Release Blitz / Review: Whiskey Neat by Lani Lynn Vale

03 March of 2016 by

Title: Whiskey Neat
Series: Uncertain Saint’s MC
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Photographer: Furious Fotog
Cover Model: Chase Ketron
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.
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Reviewed by Deb

A Sizzling New MC Romance

If Whiskey Neat is any indication, Lani Lynn Vale’s new MC series, Uncertain Saints, will be on my auto-buy list. Let me re-phrase that; Uncertain Saints will be on my I-want-the-next-book-right-now! list. Ms. Vale’s compelling voice sucked me into Whiskey Neat hard and fast. She’s an awesome storyteller who pulls out all the stops as she throws action, suspense, emotion, funny dialogue, and hot sex at you like a ninja tossing Shuriken (aka throwing stars). This is a compact story that, at times, will have your head spinning with too much going on. Just go with it and enjoy. I certainly did!

Griffin Storm is bleeding out. His job as a Texas Ranger, working out of hole-in-the-wall Uncertain, Texas is the only thing holding him together. Griffin’s heart will never heal from the devastating loss he suffered six months ago. The only thing compelling him to get up every morning is revenge. The quicker the better, but no matter how long it takes, he’ll see it through to the end. His brothers in the Uncertain Saints MC have his back. Despite the fact, they were all in law enforcement,

We solved and tried the cases that the f***ing system wouldn’t take care of.
Lack of evidence didn’t matter to us.
What mattered was guilt and innocence.

Griffin is on autopilot until he walks into Lenore’s sex shop late one night for batteries. Which, btw, is a pretty fun scene. Suddenly life isn’t so black and white anymore. Which baffles the hell out of him because this woman is far from his “type”.

Lenore has lived her entire life in this tiny, busy body blip of a town. It’s home, and she likes it well enough. Never one to be a lemming, she opened a sex shop shortly after graduating from college and hasn’t regretted it one bit. The late shift is boring and full of pervs she could do without but if she can handle the crap life has been dealing her, what’s a few pervy individuals? And then, in walks a gorgeous man and proceeds to turn her life upside down.

Initially, I had a hard time believing Griffin’s attraction to quirky, plain Jane, Lenore. This guy is a jaded hard ass who seems to have given up on anything but revenge. He’s gorgeous and all tough cop, motorcycle man, who probably goes through women like Kleenex. But the more I got to know Lenore, the more I believed she was the perfect match for him. She’s quirky, hilarious, says exactly what she thinks, and doesn’t give a crap what people think of her. She’s no doormat. On the other hand, she’s such a caring and lovely person she’d do anything to help out whoever needed her. Griffin certainly needs Lenore in his life. Once he gets a taste he’s done for. He tries to convince himself he’s no good for her but in this case, he’s not strong enough to walk away.

Are there some flaws in Whiskey Neat? Sure. There’s so much going on that at times it was too much and a tad over the top. Did the good stuff outweigh the flaws? For me, a resounding YES. Lenore is refreshing! I loved that she dove head first into the relationship and spoke her mind. None of that girly holding back baloney that drives me batty. Griffin, despite feeling a lack of worth, manned up and didn’t hide from his feelings. I felt his despair, his anger, his need for revenge. I also felt his love and devotion to Lenore. Again, no big long drawn out games. All in all, I loved this book and I loved the characters, including the secondary ones as well. I’m kind of giddy that there are five more MC brothers and hope we get a story about each one.

 

♥♥♥♥

O Factor: Scorcher

“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.

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.

Title: Jack & Coke
Series: Uncertain Saint’s MC #2
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: May 6, 2016
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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