Doc (Kings of Mayhem MC: Tennessee 2) by Penny Dee-review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 28, 2021
Sometimes love grows in the darkest of places…
One tragic night took the only good thing in my life from me and set me on a new path. A path that eventually led me here, to the Kings of Mayhem motorcycle club in Tennessee.
They call me Doc because that is what I am, even if the law says I can’t be. I’m inked head to toe, ride a Harley and wear a cut, but my love for medicine is the blood in my veins.
I don’t need liquor and I don’t need women. By choice, I haven’t touched a woman in years. Guilt has shaped me into a lonely figure. Love is a fable and touch makes me uncomfortable.
But when a rival club decides I have what they need and abduct me off the street, I come face to face with the last damn thing I need—the woman of my dreams.
She’s the enemy. The daughter of our biggest rival. The odds are against us, yet I’m drawn to her like a moth to the flame. I don’t like to be touched but I want her to touch me.
Chances are I’m not getting out of this alive. But when I have her in my arms, I can’t help but feel like my life is just beginning.
Sometimes love can grow in the darkest of places.
But then again, it can crash and burn too.
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REVIEW:DOC is the second instalment in Penny Dee’s contemporary, adult KINGS OF MAYHEM MC : TENNESSEE erotic, MC romance series focusing on the members of the Kings of Mayhem MC- a spin off from the author’s Kings Of Mayhem MC. This is thirty-five year old Doc and twenty-eight year old registered nurse Tiger Lily’s story line. DOC can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Doc and Lily) DOC follows the enemies to lovers relationship between thirty-five year old Doc and twenty-eight year old registered nurse Tiger Lily. Eighteen years earlier Doc’s life imploded when he lost his high school sweetheart, and in the ensuing years, set about to get his medical degree only to have to lose said degree when he illegally procured drugs for a dying woman. Fast forward to present day wherein Doc is now the unlicensed doctor for the Kings of Mayhem Tennessee MC, and a late night appointment ends with Doc a prisoner of the Appalachian Inferno MC, the Kings of Mayhem’s rival for power and territory, a prisoner who must save the life of not one but two members including a pregnant woman who is about to deliver the Inferno president’s latest child but all is not well with the late term pregnancy, and Doc’s life is forfeit should anything happen. Enter nurse Tiger Lily Stonecypher, the Inferno’s president daughter, and the woman with whom Doc will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Doc and Lily, and the potential fall-out as Doc struggles to trust our story line heroine in the wake of a series of events that leads our hero to believe there is more to Lily than meets the eyes.
Lily Stonecypher thought she escaped the Inferno MC when she ventured forth to study for her nursing degree but forced to return by her demanding and controlling father meant facing a life of possible heart break and pain. Meeting Doc gave Lily a chance for redemption but to save Doc’s life, Lily remained behind, forced into a life of abuse and hate. Doc had suspected that Lily was a part of the Inferno’s game but little did he know that Lily was just as much a prisoner but more so.
The relationship between Lily and Doc is one of immediate attraction but Doc wants nothing to do with the Inferno MC, and in this, he and Lily make plans for an eventual escape. While in custody, Lily and Doc must take care not to get caught but Doc isn’t the only man vying for Lily’s attention or love. The $ex scenes are erotic, and intense between our story line couple.
We are introduced to Lily’s father, the president if the Appalachian Inferno MC Max Stonecypher, and several of his old ladies including a very pregnant Sunshine; several members of the Inferno MC including Otto, Odin and Lucien; as well as Kings of Mayhem Tennessee president Jack Dillinger and his old lady Bronte, and a cameo by a number of the original Kings of Mayhem.
DOC is a story of power, control and abuse; betrayal and vengeance; struggle, loss, family and love. The premise is dark and edgy; the romance is provocative but struggles with our hero’s issues of trust; the characters are broken, challenged but moving forward.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one JACK.
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Reviewed by Sandy
“Concern walked out the door with gullibility and trust when I realized I’d been abducted off the street by a psychopath because he wants me to help his fugitive wife give birth. Your father hasn’t said one goddamn word of truth since I’ve been here. There’s no way he was ever letting me leave.”
“Then why aren’t you doing something about it?”
“I am.”
“What?”
He walks over to me. His face is tight, his eyes dark. “Now why would I go and tell you something like that?”
His words and tone stun me, but it’s the sharp distrust in his eyes that get me.
I’m trying to help him, but he’s acting like I’m trying to extract his teeth without any Novocain.
“I’m trying to help you.”
“Sure, you are.”
I take a step back and fold my arms. Last night, I slept in his arms. Today, his walls are firmly up, and the look of contempt is back in those baby blues.
Apparently, our truce is over.
“You still think I’m a part of this, don’t you?”
I’m not going to be wounded by his distrust. In fact, I couldn’t care less. Besides, I get it. In his shoes, I’d probably feel the same way. And we’re not friends. Hell, I don’t think I even like him.
Okay, that’s not true. My body likes him, obviously, because every time he’s close to me, I want to get naked, sink into his warm aura, and make out with him, and clearly, my body is desperate to get laid. After all, it’s been what? Three years?
He stands in front of me, and I can’t help but notice the long lashes that fringe the deep blue of his eyes. When he talks, dimples appear on either side of his mouth, and dammit, if I don’t want to kiss those dimples as much as I want to kiss those lips.
Despite hating him.
“I know what you’re doing,” he says.
Again, the tone of his voice catches me off guard. “Excuse me?”
He moves forward, his face dark with heat and emotion. “Get close to the doctor and lure him in, do what you have to do to make him let down his guard…” He takes another step toward me, and I mindlessly take one backward. Not because I’m scared but because the moment has turned into something tight and exciting. Our eyes lock and an electrical charge buzzes between us as the space separating us disappears. “Be his friend, gain his trust… treat him real good.”
“What are you saying?”
He takes another step closer, but I have nowhere to go. My shoulder blades are already pressed against the door behind me.
“Wrap your arms around him and do what you gotta do… entice him.”
I glare at him.
“Well, here I am, Lily…” his eyes flash, and his face tightens, “… entice me.”
My sensibility screams at me to tell him to back off, but the woman in me can’t rip her eyes off his mouth. My lips part with a shaky breath as my heart pounds against my ribcage. I lick my lips, and his eyes become heavy-lidded as they track the movement of my tongue. I wonder if he’s going to kiss me, and the thought sends a zip of excitement up my spine.
His face comes closer, and I swallow deep, his heat burning like red-hot coal around me.
My eyes close.
I want him to kiss me. Desperately.
I feel his breath against my cheek.
My lips part.
“Isn’t that the plan?” he growls.
The palms of his hands hit the wall either side of my head, caging me in his heat.
“You want to entice me?”
His lips are close to mine. His voice dark and velvety.
“You want to lure me in and… tempt me?”
My pulse races in my throat.
I hear him inhale and exhale roughly, and dear god, just kiss me.
“Tell me…” His breath sweet as it brushes across my lips. “Just how stupid do you think I am?”
Penny Dee writes contemporary romance about rockstars, bikers, hockey players and everyone in-between. She believes true love never runs smoothly, and her characters realize this too, with a boatload of drama and a whole lot of steam.
She found her happily ever after in Australia where she lives with her husband, daughter and a dog named Bindi.
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