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Hellion's Motorcycle Club #4
A Civilian for Silo
It started with a one-night stand…Within just a few hours of meeting, Silo Kettering and Shelly Palmer were in bed together. It was a special night, an amazing evening of shared passion between the socialite and the Hellion biker. But it was supposed to have been just an enjoyable one-off since Shelly had to get back to Albuquerque and extradite both herself and her sister, Lulu, from the mess their father had made.And a promise to call if help was needed.Silo had made Shelly vow to call him if she encountered any trouble, never realizing that just ten short months later, his would be the only phone number she remembered when she was hurt and broken. But it’s hard, if not impossible, to help and provide safety when you have no idea who or what you’re fighting besides your own heart and feelings. And as Silo discovers, the only thing preventing him from falling head over heels is the little spit-fire’s opinion of both him and herself.From the author of ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, ‘The Possibility of Trey’, ‘Reinventing Mel’ and ‘Taking a Dare’ comes Book 4 in the Hellion Motorcycle Series, exploring Silo’s story and his reconnecting with the irrepressible Shelly.Often you have to get out of your own way−in order to let love in.**Intended for mature audiences only (18+) due to strong language and sexual situations**
383 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 24, 2014
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J.A. Hornbuckle
20 books396 followersMy heart was beating so freaking fast. I could hear the murmurings of the crowd behind the curtain where I was hiding, that separated me from them.
It was time. Time for me to come out and talk with them, those people from Goodreads that had read my books, rated my books and that wanted to know the person behind the words.
I stepped my way carefully out onto the stage, my heartbeat the only sound my ears could hear.
"Hi," I mumbled into the microphone. "My name is Judy and I write as J.A. Hornbuckle."
Damn. My voice sounded as hesitant as I felt.
"Tha-thank you so much for your interest." I was fumbling. But, I'd done this before. The public speaking thingie. And I really hadn't ever been this nervous before. But, geesh, I'd had notes then.
Not now.
Deep breath, my mind instructed.
Okay, that I could do.
"I, ah, I don't know what to…uhm, I'm uncertain what I'm supposed to talk about," I began.
The fact that I couldn't see into the crowd was a problem. Talking to crowds is supposed to be like talking to other people. But I couldn't actually SEE the other people.
Crap.
Just start at the beginning.
"I started writing because of a migraine," I started, my voice reedy and thin even in the amplification of the microphone. "I'd read three crap books in a row and thought I could do better."
I cleared my throat which I hadn't realized beforehand would be captured by the speakers.
"Sorry," I mumbled and tried again.
"I read three books that convinced me that I could write better. I'm an avid reader. A voracious reader that consumed four to six fiction books a week. Three books, three crap books, meant that I had wasted fifty percent of my reading time. And I knew that I could do better, could write better."
The noise in the large room lessened as I spoke and I gained courage from that silence.
"As I laid on the floor of my walk-in closet because it, of all the rooms in my apartment, had no noise, no light, and with my frozen pack of corn on my head, thought of the book I might write."
I remembered that time of pain. Of hurting so bad that my stomach would roil, where every heartbeat was torture and I couldn't breathe without the air hurting my teeth.
"I started to think about Caitlin and Jake, about what was to become 'Pole Dance', and eventually I found that I could shove that pain to one side as I planned. I learned to stash a steno pad and pen in there with me and use my baby finger to hold the end of the steno pad and write in the dark."
I heard a couple of chuckles which made me bolder.
"I tried to capture the story on my computer in my 'dull roar' times. And, in a word? It was crap. I didn't know what I was doing. So I started to study. Read, absorbed. But you know what I found? Writing is like driving a car. You can read about driving, learning the rules of the road, reading about safety tips and precautions. But until you are actually behind the wheel? Oh, baby. Completely different story."
More laughs this time. My knees were steadier and I felt my voice strengthen.
I needed to finish up.
"My name is Judy. And I'm a new author who is learning by the seat of her yoga pants as she goes. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my books. You mean a lot to me."
I smiled and waved into the glare that was hiding the group that had come to hear me speak.
Because I've never spoken so much and with such honesty from my heart at one time.
It was time. Time for me to come out and talk with them, those people from Goodreads that had read my books, rated my books and that wanted to know the person behind the words.
I stepped my way carefully out onto the stage, my heartbeat the only sound my ears could hear.
"Hi," I mumbled into the microphone. "My name is Judy and I write as J.A. Hornbuckle."
Damn. My voice sounded as hesitant as I felt.
"Tha-thank you so much for your interest." I was fumbling. But, I'd done this before. The public speaking thingie. And I really hadn't ever been this nervous before. But, geesh, I'd had notes then.
Not now.
Deep breath, my mind instructed.
Okay, that I could do.
"I, ah, I don't know what to…uhm, I'm uncertain what I'm supposed to talk about," I began.
The fact that I couldn't see into the crowd was a problem. Talking to crowds is supposed to be like talking to other people. But I couldn't actually SEE the other people.
Crap.
Just start at the beginning.
"I started writing because of a migraine," I started, my voice reedy and thin even in the amplification of the microphone. "I'd read three crap books in a row and thought I could do better."
I cleared my throat which I hadn't realized beforehand would be captured by the speakers.
"Sorry," I mumbled and tried again.
"I read three books that convinced me that I could write better. I'm an avid reader. A voracious reader that consumed four to six fiction books a week. Three books, three crap books, meant that I had wasted fifty percent of my reading time. And I knew that I could do better, could write better."
The noise in the large room lessened as I spoke and I gained courage from that silence.
"As I laid on the floor of my walk-in closet because it, of all the rooms in my apartment, had no noise, no light, and with my frozen pack of corn on my head, thought of the book I might write."
I remembered that time of pain. Of hurting so bad that my stomach would roil, where every heartbeat was torture and I couldn't breathe without the air hurting my teeth.
"I started to think about Caitlin and Jake, about what was to become 'Pole Dance', and eventually I found that I could shove that pain to one side as I planned. I learned to stash a steno pad and pen in there with me and use my baby finger to hold the end of the steno pad and write in the dark."
I heard a couple of chuckles which made me bolder.
"I tried to capture the story on my computer in my 'dull roar' times. And, in a word? It was crap. I didn't know what I was doing. So I started to study. Read, absorbed. But you know what I found? Writing is like driving a car. You can read about driving, learning the rules of the road, reading about safety tips and precautions. But until you are actually behind the wheel? Oh, baby. Completely different story."
More laughs this time. My knees were steadier and I felt my voice strengthen.
I needed to finish up.
"My name is Judy. And I'm a new author who is learning by the seat of her yoga pants as she goes. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my books. You mean a lot to me."
I smiled and waved into the glare that was hiding the group that had come to hear me speak.
Because I've never spoken so much and with such honesty from my heart at one time.
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August 27, 2017
The story was interesting though I hated Shelly (h) for most of the book as she was vain and shallow and condescending towards everyone, especially the H. Silo (H) made this book a good one as he was very sweet and protective and he acknowledged his feelings earlier.
March 17, 2017
Another good book in the Hellions series. Silo has been one of my favorite characters since the beginning of the series. He's loud mouthed, brash and has absolutely no filter on his mouth. He's big, awkward and has some serious self esteem issues that he covers with his brash outspoken manner. The man can't say three words without using the f bomb. But then he's got that sweet side and is totally alpha protective male when it comes to women. Shelley, the h, is a the personification of the rich bitch that can't see herself in a long term setting with the common folks in the Hellions. But she falls and falls hard but not before I wanted to slap her more stupid for continually turning Silo away. It's a sweet love story with a hero you can't help but like. It's got the angst and suspense with a plot of saving the damsel and protecting the club from known enemies. A HEA and no cheating at all. This one was a 4.5 for me but I went ahead with the 5 star rating. It's not gritty and raw, more on the MC lite than anything else but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
June 29, 2015
No cheating and a HEA.
November 30, 2016
After finishing The Possibility of Trey, A Civilian for Silo became my most want to read in this series, but I had to finish the ones before so that I can start this one and oh boy how I loved them all.
The thing about the Hellion family relationship thing is the thing I love the most, these books are the best example to teach people not to judge a person by their looks, all the Hellions and Honeys have all the bad-ass biker look but they all have big and honest trustworthy hearts, I love how they are so loyal to the ones that matter to them, how they act first and ask second, and how they always have each others back. The pattern I noticed in all the books in this series that their always one of the main characters who is on the receiving end f the kindness and family relationship of the Hellions and that what I envy, I just wish that they are real and I can get to know them.
I Loved Silo in here, in the previous books he showed his hellion side of a true and trustworthy friend, and in The Possibility of Trey he showed how he valued the values between a couple, and in Taking a Dare he made me so curious based on his overreaction on Dare's statement to wanting to marry. And boy how he showed us, I was so kind and generous and sweet and adorable and all cuddly bear material, language notwithstanding. How he just dropped everything to go all the way and get to Shelly and their transfer her to Missoula and t have her taken in to his home, and he took her with him to his new home and simply how much care he took in caring for her. He was so open in his show f feeling and love for her and I loved when he said this:
"He pulled back and gazed at me, his eyes a soft blue-grey "What?" I didn't understand the look, though I more than wanted to. "Just taking in the scenery," he murmured, tucking one of my curls behind my ear. "Fucking digging the view is all.""
I just melted at his words, and even their fights all the loud screaming were just cute between them, He was very alpha male yet with strong feelings and one purpose. To keep his girl with him.
The heroine was all class and that shit since she first got introduced in Reinventing Mel but all that was because that's what she grow up with, the your-better-than-everyone shit but in some people's opinion she might have been snooty but I didn't see much from that side, maybe at the beginning when Silo took her to his house but not much later. I kinda felt sorry for her, and glad that she went to Silo in her time of need, and later when she started to get more comfortable in her surroundings she started to show her true self, the one even she didn't know it existed, but which mostly appeared around Silo, I liked the part were the heroine felt proud when her friend told her that she and her husband never went that loud on their fights, and when She made the proposing at the end With the ring and all that shit XD
- I kinda felt sorry for Silo at certain parts but I'm glad those parts didn't last long, because for a tough-assed biker Silo was kinda an open book.
- I liked when Mel and Lulu and Jules stayed with them, it was like a big family it just was cute.
- When the Creepy Fed first got introduced I thought crap it's gonna be a love triangle and Silo is going to have some competition, but I'm glad it never even existed he was such a creep.
- Throughout the book, some part of me was anticipating any news about Bishop, I just kept praying don't let him die, and I'm glad he didn't, but I'm just waiting for his book to see what's gonna happen with him.
Overall, *thumbs up* even thought it's my first MC series, it's the best ever, I don't think I can find some other series that can top the Hellions
The thing about the Hellion family relationship thing is the thing I love the most, these books are the best example to teach people not to judge a person by their looks, all the Hellions and Honeys have all the bad-ass biker look but they all have big and honest trustworthy hearts, I love how they are so loyal to the ones that matter to them, how they act first and ask second, and how they always have each others back. The pattern I noticed in all the books in this series that their always one of the main characters who is on the receiving end f the kindness and family relationship of the Hellions and that what I envy, I just wish that they are real and I can get to know them.
I Loved Silo in here, in the previous books he showed his hellion side of a true and trustworthy friend, and in The Possibility of Trey he showed how he valued the values between a couple, and in Taking a Dare he made me so curious based on his overreaction on Dare's statement to wanting to marry. And boy how he showed us, I was so kind and generous and sweet and adorable and all cuddly bear material, language notwithstanding. How he just dropped everything to go all the way and get to Shelly and their transfer her to Missoula and t have her taken in to his home, and he took her with him to his new home and simply how much care he took in caring for her. He was so open in his show f feeling and love for her and I loved when he said this:
"He pulled back and gazed at me, his eyes a soft blue-grey "What?" I didn't understand the look, though I more than wanted to. "Just taking in the scenery," he murmured, tucking one of my curls behind my ear. "Fucking digging the view is all.""
I just melted at his words, and even their fights all the loud screaming were just cute between them, He was very alpha male yet with strong feelings and one purpose. To keep his girl with him.
The heroine was all class and that shit since she first got introduced in Reinventing Mel but all that was because that's what she grow up with, the your-better-than-everyone shit but in some people's opinion she might have been snooty but I didn't see much from that side, maybe at the beginning when Silo took her to his house but not much later. I kinda felt sorry for her, and glad that she went to Silo in her time of need, and later when she started to get more comfortable in her surroundings she started to show her true self, the one even she didn't know it existed, but which mostly appeared around Silo, I liked the part were the heroine felt proud when her friend told her that she and her husband never went that loud on their fights, and when She made the proposing at the end With the ring and all that shit XD
- I kinda felt sorry for Silo at certain parts but I'm glad those parts didn't last long, because for a tough-assed biker Silo was kinda an open book.
- I liked when Mel and Lulu and Jules stayed with them, it was like a big family it just was cute.
- When the Creepy Fed first got introduced I thought crap it's gonna be a love triangle and Silo is going to have some competition, but I'm glad it never even existed he was such a creep.
- Throughout the book, some part of me was anticipating any news about Bishop, I just kept praying don't let him die, and I'm glad he didn't, but I'm just waiting for his book to see what's gonna happen with him.
Overall, *thumbs up* even thought it's my first MC series, it's the best ever, I don't think I can find some other series that can top the Hellions
February 21, 2015
Well I couldn't wait and read Dare's book first I needed to read Silo, so I did. Loved it.
November 10, 2019
3.5 Stars
October 28, 2014
3 1/2-4 stars. I thought the story as a whole was rather entertaining, but I definitely liked the second half more than the first. This was mostly because it took me a while to warm up to the h. I absolutely did not like her for a good part of the book. I actually thought it started out very promising, with the h suffering from a traumatic experience, and the H coming to the rescue, but once the H and h started interacting, my feelings changed. There are times when she acts like ungrateful, stuck-up and snobby. She does keep her comments to herself, but I could have done without her inner dialogue. The h, Shelly, does apologize to Silo, saying she can't control her emotions due to the trauma/drama she went through, but it was weird for me. She is also supposed to be this refined, high class woman, yet she acts really crass--fights with Silo, and curses like crazy--the personality was just too all over the place. She does come around, but it takes a long time. Silo, on the other hand, was incredible sweet and patient. I actually enjoyed his character more than I expected to--he may be my favorite H of the series. There were times I felt sorry for him for having to put up with Shelly, and felt HE deserved better than HER. Plot line moved along nicely. Only issue I had with this was there was a subplot with a crazy FBI stalker that seemed to be disjointed from most of the plot, and then ended strangely. I don't really feel the story would have been affected if this was removed. Secondary characters--most of which we met in previous books--were fun, and added a lot to the story. Writing style is pretty much what I expected from this author. Easy to read, much more on the "fluffy" side of the MC spectrum. IMO, the characters in the series still ACT like tough guys, instead of actually BEING tough guys. I mostly sense this in their dialogue. I think the reader will probably enjoy this book if they are a fan of the series--but it definitely can be read as a stand alone story.
January 18, 2015
Loved this story of Si & Shelley, just like the earlier books in the series. Si was a great character & I loved his raw, earthy, yet vulnerable, attitude. Shelley was, in turn a strong opinionated girl or a poor little rich-girl who dealt with a range of traumas by relying on so many mixed reactions that it was difficult to know what she would do next! It seems there is another story to come, about Bishop. Hopefully it will solve the mystery of his illness & perhaps J. A. Hornbuckle will keep on writing about this wonderful family of Hellion's.
April 26, 2015
The author is right. You can read her books as stand alone. This is the first book I read in the series, and I just want to go and read the rest of them right now. The author knows her stuff, and gets you right in the middle of things with nothing but her words. I was ducking bullets, pulling on my tightest jeans, and having a bar-b-que right there in my mind. Silo & Shelly make a great couple. Their snark and differences made this book flow fast and strong. What a great introduction to a new-to-me-author!
September 12, 2019
A must read series!
I have loved all of J A Hornbucle's books. My favorites are the Hellion series. These biker books are so original. I don't feel like I read them before. I can't put them down. Laundry, dinner, kids... They have to wait until I am done reading. I can't tell you how many times I have yelled at my family telling them I'm at 90% reading. come back later!
I have loved all of J A Hornbucle's books. My favorites are the Hellion series. These biker books are so original. I don't feel like I read them before. I can't put them down. Laundry, dinner, kids... They have to wait until I am done reading. I can't tell you how many times I have yelled at my family telling them I'm at 90% reading. come back later!
May 31, 2015
I LOVE the hellion series & couldn't wait for Si. I really wanted to love this book but just couldn't. I just didn't like Shelly at all. She was just too spoiled and stuck up for me. Especially after everything Si had done for her. Now as much as I disliked Shelly, I loved Si. I will most definitely read Bishop & consider this one of those instances that the h just wasn't my cup of tea.
November 18, 2014
Once again this series blows me away! I fell in love with the Hellions MC in the first book and they just keep getting better as they progress! I would recommend this book to anybody! Can't wait for the next one.
November 13, 2014
Another great read, have really loved this series. Can't wait to find out what is up with Bishop, hope we get to find out soon..
November 14, 2014
Another great read in this series. All the books in this series have been great reads. I thought Si was sweet even with his brashness. Rated very good
February 25, 2015
I enjoyed this series.
February 1, 2016
Loved it 10/10
November 14, 2014
I really love this series , it just keeps getting better :)
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