Title: The Bare Bones
Author: Layla Wolfe
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 1, 2014
SYNOPSIS
If you ain’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.
The rose-colored illusion of Madison Shellmound’s girlish crush on biker Ford Illuminati is stomped into smithereens by his crude, perverse father Cropper, Bare Bones club President. Fearing Ford will kill Cropper if he finds out, Madison flees town, becoming an upstanding cardiology nurse.
Madison and Ford have an ill-fated, star-crossed love that will last their lifetimes. Ford is a lifer in a different sort of enterprise, the gritty full-throttle club of guns, blood, and allegiance to his brothers.
Twelve years and several tours of SEAL duty later, Ford is thrust back into Madison’s arms on the worst day of his life. Madison’s prospect brother Speed has screwed up big-time and owes the club his life. She offers herself to Cropper as a sacrificial lamb to save Speed.
But how long until the fiery, full-on outlaw Ford discovers that the woman he loves was treated like a degraded slave by his own father? Well, meet the new boss. He’s not the same as the old boss.
BUY LINKS
Amazon - B&N - All Romance
EXCERPT
We fucked a lot in the next two days. Twelve years I’d been
craving that fat, juicy cock inside of me, and now I couldn’t get enough of it.
Ford Illuminati was hung like a racehorse and he knew how to use it, too. My hands were all over that. I had thought I was attracted to Jake but that paled in comparison to the intensity with which I wanted to devour Ford.
Riding one up behind him like in the old high school days,
there was a world of difference now. We were free of all restraints for that glorious forty-eight hours, and Ford took me to see a couple of the vortexes.
We had been on a tour of these several times when we were kids. This time no one brought any weed, and I wanted to suck on that horse cock inside the middle of a vortex.
We had been separated for so long it was like meeting a new
man. The thrill, the illicit excitement of canyon carving through the rusty
layers of sandstone, like red velvet cake tall on either side of us, it was all
new to me again. Now I could thrust my hand along Ford’s pec and toy with the little barbell that pierced his nipple, proud of myself when my other hand felt his cock stiffening. I knew he pretended this irritated him, and he’d reach around, slap my ass, and shake it.
“You’re throwing me off-balance.”
“Your giant erection is throwing you off-balance.”
I wanted to amplify our energies, so we’d climb around
awhile until we felt the highest, most intense amplification of all, and that’s where we’d fuck or give each other head. Ford had learned a lot of tricks in the past decade. Lapping me into a mindless clusterfuck of an orgasm with his talented tongue was apparently one of them. I was still amazed that he could do that.
I finally had to admit I’d never come with a man before.
“Just, you know, with a vibrator.” I didn’t want to mention the shower head in Cottonwood. The horrific memory of that bathroom wall was probably the reason I couldn’t come with another man.
Ford was humble. “Maybe no one ever tried properly.” He lay
stretched out on the sandstone, propped up on one forearm, looking like he was posing for fucking GQ. I loved it when he wore his cut
next to his bare skin, like now. I loved to flick that damned infernal barbell that pierced his nipple with my tongue. It never failed to make him hiss in air and clutch the back of my skull. His new Apache tattoo was fascinating. He seemed to be embracing his Native American heritage instead of shunning it, as most bikers would do.
He had replaced the grimy dog collar around my neck with a
fur-lined leather job that still had a D-ring where a leash could be attached. He had gotten into some kink that was right up my
alley. Right now we were having a little picnic we’d brought, just wine and some salami and cheese and crackers, but he’d left the short leash attached to my collar. It wasn’t safe to ride with it for fear of pulling an Isadora Duncan, but he liked the submissive way it made me look.
And act.
“That’s not true though, Ford. It’s not polite to mention, but plenty of men have tried.”
“Yeah.” He snorted. “Plenty of dickhead doctors.”
Was he referring to Jake? That subject hadn’t come up, so I
ignored it. There was plenty of time for strife later, I knew. There always
was. “No, I mean experienced guys, men who were willing to try for ten minutes or more. I always wound up worrying that they were wearing out their tongue muscles. I’m not kidding, Ford. It got to the point where I didn’t want anyone to even bother trying. Then you come along and blow them all out of the water.”
“Literally.” I could tell he was proud by the shy way he
looked down at the cracker box. He shrugged innocently. “I don’t know what to say.”
“’Thank you’ is a good starter.”
“Thank you.”
REVIEW
My Rating = 3.5 stars
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for my honest review
This was a gritty and shocking MC read. In some parts I had
my mouth wide open catching flies I was that floored.
Maddie and Ford were brought together in their teens when
Ford’s father, Cropper, the president of the Bare Bones MC, shacks up with Maddie’s
mother in a bid to gain some element of ‘normal’ to defer all eyes from the MC.
Not sure how he thought he would achieve this as Maddie’s mother was the local
meth seller, but hey from that point I knew we were in for some eye opening
scenes.
Cropper is, well let’s just say he has issues and the appalling
things he does leads Maddie to leaving home never to return. However after a
timespan of ten years she finds herself back and face to face with Ford again.
The pair can no longer deny what was meant to be but Maddie cannot bring
herself to tell Ford why she had to leave a decade ago.
When you are reading an MC book you expect some element of hard-core
but this book, wow it certainly had that which raised that hard-core bar way
above reach. There was abuse and vomit inducing play but it still had me flicking that kindle button to find out how this was going to end. In fact I
read this in one sitting.
The ending was lovely and I liked that Maddie and Ford got
their HEA but oh my wordy it took a lot of brutality, abuse and a whole lot of
WTFery to get there.
Overall a good read but not a fluffy love story. If you like
it edgy then you will like this. A 3.5 star read for me.
AUTHOR
Layla Wolfe is a wannabe biker's old lady who is satisfied with a leather
jacket, one bad-ass pink camo compound bow, and a vicarious outlaw lifestyle.
Layla has published 25+ erotic romance titles under the name Karen Mercury.
Social Links
GIVEAWAY
Thanks for the insightful review!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Layla - thanks for stopping by x
DeleteThank you for posting and participating in the Book Blitz !! :)
ReplyDelete