From NYT and USA Bestselling author Cora Brent….an epic novel of heartbreak, desire and the healing power of love.
Now containing an extended excerpt from Cora Brent’s new crossover novel, FALL.
Promise Talbot needs to escape.
Forced into a polygamous marriage to a sadistic man, she grabs a desperate opportunity to flee his clutches.
And falls into the world of the Defiant Motorcycle Club.
… world of the Defiant Motorcycle Club.
Grayson Mercado seethes with the injustice of a long imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. Finally free, he is trying to make a life among his new brothers. Everything changes when a battered young woman approaches him, begging for help.
Promise and Grayson couldn’t be more different.
But the collision of passion and danger will spark a love written in their fates.
Full length novel contains adult language, mature emotional themes, and explicit content. Not intended for those under the age of 18.*
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Promise Me begins with our main character, Promise, who is about to enter into a polygamous marriage as Winston Allred’s fifth wife telling the Bishop of the Faithful that she would not be marrying Winston. In response the Bishop gives her a choice: marry Winston or her sixteen year old sister, Jenny, would become Winston’s bride in her place. Resigning herself to make the best of this life, Promise marries Winston Allred, but Winston turns our to be an abusive monster who loves to use his fists to inflict pain before he takes his wife, willingly or unwillingly. Be forewarned that the first part of Promise Me is hard to read. Winston beats and rapes Promise repeatedly. Promise tries to endure this life until Winston shares with her that her sister Jenny has been given in marriage to the leader of a neighboring sect of the Faithful. Now that Promise can no longer protect her sister there is no reason for her to stay with Winston. Luckily, she sees two men with Defiant MC cuts and begs for their help sharing with them that she is the cousin of one of their member’s girlfriend, Rachel.
Grayson, a member of the Defiant MC, may not know what to make of this girl dressed like she’s living on the set of Little House on the Prairie, but he sees the desperation and the tell tale signs of someone suffering from trauma so when she mentions Rachel and asks for help he steps up. When Winston Allred tries to collect Promise from her trip into the restaurant to use the restroom he’s turned away by two hulking bikers. Grayson takes Promise to her cousin and when the men of the Defiant MC learn of the extent of Promise’s injuries they rally around her to keep her safe. Winston Allred isn’t one to let his belongings go so Promise is in danger and she’s worried about her little sister, Jenny. The story that ensues is one of healing, loving, and protecting. The characters are well developed and made me fall in love with them.
I highly recommend Promise Me and if you have not already read Know Me, I encourage you to read it first. Know Me is Kira and Orion’s love story. They’re story continues in tidbits in Promise Me and I certainly hope that we see more of them in future books because I’m dying to know about a certain detail in their relationship and to follow Grayson and Promise’s lives after their HEA. I’ve fallen in love with the whole Defiant MC family and want more!
Promise and Grayson’s story shows thats despite the trials you face love finds a way. Promise was born in to what everyone on the outside can see as a cult, to her was always just the norm. Polygamist marriages with no concern with age or in some cases consent have always been what has been normal to her and the woman of Jericho Valley. But when the time comes for her to take her place as a wife to a man within the community she never would imagine the horrors that await her. Her new husband is sadist and treats her like cattle and property. She knows she must get out and when she sees and opportunity to take it she runs right into the arms of Grayson and the Defiant MCs. After the brutalites she suffered the last thing she expected was to ever feel normal desires for a man, but the kind and patient Gray awakened urges she has never experienced before but is desperate to explore. But there is still the issue of the compound and her sister Jenny she left behind. She cannot just forget where she came from after all. In order to move forward she will need to face all her demons.