Another great read by Marie James.
Where can we actually meet men that are portrayed in Marie's book?
Anyway, Scooter as you know is part of the Cerberus MC and they are a group you won't want to mess with.
As they go to Miami to rescue women who were abducted for human trafficking.
This one is close to the MC because one of the women abducted is Max's twin sister Mia.
Mia was abducted while going to shop at the mall.
She has been in in their compound for 7 weeks and has been thru hell and back.
As the Cerberus MC converge on the compound, they take out every bad guy there but unfortunately the main subjects were not there and they are believed to have returned to Venezuela.
As they go into the basement, they find the women and Scooter (Ryan) finds Mia. She is afraid of him, thinking he is part of the abduction crew and there to take her elsewhere. Once she realizes that Scooter is there to rescue her, she clings to him. He is her savior and won't let go.
They get to the hospital and the doctors take her to evaluate her. Once she is back in the room, Scooter goes to see how she is doing and hears her screaming. He runs into the room, goes over to her and she calms down after he talks to her quietly. Scooter looks around and sees Max sitting there (Mia has presumed he was dead for the last 10 years).
Scooter stays with Mia the entire time she is in the hospital. Her fiance Jason doesn't even come back to visit after the 1st day (he is worthless)
Mia is discharged from the hospital but doesn't want to stay in Miami (where she lives) or back home to Louisiana. So, Ryan decides to take her back to the Cerberus compound in New Mexico.
Slowly Mia begins to heal from the outside in. Ryan does everything and anything to help her. He even moves her into his room and she stays there as long as needed.
A phone call that Scooter takes is misunderstood by Mia. She believes that she is keeping him from his girlfriend and decides to make a run for it. That goes wrong and when he finds her, she is freezing and has frostbite.
Since the head of the Human Trafficking has fled so Cerberus is going to hunt them down. Max is staying at the compound with Mia and the other women. Now, Mia still hasn't talked to Max and the time the other guys are gone is going to be difficult.
Ryan and Mia keep in touch as much as they can while he is out of the country. It takes time but they eventually get the guys at both compounds but not w/o a problem with the way Scooter handled the capture and killing of the main guy involved (and the woman with him). Scooter went and tortured the guy instead of killing him immediately, lost focus and didn't see him pull a weapon on him. Jinx ended up having to kill the guy.
The MC guys get back to the Cerberus compound and Kincaid calls Scooter into the conference room. All the officers are there and Kincaid asks what happened. Scooter ends up suspended for 1 month, going to be investigated by the CIA and has to go thru a psych evaluation to see if he is fit to return to duty.
Scooter is very distant to everyone including Mia. She thinks that Scooter doesn't want her around but that isn't it.
Mia leaves and returns to her parents home in Louisiana then after a while she go to Miami to talk to Jason only to find another woman living in their apartment. Jason runs home from work only to find that Mia has already met the "other" woman. They have already packed up all of her things and stored them in the extra bedroom.
Mia gets her clothes down her her parents vehicle.
After a couple months, Mia jumps on a plane for New Mexico. She arrives at the compound and Scooter meets her at the door.
Needless to say, they have a good heart to heart talk and say the words that should have been said before "I Love You"
If you have read any of the other Cerberus books, you will definitely devour this one as well.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.