PROPERTY OF AZRAEL (Bastard Boilers MC 1 / Mayhem Makers) by Avelyn Paige -dual review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 20, 2023
Hallie Palmer was over the moon when was invited to sign books at the Motorcycles, Mobsters, and Mayhem event in Texas. A weekend away, showing off her books and hanging out with readers, models, and other authors. Best weekend ever, right? Then her klunker of a car dies on the side of the road in rural Arkansas. With no phone signal, her weekend plans are looking bleak until, just like in one of her own books, a group of hot guys on Harleys show up to help.
Azrael Huxton and his club, the Bastard Boilers MC, just wanted a long weekend away in Mexico. A couple of days with a beach, drinks, and beautiful women. Their plans go awry when they spot a damsel in distress. Dropping her off at her destination, he’s shocked to find an event filled with books about his own lifestyle, and Hallie writes them too. Curious to see what the hype is all about, he offers Hallie a deal.
Come with him to Mexico, and experience biker culture first hand. An entire week as his ol’ lady. Hallie jumps at the chance.
It’s research for her next book, right? What’s the harm in that?
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Sandy’s REVIEW:
PROPERTY OF AZRAEL is the first instalment in Avelyn Paige’s contemporary, adult B*STARD BOILERS erotic, MC romance series, a part of the multi-authored Mayhem Makers series focusing on the fictional Motorcycles, Mobsters and Mayhem author’s book signing event blending fact with fiction as many of the participating authors in the series have cameos and mentions, as names are dropped and their own series revealed.. This is romance writer Hallie Palmer, and the President of the B*astard Boilers MC Azrael Huxton’s story line. PROPERTY OF AZRAEL can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from three first person perspectives (Azrael, Hallie, Asher) PROPERTY OF AZRAEL follows in the wake of an opening at the Motorcycles, Mobsters and Mayhem author event in Texas. Hallie Palmer is an author who specializes in MC romances, and an opening allows Hallie the chance of a lifetime but Hallie’s limited funds force our heroine to drive across country where she will come face to face with Azrael Huxton when her car breaks down on the side of the road. With several members of the B*stard Boilers MC heading for a well-deserved vacation in Mexico, Azrael offers a ride to our story line heroine but an approaching storm forces the B*stard Boilers members, as well as Azrael and Hallie together in a hotel, where our couple will begin a relationship that will continue at the MMM signing but all does not go according to plan when a rival MC threatens our story line heroine, and memories from the past threaten the relationship between Azrael and Hallie. What ensues is the quick building romance and relationship between Azrael and Hallie, and the potential fall-out as Hallie must come to terms with the life of the man with whom she is falling in love.
The relationship between Hallie and Azrael is one of immediate attraction. With Azrael by her side, Hallie finds herself enjoying her first author event, an event where Azrael is mistaken for a romance cover model but with several members of another MC in attendance, lives are threatened, somebody dies, and Hallie and Azrael run for their life. Not everyone is happy with new woman in Azrael’s life, and our heroine finds herself on the outside looking in as Azrael struggles to survive. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate.
We are introduced to several members of the B*stard Boilers MC: Azrael’s twin brother Asher, Fox, Van and Orion aka O, as well as Hallie’s fellow author Eden.
PROPERTY OF AZRAEL is a story of betrayal and loss, vengeance and murder, acceptance and love. The fast paced premise is exciting and entertaining; the romance is seductive; the characters are energetic, flirty and determined.
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Sarah’s REVIEW:
Property Of Azrael is the first installment in Avelyn Paige’s B*star* Boilers MC series. As a new reader to this author, I was intrigued when I saw that she was basing this off of a book signing. Motorcycles, Mobsters, and Mayhem. With a title signing like that, who wouldn’t be interested.
Hallie is beyond thrilled when she receives an invite to MMM (Motorcycles, Mobsters and Mayhem, it’s a dream come true and as a new author it will be her first signing. Excited to embark on this new momentous adventure, Hallie loads up her klunker of a car and heads to Texas. Little did she know she was in for more than just a signing….
The one thing a woman never wants to happen when she is traveling? A broken down car in the middle of BFE with a storm rolling in and no help in sight. Just when all hope is nearly lost a group of bikers roll up. Instantly nervous, Hallie is alert to the group of men. She does after all write MC romance, she knows how these guys think. Azrael and his brothers are on their way to Mexico for a much needed vacation when they stumble on the author stranded on the side of the road. The connection is intact and powerful. It has been a while since any woman has peaked his interests.
When the President agrees to drop Hallie at her signing, she is both relieved and somewhat upset. They might be total strangers, but the chemistry they have is something you only read about in books. Now that Azrael has found Hallie, he has to convince her to stick around a while longer.
I can’t wait to see what else this series has to offer. The book is filled with humor and hope, intrigue and danger, spicy moments and ones filled with a family of choice. The brothers are loyal, stern men, but with hearts of gold, they protect their own, and Hallie has become that. Hallie and Azrael and the Brothers are books well worth the read.
Avelyn Paige is a Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author of romantic suspense and motorcycle club romance. She lives in a small town in Indiana with her husband and four fuzzy kids.
When she’s not writing, Avelyn spends her days working as a cancer research scientist. Avelyn has been an avid reader her entire life, and it wasn’t until losing her father in 2015 that she started turning all those ideas in her head into stories. She hasn’t looked back since.
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