Long hair, leather, motorcycle boots… Yes, please!
As you can tell, I am a fan of bikers, and Road to Peace by Piper Davenport is full of them. They are rough, growly, sexy, and absolutely good guys, which makes them the perfect alpha male matches for the spunky women they fall for.
Road To Peace is about Hatch who is a sexy man-bunned mechanic and member of the Dogs of Fire motorcycle club. When A gorgeous woman’s car breaks down he is also the one who comes to her rescue.
Widowed mother Maisie is grateful to the good looking giant for fixing her car. She’s so grateful she invites him to dinner and struggles to keep herself from having him naked in her bed for dessert. Convinced she’s not only betraying her dead husband, but also setting a bad example for her daughter, Maisie gives him the brush off.
When someone cuts her brake lines and her car careens down a hill, Maisie’s daughter calls Hatch to ride to their rescue. Together, Maisie and Hatch must discover who tried to murder Maisie as well as shake off annoying relatives and in the meantime try not to get scorched by all the electricity sparking between them.
This book is sexy and fun and I can’t wait to read about the rest of the Dogs of Fire. The story line moved pretty quickly and I loved reading about all of the hotness that is Hatch. I also loved the way he put himself between Maisie and anything that threatened her, including her friends.
Maisie is a spitfire that made me laugh out loud. It is hilarious that she runs a company that makes sex toys, if not a tiny bit out of character. She seems a bit sheltered to have that sort of job, and the fact that her late husband was the brains behind the products but never tested them out with Maisie made me suspicious of him. I spent a good portion of the book waiting to find out something unsavory about him, and then preparing to be mad on Maisie’s behalf.
Trigger warning! Mental illness also plays a large role in the story line, so if you are uncomfortable with that I would say to steer clear. One of the characters suffers from Bipolar Disorder and I feel like Davenport handles the idea of mental illness with finesse. It fits seamlessly into the story line and helps show the characters’ true colors, Maisie’s especially.
All in all this was a great read. The characters are engaging and the story line has some surprising twists and turns. Piper Davenport’s writing is slick and makes reading effortless. If you’re a fan of Kristen Ashley’s Chaos Series you definitely need to meet Hatch and the rest of the Dogs of Fire, since it totally feels like they could exist in the same universe.
Well done, Piper Davenport! You’ve earned a fan!
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