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Rebel and Sophia’s story
The first of a three part series. This novel contains a small snippet which has already been released in the Owned: An Alpha Anthology, however it is followed by a full story installment.
Sophia
Sometimes, you don’t mean to become another person. Sometimes the choice is made for you, and pretending is the only thing that keeps you going. When Alexis Romera is taken and her kidnappers find her fake ID in her purse, she must become Sophia in order to keep her family safe. Revealing her real identity to the man she’s sold to would be easy enough, but can she trust him? Hell bent on revenging the murder of his uncle, Rebel doesn’t seem all that interested in playing things safe.
In fact, nothing about the secretive, dark and brooding MC president seems safe at all.
Rebel
What do you do when the man who raised you is murdered, and the only witness is kidnapped girl who’s being sold as a sex slave? You buy her, of course. As president to the most powerful motorcycle club in America, Rebel isn’t lacking in power. There are strings the man can pull, and entire criminal organisations and corporate businesses alike would fall to their knees. However, along with such power comes intense interest. The DEA have their eye fixed solely on the MC…and they’re just waiting for Rebel to trip up.
Getting Sophia to testify is the only way to bring the Los Oscuros cartel down. The beautiful, dark haired, dark eyed woman is belligerent and uncooperative and unlikely to bend to his will, but Rebel has a few tricks up his sleeve to make her compliant–he’ll charm her until she’s bending over backwards to please him.
Of course, falling for her might cause a few hiccups along the way…
Review
One thing readers will learn about Callie’s writing pretty quickly is that she’ll always leave you wanting more of everything aspect of the worlds and characters she creates. I felt that way with Zeth and Sloane and now Rebel and Sophia can be added to the list. Even though Rebel and Sophia were introduced in Callie’s first series, Blood & Roses, readers do not need to read it in order to read Dead Man’s Ink. But I have to say, I highly recommend the Blood & Roses series, and I dare you not to let if consume your life until your finished with every book. Zeth and Sloane’s story is highly addictive – there’s just something about that sadistic bastard that will have your craving to understand him and the woman who stole his cold heart.
Just like Zeth, Rebel is a multifaceted character whose personality is slowly revealed and that enlightenment, I’m sure, will occur throughout the series up until the very end. Early on readers learn that something happened in his life that tilted it on its axis…shook him at his core, and ever since that occurred, he has not been the man he was before it occurred. Rebel’s a criminal with a bit of conscience when it comes to some aspects of his life, which stems from a past that it not quite clear. A part of his background is brought into the open in this book, which definitely illustrates how far the other way his life has gone. But in some ways, it’s a much better life than the one he was living at least under his father’s thumb. There’s a lot of depth to Rebel…so much more than I thought there would be after being introduced to him in the Blood & Roses series, and I can’t wait for Callie to show readers the man beneath the hardass exterior.
I really liked Sophia, and I can’t wait to understand her better and get some insight into why she makes the choices she does, especially when freedom was within her grasp. She’s definitely a firecracker, and she’s going to give Rebel a run for his money. She’s slowly beginning to unthaw the ice man, and it will be interesting to see how their relationship progresses based on the conclusion of book one. She’s one tough chick and I can’t wait to see her “handle” Rebel and the Widow Makers. Something tells me she’s going to fit right in once she gets over the initial shock of everything and the fact that her new life is nothing like her old one.
Rebel’s biker world and his role as the President of the Widow Makers is still a mystery for the most part, so I hope as the series progresses, readers get to see the ins and outs of the club and why it’s run the way that it is with rules that are quite unlike a lot of MC clubs.
Callie Hart is one of those authors whose books consume me every time I get a new one, and the start of Rebel and Sophia’s story definitely did not disappoint. The drama and suspense flies off the page from the start of the text and doesn’t ease up much throughout. It does take a bit to build up the storyline and get Rebel and Sophia in the same space, but the set up is necessary to understand the events that set everything else in motion. The sexual tension is palpable between Rebel and Sophia right from the start even though the extenuating circumstances put it at a standstill for much of the text. There’s a lot of turmoil with the Widow Makers and their enemies as well as the role that Sophia needs to play for Rebel, so it will be interesting to see where Callie takes this fire/ice couple next. I, for one, can’t wait to see the hell that Rebel unleashes!
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
“You gonna sit down or what?”
I sit down. Arguing with him would be futile. We sit there, side by side, staring off down the arrow-straight road, and for a moment I don’t hate him. He pulls a cell phone out of his pocket and taps something into it, and then he turns to face me, frowning slightly.
“You believe in vengeance?”
“You mean like revenge?”
He shakes his head. “Revenge is a selfish act. Retaliation for something. Vengeance is a different thing altogether. It’s about obtaining justice, usually for someone who can’t claim it for themselves.”
This is an odd line of questioning but I decide I’ll bite. Maybe I wouldn’t if he were being a jerk like he was a couple of hours ago, but that’s not what’s happening. He’s pensive, the live wire that apparently runs through him dulled for the moment. “I don’t know,” I say. “Probably, in that case.”
“What if I simplified the question?
What if I say, do you believe in justice?
“Then, yes, I do believe.”
About the Author
Callie has experienced many changes throughout her life, and gone through many ups and downs that have all worked towards shaping and molding her into the person she is today: fun loving, active, social, and hard working. The only thing that has remained a constant throughout her life is writing. Creating characters who will tear your conscience in two is a favorite pastime of Callie’s. There are few real saints and sinners in her books; more often, the denizens of her stories are all very human. Broken, flawed, and always with the potential for redemption.
Despite the subject matter being markedly hot and heavy in comparison to the stories she wrote in elementary school, there will always be an element of fairytale to her work.
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GIVEAWAY
3 Rebel Super Swag packs
1 paperback of Rebel w/ signed bookplate
1 complete eCopy set of the Blood & Roses series
1 ARC of Callie Hart & Lili St. Germain’s upcoming collaboration, Hell’s Kitchen
(to be ready by end of February)
1 MAC “Rebel” lipstick
Signed Gary Taylor Leather Jacket
$20 Amazon/iBooks Gift card
Kindle HD 6
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