RELEASE BLITZ: REVIEW AND EXCERPT: Whiskey Neat by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Whiskey Neat

Series: Uncertain Saint’s MC

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: March 3, 2016

Photographer: Furious Fotog https://goo.gl/8fL7kW

Cover Model: Chase Ketron https://goo.gl/HKvBeX

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27227621-whiskey-neat

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.

review

Griffin and Lenore’s story is one filled with revenge, suspense, and redemption. From the beginning of the story, Griff only has one thing on his mind and that’s payback, and he doesn’t care how many laws he has to break to get it because his responsibility was to protect those he loved, and he feels like he failed, so he’s going to do whatever it takes to destroy the men who took his heart away. Amidst the grief and guilt, Griff wasn’t looking for or expecting Lenore, but he soon realizes that he needs and wants her in his life and, although it’s dangerous, he can’t get enough of her.

Lenore can definitely hold her own against alpha men, and she gives Griffin a run for his money when it comes to him bossing her around and taking off on her without looking back. She’s fighting her own battle, which reveals how tenacious of a woman she is and why Griffin never stood a chance once they met and he spent time with her because she’s an innocent light that he needs in order to get out of the dark.

I love the fact that Whiskey Neat takes place in a town called Uncertain and Griff’s motorcycle club is the Uncertain Saints because I see a deeper meaning present in those names. It makes it feel like the events that happen in the story can happen anywhere to anyone because there are flaws in the justice system everywhere and people do take the law into their own hands when they don’t feel like they’re getting anywhere through righteous means. Griffin and his brothers all know how it feels to lose something, so they band together, partly due to their professions and partly due to their loss, in order to create a network that can help in multiple ways.

Lani Lynn Vale always creates alpha male heroes who are a bit damaged and a whole lot of sexy and then she connects them to women who are independent and unwilling to be treated any differently than what they think they deserve – Griffin and Lenore fit those descriptions well and the push and pull that exists between them as well as the danger coming at them makes Whiskey Neat another great read from an author definitely knows how to keep her readers’ interest in every book she writes.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

4 Poison Apples

“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.

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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.

28943534

Title: Jack & Coke

Series: Uncertain Saint’s MC #2

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: May 6, 2016

Amazon: http://goo.gl/PZWx2f

Amazon CA: http://goo.gl/wtXqWm

Amazon UK: http://goo.gl/fsqoWZ

Amazon AU: http://goo.gl/ff9znf

Goodreads:   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28943534-jack-coke

Synopsis

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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