I drove through the night to get back here, not only for Boomer’s party, but to check on Caroline. The information on this guy we got back has me on edge. She is here, safe tonight, so I can relax for the moment.
The alcohol buzzing through my system, I tease her. “It was a long ride. A ride that brought me right here to you, Lux.”
~The End~
Until The Next Ride…
The Desert Ghosts MC, Thorn, Preacher, and Shep are used with permission from Author Theresa Marguerite Hewitt. Look for Ricochet, book one of her new series coming soon.
The Savage Outlaws MC, Bowie, Tin Man, Lock, and Shay are used with permission from Author Emily Minton. Be on the lookout for Beautiful Outlaw, book one of her new series coming November 2014.
Lucas Young used with permission from author Jessie Lane. Meet Lucas Young and team in Secret Maneuvers available now through all major retailers. Be on the lookout for more Ice, Hammer, and Young in Stripping Her Defenses coming November 4, 2014.
The Regulators MC series co-written by Chelsea Camaron and Jessie Lane will be coming to you December 2014 in the first book titled Ice.
Chelsea Camaron was born and raised in Coastal North Carolina. She currently resides in Southern Louisiana with her husband and two children but her heart is always Carolina day dreaming.
Chelsea always wanted to be a writer, but like most of us, let fear of the unknown grab a hold of her dream; she realized that if she was going to tell her daughter to go for her dreams, that it was time to follow her own advice.
Chelsea grew up turning wrenches alongside her father, and from that grew her love for old muscle cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles, which just so happened to inspired her ‘Love and Repair’ and ‘The Hellions Ride’ series.
When she is not spending her days writing you can find her playing with her kids, attending car shows, going on motorcycle rides on the back of her husband’s Harley, snuggling down with her new favorite book or watching any movie that Vin Diesel might happen to be in. She hates being serious and is still a big kid at heart. She is a small town country girl enjoying life. The sky is the limit, reach for the stars.
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~Coming Soon~
Kale, The Fire Inside Series Book 1, co-written with Author Theresa Marguerite Hewitt ~October 2014~
Ice, Regulators MC Book 1, co-written with Author Jessie Lane ~December 2014~
Innocent Ride, The Hellions Ride Book 4 ~January 2015~
One Ride
The Hellions Ride
book 1
Content with living in the bubble of safety the Haywood’s Hellions Motorcycle Club has always provided, Delilah ‘Doll’ Reklinger never gave a second thought to any danger surrounding her.
She’s never imagined her life without the club. She also never thought the day would come a man would come along and prove himself worthy enough to her father, Roundman, Hellions Club President. Life was easy going and carefree.
Roundman has kept the chaos surrounding the Hellions contained for the last thirty years. When the dangerous side to their business comes knocking on his only child’s doorstep, he realizes his precious Doll isn’t safe anymore.
The Hellions code may be control the chaos, but one thing Roundman quickly learns there is always the wild card to stir up trouble. For the Hellions, women and children may be off limits in any altercation or dispute, but that doesn’t mean their enemies follow the same moral compass.
With Doll in danger from the association she has with him and his club, Roundman makes the only decision he feels he can- send her away. Calling on the one charter club president he trusts, he sets up a ride to keep her safe, all in hopes the trouble won’t follow.
One Ride. One simple ride across the country.
Talon ‘Tripp’ Crews has been ordered to take Doll on one ride away from the danger while the club handles the threat. She’s off limits. His head knows this, but his body can’t deny the attraction. She’s feisty, fierce, and fearless. He’s never been one to be tied down. He lives for the next ride.
Constantly in close confines together, can they deny the chemistry? Will they give in to the desire? Can one ride turn lust into love?
Forever Ride
The Hellions Ride
Book 2
Often times the people who come across as the strongest can be the weakest underneath it all.
Events happen in life that can awaken our truest and deepest desires. They also show us our greatest fears. Sometimes we are forced to face those fears, other times we build walls that can’t be climbed or broken to protect ourselves.
A profound connection these two once shared, a strong friendship once formed is now shattered. Fate has stepped in and shaken both their worlds.
The danger, the wild, the chaos, and the lifestyle of the Hellions world has become far too much for Savannah ‘Sass’ Perchton. Swearing off bikers and attempting a ‘normal life’, she has settled. She pushes away her old life, her old self. She is trying to fit into a mold, to be everything she never was.
Things aren’t always what they seem. Wrap an empty box in pretty paper, tie it off with a bow- it may look amazing, but it’s still just a hollow shell.
He is a playboy. A different chick in his bed, off on a different ride, and always chasing something new. Frank ‘Tank’ Oleander, Haywood’s Hellions Road Chief will give anything for his club, including his life.
Throttle down, ride it out.
The fast pace of the Hellions life catches up to him. At a crossroads he is forced to face some life changing thoughts or succumb to the darkness of death. Teetering on the brink of giving in, her voice is all he is holding onto. The coma he can’t come out of is full of the memories he can’t let go of. She’s the light in the darkness.
She has left behind everything she has ever known chasing stability. His life literally hangs in the balance. Can she see beyond the chaos to the man behind the cut? Can he pull through?
Will they find their Forever Ride?
The Love and Repair Series
The Love and Repair series is a set of novellas that will take you on a journey through the ups and downs life can throw at you. Each of these five different couples will take you on a ride full of twists and turns that only love can repair.
The journey begins with our beloved, Dina, in Crash and Burn. This is a story of loss, a story of overcoming, and moving forward. Dina is learning how to continue living after the devastating loss of both of her parents. Michael comes along and slowly pulls her into a dark and lonely world with him. Can she see the light again and work her way out before he hurts her worse?
Broken, battered, lost, and ashamed, Dina pulls her life together once again. This time she’s gun shy to give into her attraction so easily. Ryder Davenport has waited patiently for Dina to feel strong again. He’s stood back, in the shadows, observing the damage a man can do to a woman’s mind, body, and spirit. He changes his playboy ways, all in hopes of being the one to claim Dina’s heart. Restore My Heart is a story of rebuilding, learning to trust again, and the ability to love again. Can Dina find it in her to love and trust a man again?
In the first two books we meet Maggie. Following her early days with Brayden in Crash and Burn we learn these two have a strong sexual attraction to one another. We watch them have what is seemingly a strong and beautiful relationship for four years in Restore My Heart. They are the couple to set your standard to. Maggie is ready to commit her life to Brayden. In Salvaged, we learn, Brayden has secrets. Big secrets. Life changing secrets. He has messed up, and left Maggie to deal with the aftermath of his many mistakes. This is a journey of forgiveness and unconditional love. Can Brayden face his demons and fix himself?
Can Maggie forgive his transgressions and accept his struggles as her own? Can their relationship be Salvaged?
Jake, an Army reservist, works hard, plays hard, and loves hard. When Jake is not serving his country as a soldier, he works for Ryder. He’s been with his one love for nine years. He’s happy, he’s comfortable. Never one that has considered marriage, he’s thrown off by his own thoughts on his future with Kenna. Every little girl dreams of the day she wears the gown, says the vows, and dances with her Daddy. Kenna is no different. Jake has been up front with her, marriage is off the table. Watching their closest friends have what she wants so desperately, a crack forms in their once solid foundation. This is a story of commitment, communication, and lifelong love. Can they sort through Jake’s past? Can Kenna give up her childhood dreams and settle for the life she has with Jake? Will they find a way to move Full Throttle into their future together or does it all fall apart?
All along the way, things seem Beyond Repair for Tiffany and Harrison. A spoiled, southern belle, Tiffany doesn’t know how to be anything more than the country club snob her father raised her to be. Love is blind, Harrison doesn’t see beyond the façade Tiffany puts on. When she spouts off at the mouth, all is lost. Harrison moves to Charlotte and begins his life. Two years pass, he’s in an arrangement with Sophia. He’s settled, and he’s content. Tiffany comes with heavy news for Harrison and his family. Her presence stirs old memories. They’ve had no closure. Sophia, unable to give her heart to Harrison, feels there is unfinished business between her lover and his ex. Knowing she can’t give him what he wants, she lets him go. This is a journey of understanding, unconditional love, support, and friendship. Can Tiffany and Harrison rebuild once he’s free? Are things really Beyond Repair for these two?
Sophia has a past, one that has Stalled her life. She’s waiting patiently. Her heart belongs to one person and she’s remained firm to this for years, fourteen years to be exact. Trenton has never been able to forgive himself for what his father did to Sophia. His dad, now gone, Trenton leaves Texas to find Sophia. He wants to give her what her heart desires most. This is a journey of love, time, and bonds that can’t be broken. When he shows up at her doorstep, can she forgive? Will she forever be Stalled and bound by her past?
All books in the Love and Repair series are now available on Amazon. Restore My Heart, Salvaged, Full Throttle, and Beyond Repair are all available on Smashwords and Barnes and Noble as well.
Stripping Her Defenses Excerpt by Jessie Lane
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Riley
Sitting in the meeting room of the Ex Ops headquarters with my teammates, I watched as Jaxon walked in with a large bag and shut the door behind himself. He stopped at the head of the table, dropped the bag onto the floor, and picked up a file that had already been sitting there. Walking over to the dry erase board behind him, he quickly taped up two pictures. One was of Laura Moore; smiling, carefree, and very much alive. The second was Laura’s dead body in the morgue.
From the corner of my eye, I saw Baker tense up. A few of the other guys in the room shifted uneasily, as well. I figured they were probably thinking the same thing I was. Laura’s picture was a grim reminder of how close Baker had come to losing his fiancée, Annabelle.
Jaxon turned around to face us, somber but determined. “Last night I was given the green light by Uncle Sam to pursue a lead that could tie to Ms. Moore’s kidnapping, torture, rape, and eventual death. We’re going over details today so we can head out tomorrow. I don’t think I need to explain why this mission is important.”
Fuck no, he didn’t need to explain. There wasn’t a man sitting at this table who hadn’t been horrified when finding Laura with Annabelle and learning what the women had been through while being held captive by Rivera.
We’d gone down to Mexico to save Bobby’s girl from a drug cartel the ATF and our team were investigating for gun trafficking. We had absolutely no idea that a sex slave ring was involved, too, until we’d seen poor Laura. Emaciated, bruised, and bloody. Obviously broken on the inside and the out. She’d been reduced to a terrified shell instead of the warm, vibrant human being her sister had spoken of.
No one with a sliver of a good soul would lay a finger on a woman in such a manner. My parents might have died while Declan and I had still been young; but, at ten, I’d been old enough to learn from my father that women were precious. You handled them with care and protected them from the dangers of the world.
The men who had taken Laura and broken her weren’t men; they were monsters. I planned to track every single one of them and put them down like the vicious animals they had become. Only it wouldn’t be a sterile, comforting euthanization. No, I wanted their deaths to hurt in the most unimaginable ways. Those bastards could start their trip to Hell feeling every bit of the pain they’d inflicted on others first.
We’d all promised Baker’s girl we would do our best to get the assholes who had led poor Laura to her death in Mexico. Of course, all of us would have promised her anything and everything to keep her calm and happy these days. Her health was of the utmost importance, not only to Baker, but to all of us. I didn’t think any of us would be forgetting what she’d looked like cut up, with a bullet hole, and covered in blood, damn near dead in Mexico.
Annabelle had been beside herself with the traumatic loss of her fellow captive, who had died right in front of her during our botched rescue mission. It was something I knew was going to haunt the tough, little ATF Agent for the rest of her days. It was never easy seeing someone killed right in front of you, but given the extenuating circumstances the two women had endured together, Annabelle had been extremely traumatized.
In fact, she’d been so upset that we’d had to bring Ms. Moore’s body back with us in the choppers to the States just to help keep Annabelle calm enough to get her to the San Antonio hospital that would ultimately save her life. It had also unknowingly saved the life of Baker’s unborn little girl.
The guilt that she’d been kidnapped right in front of us by the Rivera Cartel, and we’d missed it, had driven most of us to spend a lot of time at Baker’s place. I thought the entire team often felt the need to see with our own eyes that she was alive and okay. Thankfully, after everything that had happened, it was the truth.
She was currently on leave from the ATF, something her agency had insisted on since she was five months pregnant and considered a high risk due to her injuries from being kidnapped and tortured. Besides that, Annabelle and Seth both seemed happy living with Baker here in Virginia. From what Baker had said, she’d even been okay with the fact that he was about to bug out with us.
I could imagine many insanely hormonal pregnant women would have had a shit fit if they’d found out their fiancé was leaving for a job right after they’d moved in together, but not Baker’s woman. He’d told us that she’d asked one thing of them all and one thing only: find out whoever was responsible for the kidnapping, torture, rape, and auctioning of Laura. The team was all onboard for that. If it was what brought Annabelle some peace, we’d find those assholes and shut them down.
The initial investigation had involved contacting Laura’s only living relative, her sister Jessica Moore. They’d had to notify her of Laura’s death while also trying to find out whatever she might know about her sister’s life here in Miami. Unfortunately, Jessica could only give us a few details about Laura, due to her sister’s vagabond lifestyle. She had been able to point us in the direction of the strip clubs. It wasn’t a lot, but it had been better than nothing.
Watching Jaxon drop the paperwork he’d had rolled up in his hand on the table, I noted that he seemed on edge, as if ready to spring into action. Hopefully this meant whatever new intelligence he had was going to lead us to the fuckers we were all anxious to bury eight feet deep.
“And the reason I was given the green light by U
ncle Sam is because last night Lucas received a call from one of his former teammates with the first credible tip we’ve received in months. Apparently, Lucas has some very interesting friends.”
Picking up the black duffle bag up off the floor, Jaxon dropped it on top of the table in front of him and then undid the zipper. Reaching in he pulled out what looked to be black leather, unfolding the material in front of us until we were looking at the back of what resembled a vest with different patches sewn on. The biggest patch was in the middle of the back and was an insignia of an eagle with a sword held in its talons and two small letters “MC” off to the side. Above that was a curved patch that said “REGULATORS” and below the eagle was another curved patch that said “FLORIDA”, all in red letters.
While I didn’t ride motorcycles, or grow up anywhere near that sub culture, I’d been around the world enough to know that was a cut to a motorcycle club. Just what exactly were we getting’ into here?
"Boys, Young took it upon himself to do some digging. While I don't usually condone that sort of lone wolf behavior-" Jaxon paused to give Lucas a glare, "BECAUSE WE'RE A TEAM – this time I have to admit that it paid off. Apparently, one of Young's old teammates joined a group of bikers when he got out of the Army. They're known as the Regulators. Young's contact, Ethan 'Hammer' McCoy, is the motorcycle club's Sergeant At Arms. Young asked him if they know anything about missing women in Florida and it turns out they've got their finger on that pulse for personal reasons. The women going missing are strippers. Apparently, they own a strip club. So the minute they heard about the second stripper going missing in the south Florida area, they did their best to lock their girls down. That hasn't stopped them from being worried about them, or the situation, though. Hammer spoke with his club president and they've invited us down to their turf to run an undercover operation to look into the matter."
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