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Shield
I’ve been with Kasey forever. She’s the love of my life and the only woman I’d ever make my ol’ lady. Kasey has given me two amazing sons and takes care of all of us better than anyone ever has. Unfortunately, our relationship is stale and has grown old. I’m not sure I want to continue on the road we’ve been travelling for so long now. Can I figure out what I want in my life before it’s too late?
Kasey
Shield is the man I’ve always wanted. Before I knew what love was, I was in love with Shield. He gave me two beautiful sons who I adore, and hope grow up to be the man Shield is. However, things begin to change soon after moving to Cedar Bay. There is no love in our relationship anymore. Shield is always gone letting me know exactly how alone I am. This is not how I want to live my life or have my children grow up; believing it’s okay to simply push your family aside when you get bored.

282 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2024

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2,717 reviews725 followers
January 25, 2025
You know what would have been a happy ending? If the heroine had ended up with the oh so biker from the neighboring gang. Or alone. Or with anyone but the hero.

H is the biggest whiner since I was in second grade. They have two toddlers and life is just the same, sex is just the same. I kept waiting for the BDSM shoe to drop because that's the end all, be all remedy in some romances, but it didn't happen. Of course, I was skimming at 50% since I'd just read the hero say for the 100th time he didn't know what to dooooooo.

Usually not a fan of parents interfering in a relationship, even a fictional one, but I was cheering when the two dads confronted the man baby.
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1,301 reviews169 followers
November 10, 2024
He is beyond weak, it permeates every interaction he has with every character in the story.

And instead of seeing them work through his pathetic issues, we get an info dump in the epilogue. 🤯👿🤯

1.5 ⭐️ rounding down
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4,304 reviews639 followers
April 14, 2024
3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK or decent reads
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Our hero decides that sex with our heroine is boring and starts to move away from her and practically moves into the club. He starts to completely neglect his family and our heroine doesn't understand what is happening.
He completely loses sexual interest in her and hasn't had sex with her for months. On the other hand, he finds another woman attractive and is turned on by interacting with a woman who works at their striper club.
I really think he's a complete idiot who only thought about himself and neglected the feelings of his family who don't understand what's going on.
I didn't buy his change in behavior and I was pissed that he suddenly started calling her sweet girl all the time as if nothing had happened before.
Anyway, I was undecided between 2 and 3 stars, but I decided on 3 because I finished reading.
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54 reviews
November 8, 2024
h is a pushover

The h is totally as a pushover, waiting for the H to return to her, even letting him ignore her and her boys while she’s pregnant. She finds out he wanted to have sex with the OW, yet she doesn’t get mad or make him work to regain her trust. She’s quick to take him back, despite his humiliating comments—not only saying he wanted the OW but also admitting he found sex with h very boring to the point he couldn’t even bear to share a bed with h. There’s very little groveling from him. Plus, his change of heart—from not wanting to be in the same bed to suddenly seeing her as the “sexiest woman in the world”—is abrupt and unconvincing. There’s no real process or self-reflection on his part. This was absolutely a rage-inducing read for me.
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637 reviews81 followers
December 30, 2024
No cheating.

OW drama = delusional OW claimed to be in love with the H and tried to take out the h who was keeping the OW apart from the H (de-lu-lu) Comeuppance? OW gets a beat down by the ole ladies of the MC, driven to the bus station and put on a bus out of town...kind of was hoping for a more permanent solution, but whatevs

Grovel = H lost interest in his life, he found his life to be "stale" and his wife, the h, to be boring, so the H just checked out mentally and physically. h had enough and proceeded on with her life and how to live and exist without the H. Only after the h was in a car accident did the H finally pull his head out of his ass and get back on board with living his life. H groveled by word and deed, but the h forgave easily with not a long time frame that the H had to grovel for. No BBS, thank goodness!!! Was the grovel enough? Eh, I guess, but for all the BS the H out the h through, I would have liked more consequences and honestly, I think the H could relapse.

MC = it's in the background, not a major part of the story

H was such a beta male and so immature. He really annoyed me. The h was strong and not a doormat. She worked very hard to keep her family together and made the sacrifice of her own mental health to make sure those around her were good. The h was a real parent and partner who tried every chance she got to communicate her needs and her issues, but the H was such a snowflake that he would run away without talking. I never got to the point where I had much respect for the H, but I had lots for the h.
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44 reviews
November 7, 2024
Meh. 2.5*
H was an idiot, didn’t seem to particularly give a sh*t about h (wouldn’t even make her his old lady despite being together for so long or marry her despite having 2 kids), seemed like he only changed and tried was because his family, her family and his mc brothers told him he should.
Also, kept hearing how much his kids loved him and how important his kids were when he literally went WEEKS without seeing them.
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1,248 reviews27 followers
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November 11, 2024
So this was a DNF. I got halfway through the book and was getting bored with the repetitive inner monologue and the preaching from everyone in the club. The H pushes the h and his kids away. Says their life is stagnate and boring. I had to read spoilers and find out if I could just DNF and alas I could.
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627 reviews66 followers
December 28, 2024
It's very repetitive. The POV from Anthony/Shield kept going round and round, constantly repeating, "I don't know how to talk to her or tell her how I feel." He never reached a point where he admitted it was just that he didn't want to talk to her about it. He also never had a good answer for any he hadn't made Kasey his ol' lady after so long.

In the end, he didn't address the root of his issues and what the actual barrier was between him and Kasey. Why he was reluctant to fully commit to her, why he didn't want to discuss his dissatisfaction with their marriage. If he'd had some reason for it, like he wasn't sure how she'd react or was afraid she would be disgusted that he wanted freaky sex or something, that would have been understandable. Or if he had a history of avoiding confrontation with Kasey and a tendency to always withdraw whenever he didn't want to talk about stuff. But we are told that they used to be able to talk about anything and everything, so this sudden silence was odd. And since the author never gave us any reason for his behaviour, he's just a weak H. Multiple people in this story called Anthony/Shield a coward, and they were right.

Kasey needed more backbone. I didn't see her really push Anthony to communicate. She seems to just accept his behaviour, up to a point that she decides she won't anymore. And her actions contradict her words. If she didn't want to be involved with the club (because she didn't want the club brothers to start taking sides when her relationship with Anthony/Shield fell apart), then why would she ask the club to financially back her new business? Why not just open her business in the next town, which isn't too far away? She says she wants to stay in town so that Anthony/Shield will have easy access to the children, but it isn't like she'd be taking them across the country.

Also you can't tell us that Kasey is strong and badass and expect us to believe it when she spends the last few chapters of the book crying all the time. She supposedly can fight and shoot and so on, but never once in this book does she ever use any of her so-called skills to protect herself. She doesn't even sock one to OW "because Anthony wouldn't allow me to".

Even just to move out of the home she shared with Anthony/Shield took weeks instead of a decisive and quick action within days. Like, girl. If I had decided I wanted out, I'd be out as soon as possible. And I would not bother to make sure the house was cleaned beforehand and the bedsheets changed. Especially as he hadn't even been stepping foot into the home for weeks. Are you kidding me??? I mean, sure don't trash the house but also why bother to leave him with a sparkling clean house? Who does that???

The whole conflict with the OW (other woman) made no sense. There was no logical reason for the woman to fixate on Shield, especially when he had openly rejected her several times. A lot of loose ends here -- the guy who drove the truck that rammed Kasey's SUV was never identified nor punished; the person helping OW was also never found nor punished (someone had to have let her into the compound during the party, at the last showdown, now that her other accomplice had been removed); OW was only beaten up, not exterminated, so what was to stop her from coming back again?

This was my first book from this author and it will be the last. The dialogue is awkward and the internal monologues were too repetitive. Too many loose ends not tied up and weak characters all round.
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41 reviews1 follower
November 10, 2024
save your money

I wanted to like this book, but I couldn’t and I hardly ever leave reviews. The book was very repetitive and boring.
Hero/Anthony starts distancing himself from his family and states that he is bored with his relationship. h/Amelia is stay at home mom she does everything for her family. Anthony works at strip club and one the strippers develops an unrealistic attachment to him based on nothing.. she honestly flirts with him one time. I honestly don’t condone cheating but I almost wanted him to cheat just have something happen in this book. It was anticlimactic. He says he can’t discuss what his sexual preferences with her are and through the whole book he says he needs to tell her. They finally have their “big talk” and he doesn’t even bring them up he just says something about trying things out in her romance books she reads so you have these needs that took you away from your family but you don’t discuss them when it comes down to it? Which makes me believe in the future it will be a problem. Amelia gets into car accident and he realizes he loves and starts being more present in his family life. The whole was dull and predictable. Also how the dealt with the unhinged stripper was rushed and once again anticlimactic.
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544 reviews17 followers
January 23, 2025
Big disappointment

Not gonna lie, I kinda hated this book. It was repetitive, boring, obvious and rage inducing. The vehicles used to drive the plot were overused and lazy. The two reasons the H had his big epiphany are deplorable and ridiculous. The h is, well, pathetic. The H repeats the same reason over and over and over and it makes no sense - even to him - why he feels this way or why he can seem to talk about it to EVERYONE - including his parents and both his MIL and FIL????? Even after the h overhears him yelling his feelings/reasons to his friend, he still can't speak to her. The H treats the h like absolute trash, ignores her and his KIDS for 2 weeks, ignores her for MUCH longer, won't speak to her, won't even stay at their house, but she takes him back pretty much immediately, even when you think she has found her strength and self worth, it's like 2 minutes later that she's falling all over him. This could have been a great read.
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5 reviews
December 19, 2024
What a tremendous story. The author takes you on a journey that although fiction many children/teens/young adults have as an unfortunate experience in their homes & in the foster care system. Kari’s weaves in the presence of people who demonstrate God’s love and allow Adin (primary character) to process & receive the hope that is in Him. I’m anxious to read what’s next: Tiffani’s Journey.

Kari Jenkins first novel takes readers on realistic journey through the struggles that teenagers endure in the foster care system. Her characters are well-developed with unique personalities that shine distinctly. Embedded is a romantic story reminiscent of A Walk to Remember. Above all, the story line instills readers with a sense of a positivity needed in current Young Adult literature. This novel comes highly recommended to both young adults and adults looking for an inspirational journey that will leave you thinking after the last page. I can't wait for the next installment!
111 reviews
August 19, 2025
Shield and Kasey

Love this book, could not put it down. Everything about this couple is almost what every if not all couples battle and some point in the relationship. Loved that the author made this a point in her series. Shield and Casey have so much to offer each other but like everything in a relationship, it starts to get stale and simply becomes a routine, but Casey knows better and instead of trying to fix something that she thinks is broken she prepares to do the next best thing and give him an ultimatum. Glad to see that they could get past their challenges And overcome their fears. Can’t wait to find what happens to the next club member and see where his heart gets led to.
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62 reviews
July 15, 2025
I struggled with how to rate this one. Probably closer to a 2.5 for me but I rounded up.

It had the angst and the start was great and hitting me in the feels. So definitely something good to pick up if you want to immediately be in the hard feelings. However, it started to get a little too drawn out. Our MMC would literally talk to everyone except the FMC about being bored in their marriage. He completely pulled away from her without expressing what he was feeling or even trying to change things up.

The separation just became a little too drawn out for me. The drama with the OW felt way too manufactured and unbelievable
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270 reviews5 followers
November 4, 2024
I gave it four stars, but this is really like a 3.5 for me. I felt like there was some stuff that was repetitive and to be honest I felt like the girl was kind of whiny and so was the guy. The overall story and plot was good, I will definitely read the other ones in the series because I like the characters as far as they’ve been portrayed in this book. I wish the girl had more fight in her when it came to her dude.

Like I said, not a bad read, I would recommend it to people who want to read a motorcycle rekindling romance because that’s what I feel like this was.
328 reviews
March 7, 2024
2nd generation

The 6 book in wild kings 2 nd generation this book is more of a rekindling romance relationship we first met both Kasey and Anthony aka shield when there were small children in there parents books ( rage-Kasey and glock Anthony) they have been together for a while and kids of their own life has become routine and shield pulls away and is about to lose everything even more than he knows enjoyable book but not much mc stuff
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577 reviews7 followers
November 30, 2024
This light MC was a realistic and emotional story of how vital it is to regularly invest time and care into your relationships. It’s so easy to get lost in the monotony of the everyday that you lose sight of the partner you are supposed to be building this life with. This is a testament of what happens when you stop communicating and find yourself walking a path divergent from your other half. I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading more in the series.
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2,928 reviews18 followers
March 10, 2024
Kasey & Anthony

Holy smokes I can't tell you the amount of times I wanted to knock Anthony in the head. Thank God the man came to his senses and mage a amends. Seeing him prove himself to Kasey made me smile. Even with everything they were going through they managed to come out the side whole. I can't wait to see what happens next.
788 reviews
March 16, 2024
good

This story has a good bit of feelings, twists and turns. Shield had decided that his marriage has gotten boring even the s*x. I wanted to reach in this book and smack him up side the head. He hurt Kasey so bad. Additionally she finds out she is having her third baby. I highly recommend this.
1,947 reviews3 followers
April 11, 2024
Wow

Get your tissues ready. I kind of put off reading this book for a while because I just knew that it would be very emotional. Boy was I right. I think used tissues though at least the first half of the book. That being said, the book was so good, it in one day. Give this book a chance, you won't be sorry.
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December 25, 2024
I’ve stopped reading because one I’m having trouble with the biker club vibe of books
There is something just not appealing to me about it
Two this man’s whole problem was that he’s bored?? And so he is avoiding his wife and family…and he’s bored of the sex but doesn’t inform his wife that he’d like to spice things up?? So yeah I don’t really want to finish reading the book"
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109 reviews2 followers
November 11, 2024
Two and a half stars rounded up. Story was pretty meh but I liked that it showcased the strength of family and friendship. Definitely not a fan of the MMC as portrayed in this book but I don’t have to be married to him 🤷🏼‍♀️
119 reviews2 followers
December 24, 2025
This was so disappointing! It could have been great but we have a doormat heroine and an immature hero. I didn’t believe his change of attitude toward his wife and kids. She took him back so easily and I can see in the future where he dumps her and the kids again.
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283 reviews1 follower
March 5, 2024
Love it

I love these books! Cedar Bay has been a great series. I've loved each story they have all made me laugh and made me cry.
600 reviews5 followers
March 6, 2024
Awesome

Awesome book!! It was a roller coaster for sure half way thru I wanted to smack him thankfully Kasey held strong.
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25 reviews1 follower
July 21, 2025
the amount of times i spent cursing on anthony is crazy considering i haven’t felt that much rage on a character before lmao

i loved kasey, i like how she wasn’t wallowing and focused on herself and her children. i was rooting for her!!

but i love anthony and kasey together ☹️ i do think that they are the love of each other’s lives especially for kasey and anthony lost sight of that for a while.

i love how both of their dads just gave anthony shit for his behaviour until he finally pulled his head out of his ass and god, i love kasey’s relationship with her dad ☹️ she’s such a daddy’s girl, and he loves her so much.

i’m glad that it worked out well and they were able to live their lives just the way they wanted and dreamed of, especially for kasey, she deserved everything!!!!
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110 reviews4 followers
June 12, 2025
I loved this book. I didn't read the series, just this book.

I have read many MC books, and this one was exceptional.

Kasey and Shield have been together forever and have two small sons...but Shield is thinking he is in a stale relationship with Kasey and is unsure how to continue. However, he doesn't stop the club girls from being near him, and he gets caught talking badly to Kasey.

I love it when a women knows her worth especially when she is a stay at home mother and is left to figure out what to do in a situation like this...STAY or START OVER ALONE...

I loved their journey and how the club treats Kasey and Shield, as well as how happily ever after works.
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