Hidden at the northern-most point of the Mountain State of West Virginia was the quiet town of Tippitt, home to less than twenty thousand residents as well as the Mountain Skulls Motorcycle Club. Under a veil of good standing and legitimate business, the 1% outlaws maintain a tight watch on their surroundings while conducting affairs which bring in the βrealβ money.
Ben Lawson isnβt just the clubβs enforcer, but the one called upon when debts got settled. Big, strong and fiercely loyal, his unassuming calm belies a man willing to get his hands dirty for a club whoβd been his only family. But when the deaths of two brothers hits too close to home, it cracks that detatched exterior, sending him on collision course which literally lands him in the path Eva Sinclair.
Beautiful and independent, Eva has wrapped her life around her business and new home in an effort to bury memories best left behind. Anyone she ever cared for has either died or left, causing her to emotionally push away anyone who gets too close. But when near-fatal circumstances puts her on Benβs radar, she finds herself being shadowed by a man as dangerous as his clubβs whispered reputation. Before she knows it, Eva finds herself breaking her own protective rules, allowing the imposing biker into her life where his outlaw lifestyle challenges her civilian one. Their attraction is instant and explosive β and one neither one can affordβ¦β¦nor resist.
But when the club finds a connection between Eva and a current threat, it jeopardizes the fragile trust between her and a man who holds no forgiveness for betrayalβ and may wind up his target because of it.
Contains language, violence and explicit sex
Review
For Your Sake is a fantastic MC romance, with an emphasis on both the MC and the romance. The Mountain Skulls are an outlaw MC, so the club action is gritty and exciting from their first introduction, and Elayne DiSano gives us a clear-eyed picture of the life these men and their women lead.
Ben and Eva, the romantic leads and POVs, are richly developed characters with heartbreaking backstories. They meet on a dark night, their individual pain foremost in their minds, and as they begin to know each other, they begin to heal each other.
Eva is a strong, lovely woman, a normal woman trying to live the best life she can on her own terms. Ben is a gorgeous mountain of a man, whose work for his club is dark but who manages to keep some light and love to share with the right woman. If ever he should meet her. Trust comes dear to Ben; he takes a huge risk to trust anyone, as he well knows. To let his guard down is itself an act of love for him.
The world of Tippitt, like so many real small towns, is populated with interesting characters--some of them quirky, some of them hilarious, some of them mysterious, and some who are just regular people.
There is heart-fluttering romance, smokin' hot sex, intrigue, danger and drama--and surprise--in a tight plot that snares Ben and Eva and threatens the tenuous peace they've found with each other. Just at the moment they need each other most, circumstances beyond them threaten to tear them apart.
But true love is strong, and trust can move mountains.
--Susan Fanetti, author of the Signal Bend Series