Mortify (Raiders of Valhalla:New Blood 3)by Elizabeth Knox-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 14, 2025

It wasn’t my place to step up and claim to be her baby’s father, but it was the only way to protect her, and the unborn life inside her.

Regnor

Protecting Everly meant putting myself in Kraken’s war path, but I couldn’t care less.

The only thing he asked of us was to stay away from her, to let her have a normal life… but how could I do that when I knew the man she was fooling around with?

He was no good for her, and I knew his track record. He would ruin Everly like he ruined every woman before her, and I wasn’t going to let it happen.

It didn’t matter that the club was going through hell, that we were in the middle of the biggest battle we’d had in ages.

The only thing that mattered was keeping her safe, and when she was kidnapped, I was going to do everything to protect my ol’ lady and my baby.

He might have actually been the biological father, but no one besides me and Everly would ever know the truth.

Our secret would die with him.

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REVIEW MORTIFY is the third instalment in Elizabeth KNox’s contemporary, adult RAIDERS OF VALHALLA: NEW BLOOD dark, MC romance series, set in the RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC world co-authored by Elizabeth Knox and EC Land. This is Regnor, and EMT Everly’s story line. MORTIFY can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order for backstory and cohesion as there is an ongoing premise throughout. Everly is the daughter of Kraken and Magnolia (Spiteful/ Raiders of Valhalla 4).

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Regnor and Everly) MORTIFY follows in the wake of the ‘rescue’ of our story line heroine from her abusive ex-boyfriend. Everly’s relationship with her now ex-boyfriend Dylan had become abusive and controlling, and MC member Regnor was one of the few members to see through Everly’s barely veiled facade but when Everly is no longer able to hide the bruises, Regnor steps in to claim Everly as his own including the unborn child of the other man. Meanwhile, the MC continues to struggle with a man known as the Patriot, a man whose organization is involved in human trafficking and distribution of drugs, drugs that are aimed at the innocent and young but as the Raiders of Valhalla begin to search for the people responsible, the finger is pointed back at members of the MC.

The world building focuses on the growing relationship between Regnor and Everly as they struggle to keep the truth hidden from our heroine’s father. Everly has been declared off-limits for all of her life but Regnor is about to claim Everly as his own in the hopes of protecting the woman he loves. As the MC goes on the hunt for the people trafficking in both humans and drugs, a familiar face is about to declare open season on everyone involved.

The relationship between Regnor and Everly is a friends to lovers that escalates quickly as Regnor needs to prove he is worthy of our story line heroine. In an effort to to protect Everly, Regnor must stand up to Kraken, in the face of the declaration that Everly is off-limits. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of familiar, energetic and determined secondary and supporting characters including the members of the Raiders of Valhalla MC and their significant others, as well as several characters from the author’s The Mackenzies including Liam Mackenzie.

MORTIFY is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dramatic and engaging; the romance is fated and seductive; the characters are desperate, determined and stubborn.

Reading order and Previous Reviews
Manic
Scornful
Mercy

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Reviewed by Sandy