HOT AS HELL (RBMC: Montreal QC, Canada 2) by Roux Cantrell-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 24, 2025

Hemlock’s life had finally evened out, steady—until Charlie Rose Cote sauntered into it. He should have known from the first kiss that she’d bring chaos, a roller coaster ride with no brakes and no one in control. One look at her, and he was in too deep. His brothers never failed to remind him of his terrible luck with women, urging him to cut his losses. Maybe they were right, or maybe, just maybe, his luck was finally turning.

Charlie was craving a fresh start when she crossed paths with Hemlock. Everything about him screamed danger—his name, his smoldering dark eyes, that easy, reckless smile. Yet, she couldn’t help but fall, drawn into the storm that swirled around him. What started as a spark of curiosity quickly ignited into something she couldn’t resist, no matter how many warning signs flashed in her mind.

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REVIEW: HOT AS HELL is the second instalment in Roux Cantrell’s contemporary adult RBMC: MONTREAL QC CANADA erotic, MC romance series set in the multi-authored RBMC series. This is nurse practitioner and MC member Emile ‘Hemlock’ Durand, and Charlie Rose Cote’s story line. HOT AS HELL can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Hemlock and Charlie) HOT AS HELL follows the building romance and relationship between our story line couple. An almost one-night stand ended with an allergic reaction, and our heroine with no place to live following a physical assault that left her broken and bruised. Betrayed by her former boyfriend, and one-time best friend, Charlie was struggling to make ends meet but a series of threats, break-ins, and attacks directed at Charlie, find Hemlock offering our heroine a place to stay. Hemlock knows betrayal first hand; having lost almost everyone in his life, Hemlock finds himself falling for a woman whose own life is spiraling out of control but when Hemlock perceives a personal betrayal, Charlie is on the outside looking in until the threats against our heroine become deadly and dark, taking aim at the man with whom she is falling in love.

The world building focuses on both Charlie and Hemlock’s earlier years: loss and grief, struggle and betrayal, and Hemlock’s battle to trust everyone in his life. As the threats and attacks against our couple increase I couldn’t help but wonder why the MC did nothing to avenge their brother and friend.

The relationship between Charlie and Hemlock begins as an almost one-night stand but anything and everything that could go wrong forced our couple apart. A break-in, theft and destruction of her property find Charlie accepting Hemlock’s offer of a home, and the possibility of something more but Hemlock’s lack of trust, hinders the growing relationship between our story line couple. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters are energetic and dynamic. We are introduced to Charlie’s ex Crispin, and her former BFF Ashley, as well as the return of club medic Razor, Vicious and his girlfriend Sway, Truck, Tail Gunner Player and Road Captain Joker.

HOT AS HELL is a story of betrayal and vengeance, jealousy and obsession, family and friendships, acceptance and love. The fast paced premise is entertaining and interesting but there was some redundancy and duplication; the romance is seductive; the characters are desperate and tenacious.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one HELL BENT

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Reviewed by Sandy

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