SINFUL (Raiders of Valhalla MC: New Blood 8) by Elizabeth Knox-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 31, 2025

I’ve been running from the club for years.
Helle
From my father’s disappointment. From my sister’s shadow. From the blood I watched spill in our clubhouse my entire life.
They think I’m at college. Think I’m being their good girl, studying hard, making them proud.
They have no idea I’ve been living under fake names. Racing bikes in illegal circuits. Tending bar in places where angels fear to tread. Becoming everything my parents taught me not to be.
But when I hear my father almost died—when I learn Los Coyotes came for him—I break my only rule.
I come home.
That’s where I meet him. The Nomad from Texas with scarred knuckles and dead eyes. The Shotgun Saint who doesn’t know I’m Raiders of Valhalla royalty when he pins me against an alley wall after a bar fight goes wrong.
He thinks I’m just another wild girl looking for trouble. Another conquest before he leaves Florida.
He has no idea he just claimed Ivar’s youngest daughter. No idea that loving me means war between clubs. No idea that the secret I’m running from could destroy everything.
Now I have to choose: Keep running, or stand and fight beside a man who makes my father’s bloodshed look like mercy.

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REVIEW: SINFUL is the eighth instalment in Elizabeth Knox’s contemporary, adult RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC: NEW BLOOD erotic, MC romance, a second generation series set in the RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC co-authored by Elizabeth Knox and EC Land. This is thirty-three year old, Texas nomad Bravos, and club princess, street racer Helle’s story line. SINFUL 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. Helle is the daughter of Ivar and Starla (SAVAGE #10). SINFUL advances the series approximately three years after the events of book seven MISERY.

NOTE Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspective (Bravos and Helle) SINFUL follows in the aftermath of the events of MISERY in which our heroine, believing herself unwanted, ran. Fast forward three years, Starla, now working as a bartender in Florida, is called home in the wake of her father’s abduction by the Los Coyotes Cartel where she will meet her future in the guise of nomad Bravos, a man who is struggling with his own demons from the past. Sent to Florida, to aid in the take of the Los Coyotes Cartel, Bravos will come face to face with our story line heroine, a woman who is battling the monsters that pushed her out of her family’s life. Working alongside one another, and with the help of not only the Raiders of Valhalla MC but the Reaper’s Rejects MC and newcomer Shotgun Saints MC, Bravos will help take down the Los Coyotes Cartel, and find his own happily ever after with our story line heroine.

The world building focuses on the search and rescue of Helle’s father Ivar; the forgiveness for one woman who is struggling with too much guilt, and the methodical dismantling and destruction of the Los Coyotes Cartel.

The relationship between Helle and Bravos is one of immediate attraction: a lust to love relationship predicated upon a need for revenge, wherein two lost souls find solace in one another. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is large ensemble cast of diverse and varied secondary and supporting characters from both the REAPER’S REJECTS MC AND RAIDERS OF VALHALLA MC series, as well as the introduction of the author’s new SHOTGUN SAINTS MC. Several characters cross over for cohesion and familiarity.

SINFUL is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, secrets and lies, family and forgiveness, relationships and love. The fast paced, character driven premise is dramatic and edgy; the romance is limited but fast and furious ; the characters are determined, desperate and flawed.

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

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Reviewed by Sandy