Scandal (Raiders of Valhalla MC: New Blood 10) by Elizabeth Knox-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 19, 2025

I’m the one who brings bloodshed.

Rex

When problems need dealt with in Dublin, I’m the call they make. When betrayal needs answering, I’m the blade in the dark. The Brotherhood’s perfect soldier—no conscience, no connections, no questions asked.

Then Liam Mackenzie sends me to Tallahassee with simple orders: shadow Dalla, Doran’s wife’s twin-sister. Keep her breathing. Report any threats. He doesn’t tell me Dalla would become my biggest threat.

She sees through me from day one. Calls me on my shit. Refuses to be intimidated by the monster Dublin created. While her twin sister plays happy family with Doran, Dalla watches me like she’s dissecting my soul.

I tell myself I hate her for it. For the way she hums while cooking. For how happy she looks when she sketches her designs. For making me want things monsters don’t get to have. But when an enemy comes for the Dalla—when they take her to gut Doran’s empire from the inside—something in me breaks.

Turns out I’m not Liam Mackenzie’s weapon anymore. I’m hers. Everyone’s about to learn what happens when you steal from a man who’s already lost everything. She thinks I’m just her shadow. Her reluctant protector.

She has no idea she’s the only thing keeping the devil on his leash.

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REVIEW: SCANDAL is the tenth and final instalment in Elizabeth Knox’s contemporary, adult RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC: NEW BLOOD dark, erotic, MC romance series, a spin off set in the RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC world co-authored by Elizabeth Knox and EC Land. This is Irish Brotherhood protector RJ Malone, and twenty six year old, fashion designer and MC princes Dalla’s story line. SCANDAL can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Dalla is the daughter of Club president Rune and Fern, and sister of Revna Volkov(Sadistic 4). For fans of the authors, there is a slight cross over with The Mackenzies series.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives ( Dalla and RJ) SCANDAL follows in the wake of the arrival in Ireland of our story line heroine. Dalla is a fashion designer whose designs have caught the eye of Greer MacKenzie, who runs a fashion empire out of Ireland. A fashion show, a shoot out, and a personal bodyguard find Dalla on a plane back to Florida, where she will find herself with twenty-four hour protection in the guise of Irish Brotherhood protector RJ Malone. RJ Malone believes himself a monster but from their very first introduction, RJ knows that Dalla is more than a job but the woman with whom our hero will fall in love, and protecting Dalla has become more difficult when RJ discovers a years long vendetta has placed a target on our heroine’s back.

The world building crosses the globe as the crime world, MC and human trafficking cross a dangerous path of power and control. Dalla will be caught in the middle of a potential underworld war, and the sins of the past take aim at our story line heroine.

The relationship between Dalla and RJ begins acrimoniously but RJ has been assigned to protect the woman with whom he will fall in love, a woman that stirs something RJ thought long dead and gone. Dalla’s attraction to RJ is immediate and intense but someone is hunting our heroine, who is often TSTL in the face of danger and death. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, familiar and energetic secondary and supporting including many members of the Raiders of Valhalla MC, their families, and prospects, as well as the return of Dalla’s parents Runes and Fern, and her sister Revna and her husband Doran Volkov.Several of the characters will cross over with the author’s new series : RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC: Prospects.

SCANDAL is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, obsession and reprisal, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is edgy and dramatic; the romance is subtle; the characters are determined and charismatic.

Reading order and Previous Reviews
Manic
Scornful
Mercy
Mortify
Sadistic
Monstrosity
Sacrifice
Misery
Sinful
Morbid

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Reviewed by Sandy