This isn’t how fairy tales typically begin, but it’s where mine starts…No money, no phone, and abandoned on the streets of Chicago. With my baby in my arms, I wander into a bar in a shady neighborhood and ask to use their phone.When my father turns us away and completely disowns me, the bar owner, and total hottie, offers us a place to stay…no strings attached.I’m leery at first.Hot alpha … attached.
I’m leery at first.
Hot alpha guy.
Down on her luck single mother.
I mean, who wouldn’t be?
Lucio Gallo isn’t like most men, though. He’s fiercely protective, loyal, and did I mention he’s covered in nothing but muscle?
Above all else, he’s everything I need but never knew I wanted.
Men of Inked Southside Series:
Book 1 – Maneuver
Book 2 – Flow
Book 3 – Hook
Book 4 – Hustle
Book 5 – Love
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This story is the perfect combinatin of sweet and hot. Delilah, a single mum,barely surviving on her ends meets sexy and kind Lucio at his bar on one desperate night. When Lucio and his family extends their help towards her and her daughter Lulu,little did they all know that this would be the start to a beautiful love story.Prepare to be smitten by this charming story!
The Gallos are BACK and they are hotter than even. If you like alpha men with a soft side who make your panties melt then you have to meet Lucio. We meet all of the Chicago Gallos when they come to the rescue of Delilah and her baby. Lucio will surprise you, keep you on your toes, and smother you with a LOT of loving. I volunteered to review an Advance Reader Copy of this book for an honest review.
I’m a sucker for a damsel in distress story and this one was perfect! Maneuver begins the Chicago Gallo family stories and I’m loving it so far! I want Lucio to come rescue me pronto! Alpha male, sweet girl with cute baby, and a steamy love between them. What more could you want?! 4.5 stars
Adored this story..Chelle Bliss hits it out of the park again.
I received this book with the understanding that I could leave a voluntary and honest review.
In this book we meet Delilah Miles and Lucio Gallo. When this book opens we find Delilah being kicked out of her father’s car when he is drunk one night. She says she won’t leave without her baby so he kicks them both out. Before she can get her purse he speeds off into the night. Lucio sees this girl in the bar and goes to help. Little did he know what he was getting into after that first meeting. These two are from different sides of the tracks or that is what it seems like at first. Can they find that HEA or will this just be a random meeting one night in a bar?
This is an amazing book. This author has given us another hit out of the park. There are so many ups and downs I want to tell you all about. However I don’t want to ruin the twist in the story for any of the readers. I will say this book will have you hooked from the first word to the very end. I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
Chelle has done it again. So glad there are more Gallo’s! I can’t wait for the next one. Sexy alphas, strong family and strong females. Love her writing.
OMGeeeee! The Gallo men keep getting better and better! Lucio is absolutely delicious! This loyal bad boy had my ovaries exploding. Delilah is such a sweetheart and deserves someone as wonderful as Lucio. Lulu is one lucky little lady as well.
OH MY GALLO! Sweet & Sexy!
An intriguing romance that is steamy hilarious and swoon-worthy.
Lucio and Deliah’s story is the perfect example of how some of the best things in life happen when you least expect them and what happens to the two of them is lots of sexual tension, sweet tender moments and loads of laughs.
Maneuver is a spin-off of Men of Inked and it has everything that I love about that series. I Love the hero’s alpha ways, the “that could be me” heroine and especially the family dynamics.
I love all the new characters from the Gallo family to the bar patrons. I can’t help having a little crush on the mystery man Santino who has been mentioned in past books he’s definitely piqued my interest. This is a great start to the Southside series and I can’t wait for more of him and the rest of the Gallos. So Good!!
Simply put..short, sweet, memorable and completely Chellie!!!!!
Love the new set of Gallo’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucio is a hot and sexy bar owner and Delilah is a rich girl with a baby that falls on some hard times.Lucio and his family step up to help her and baby Lulu.Lucio and Delilah chemistry is off the charts and the way Lucio takes care of LuLu will melt your heart!!!! Can’t wait for more from the Southside!!!!!!
Sweet baby Jesus this book is superbly written! I absolutely fell in love with Lucio and Delilah! Chelle Bliss’s books are definite must one clicks! Laugh out loud funny, super sexy and steamy. Gah, Lucio is my new book boyfriend!
Delilah and her child is kicked out of her father’s car with nothing but each other. She walks into a bar looking to make a phone call and it changes her life. The Gallo’s show her what family means and that the worse situations can be the best thing to happen to you.
The Gallos are back and are better than EVER!!!
I couldn’t put this book down. Fast paced, hot and steamy….just how I like it! 😉
Need MORE!!!
The Gallos are back!! The Men of Inked series is my all time favorite. When I found out that Chelle Bliss was going to be writing the south side Gallos, I was super excited!
I loved every single thing about this book. Lucio and Delilah were amazing, I loved all the secondary characters. I could not put this book down, I read it in just a few hours.
Chelle Bliss knocked it out of the park AGAIN! I can’t wait for more books in this series.
5 Stars!
I received a copy and voluntarily left a review and all opinions are my own.
When I read a Chelle Bliss book, I always know what will stand out in my heart more than anything else. Will there be lots of heat? Absolutely, we did say this was a Chelle Bliss book after all. Will there be some twist and turns? Most definitely! But what always resonates with me the most is the family unity in each of her stories. She had us fall madly in love with the Gallos in Men of Inked and now we get to do it all over again with her new Southside series. We are oh so excited and lucky to meet new Gallos that might be just a tad bit wilder, crazier, but with the same huge hearts. Chelle gives us another couple to drool, pant, and obsess over. Trust me, once you meet the Chicago Gallos that own the bar Hook & Hustle and you get up close and personal with Lucio and Delilah, you will never want to close the book and return home. You will want to remain in their fiery embrace forever!
Delilah Miles shows us what the true strength of a mother and a woman looks like from the time we meet her when she is down and out and get to see how she still gets back up on her feet and pushes through for her daughter. She is so much more than just a rich girl on the wrong side of town slumming it. She realizes from the beginning that a family that loves fiercely like the Gallos is worth more than all the gold in the world. This is a girl who needs all the love and compassion that she never received from her own family and Lucio is capable of giving her that and so much more!
Lucio Gallo is yet another muscled, inked, and rough around the edges alpha male that you won’t be able to get enough of! What surprised me the most was underneath all that hotness is a gentle soul and big heart that you just want to cuddle the hell out of. I don’t think one of Chelle’s heroes has ever shown us so much softness underneath all that hard muscle and still made us want to fall at his feet! Such a smooth combination of alpha and big teddy bear had my heart in trouble from the moment Delilah set eyes on him and heard his oh so sexy voice.
Chelle Bliss delivers another amazing, heart melting, desire pumping beginning to a new saga of the Gallo family that will leave you breathless and even more in love with her writing. I highly recommend Maneuver for a romance that punches you in the heart just as hard as it does the libido. Each new story leaves me even more besotted and addicted to Chelle Bliss and her larger than life Gallos. To say that I was beyond giddy to meet the Chicago Gallos is an understatement. I cannot wait to see where Chelle Bliss will take us next into this fictional world. All I know is her story is sure to contain lots of heart, plenty of family, and so much imagery that will set you ablaze and be forever burned into your imagination.
Chelle Bliss did it again! Darn this branch of the Gallo family tree is just as unique and genuine as the original. I could not put this story down! I love Lucio!
I’m a big fan of the Men of Inked series so I was over the moon to find out that Chelle was bringing us more from the Gallo’s.
As you can imagine this was a super sexy read and a really nice easy book to read. The story was engaging and flowed really well, although there were times where I wished the story had been fleshed out a little more. Chelle really succeeds in delivering the close knit family feel that you can’t help but fall for and I look forward to more from the other family members.
Lucio was an absolute sweetheart and someone I easily warmed to and Delila had an inner strength that really shines through that means you instantly want great things for her. They had great chemistry together, however, for me their relationship was a little too insta for my tastes and after that initial boom, I would have liked for things to have slowed down a little and develop on a deeper level.
All in all though, a nice start to a new series and I certainly look forward to more from the Southside.
I was provided with a copy of this book from the Publisher; there was no inducement or obligation.
This is the 1st book in this series.
Lucio Gallo is everything you could want in a man. He’s sexy, successful, loyal, loves his family and mama and rides a motorcycle! Omg what more can a girl want! Maybe one other thing he loves babies! Lucio and his siblings own their own bar. Which is successful and prosperous. He also owns a couple of homes. But chooses to stay on the south side of Chicago. Which is the rougher part of town. Not the badest but also the greatest.
Delilah is a beautiful young lady who grew up in the ritzier wealthier part of Chicago. She’s used to finer things in life. Yet even with growing up with money she had no stability in her family life. Her parents are both losers and selfish. She has a baby, Lulu, who’s only a few months old. While out driving back to her luxury apartment she shares with her father, he is driving drunk, and Delilah asks him to pull over. He does, and Delilah asks to drive or call a driver instead. He refuses.
Delilah grabs her baby Lulu out of the car, and is now on the sidewalk outside a bar, in a bar part of south side of Chicago. What will Delilah do? She has no ID, no car, no money, no real work skills. She goes into the bar, and meets Lucio. Lucio is kind to her. Lucio knows she has nothing, and is trying to be nice and kind to her. Although Delilah knows she doesn’t have a penny in the world now that her father kicked her out, she doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t want to trust Lucio, although she has no other choice to trust him and his family who have been nothing but kind to her.
Will Delilah and her father go back to being a family? Or will Delilah find a new path for her unknown future with Lucio?
It’s all about the Gallo’s baby!!!! Maneuver was absolutely without a doubt unputdownable! I devoured every page like my life depended on it because Lucio and Delilah’s story was every bit alluring and captivating. Lucio Gallo was the definition of playboy extraordinaire, definitely a heart of gold(but doesn’t want anyone to know), loves his ma and family no matter how frustrating they are. Delilah is the strong, gorgeous woman with the cute little bundle of joy Lulu who captures the heart of one Lucio Gallo. Delilah and Lulu were not what Lucio was looking for but quickly realized they were everything he wanted. This is one read you won’t be able to part with it was that damn good!!
We’ve come to love the Gallo family in Florida but now it’s time for the cousins in Chicago. Lucio is a perpetual playboy and has never thought about settling down. That is until Delilah and her daughter Lulu come into his life. Delilah thought she had a perfect life nut o it all came crashing down. This book is amazing. Chelle Bliss has never wrote a book I didn’t live. If you loved the Gallos from Florida the you will definitely love the Gallos of Chicago.