Ride Dirty
Raven Riders #3.5
By Laura Kaye
Release Date: March 13th, 2018
Evil Eye Concepts, Inc
Tour Host: InkSlinger PR
Source: ARC provided by the author
From New York Times Bestselling author Laura Kaye, comes RIDE DIRTY, a new novella in her Raven Riders Series, brought to you by 1,001 Dark Nights! Be sure to grab your copy today!
Caine McKannon is all about rules. As the Raven Riders Sergeant-at-Arms, he prizes loyalty to his brothers and protection of his club. As a man, he takes pleasure wherever he can get it but allows no one close—because distance is the only way to ensure people can’t hurt you. And he’s had enough pain for a lifetime.
And then he rescues a beautiful woman from an attack.
Kids and school are kindergarten teacher Emma Kerry’s whole life, so she’s stunned to realize she has an enemy—and even more surprised to find a protector in the intimidating man who saved her. Tall, dark, and tattooed, Caine is unlike any man Emma’s ever known, and she’s as uncertain of him as she is attracted. As the danger escalates, Caine is in her house more and more – until one night of passion lands him in her bed.
But breaking the rules comes at a price, forcing Caine to fight dirty to earn a chance at love.
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
I have to admit, while I'm super excited to read Ride Dirty, I'm also
completely heartbroken that this is the end of the series! But luckily enough,
this book is a Laura Kaye book, so it's never really the end, at least, that’s
what I tell myself.
Ride Dirty is Caine's story, and this is where we get to know the more
reclusive member of the Raven Riders. But then Caine meets Emma, he has met his
match, and he doesn't know what to do, other than protect her.
Ride Dirty is a delicious book! Well in all honesty, they whole series
has been delicious. And I have to say, Laura Kaye does an amazing job, drawing
you into her characters world, so much so, that they feel like part of you, and
I'm devastated that this is the end. There is only one thing that I could have
wished for in this book, and that wish is, that I would have heard more from
the other Ravens, Like honestly I'm greedy, and never wants to let these
characters go, if only this was a real place, I would have moved there.
Well enough about my heartbroken ramblings, let's get to the meat of
the book. Ride Dirty (and yes I have Christina Aguilera's Dirty is in my head,
every time I read the title) is well written, with the perfect amount of spice,
suspense, and Santa's, and that is why I give it 5 stars.
Emma
shifted, bringing her face closer to Caine’s. Close enough that if he just
leaned up, he could have a taste of her again. “You know what you are?” she
asked.
Yeah.
Yeah, he really fucking did. A jagged boulder slid into his gut. But he wanted
to hear what she had to say. “What?”
“You’re
the man who risked himself and saved me.” She blew out a shaky breath, and damn
if her fear didn’t reach into his rib cage and make it hard to breathe. Or
maybe what invaded his chest was his own fear—at realizing how close he’d been
to losing Emma Kerry before he’d ever met her at all. White-hot anger lanced
through him at the thought.
“Okay,”
he said.
“I’m
not done.” She pressed a soft kiss against his lips, and the freeness of her
affection stunned him. “You’re also the man who recognized that I was in danger
and took it upon himself to watch over me and my house, to even talk to the
police about it.”
He
shrugged with one shoulder, his gaze falling somewhere in between them.
“Providing protection, investigating threats, and installing security, this is
what I do for the Ravens. I know you don’t know a lot about us, but we have a
whole mission around defending people who can’t defend themselves. So I just
slipped into that mode. But I should’ve told you what was going on. I just…I
didn’t want to worry you until I was sure. And I didn’t—fuck, I know this was selfish—but I didn’t want you to hate me for
letting the guy get away.”
“Yeah,
you should’ve told me. So I could be more aware and know I might need to defend
myself. Look at me,” she said, tilting her face to try to align their gazes.
He
lifted his and met those warm blues head on, ready for whatever criticism and
anger she wanted to dish out.
“But
last night, out on the street, you admitted you had something to tell me. And
then you did. Just…next time, maybe tell me at the start, okay?”
Caine
blinked. That was it?
“And
if you have any advice on how to make my voice louder or more convincing than
the one in your head that keeps telling you I could ever hate you or that
anything about my attack was your fault, could you please let me know?”
His
jaw dropped, and Caine felt like he’d just walked cartoon-like into an unseen
pole. This…this was just one more
proof that this woman saw him. Right
now, that wasn’t super fucking comfortable. But it was so foreign to be seen
that he couldn’t do anything but bask in it, even if he felt utterly exposed.
“Fuck,
Emma,” he managed, his thoughts too tangled to even attempt a meaningful answer
to her question. “What are you doing to me?”
“Trying
to let you know I care,” she said. Like it was obvious. Like it was normal.
Like it wasn’t blowing his goddamn mind.
Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink and upcoming Raven Riders series. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day. 
