Shadow / Banshee (Shotgun Saints MC 1 & 2) by Elizabeth Knox-review
SHADOW
(Shotgun Saints MC 1)
by Elizabeth Knox
Genre: adult, contemporary, MC, romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 6, 2026
He’s been waiting in the shadows. Now he’s coming to collect.
Shadow
I’ve watched Grace for years.
Through every Sunday dinner at the ranch. Every club party where she smiled at men who weren’t me. Through her engagement to that piece of shit VP who thought he could take what was mine.
He learned different. Her brother put him in the ground, but I would have made it last longer. Would have carved my name into his corpse for touching her.
The president’s daughter is supposed to be off-limits. Untouchable. Sacred.
But I see how she looks at me when her daddy’s not watching. Feel her pulse race when I get too close. Watch her squeeze those pretty thighs together when I work the ranch shirtless, knowing exactly what I’m doing to her.
Twenty years between us. Her father’s wrath. Her brother’s loyalty to a different club. None of it matters anymore.
I’m done being the good soldier. Done pretending I don’t dream about her underneath me, marked by my hands, screaming my name. Done acting like I’m not already ruined for anyone who isn’t Grace.
She thinks she knows darkness—she survived it once.
But I’m not here to protect her anymore. I’m here to consume her. To own every breath, every moan, every piece of her soul until she doesn’t know where she ends and I begin.
Her daddy trusts me to keep her safe.
He should have known better than to trust a sinner with his only saint.
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REVIEW: SHADOW is the first instalment in Elizabeth Knox’s contemporary, adult SHOTGUN SAINTS MC romance series, a ranching MC; a next generation spin off set in the author’s REAPER’S REJECTS world. This is club enforcer forty-six year old, Shadow, and twenty-six year old, DVM Dr. Grace Dalton’s story line. Grace is the sister of Shiver (Siren’s Salvation: Reaper’s Rejects MC: 2nd Generation).
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise including SA (off page), there maybe triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Grace and Shadow) SHADOW follows the forbidden relationship between our story line couple. Grace is the daughter of Shotgun Saints MC president Phantom, and is off-limits by order of her father but approximately nine years earlier, Phantom ‘sold’ his daughter to a member of the Copperhead Kings, a man who would destroy our story line heroine. Fast forward to present day, Phantom has become Grace’s guardian and protector but the past refuses to let go, and Grace is once again a target of the Copperhead Kings. Shadow never expected to fall in love with our story line heroine but the heart wants what it cannot have. With the Copperhead Kings threatening war, Phantom, alone with the Shotgun Saints and the Reaper’s Rejects make plans to take down everyone involved.
The world building focuses on the threats against Grace. Grace is a pawn, purchased by the Copperhead Kings, and as such, they was our story line heroine but there is more to Grace’s story, and the Shotgun Saints MC refuse to back down or give in.
The relationship between Grace and Shadow is forbidden; a secret affair predicated upon years of dancing around one another but our couple want something more than friendship, and when Grace’s father discovers the truth, our couple will find themselves without a home, family or support. The $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and familiar secondary and supporting characters including several members of the Reaper’s Rejects MC.We are introduced to Shotgun Saints MC president Phantom, Banshee, Grace’s brother Shiver, sister Dakota, and mother Jolene, as well as treasurer Rogue. The requisite evil has many faces.
SHADOW is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is dramatic and gritty; the characters are desperate and dynamic; the romance is limited but impassioned.
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BANSHEE
(Shotgun Saints MC 2)
by Elizabeth Knox
Genre: adult, contemporary, MC, romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 13, 2026
He made a vow at her grave. Her best friend is about to break it.
Banshee
I haven’t taken off my wedding ring in five and a half years.
Haven’t slept through the night. Haven’t answered a phone call without my hands shaking. Haven’t let a woman close enough to touch the wreckage my wife left behind when she died on a rain-soaked highway with my name as the last word on her lips.
I had rules. The ring stays on. The walls stay up. The grief stays mine.
Then her best friend showed up.
Bex Dalton is everything Rose wasn’t—dark, rough, stubborn as hell, built like a woman who fights the world with her bare hands and wins. She came back to Sharp for Rose’s dying father, not for me. She made that real clear.
Doesn’t matter. I watch her anyway. Watch her bend steel and gentle my horses and stand her ground against men twice her size. Watch her grieve the same woman I grieve and pretend she’s not falling apart.
She was the reason Rose was on that road. I was the reason Rose was on that phone.
We’re both guilty. Both broken. Both starving for something we have no right to take from each other.
I’m going to take it anyway.
And the ring is coming off.
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REVIEW: BANSHEE is the second instalment in Elizabeth Knox’s contemporary, adult SHOTGUN SAINTS MC romance series, a ranching MC, a next generation spin off set in the author’s REAPER’S REJECTS world. This is Shotgun Saints MC road captain Lee ‘Banshee’ Simms, and farrier Bexley “Bex’ Dalton’s story line. BANSHEE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Lee and Bex) BANSHEE follows five and half years after the accident that took the life of Banshee’s wife Rose. Withdrawing from family and friends, Banshee went about day to day without acknowledging the people in his life. Fast forward to present day, a ghost from the past returns, Rose’s best friend Bex, the woman with whom Banshee will fall in love. Bex doesn’t have time to tip toe around her late friend’s husband but when a local rancher sets his eyes on Rose’s father’s ranch, Banshee and the Shotgun Saints MC rally to protect the man everyone had loved.
The world building focuses on grief and loss, friendships and family as Banshee struggles to move on from the past but when someone threatens the father of the woman he loved, Banshee becomes guardian and protector.
The secondary and supporting characters include the return of MC president Phantom, enforcer Shadow and his wife Grace, as well as the introduction of Banshee’s father in law Earl. The requisite evil has many faces.
BANSHEE is a story of grief and loss, family and struggle, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is emotional and dramatic; the romance is once again, limited but seductive; the characters are broken but fighting to heal.
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Reviewed by Sandy
