Charlie Winstead pushes aside the pain and anguish she suffers daily and puts all her energy into her women’s softball team, the Regulators. If only temporarily, the abuse bestowed upon her by her boyfriend halts for the time that she is behind the plate. Hensley has been her boyfriend for three years and the relationship progressed into a domestic nightmare. Realizing this, Charlie does what she … she needs to do to protect herself.
Whiskey Williams is a patched member of the Chosen Legion motorcycle club. He finds himself running from a dark and dirty past, looking for a new start. He relies on his brothers from the mother charter to help him. Once he arrives in Rudy, he sees Charlie and knows something has to be done to help her. However, seeing as she is fresh out of her abusive relationship, she wants nothing to do with men.
Will the attraction between the two be enough to make Charlie give the troubled biker a chance? Or will he strike out?
The game of love is not as easy as three up, three down.
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Fantastic debut novel about Charlie who has escaped an abusive relationship and Whiskey a tough biker with issues of his own. I must say I was thrown in the middle of the book when Charlie did an about face from a scared bruised young woman to a tough revengeful chick.
This is Charlie’s and Whiskey’s journey of discovering love and letting go the past.
The story line was excellent and well paced and all the characters intriguing. Love some and love to hate others. The beginning of the book certainly gave me the feels.
4.5 stars
Charlie Winstead has had enough of being abused by her boyfriend, Hensley, and she finally gets up the courage to leave. She had been hiding the abuse for three years but she finally gets up the nerve to tell her best friends Jazz and Briar. Briar is shocked by what he learns and relies on his brothers with the Chosen Legion MC to help keep Charlie safe.
Whiskey is starting a new chapter in his life after some events in his past make him doubt the man he is. He volunteers to help Briar keep Charlie safe when he learns what she is going through.
As Charlie and Whiskey deal with Hensley the two become closer but will either Charlie or Whiskey be willing to give love another chance after everything they both have been through? Will Whiskey be able to keep Charlie safe?
This was such a good book and I was hooked from start to end.
I thought Charlie was such a great character and I hate when women feel so trapped and embarrassed living in abusive relationships. It is so common and I love this topic being written about as maybe it will give one woman the strength to leave. I was so happy when she confessed to Jazz and Briar what was going on and I loved that he got help.
Whiskey was such a wonderful character and I hated that he was living with the guilt that he was. I loved how he and Charlie formed a friendship initially where they shared their respective pasts and then came together to get stronger. The chemistry between them was intense but it was still gradual and began on trust.
I hated Hensley and he was so cruel for what he did to Charlie. I was even more shocked as the book went on about everything he did and had done. I definitely was not expecting the stuff that was revealed!
I was a little shocked at Charlie wanting revenge and how much of she needed. I really wasn’t expecting that but I did understand that it was probably one of the only ways she could reclaim her life back.
The very end was great and I look forward to more in this series! – By Rebecca
This book was a great mix of genres. Sports cross with MC and a little suspense dropped in there. Charlie is a broken woman, having been beaten by her ex for years before she got the courage to leave. Enter Whiskey. He is a friend of her friends who is coming back to town. When he sees what Charlie has gone through, he does whatever he can to make her feel safe.
For me, I gave this 4 stars overall. 5 stars for originality, however I felt there was too much dialogue and the characters weren’t what I was expecting but in saying that I did find myself caught up in Charlie’s world.
This may have some triggers for some who have suffered/witnessed domestic abuse. Charlie was a happy fun loving person until her world was turned upside down. Her boyfriend Hensley of three years turned abusive and her parents were killed by a drunk driver. Whiskey has a troubling past of his own and leaves his MC club to come to the mother chapter. Can Charlie and Whiskey help each other?