Redemption Road

Vicious Cycle Series – Book 2

By Katie Ashley

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of Vicious Cycle plunges readers into a world of danger and desire in her newest in the Vicious Cycle motorcycle club romance series.

 

Looking for a walk on the wild side, Annabel Percy, the daughter of a powerful politician, starts dating a biker she knows is completely wrong for her. But she finds herself living a nightmare when she’s kidnapped and transported into a hell on earth she never could have imagined.

 

Born and bred into the Hells Raiders MC, Nathaniel “Reverend” Malloy lives and dies for his brothers. But when he becomes the unexpected savior of a rival club’s captive, Rev makes it his personal mission to nurse Annabel back to health—and to shelter her from the nightmares that torment her.

 

Once Annabel heals, she’s stunned to realize she is falling for the seductive man who saved her. Faced with their impossible attraction, can she accept the life he leads, or will Rev walk away from the only life he’s ever known for the woman he was never supposed to love?

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Excerpt

With my finger on my gun’s trigger, I started slowly across the marble floor. When I got around the side of the bed, I was met with the sight of a pool of blood and a female body.

“Jesus Christ,” I muttered at the sight of the crumpled form in front of me. Shifting my guns, I dropped to the floor. It was a woman wearing only a man’s white dress shirt. Besides the blood, her body was black and blue with bruises. Someone had done a real number on her. It was obvious she had been left to die.

My hand froze after I’d reached to push the strands of auburn hair out of the girl’s face. Sarah had auburn hair. Was it possible that I had unknowingly found her? Could it be this easy?

“Sarah?” I questioned. “Sarah?” My tone had grown frantic. Her swollen eyelids fluttered at the sound of my voice. “Are you Sarah Edgeway?”

“Annabel,” she whispered.

It felt like a harsh kick to the gut that it wasn’t Sarah. But at the same time, I knew I had to save this girl. Drawing her to me, I slid one of my arms under her back and the other under her legs. When I eased us off the floor, she cried out in pain. “I’m sorry. I’m going to get you help. I promise.”

She surprised me by opening her eyes and gazing up at me. “J-Jesus?” she croaked.

It took me a moment to process that with my unkempt hair and beard I’d made her think of the religious figure. At the hopeful look in her bloodshot eyes, I felt terrible for having to let her down. “No, I’m Rev,” I said lamely.

My words seemed to be of little comfort to her as she grimaced in pain. “Hurts.”

“I know. Stay with me. I’m going to get you out of here.”

When I got to the doorway, I stuck my head out and peered left and right. It appeared to be clear, so I started out of the bed- room. Cradling the girl in my arms made it a little more difficult to make our way through the maze of rooms.

Just as I got to the doorway of the house, the stinging bite of a bullet pierced my left calf. “Motherfucker,” I groaned before whirling around. The moment I saw it wasn’t one of our guys who might’ve shot in mistake, I started firing. I clipped the guy in the shoulder, sending him crashing to the ground.

Throwing open the front door, I waited for any gunfire in response. When everything remained silent, I eased out onto the veranda. Peering into the night, I saw one of the relief vans sitting outside the gates. My left leg dragged slightly behind me as I hustled as fast as I could. I was halfway across the courtyard when an explosion rocketed through the compound, sending me crashing to the ground.

Michel’s Review

Kudo’s for Katie Ashley for delivering another gripping book in the Vicious Cycles series.

Redemption Road picks up where Vicious Cycle left off but can be read as a stand alone novel.  Rev received a call that forced him and his brother Bishop on a rescue mission for Breakneck’s daughter.  A rival club in Texas is involved with kidnapping young women and selling them to a Mexican Cartel for human trafficking.  Not only is this a dangerous mission for Rev personally, it will put the Hell’s Raiders MC in danger not only from the rival MC but also the cartel.  All of that doesn’t matter.  Rev owes Breakneck.  Rev also knows what it’s like to be sexually assaulted and survive.  He’s determined to get Sarah out alive and home to her father.

With the help of the Texas chapter of the Hell’s Raiders they invade the camp where the girls are being held.  Rather than an easy in and out, it turns out to be a real fubar.  Only one girl is rescued.  Only one girl survived.  It was not Breakneck’s daughter.  It was a senator’s daughter, Annabel Percy.

After the rescue Rev has to take Annabel home to Georgia rather than returning her to her family.  She is in grave danger until they are sure Mendoza is dead.  She also needs time to heal physically and mentally.

Her time at the compound will be a healing process for not only herself but for Rev also.  He can finally let go of his childhood nightmares and come clean to his family.  He can leave the past behind and give his heart fully to Annabel.

Annabel and Rev will find redemption in each other’s arms.

I loved this book.  Although it dealt with a violent and horrific subject matter, Katie Ashley handled it with great care.  She allowed the ugliness of the acts be portrayed without using gruesome details that make the reader sick to their stomach and aching hearts.  She implicated enough for it to be very realistic without graphic details of the heinous acts.  The best part of the book was the healing process, the acceptance, and finding that once in a lifetime love.  Well done Katie Ashley!

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 Katie Ashley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author of The Proposition Series, Runaway Train Series, as well as several New Adult and Young Adult titles. Her latest series, Vicious Cycle, has been picked up for publication by Penguin Books.

She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her two very spoiled dogs. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The Golden Girls, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Downton Abbey, Designing Women, and Scooby-Doo. 

With a BA in English, a BS in Secondary English Education, and a Masters in English Education, she spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full time in December 2012.


She is represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel and Goderich Literary Management.

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