HOLDING BEAST (Satan’s Keepers MC 7) by EC Land-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 10, 2024

Only so much pain the mind can take before it succumbs to the beast within.

Beast

I watch her lose herself. Saw the pain she endured. No matter the help I wanted to give her, nothing will do. She’s lost to me. There’s no way she can take anymore. Nor does she need a man like me. A man who has his own demons to hold on to.

With her at the clubhouse, I need to get away, but when death comes to our door, my demons demand out. Secrets I’ve held onto are revealed and there’s only one who keeps me sane. Her. Will she be able to handle it all? Or am I left to my own demise?

My brothers can’t help. Not this time. I’m called Beast for a reason and now they all know why.

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REVIEW: HOLDING BEAST is the seventh instalment in EC Land’s contemporary, adult SATAN’S KEEPERS MC dark, erotic, MC romance series. This is Jarrett aka ‘Beast’ and Bristol Hensley’s story line. HOLDING BEAST can be read as a stand alone but for back story and cohesion, I recommend reading the series in order.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Beast and Bristol), and a final chapter from Diablo, HOLDING BEAST follows in the wake of an attack on our story line heroine that left her for dead. Eight months earlier, Bristol worked at the MC owned Keeper’s Pub, and in the aftermath of the attack Beast kept his distance believing he was not worthy of our story line heroine. Months will pass before Beast returns, and in doing so, Beast will claim Bristol as his own but all is not well in either of their lives, and connections to family and the past refuse to let go. What ensues is the building relationship between our story line couple, and the potential fall-out as secrets and lies threaten to destroy what Bristol and Beast are struggling to rebuild.

The world building follows several paths including two powerful families, organized crime, European royalty, spousal abuse, betrayal and lies. As Bristol and Beast struggle to move their relationship forward, Bristol’s mother has plans for her daughter that do not include our story line hero.

The relationship between Bristol and Beast is acrimonious at best. Secrets and lies, miscommunication and misunderstandings threaten what little relationship there is. Months apart force Beast to acknowledge his need for our story line heroine but Bristol struggles with what happened and why. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, familiar and questionable secondary and supporting characters including the members of the Satan’s Keepers MC and their wives. We are introduced to extended family including Beast’s brother Everett; and Bristol’s brother Ben, their sister Giselle, and father Quinten Hensley. The requisite evil has many faces.

HOLDING BEAST is a story of betrayal and vengeance, greed and obsession, jealousy and money, family and relationships, friendships and love. The fast paced premise is dramatic and intense; the romance is seductive and provocative; the character are desperate, determined and dynamic.

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Reviewed by Sandy