Title: Heart Recaptured
Series: Hades Hangmen #2
Author: Tillie Cole
Age group: Mature new adult
Genre: MC dark contemporary romance
Release date: 14th December 2014
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Beauty can be a curse.
Faith can be a cage.
Only love can set you free.
A few long weeks after being reluctantly
ripped from the comforting embrace of her sacred prophet’s
religious commune—the
only life she has ever known—a
terrified Delilah is thrust into a world enveloped by evil and swimming in sin.
Steadfastly devout in her faith,
and retaining the deep belief that her soul is innately tarnished as a branded ‘Cursed woman of Eve,’ Delilah is
determined to find her way home to her people in The Order and away from the
corrupt and damned outlaw motorcycle club—The Hades Hangmen—who hold her at their secluded compound for her
protection—a
'protection' she strongly resents.
Delilah yearns to return home,
convinced that only amongst her own people, and under the holy guidance of the
Lord’s revealed prophet, can her Satan-spawned soul be truly
saved. Conditioned her entire life to believe she is a witch... a life-long
temptress… the devil’s whore... Delilah increasingly resents her
beautiful face, her shapely body and her sensuous effect on men. But when a man
of the motorcycle club—a
deeply sinful yet stunningly beautiful man—is charged with her care, Delilah begins to see that this
dangerous and moralless sinner from the 'outside' may offer her something she
did not know could truly exist: unconditional love.
Kyler ‘Ky’ Willis loves his life: a daily
abundance of brotherhood, liquor, the freedom of the open-road and—best of all—his pick of hot women.
Raised a biker brat and now VP of the most notorious MC in the States, Ky has no shortage of club sluts warming
his bed; a situation he takes full advantage of… until a certain blonde
enters his life… a gorgeous pilgrim-blonde he can’t get
out of his head… a pilgrim-blonde he and his club recently-rescued from
some backward religious cult… and a pilgrim-blonde he’s been
ordered to keep the hell away from and his whorish hands off.
When yet another in a lengthy line
of drunken blunders forces Ky to reluctantly take charge of the pilgrim-blonde’s
care, he realizes that there could be more to this woman than just supermodel
looks and a stacked set of tits. He begins to see that she could be the woman
who could do the impossible—tame
his wild ways and capture his reluctant heart.
But the unyielding bonds of Lilah’s
past are strong, her ‘people’ determined
and, with a new Prophet in charge and hell bent on revenge, they are mightily
reluctant to let her go...
and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
4.5 Star Review by Jennifer Hagen
Delilah is one of the three cursed sisters that were
saved from a religious cult. Her sister,
Mae, was featured in the first book of the Hade’s Hangmen series, and Mae is
currently shacked up with the mute MC president, Styx. The cursed sisters are all beautiful and were
deemed temptresses by their cult prophets – hence the term “cursed.” While in their cult they were believed to be
the spawn of the Devil and those words still have Delilah believing their
truth.
Delilah was rescued from the cult and is currently
residing at the MC clubhouse along with her other sister, Maddie. Delilah is having a difficult time adjusting
to life outside the cult sector. Going
from speaking religion in tongues to seeing tongues invade promiscuous women in
the clubhouse is a drastic change for Delilah.
She and Maddie do not leave their clubhouse apartment, instead look from
their window at their new life, wishing to go back to their old one where the
ways of the cult were what they considered normal.
Ky is the club vice president, and a self-professed
whore. He is living the words his late
father constantly reminded him of: Pussies are to be licked good and fucked
hard – never worshipped. Ky has
never once come close to settling down.
He has a woman, or make that women, hanging on him practically all hours
of the day and he takes full advantage of their offers. As much as a pig as Ky was when it came to
women, he earned points from me the way he always gave his mute president
respect. He is currently transfixed with
dirty thoughts of Delilah. It doesn’t
help his wandering thoughts when he is put in charge of conditioning Delilah to
the outside world.
Delilah was sheltered so much in her cult that she
doesn’t even know what coffee is! She still
places her trust in God and believes that the prophets will come for her and
return her back “home” to the cult. She
doesn’t know how to live in this world without still focusing her attention on
God and speaking in tongues and worshiping him – even though the words of the
Lord were corrupted by the cult members and were lies. Ky has a difficult time explaining to her
that she was brainwashed.
Ky and Delilah spend a lot of time together and Delilah
begins to feel safe whenever she is with him.
He may be vulgar and lives the life of a criminal, but she sees beyond
all that.
Things had changed
so drastically in regards to this man.
My feelings were so strong that I almost could not stand it. He was becoming the center of my world. He was completely changing my life.
The MC believes that the cult is out of order following
their deadly ambush on the cult fortress.
Little do they know what is happening…the cult is becoming larger and
stronger than they could ever have imagined.
Rider (Prophet Cain) is still pining away for the woman that he lost to
the MC president and is planning his revenge.
Revenge turns into war…war turns into rescue…rescue turns into
salvation…salvation turns into despair.
And for the first
time in a long fuckin’ time, I started to cry.
This book is not for the faint of heart. I enjoy a good MC story and this went beyond
my expectations, exceeding the first in the series. There are several scenes of graphic violence
and sexual violence. If you can’t handle
the f-word, then Ky isn’t the man the for you (according to my search feature
it is used 523 times). I loved seeing Ky accept his feelings of
knowing that Delilah was going to be so much more to him. He has a very brusque way of showing
endearment towards Delilah, but in the life of the MC it is fully
acceptable.
In the first book I knew that Flame was going to pique my
curiosity, and now we are able to see more of Flame and the demons that must
constantly haunt him. Flame’s story will
be featured in the next installment of the Hade’s Hangmen. I truly believe this man has a story that is
going to pull at every emotional string in existence.
Excerpt
“Mae! Get your fuckin’
girl under control, we
need to split!” The
man with long blond hair who had killed Brother Noah, my redeemer,
shouted behind Mae, his blue eyes harsh in his command. He kept watching me,
his blue eyes intense. From the minute I had left the cell, he had stared at
me, continued to stare at me still.
Mae’s dark lover whistled from beside him and indicated for us to
follow with a wave of his hand, but fear seized my heart, and instinct caused
me to flee.
“Lilah!” Mae’s voice screamed as I darted into the
throng of terrified sisters. My head whipped from side to side as I tried to
find a place to hide, and seeing an entrance to the forest, I lifted my feet
and scrambled in that direction.
But before I had moved a few steps, a large body wrapped me
in his arms and lifted me off the ground, preventing me from getting away.
I screamed and screamed as a strong, unyielding arm clad with
leather wrapped around my waist. I was terrified, tears pouring down my face as
his legs picked up speed and started running.
“Please…please let me go!”
I begged, but a mouth
suddenly placed at my ear cut off my voice, long blond strands of hair—not belonging to me—falling on my cheek.
“Nope. You’re coming with us, sweet cheeks, so
stop trying to run this sexy ass away. Although, I could watch that
fuckin’ perfect
peach of a view all day long and never get tired of it. But Mae wants you at the
club, so you’re
fuckin’ coming
to the club.”
My breathing hitched at how this blond outsider spoke to me
and I froze in his arms, not daring to move, worrying that if I did, I might
meet the same fate as the slain brothers on the ground. Then, as I carefully
tuned my head, I saw who held me in his arms, carrying me as though I weighed
nothing—the
blond man from before. The one who kept staring at me like I was something he
wanted to devour.
The same man, who when my eyes first met his, an ache
throbbed within my chest.
AUTHOR
BIO - LONG VERSION
Amazon & USA Today Best
Selling Author, Tillie Cole, is a Northern girl through and through. She
originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny
(okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by
her English rose mother -- a farmer's daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a
savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
Being a scary blend of Scottish and
English, Tillie embraces both cultures; her English heritage through her love
of HP sauce and freshly made Yorkshire Puddings, and her Scottish which is
mostly demonstrated by her frighteningly foul-mouthed episodes of pure rage and
her much loved dirty jokes.
Having been born and raised as a
Teesside Smoggie, Tillie, at age nineteen, moved forty miles north to the
'Toon', Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where she attended Newcastle University and graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts honours degree in Religious Studies. She returned two years later to
complete a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching High School Social Studies.
Tillie, regards Newcastle to be a home from home and enjoyed the Newcastle
Geordie way of life for seven 'proper mint' and 'lush' years.
One summers day, after finishing
reading her thousandth book on her much loved and treasured Kindle, Tillie
turned to her husband and declared, "D'you know, I have a great idea for a
story. I could write a book." Several months later, after repeating the
same tired line at the close of another completed story, she was scolded by her
husband to shut up talking about writing a novel and "just bloody do
it!" For the first time in eleven years, Tillie actually took his advice
(he is still trying to get over the shock) and immediately set off on a crazy
journey, delving deep into her fertile imagination.
Tillie, ever since, has written
from the heart. She combines her passion for anything camp and glittery with her love of
humour and dark brooding men (most often muscled and tattooed – they’re
her weakness!). She also has a serious side (believe it or not!) and loves to
immerse herself in the complex study of World Religions, History and Cultural
Studies and creates fantasy stories that enable her to thread serious issues and topics into her
writing -- yep, there's more to this girl than profanity and sparkles!
After six years of teaching high
school Social Studies and following her Professional Rugby Player husband
around Europe, they have finally given up their nomadic way of life and settled
in Calgary, Alberta where Tillie spends most of her days (and many a late
night) lost in a writing euphoria or pursuing a dazzling career as a
barrel-racing, tasselled-chap wearing, Stetson-sporting cowgirl... Ye-haw!
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