Rafe (Sins of the Father: Evil Dead MC 7) by Nicole James-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 16, 2025

The bad boy and the good girl.

I just started a new job at a lumber mill outside of town.
It’s just a job to me, until I lay eyes on the owner’s daughter.
Then everything changes.
I need this job, and she’s the definition of off-limits— the boss’s daughter.
I should stay away. I know better than to mess with a good girl like her.

The first time she notices me, I’m being handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car.
Fantastic.
After that, she turns her nose up at me, like I’m trash.
Our mutual disdain builds and keeps a needed wall between us.
She stays up the hill at the big house with the pool, and I stay down by the mill.
Until one night tragedy strikes, and I’m the only one left working, the only one there to protect her and take care of her.

Suddenly, our differences aren’t so sharp, and our mutual disdain melts away as we finally see each other more deeply.
Soon a friendship builds, and turns to a secret love that burns hot in the dark of night.

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REVIEW:RAFE is the seventh instalment in Nicole James’ contemporary, adult SINS OF THE FATHER: EVIL DEAD MC-second generation, erotic, MC romance series- a spin off set in the author’s Evil Dead MC world. This is Rafe and Tori Sawyer’s story line. RAFE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Rafe is the son of Wolf and Crystal (Wolf: Evil Dead MC 4)

Told from dual first person perspectives (Rafe and Tori) RAFE follows in the wake of the rescue of businessman Raymond Sawyer from a fiery crash. As payment for his rescue Raymond offers Rafe a position at his family owned Sawyer Lumber where our hero will come face to face with his future, Tori Sawyer, a young woman off-limits in more ways than one. From the outset, nothing is adding up, and Rafe finds himself on the defensive when someone points to Rafe for a series of thefts and damages at the lumber yard, something Rafe knows nothing about but when Tori is targeted and Rafe’s sister Fiona goes missing, the MC rallies around their own, to bring everyone back home.

The world building focuses on greed and betrayal using the most innocent in a game of winner takes all. Tori and Fiona will become fodder for two men determined to take what doesn’t belong, two powerful men determined to play a very dangerous game.

The relationship between Tori and Rafe begins acrimoniously. Rafe believes Tori is a spoiled princess, and Tori is too quick to judge Rafe for who he is, and the patch on his back. Determined to prove he is worthy, Rafe begins a slow seduction of our story line heroine only to be forced aside when lies are believed over the truth. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of dynamic secondary and supporting characters including several members of the Evil Dead MC: Billy, TJ, Cole, Crash , Marcus, Reckless, Red Dog, Green, Shane, Jake, as well as some of the OG Wolf and Crystal, and Rafe’s sister Fiona. We are introduced to Tori’s father Raymond Sawyer, as well as businessman Alex Powers, foreman Charlie Thompson, and the governor’s son Connor Waters. The requisite evil has many faces.

RAFE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, misunderstanding and mistrust, forgiveness and acceptance, family and love. The fast paced premise is intriguing and captivating; the forbidden romance impassioned; the characters are determined and charismatic.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews

Marcus
Billy
TJ
Reckless
Brayden
Kyle

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Reviewed by Sandy

Nicole James is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who loves writing about hot alpha men who’ll do anything for the women they love! Her stories are filled with struggle, conflict and real human emotion. She is the author of the Evil Dead MC series, the Brothers Ink Tattoo series and more.

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