseen, and arrives a day ahead of schedule and in a bind. Cue Vanna Reicht, his nearest neighbor who just happens to have friends in common with Truck. They share a meal, chatting and talking like long-lost friends. It's late. It's Christmas Eve. It's also comfortable, sweet, and oh-so complicated. In the series timeline, this story sits alongside Watcher, book #9.

Love will find a way, and for Brute and Bexley it comes to life standing under the bright lights of a grocery store aisle. 'A Kiss to Keep You' is a short, sweet, happily ever after story that you are going to adore.Richard Monte had it all. A satisfying career in the military, where he took pride in serving his country. He had close friends, good ones, and a goddaughter he doted on. His life was filled with riches, and looked to stay that way for the foreseeable future. All of that was stripped away in an instant, destroyed along with his face in the flash and explosion of a roadside bomb. Struggling to find his way in a new world, one where his very appearance is cause for fear and dismay, he stumbles upon a woman who seems to see beyond the surface, a curvy blonde named Bexley. Her reaction to him is so different, and she offers him an unexpected taste of beauty from her sweetly upturned lips. They seem destined to be together, but a rising danger in a far western state threatens everything he's worked to build. Not without her own demons, Bexley has to fight overwhelming odds to hold onto the man she's come to love.

Watcher is known in the MC community as a man with strong beliefs. His sense of honor has been built in him from childhood, forged in the mountains of Kentucky, rooted there by family and circumstance. In the ever-changing world of outlaws, he's made a place for himself, winning a seat at the table for negotiations and decisions that impact not only his club, but those around him. Powerful men ask for his counsel, revealing a trust and respect that can only be earned. His family loves and supports him, too, and he protects his wife and children with a fierceness that consumes. Enemies loom on the horizon, because for every man he calls brother, there are those who would take everything from him.Full description: Michael Otey learned early in life that people outside the ranks of family and close friends were not to be trusted. They were the kind of folks who would use you right up, betraying and throwing you away once your usefulness was exhausted. At sixteen, life nearly derailed in a moment of rage, he was presented with two impossible choices. He selected a track, prayed it was the right one, and set foot on the path of honor, because even at such a young age, he knew honor mattered.Almost immediately things started looking up in his life. The Army molded him into a soldier, giving him no choice but to excel. Through years of service, the men in his unit forced him to become a leader, moving him to that role by demonstrating with every action that they believed he was trustworthy. Brothers in arms. That was when death and destruction once again rocked his world, forcing another impossible choice. Pierced through with a thirst for vengeance, raging and alone, he gravitated towards the kind of men who shared his feelings. Hard men, but ones filled with an unshakable sense of honor. Members of a motorcycle club who were not afraid to wreak devastation in support of the found family they shared. The Outriders MC. Brothers in spirit.To escape the ghosts haunting them both, his older brother had launched his own club, filled with veterans and soldiers. His brother's stories about his members set up a longing deep inside him, and Mike found himself reaching towards the forgiveness and peace his brother had found. But, in an atmosphere drowning in blood and hate, peace was hard to find. Determined to start fresh, it wasn't long before Mike, now known as Watcher, followed his brother west, finding a true home as a Southern Soldiers. Brothers in truth.Then, on what should have been a routine run into Old Mexico, Watcher was confronted by both loss and hope. He saved a doe-eyed beauty from a life branded by pain, but in turn lost the last close link to his family. In her it seemed he found a reason for carrying on, even perhaps a chance at love. As he rebuilt his life, he vowed to keep her safe and the club strong, promising to protect everything that mattered. Brothers. Family. Honor. To do that, Watcher would need to open long-tattered connections to Kentucky, reaching far into his pain-filled past and calling on Davis Mason and the Rebel Wayfarers MC

Reuben Nelms worked his entire life to pull away from a family legacy of horror and pain. Returning to his West Texas hometown for the first time in more than a decade, he still finds himself confronted by and fighting ghosts from his past. Treading alongside the remembered fear and regret surrounding him walks a temptation, Brenda Calloway, the woman he left behind.Will their second chance love take root and grow in the dry deserts of West Texas? What does this mean for his brothers in the Rebel Wayfarers MC? Can Duck put aside the man he's become, sloughing off the brotherhood and leaving that behind to become Reuben again, or can he pick up the pieces of his teenage love and still continue his life in Chicago as a member of the Rebel Wayfarers MC?Full description: Reuben Nelms has worked hard all his life. First to escape the West Texas town where he grew up, then to negate the legacy of his family. One of his worst regrets was failing to protect a young woman from evil dealt by his blood brother. For years afterwards, he watched and protected her from the shadows, most comfortable in that faceless role.Now known by his road name, Duck feels he's finally found redemption in watching that woman blossom and grow, sheltered by her association with his brothers by choice, the Rebel Wayfarers motorcycle club. Things were settled, predictable, until a desperate call from home sets him scrambling and he is back front and center, home again in West Texas, finding himself confronted daily with reminders of his horrific family heritage.Treading alongside the remembered fear and regret surrounding him walks a temptation, Brenda Calloway, the hometown woman he left behind. The efficient business manager of the cattle company he inherited from his father, his childhood friend is now a widow. More beautiful than ever, she's a single parent with a secret, unaware of the power she still wields over Reuben's heart.Will their second chance love be able to take root and grow in the dry deserts of West Texas? Can Duck put aside the man he's become, sloughing off the brotherhood and leaving that behind to become Reuben again, or will he be able to pick up the pieces of his teenage love and still continue his life in Chicago as a member of the Rebel Wayfarers MC?"Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."- Gabriel Garcia Marque

Davis Mason grew up dirt-floor poor in the rolling hills of rural Kentucky, escaping that life only to find himself adrift on the hard streets of Chicago in his teens. Determined to never again feel the sting of poverty and hunger, he is willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure he has enough power and money to make that happen.Introduced to what seemed a perfect brotherhood within a motorcycle club, Mason is shaped and honed into a deadly weapon by their sadistic president. As he slowly works his way up the ranks to gain control of the club, he's resolved to make it better...stronger, able to withstand any challenge.Betrayed by his bloodline, he cuts all ties with family and begins the process of building a new one. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the club he destroyed, he founds the Rebel Wayfarers MC and surrounds himself with loyal, trustworthy brothers. Mason throws himself headlong into the hard job of making certain his brothers have everything needed for themselves and their families, and he works to balance those needs within both the well-mannered citizen world of business, and with the anything-goes biker world of the MC.Flirting with happiness time and again, just when Mason believes it's finally within his grasp, he's torn between what he wants...and what he knows he should do. He finally has the security and family he's always wanted, but will Mason ever find the love and passion he craves?"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw." - Nelsen Mandela*Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5), Mason (book #6). Upcoming titles in the series include: Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), and Bones (book #10).

Raised in a hellhole echoing with the sounds of conflict, Bones most profound childhood memory is of the day he died. Decades later, he has built an empire where he is king. His brothers have his back, and life is good. So good, he doesn't realize what's missing until he meets her. Ester seems to be the one woman capable of looking beyond his mask and seeing ... him.Full description: Salvador Ramos' world was upended the day before he turned twelve. The stick-thin son of a small-time drug king, his demand for justice fell on deaf ears, and the identity of his sister's killer remained a mystery. From that day forwards, Sal vowed he would never forget how it felt to be powerless.Now he's ready to make good on that promise. Positioned as one of the dominant outlaws in Chicago, he deals from a place of strength and power, leveraging fear as a weapon. He is a leader among men, having honed loyalty through harsh lessons, and earned trusted friendships until none can stand against him. He is Bones.Bones. A man who looks like a monster. Covered in tattoos, black and grey, with hardly any inch of skin left bare. A hundred different sigils and symbols on each arm, ink crawled up his neck like the collar of a closely fitted shirt. Black and colored ropes of pictures disappeared underneath his shirt. Strong hands, with muscles that danced beneath the images as he moved. Bones wore his skin like a shield, a barrier to hold at bay those who wouldn't put in the time to know who he is. Who didn't care enough to learn about the man behind the bars written on his skin. The ink as isolating as any jail cell unless you held the key.Ester has been on her own since she was ten. She spent much of that time on the run from her own fears, failing to escape from the demons in her mind. Her life on the fringe of society has given her a unique perspective on humanity, and a cautious but abiding curiosity about the nature of people. She sees pain and terror everywhere, except when she looks at him. Bones alone helps relieve the piercing agony of her thoughts.He should be frightening to a woman like her. But he wasn't. He isn't

Isaiah Rogers grew up on his family farm in Alabama. Loved by his family, he's a country boy at heart, a southern gentleman by raising.The path to northern Indiana was twisted and long, but this sensitive man found a comfortable niche as a member of the Rebel Wayfarers, vice-president of their affluent and growing Fort Wayne chapter. Hoss, as he's now known, retains pieces of the boy from rural Alabama, but life in the club has hardened him, driving home the message time and again that love isn't safe.Hope Collins also grew up in Alabama, but their histories could not be more different.An ill-timed youthful rebellion came with long-lasting consequences. It's then she finds she's not an only child after all, her father holding up her half-sister's failures as a painful lesson before closing the door of her childhood home in her face.Hoss and Hope's paths collide when she travels to Fort Wayne, to meet the sister she had gone most of her life without knowing about. For Hoss, from the first moment he laid eyes on her, the truth and beauty inside her called to him. Now he will have to find a way to win the woman's trust and love, while navigating the dangerous currents swirling around the club."The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." Bob Marley

With My Whole Heart is a complicated story about family.Jaime's a young, single mother who is trying to make ends meet, feeling like she's always waging an uphill battle to make sure she and her son are housed, fed, and healthy. Connor's designed his life to stay too busy for relationships.How complicated is it?She's his big brother's surrogate, and he's the sperm donor. How in the hell would this ever work? Connor didn't know, but he was determined to convince the feisty little blonde to take a chance on him. What he didn't realize was it meant taking a chance on himself, too.Standalone romance certain to melt your heart!

Einstein won''t allow himself to believe in fate. His wife and daughter had deserved more than three wizened crones cutting short the fabric of their existence. Fate has nothing to do with the holes in his heart and life. No, those are due entirely to a world he tries to keep in his past. Tries and fails-and now all he has is cold granite to embrace. As the only nomad for the BBMC, he takes pride in policing all potential threats to the club that has become his home and family. That includes the unwelcome, trespassing shadows from his past.Marian Threadgill still hasn''t become accustomed to her new life. After years spent resigning herself to living as a broken prisoner in her childhood home, she found liberation in the form of unconventional champions: rough-and-tumble bikers who proved to her how deceiving appearances could be. In the months following her rescue, she''s developed a strong sense of loyalty to the men who wear black leather and ride steel steeds. She''s vowed to herself to defend them against all comers, even threats larger than they might seem.As danger once again darkens her world, Marian is thrust into an unfamiliar role. She''s never seen herself as anything other than an underdog until Einstein demands so much more.

The fourth installment in the Mayhan Bucklers MC romance series. A charming tale of love and acceptance in a steamy-sweet May / December MM romance storyBrian "Brain" Nelson has been in the MBMC since Oscar and Kirby recruited him for the resurrected club. Like so many of the members, Brain struggles with demons left from his time in the military. His PTSD and traumatic brain injury symptoms are relentless and plague every aspect of his life with anger, taunting flashes of forgotten moments, and despair.Clark Donaldson is an old-timer, a member of the original Mayhan Bucklers MC founded by Kirby''s and Oscar''s grandfather in the aftermath of the brutal Vietnam War. Old Boots has got a thing or two to teach these cherries who want to think they''ve invented the strain and pain of life after the service.Brain might be an FNG when it comes to the club, but he''s got a lesson or two for Old Boots, too. Welcome to charm school, old man.

Pain and anguish dominated Myrtle''s life. Forced to take things into her own hands, she disappeared into the Kentucky mountains, shrouded in darkness with only the little she could squeeze inside a bag. Days-and hundreds of miles-later, in a different kind of tough spot, Myrt finds herself rescued by a woman who seems too good to be true. Ignoring Myrt''s bruising and desperation, Vanna offers both a place to stay and a hand up.Slowly settling into her new, charmed life, Myrt is rocked when a van rolls to a stop in the front drive and out steps a stranger. Dark and rough on the outside, he still makes Myrt feel safer than she''s been in years. Could she offer her trust to such a man? Her heart?Bane, taking on increased responsibilities with the Freed Riders MC out of Northeast Texas, rides to the rescue for the family of an officer with a friendly club. Delivering them safely to Baker, Florida-a dead-ass town in a no man''s land strip of the Gulf coast-is no trouble at all. Until his relaxing ride runs smack into the most perfect woman he''s ever seen. Now he hungers to wrap Myrt up safe in his arms.Myrt, a woman under the protection of that same friendly club that was the reason he was in the area in the first place.Well, this is gonna be fun.