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Abused and on the run, Sadie flees through the woods. For the first time in her life, she craves the blissful silence of nature. Her sire and mate is a monster who hid his inner evil all too well. Her skills as a mechanic now useless, intolerant to the noise and pollution of the city\u2019s diesel engines thanks to her new werewolf status, Sadie\u2019s only hope is the ex-pack of the monster she escaped. But will they accept the dieselhead mate of a rogue?<\/p>\n Domek, the Blue Wolf alpha, has caught the scent of the rogue he\u2019s sworn to hunt down. But he\u2019s shocked to find it attached to a frail, damaged city girl, the most beautiful creature he has ever seen. The desire to take care of her is fierce . . . unexplainable.<\/p>\n How can he protect a woman who has tied the fate of her mortality to the life of a rogue he must destroy?<\/p>\n Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n I purchased this book at a book signing.<\/p>\n SO when I saw the ladies I thought OH COOL\u2026.so I ran over to check out what I ignorantly thought would be historical.\u00a0 I love historical so yeah their awesome costumes made me run over.\u00a0 Then I get there and am all \u201c uhm what is DieselPunk?\u201d and then while asking I am reading the back of the book and see the keyword \u201cShifter\u201d and I said sold!\u00a0 Yup that is how I roll!!\u00a0 Plus their covers are totally awesome!!<\/p>\n I can\u2019t even begin to tell you what I loved because there were so many aspects to the story and genre that I loved.\u00a0 I love shifters and so this added DeiselPunk science was kinda cool.\u00a0 Then throw in a dominant hottie Alpha who is all into the kinks\u2026yes please #HEAVEN!!<\/p>\n Another thing I loved was the whole Mated to the wrong guy\u2026our poor girl Sadie thinks she has found THE ONE and accepts him as her mate only to realize nope she got tricked.\u00a0 As she is running from her \u201cmate\u201d she stumbles into our hottie alpha, Domek.\u00a0 He is consumed with the little wolf but can\u2019t understand why? \u00a0She is mated to another and it\u2019s his bitter enemy at that!!<\/p>\n Domek\u2019s storyline is great.\u00a0 He is really trying to do the right thing but he can\u2019t get his head around the fact he feels Sadie is his. \u00a0Sadie is so drawn to Domek but thinks he is only helping her because he accepted her into his pack for safety.\u00a0 The couple have a few obstacles to overcome\u2026..like her original mate, her non-english\/Diesel speak and the fact that she challenges him while submitting to him as well.\u00a0 Her and Kara has great sense together!! #GirlPower<\/p>\n I LOOOOVED the story and how we find out what to do to fix Sadie\u2019s trouble but I also loved the build-up for the next book\u2026so excited for Molly and Edo!!\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to jump in and see what kind of shenanigans we will be reading about in the next book!<\/p>\n Writing under Mikea Howard, we are actually Mindy Howard and Kelly Smith, sisters-in-law who share a love for romance, usually paranormal. We have spent the last several years reading and sharing books as well as authors, often making comments about how we’d love to write our own when we ran out of things to read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abused and on the run, Sadie flees through the woods. For the first time in her life, she craves the blissful silence of nature. Her sire and mate is a monster who hid his inner evil all too well. Her skills as a mechanic now useless, intolerant to the noise and pollution of the city\u2019s … Continue reading #Review #DieselPunk #Shifters – The Mechanic’s Mate (The Diesel War #1) by Mikea Howard @mikeahowardwrit<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/synopsis.png\")
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\nWhile based on our TBR piles, we have not run out of reading material, yet we decided to write when the muse hit Kelly with a dystopian diesel world and an opening scene with the heroine running out into the woods. Mindy then saw her hero step in, and The Diesel War series was born.<\/p>\n