🧡The Deals We Make (Iron Outlaws MC 9) by S. Cole-review tour🧡

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 17, 2024

Calista
They always say you should never fall in love with your best friend.
And that’s especially true if they aren’t in love with you.
But when I was eighteen years old, I did it anyway.
Until Tiberius “Vex” Williams did the unthinkable and shattered my heart, costing me everything.
But now I’m back in New Jersey with an ailing mother and an unknown stalker.
The last thing I need is a grumpy biker determined to make sense of our past.

Vex
There are many rumors about how I became an Outlaw, but I became one to save my best friend’s life after she threatened to hack the MC.
And she hated me for it, leaving New Jersey in a blur of words time hasn’t healed.
Calista Moray is now the CEO of a leading cybersecurity firm, and she’s back looking better than ever.
When our paths cross, sparks fly. We’re best friends turned enemies with a score to settle and a whole lot of tension between us.

Until the head of the Cosa Nostra confides that millions of dollars have been stolen from their accounts and he asks me to figure out where their money went.
The thought I’ll find Calista’s digital fingerprint everywhere terrifies me.
Especially given this time around, it’s not just our hearts but our lives at stake.

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REVIEW:THE DEALS WE MAKE is the ninth instalment in S. Cole’s contemporary, adult IRON OUTLAWS MC erotic, MC romance series. This is thirty-three year old cyber security specialist and owner Calista Moray, and Iron Outlaws MC IT specialist Tiberius ‘Vex’ Williams’ story line. THE DEALS WE MAKE 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 dual first person perspectives (Ves and Calista) THE DEALS WE MAKE follows the second chance relationship between our story line couple. Tiberius ‘Vex’ Williams and Calista Moray were childhood friends and neighbors; computer nerds and hackers until the day Calista found herself on the receiving end of threats, blaming our hero for what was to come. Fast forward fifteen years, Calista is now the CEO of her own cybersecurity firm, and has returned home to New Jersey to garner a security contract with a local company but her return home comes with too many memories of the past, and the reality of her mother’s mental decline. Accepting help from Tiberius threatens Calista’s need for privacy and independence but Calista has a stalker, and Tiberius is determined to protect the woman he loves. What ensues is the building but tempestuous relationship between Tiberius aka Vex, and Calista, and the potential fall-out as Calista’s time in New Jersey comes to a close.

The world building follows several interconnected pathways including the rebuilding relationship between Vex and Calista; Calista’s mother’s mental decline; Vex and Calista’s history; her reasons for running; Vex’s introduction to the Iron Outlaws MC ,and more than one potential stalker for our story line couple.

The relationship between Vex and Calista is one of second chances. A friends to enemies to frenemies to lovers in which Calista struggles to forgive the man she blames for the sins of the past, and ultimately her love for the man who continues to control her heart. Vex never knew the reason or the truth behind Calista’s need to run but rekindling their relationship means a second chance with the woman with whom he is falling in love. The $ex scenes are intimate and impassioned including Shibari rope play.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and familiar secondary and supporting characters including most of the previous story line couples. The next generation continues to grow with pregnancy and births, marriages and love. The requisite evil has many faces.

THE DEALS WE MAKE is a story of betrayal, obsession and revenge; secrets and lies, family and relationships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is edgy and dramatic; the characters are brooding, broken, and haunted; the romance is spicy and sensitive.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews

The Sins We Hide
The Games We Play
The Lies We Tell
The Bonds We Break
The Vows We Keep
The Loves We Lost
The Souls We Claim
The Fates We Tame

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

The tattoo across my right hip says it all really. A Life Less Ordinary. Inked by the amazingly talented Luke Wessman at the Wooster Street Social Club (a.k.a. New York Ink). Why is it important? Well, it sums up my view on life. That we should all aspire to live a life that is less boring, less predictable. Be bold, and do something amazing. I’ve made some crazy choices. I’ve been a car maker, a consultant, and even a senior executive at a large retailer running strategy. Born in England, spent time in the U.S. and Japan, before ending up in Canada where I met my own, personal hero – all six and a half feet of him. Both of us are scorpios! Yeah, I know! Should have checked the astrological signs earlier, but somehow it works for us. We have two amazing kids, who I either could never part with or could easily be convinced to sell on e-bay.

I’ve wanted to be a writer for a really long time. Check through my office cupboards or my computer and you’ll find half written stories and character descriptions everywhere. Now I’m getting the chance to follow that dream.

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