#Review – Bound by Vengeance Series: Ravage MC Bound #3 by Ryan Michele

Title: Bound by Vengeance

Series: Ravage MC Bound #3

Author: Ryan Michele

Genre: NA Romance/Suspense/MC

Release Date: September 14, 2017

Vengeance: punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.

Austyn Cruz’s life has been turned on its axis. She’s done with sitting on the sidelines while those around her deal with her problems.

Growing up in the Ravage MC, there’s always been someone at her back. Now it’s time for her to deal with her problems on her own. That is, until the guy she’s lusted over and loved for more years than she can count decides to claim her.

Only, it’s too late. He’s too late. Everything has changed.

Ryker James lives by one rule: live free. His past does not define him, but it does decide to give him a wakeup call after years of lying dormant. It’s time to face his demon and make sure, once and for all, it never comes back into his life. All the while protecting the one and only he’s loved for longer than he should.

Two people tied together by their pasts. Two people searching for vengeance. Will the retribution they seek tear them apart, or bring them together? In the end, justice will be served … the Ravage MC way.

** Bound by Vengeance (Ravage MC Bound Series Book Three) is a standalone full-length novel. You do not have to read the Ravage MC series nor Bound Series to follow this book, but if you’d like to see where it all started, you really should. **

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I received a copy of this book for an honest review.

This book is Austyn Cruz and Ryker’s story. We get a glimpse of Austyn’s back story in Bound by Desire but wow we get so much more in this one. I did enjoy watching Ryker hold back his wants and desires to help Austyn once he made his mind up with what he wanted.

Austyn has had a hard crush on Ryker since the day he came to the club. Only problem she was a child and he was 18. Therefore, Austyn was firmly placed in the kid friend zone. Ryker never saw her the way she saw him even when she made it clear to everyone. There is a turning point when a girl realizes it will never be and Austyn has hit that point.

I was stunned to find out Ryker’s past and let’s say it was a whole lot of wacked out craziness. However, Ryker’s loyalty to family really shines through. Ryker is loyal, determined and protective. Once he realizes what Austyn means to him he is determined to help her get past her demons. Although Austyn wants things to get back to normal she finds she has a live in body guard. Ryker is assigned to stay at her and Emery new apartment and be by her side 24/7.

Austyn shows she is Cruz and Princess daughter with her strength, determination and perseverance. She is a fighter she will keep getting up and swinging no matter what is thrown her way. Ryker was able to give Austyn space and then push her when she needed it. His patients and determination to help her and make her see what she meant to him was a delicate balance that he pulled off in a grand way.

I loved seeing the Ravage MC kids all growing up and starting their own lives. I cannot wait for Emery’s book to find out who she will choose.

A few of my favorites:

Life decided to throw me curveballs. It decided to kick me in the teeth while I was down. It decided to do it again, repeatedly, not letting up, holding me down.

This is far from over, my beautiful woman. No, Austyn Cruz, this is just the beginning.

I wish I could just disappear sometimes and not be an adult. Forget having to make decisions and thinking. Just be free again to think the world is perfect and the bad stuff will never touch me. That’ll never happen again. Adulating sucks.

Ryan Michele found her passion in making fictional characters come to life. She loves being in an imaginative world where anything is possible and has a knack for special twists readers don’t see coming.

She writes MC, Contemporary, Erotic, Paranormal, New Adult, Inspirational, and many more romances. And whether it’s bikers, wolf shifters, mafia, or beyond, Ryan spends her time making sure her heroes are strong and her heroines match them at every turn.

When she isn’t writing, Ryan is a mom and wife living in rural Illinois and reading by her pond in the warm sun.