“What the fuck is he doing here?” He hisses.
I open my mouth to explain when a guttural shriek sounds from the motel room. Rocco shoulders his way past me and grabs a hold of Stryker’s cut. Shoving him out of his way he enters the room and runs to his sister’s side.
Stryker moves to lunge for Rocco but I reel him in by pulling on the back of his cut.
“Get off me,” he shouts.
Forcefully, I tug him back, my patience wavers as I lean over his shoulder and clench my jaw as I hiss the words that come out of my mouth next.
“That woman wrestling her demons in your bed is Rocco’s sister.”
So much for Satan’s Knights steering clear of the mob.
Here we fucking go again…
Next from Janine
no·mad [?nō?mad]
NOUN
a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
a person who does not stay long in the same place; a drifter, a wanderer, a roamer, a loner.
Drifter Wanderer Roamer
Loner
Also Coming Soon
Blackie and Lacey’s happily ever after continues with Joyful Temptations and will be featured in the Christmas in The City II Anthology.
(Available now for pre-order)
&
The Sacrifice Series beginning with
Rocco Spinelli in Sacrificing his Soul
&
Pipe’s story in a standalone novel titled – From the Ruins
Acknowledgements
Wow. Just wow. It seems like yesterday I was saying goodbye to The Riverdale Series. I remember being scared as shit to delve into my next book. Originally, Illicit Temptations was going to be a single novel. Then you wanted Anthony and Adrianna’s story. After that, you wanted to know Jack Parrish and I was terrified to write his story because the MC genre is huge, there are so many talented authors who OWN that genre—I didn’t think I could do it justice. Then Riggs came to life and he brought out the humorous side of my writing. All the while, Blackie was festering inside my head, demanding his story. The Tempted Series was born and I couldn’t be more proud of these six books. Or grateful.
This series, in a way, saved me. You—my readers, took a very dark time in my life and brought the sunshine.
On March 11, 2015 my life changed. A pin punctured my “perfect” life and sucked the air right out of me. I had a choice to make: fall to pieces or pick up the pieces and move forward. At my lowest point, I turned to words and embraced an unexpected detour. I dug my heels into the Tempted Series and wrote six novels in a year, totaling over five hundred thousand words. What once was just a check on a bucket list became my saving grace.
It’s taken me a long time to accept that my life has changed and if I’m being honest there are days when I still don’t want to move forward, days when I want to rewind the clock to before March 11, 2015 but then I think about how far I’ve come in a little over a year…how I found my strength again and found it within my own words.
With that being said, there is a long list of people that have been standing behind me, cheering me on. People whom support me both personally and professionally starting with my parents. I can spend whatever time we have left in this world thanking you for every single thing you’ve done for me, for all the times you helped me rise up and face the challenges of life and still it wouldn’t be enough. I am blessed to have the both of you in my corner and writing this book, this particular storyline—well, it broke my heart because I truly would be lost in this world without the both of you.