This is book nine of the Savage Kings MC – South Carolina series and the main characters are Marcus De La Cruz, who has been volunteered to sponsor the newest prospect for the Savage Kings MC, and Teagan Allen who wants to desperately be a member of the outlaw MC after her father, who was the president of the Charlotte chapter was killed defending his club, and after trying a few others associated with her father, has ended up at the Savage Kings MC as they advertised for new prospects. Being a woman and a short one at that, in a male dominated arena, doesn’t make it easy to get anyone to take her seriously as a prospect. So she decides to be a bit underhand and trap Marcus into putting her forward as a prospect for membership, using her womanly wares to get her way! The club has lost two of its members and had some recent prospects badly injured during a recent attack, so whoever joins will need to be made of stern stuff.
Teagan wants to become the new queen of the Savage Kings, using Marcus to get there, so she can better understand her father and his obsession with his MC, putting the club first before family and never even marrying her mother. She tracks Marcus down and turns up at his door, allowing him to get her in his bed and use his belt on her, something she finds she quite enjoys. But he was a bit over zealous and carried away in the moment and she can hardly move the next morning, which she uses to start her manipulation of Marcus and get him waiting on her hand and foot. Each time he thinks he can have sex with her, she holds off on giving him any satisfaction until she gets him to agree to what she wants first! He soon finds himself wrapped around her little finger, even realising this when he gets out of his house, but never managing to stay away for long and ending up back in the same situation again! When he finds out Teagan’s true identity from her prospect form, that their president has noticed and recognized, he is inflamed and refuses to allow her to be put forward as a prospect. He has never wanted to, even though he has made promises to her, but he wants to protect her and is beginning to fall for her, making her being part of the MC and the danger involved, even harder for him to allow. Exactly the opposite of what she wants.
Her mother has always warned her against being with any man who is part of a MC, because of the way her father treated her mother. He wasn’t only with her mother and that hurt her mother more than anything. But she has also kept a lot of things secret from Teagan about her father and why he wasn’t around more. He taught her how to ride a Harley, to shot a gun and how to protect herself. The truth is going to come out and hurt Teagan, but others will also help her understand her father and his link to the MC, as well as her mother’s protective nature. Both Marcus and Teagan want their own way, but they will have to come to a compromise and communicate better, if they are going to have a chance to be together. A hard hitting and steamy read at times, with difficult decisions having to be faced to get what they want. I received an ARC copy of this book form BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.