Title: Whiskey Neat
Series: Uncertain Saint's MC
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Griffin Storm wasn’t prone to violence, but when someone takes what Griffin holds dear, the world as he knows it is gone.
Retaliation, revenge and rage fuels him. His MC, The Uncertain Saint’s, do their best to offer support, but Griffin is beyond redemption. He’ll do what he has to do. Kill who he has to kill.
He doesn’t care if that means he dies. If it gets him what he wants, then it’s worth it.
He fakes it all until the night he walks into a sex shop for batteries and lays eyes on a woman that will change his life.
Lenore makes him think past tomorrow. Makes him want to see just what the future might bring.
But his life’s a dangerous one built around pain and deception, and not for the faint of heart.
He won’t give up the past, not until he’s done what he promised to do.
And if that means she’s not there when the dust settles, he’ll risk it.
Lenore, though, won’t give up on him. She’ll fix him, whether he wants her to or not.
“Come on, Doogan,” I urged, giving his collar a tug.
Doogan didn’t budge, which was why I had a front row seat as a man sailed over the railing of Mr. Marshall’s porch, and landed about ten feet away from where I was standing.
“Oh, my God,” I breathed.
I didn’t move, though, because the man was suddenly surrounded.
Men in leather were everywhere…but the one man that held my attention was stomping down the porch steps and heading straight to the man on the ground.
Griffin, the man who’d bought batteries from me just two days ago, was well and truly pissed.
When his eyes swung to me, I didn’t know what to do.
Should I run?
Stay where I was?
Question after question barreled through my mind, leaving me shaking in fear…and something else I wasn’t ready to admit to just yet.
“Go home,” he ordered.
I blinked, looking to my left and right to be sure he was talking to me.
Since I didn’t see anyone else around me, I decided he was talking to me, but I just couldn’t get my legs to cooperate out of fear.
Not to mention that I would have to walk through the lot of them to get to my house.
When I didn’t move fast enough, he issued the order again, only this time it was biting.
“Go. Home,” he snapped.
I turned on my heel and started walking, coming to a sudden stop when Doogan still refused to move.
“Mother of God,” I whispered. “Come on Doog,” I whispered frantically. “Let’s go.”
He did move, just not in the correct direction.
No, he walked straight up to Griffin and licked his hand, a hand that was stuck out, not in invitation to approach, but instead to stop the dog from getting too close to him.
“Can’t you control your fuckin’ dog?” He grated out angrily.
Tears were stinging my eyes, because, by that point, I had the attention of not just Griffin, but the whole freakin’ lot of them.
My heart was beating frantically in my chest as they watched me, and I just knew that if I didn’t get the hell out of there I’d get the hell beaten out of me…or worse.
“Where do you live?” Griffin asked, taking a hold of Doogan’s leash.
It slipped from my hands, and I watched in helpless horror as it did.
And what did Doogan do?
He freakin’ followed him!
“Umm,” I whispered. “Three duplexes down from here.”
“Be back,” Griffin said as he took my hand in his free one and started to walk me back to my house.
The men returned their stares on the man they were circling, and I glanced over my shoulder just in time to see one of the big ones kick the poor guy on the ground next to his feet.
He didn’t say a word, and neither did I.
I was too scared.
What if he beat the shit out of me?
Raped me?
What if…
“I’m not going to hurt you,” Griffin growled, interrupting my inner diatribe.
“I know,” I lied.
He snorted. “Stop shaking. I said I wouldn’t harm you. I’m a cop.”
Yeah, but good cops didn’t beat the shit out of people in the dark of night.
5 stars
If you've read this author before you know she can toss in some tear jerker moments, in Whiskey Neat it was the very beginning. An not just a tear jerker, this was a rip your heart out moment. If your balling like a baby during the prologue you just know it's going to be great.
I was on Team Revenge right along with Griff three pages in, the man suffered the worst loss imaginable, and the reason behind it will make even a pacifist wish for the offenders to suffer.
Now he's assigned to the small town of Uncertain Texas, a Texas Ranger and member of the Uncertain Saints MC. The MC is made up of all civil servants from rangers to DEA. But these guys are special, they go after the cases that get overlooked, they make the rapists and murderers pay for their crimes. Not always completely legal, the guys walk a fine line.
Griff's first interaction with Lenore was funny, how many people run into a sex shop for batteries? And his helping her out with a certain in store situation had me grinning.
Lenore is a loner, she owns Uncertain Pleasures, the local sex shop. She works, goes home, repeat. Has basically one friend and her dog.
Griff coming in was the highlight of her day, he was certainly fantasy material. Too bad she doesn't consider herself the same, she sees herself as the girl men overlook, plain and invisible.
Leaving work that night she finds a surprise left on her car from Griff, and she takes full advantage of it and the memory of him! Can't say I blame her, the description of that man is panty dropping to say the least.
When walking her dog she sees a neighbor being attacked, until she realizes it's their wearing cuts and Griff is there.
He sees her and tells her to get home now, but her loyal dog has other ideas, straight to Griff he goes and refuses to move without him (Smart dog!!) Griff walks them home, checks each room to make sure she's safe. Praying he won't enter her room he realizes she doesn't want him there an goes in anyway, there's an unbelievably hot moment here and then he's gone.
Lenny has a serious fascination with Griff, knowing he's way out of her league she makes due with toys and the memory of him. Until he shows up giving her one hell of a ride.
Gone the next morning she figures she got her one night with the hottie that's more than a girl like her could hope for, but Griff's not done. He can't stay away from Lenore even though she's everything physically he's never gone for, she's the complete opposite of the women he sleeps with but he can't get her off his mind and decides not to fight it, just go with the flow.
And just when things look like they may be headed down the happily ever after road everything blows up in Griff's face. He can't lose someone else he cares about, the only way to keep her safe is to let her go.
I'm a huge Lani Lynn Vale fan, I read and reread her series, falling in love with each hero and heroine over and over again. Whiskey Neat is a great start to her new series, with feisty heroines and hotter hero's. I can't wait for the next in this series, there are secondary characters here who caught my interest and I have to know their stories.
Griff & Lenore's story while heart breaking and gut wrenching at times is just what I've come to expect from the author, a well written story with amazing characters that always leaves you wanting more.
I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.
Title: Jack & Coke
Series: Uncertain Saint's MC #2
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Lies
Mig’s wife is a bitch.
How else do you describe a woman that lies, cheats and steals to get what she wants?
That’s exactly what happens when she traps him into a marriage he wants nothing to do with, saddling him with a kid that he knows doesn’t deserve to be in a world like his.
He’s doing a pretty bang-up job at ignoring everything but his responsibilities as a DEA officer and a member of The Uncertain Saints MC.
Then his neighbor knocks on his door, and everything he thought he knew is blown out the window.
Deceit
Annie teaches Mig that not every woman is out to get him.
Her love for Mig stretches past what’s appropriate for two friends, and Annie soon straddles that invisible boundary between appropriate and inappropriate.
Annie’s not a cheater, though.
When she tries to say goodbye, Mig won’t let her leave, and soon the tiny town of Uncertain blows up with the news of Annie and Mig’s innocent friendship.
Betrayal
Matters of the heart are foreign to Mig, and it takes Annie being gutted for him to see the wrong he’s done.
He waits too long, though, and Annie’s heart is broken.
She wants it all, or she wants nothing. She can’t take anymore half-hearted attempts at being just friends.
The heart wants what it wants, and it doesn’t take long for Mig to realize that.
But just when Mig finally has it all in the palm of his hand, his life is ripped to shreds by a new player in the game, and it takes all of Annie’s love and devotion, as well as help from the men of The Uncertain Saint’s MC, to put Mig back together again.
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