In a powerful, smoldering novel from the bestselling authors of the Caldwell Brothers series (“Bad boy heroes to die for!”—Tracy Wolff), two tortured souls team up to overcome the past, finding the courage to heal . . . and to love.
Jason “Cobra” Stanley was born to fight. With a father like his, he had to toughen up just to survive. Now Cobra tries to take out all of his frustration, all of his anger, and all of his pain in the MMA cage. But after he receives one too many hits to the head during a match with Jagger Caldwell, the cycle of violence comes to a screeching halt. Cobra wakes up in the hospital, under the care of a nurse whose blond hair shines like a halo—and whose pure heart touches him on the deepest level.
Lorraine Bosch is a fighter too. Having escaped from her own controlling father, she prides herself on remaining professional, despite the chaos of the ER. But Cobra is the ultimate distraction. Lorraine knows she should run away screaming from his rippling muscles and shattered psyche. And yet how can she deny this broken man a second chance—especially since she knows exactly what he’s been through? Lorraine’s used to playing guardian angel. Now it’s her turn to find heaven in Cobra’s arms.
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What can I say I did not like Cobra after reading Jagger’s book! Don’t get me wrong I wanted to know his story but never expected I would like or understand him by the end. Oh Boy was I wrong not only did l like him I actually loved him by the end.
Jason “Cobra” Stanley has a dark side and the only way he can keep it in check is to fight. Until he is blindsided during a match and finds himself in the hospital where a nurse with a set of blue eyes has crept into his soul and he cannot shake. He is determined to protect her from her nightmares.
Lorraine, Lo, Bosch had the perfect life until one night it was all taken away. She held secrets that tormented her. She was moving day to day not living just existing until Jason came in and changed things for her. Can the two of them together help the other overcome their pasts and make each other a better person or will their dark sides prove too much for the other.
I loved the chemistry between Jason and Lo. They pushed each other enough to make things interesting but the lust and love they had for another was sensational. The things they have to over come can make or break them. To hear Lo’s story was heart breaking. To learn Jason’s story was eye opening and I had more understanding of why he was the way he was. To watch these tow try to make a new life, begin again, was heartwarming. Jason believing Lo was his angel sent to save him, because there is no good in him but little does he know he is just as much Lo’s angel sent to save her. However, it will only work if they can each overcome their pasts and if their pasts don’t come back to break them both.
This was a wonderful story of taking a character that I so disliked in a previous story and giving him a chance to tell his story. Proving once again never judge a book by its cover you have to jump in and find out the true story. Sometimes you are right on your initial thought but sometimes you find something you never thought would be there. Thank you Chelsea Camaron and MJ Fields for telling Cobra and Lo’s story. Although heartbreaking as it was it was well worth the read.
I received this book from Netgalley from an honest review.
I am at a loss for words. Jason/Cobra’s book has me speechless. I loved Cobra in Jagger’s book. I mean we aren’t supposed to love him because he is going after a Caldwell woman but my heart ached for him. He has all the good qualities but Missy, his girlfriend, brought out his darkness. When I found out Cobra was getting a book, my heart went nuts!
Jason has been through it all. He finally breaks it up with his toxic “better half” Missy and is going to start over. In the course of starting fresh he meets his “angel” AKA Lorraine or Lo. Little does he know, his angel has a whole lotta crazy of her own to deal with.
Lo is living in isolation. She wants to find out who murdered her family and with the help of Heidi or Hi, her twin, she goes after the suspects she believes are responsible. When Jason barges into her life she falls. She can’t believe someone got past her defenses and sees HER…Lo…he isn’t falling all over Heidi. That is what always happens. Lo is the wallflower and Hi is the girl everyone loves and wants to be.
Lo’s story of loss is terrible and the fact that it doesn’t scare Jason is amazing to me. But when Jason lays all of his cards on the table Lo isn’t running for the hills either. She totally embraces him and his flaws or his “inner monster”. In traditional style, Jason says the right things at the right time and my heart was a pile of gushy goo….sigh….perfect man I tell ya. The story line of Lo’s family disaster was a great one. I mean we are so focused and when it all comes crashing down around Jason and Lo….ahhhh my heart!!!
The epilogue was PERFECT. I loved every second of it but I gotta tell ya, I would have loved to have Mouse and Lo meet up to share the end of her and Jason’s HEA.
CHELSEA CAMARON
USA Today Bestselling Author Chelsea Camaron was born and raised in Coastal North Carolina. She currently resides in Southern Louisiana with her husband and two children but her heart is always Carolina day dreaming.
Chelsea always wanted to be a writer, but like most of us, let fear of the unknown grab a hold of her dream; she realized that if she was going to tell her daughter to go for her dreams, that it was time to follow her own advice.
Chelsea grew up turning wrenches alongside her father, and from that grew her love for old muscle cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles, which just so happened to inspired her ‘Daddy’s Girls’ series. Her love for reading has sparked a new love for writing and she currently has a few more projects in the works.
When she is not spending her days writing you can find her playing with her kids, attending car shows, going on motorcycle rides on the back of her husband’s Harley, snuggling down with her new favorite book or watching any movie that Vin Diesel might happen to be in.
She hates being serious and is still a big kid at heart. She is a small town country girl enjoying life and, Chelsea hopes that her readers remember not to take life too seriously and to embrace your inner five year old, because five year olds know how to enjoy the simple things in life and how to always have fun.
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MJ FIELDS
USA Today Bestselling author MJ FIELDS grew up on a farm surrounded by her extended family. She attributes her ability to write a realistic male character to the fact that she had a large amount of male influences in her life… that and the dirty joke books she would steal from her uncles or the farms hired help and run away laughing while they chased her yelling obscenities trying to get her to return the books before her God fearing mother found out and spanked her butt with a flyswatter.
No she wasn’t physically abused, she very openly admits that she deserved every imprint left on her ass from the flyswatter. (Could this be why she loves tattoos? Maybe.) After each spanking she would run away, usually through the fields and down to the falls where she would laugh because it really didn’t hurt, while she read the book she had stolen and stashed when no one was looking.
When she wasn’t misbehaving she was working side by side with her male family members learning what hard work, loyalty, and dedication was all about, spending time with her grandmothers who taught her all about love and blind faith, or dancing and singing in the kitchen with her four siblings while her mother gave them all a childhood filled with love and encouragement to use their imagination and follow their dreams.
Her love of writing was in full swing by age eight. Together with her cousins, she wrote a ‘newspaper’ that they sold for ten cents to family members.
Her school years were spent hanging in the principal’s office or a shit list somewhere. Weekends she could be found spending time with her family or hanging out with more males than females, in the fields with tailgates down and a bonfire burning while music played loudly in the background. Some of those times ‘allegedly’ had alcohol involvement, she will neither confirm nor deny.
As an adult she self-published her first New Adult romance in January 2013. Today she has completed six self-published series. The Love series, The Wrapped series, The Burning Souls series, The Norfolk series, The Men of Steel series, and The Ties of Steel series. She also just released a book she wrote with five, yes five, other authors. It is her darkest book to date. The Original Sin is available now.
MJ has been told by several readers that they had never read a book that involved a Prince Albert piercing and although she cannot claim the title, it is said she may possibly be “The Pioneer of the Pierced Penis”, in the New Adult book world, of course. (Naughty naughty.)
MJ is a hybrid author who loves her readers and tries her best to write as much as she can for them. She believes she has the best reader’s crew in the entire world (many of us agree. Forever Steel baby). She publishes an Indie book almost every month. She is also signed with a traditional publisher, Loveswept, Penguin Random House, for her co-written series The Caldwell Brothers with Chelsea Camaron. Hendrix and Morrison, are available now. The third in the series, will be released on April 12 , 2016.
Her next Indie series is Rockers of Steel. Book one, Memphis Black and book two Finn Beckett are now available. River James is coming January 3oth, 2016. Each can be read as a stand-alone, but really who doesn’t want MORE STEEL!
There is always something new in the works and she has stories to write for her readers for years to come. Her alpha male characters are some of the best in the industry, but remember before they fall many of them can be considered crude, rude, pierced, and tattooed. (Just the way we like them!)
If you are offended by the ‘F’ word she advises you either take a pass on her books or pull up your big girl thong, sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy the ride. If you can’t handle the heat you should stay out of the … well the Steel and Sin book worlds anyways. If heat is all you’re looking for she insists you be warned the heat will draw you in, but the heart, depth, and emotion in the books will keep you
