💚Loving Smoke (RBMC: Tijuana, MX 1) by Barbara Nolan-review tour💚

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 16, 2024

The fine line between love and hate is broken when Smoke falls hard for the enemy and puts his club and everything he values at risk.

Smoke

I screwed up bad—So bad the chapter prez of the Royal Bastards banishes me and my VP to a beat-to-shit strip club in Tijuana to take down a cartel boss who’s been screwing with our gun supply. I was pissed off big time until—a sweet, hotter-than-hell woman walks into the club, and turns my life sideways.

Marisol

I’ve lived a privileged life—private schools, European vacations, a villa on the Baja Coast. Everything my father’s illegal cartel money could buy until—the unspeakable happens.

His violent lifestyle resulted in my mother’s murder.

Now I’m out for revenge and I’m targeting the outlaw MC responsible—

The Royal Bastards.

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REVIEW: LOVING SMOKE is the first instalment in Barbara Nolan’s contemporary, adult RBMC: TIJUANA MX erotic, MC romance series-a part of the multi-authored RBMC series. This is RBMC: Tijuana MX president Smoke, and Marisol Marquez’ (Sandoval) story line.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Smoke and Marisol) LOVING SMOKE follows in the wake the banishment of Smoke as president of the RBMC: San Diego. A DEA government raid on the San Diego club house sent the members into a tailspin, and Smoke was voted out for his lack of control and inability to take charge. Along with his VP and friend Blood, Smoke was demoted and banished to Tijuana Mexico, in the hopes of starting a new chapter of the RBMC. A rundown bar and strip club was all Smoke and Blood had to their names, and the hiring of bartender Marisol Marquez drew Smoke like a moth to a flame but all is not well in Tijuana Mexico, a corrupt city run by the Mexican Cartel, and Smoke was about to get caught in the crossfire of someone seeking vengeance for sins of the past.What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Smoke and Marisol, and the potential fall-out when Smoke discovers a plant, someone seeking to destroy our story line hero.

The world building focuses on the new start and new life of Blood and Smoke. The rebuild of a strip club and bar is a new beginning for a new chapter of the RBMC but the Mexican Cartel is demanding their share, a share that comes with a caveat, and threats to their lives.

The relationship between Marisol and Smoke begins as boss and employee but a relationship predicated upon a number of lies. Marisol is not whom she claims to be, and in the betrayal tears Smoke to his very soul. The $ex scenes are erotic and provocative.

We are introduced to several colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters-the premier members of the RBMC: Tijuana: Smoke’s VP Blood, Enforcer Bolt, Club secretary Ricky, treasurer (and Marisol’s brother) Manny, and prospect Diesel. The requisite evil has many faces.

LOVING SMOKE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The premise is dramatic and edgy ; the characters are animated and stubborn; the romance is raw and real

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Reviewed by Sandy