Title: Stay Vertical (The Bare Bones series #2)
Author: Layla Wolfe
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 27, 2014
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Peace Corps volunteer June Shellmound returns to Arizona to care for her dying mother. At the clubhouse of The Bare Bones motorcycle club, June is swept into the drama when half-breed Lytton Driving Hawk barges in and demands recognition as president Ford Illuminati’s half-brother.
Hot enough to melt steel, Lytton has forged a life apart from the reservation as a brilliant chemist, living the high times at his pot farm in the mountains. Lytton is no fortunate son, though, and the mortal secrets Ford’s been hiding about their father drive the last nail into their brotherly coffin.
Lytton turns his back on the Bare Bones and sweet bleeding heart June. Blinded by vengeance, Lytton becomes ruled by his own demons, raising hell alongside Ford’s mortal enemies, The Cutlasses. Alliances are torn apart within the club, loyalties are divided, and everyone’s true spirits are tested. When the dust clears, Lytton and June find themselves running for their lives just to…
STAY VERTICAL
Publisher’s Note: This is Book #2 in the Bare Bones series. This book is a stand-alone and can be read out of order. However, it is advised to read THE BARE BONES first to get a complete picture of the club’s background, storylines, and setting.
Publisher’s note: This is not your mother’s contemporary romance. Daring readers will encounter sexual assault, violence against women, general violence among men, consensual BDSM, and a HEA. It is not for the faint of heart. It’s a full length novel of 65,000 words with no cliffhanger. Recommended 18+ due to mature content.
Peace Corps volunteer June Shellmound returns to Arizona to care for her dying mother. At the clubhouse of The Bare Bones motorcycle club, June is swept into the drama when half-breed Lytton Driving Hawk barges in and demands recognition as president Ford Illuminati’s half-brother.
Hot enough to melt steel, Lytton has forged a life apart from the reservation as a brilliant chemist, living the high times at his pot farm in the mountains. Lytton is no fortunate son, though, and the mortal secrets Ford’s been hiding about their father drive the last nail into their brotherly coffin.
Lytton turns his back on the Bare Bones and sweet bleeding heart June. Blinded by vengeance, Lytton becomes ruled by his own demons, raising hell alongside Ford’s mortal enemies, The Cutlasses. Alliances are torn apart within the club, loyalties are divided, and everyone’s true spirits are tested. When the dust clears, Lytton and June find themselves running for their lives just to…
STAY VERTICAL
Publisher’s Note: This is Book #2 in the Bare Bones series. This book is a stand-alone and can be read out of order. However, it is advised to read THE BARE BONES first to get a complete picture of the club’s background, storylines, and setting.
Publisher’s note: This is not your mother’s contemporary romance. Daring readers will encounter sexual assault, violence against women, general violence among men, consensual BDSM, and a HEA. It is not for the faint of heart. It’s a full length novel of 65,000 words with no cliffhanger. Recommended 18+ due to mature content.
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Excerpt
Putting his hands under my arms, he lifted me onto the
library table where his chemistry textbooks were. I leaned back on a book that was open to some
hydraulic engineering tables, spreading my thighs wide. I had no shame. I knew that if I wanted to
win and keep Lytton’s attention, I couldn’t be the prim and proper mathlete or
the crusading Peace Corps worker. I had
to be the hard-as-nails, worldly biker chick who was as comfortable on his
Softail’s pussy pad as I was in his bed.
He pressed his forehead to mine. The crotch of his jeans was packed with his
straining erection, but unlike most men, he proved he could ignore that for a
few seconds. “I want you to be my old
lady. Weaver forced my hand, June. I want to put your best interests first in my
dominance of you. Here.”
Without tearing his eyes from mine, he swiped an object
from a taller dresser. I didn’t want to
break his gaze either, and I felt more than saw him wrap a wide leather cuff
around my wrist. He was serious now, his
eyes brimming with unexpressed emotion, and I had the distinct feeling he
didn’t do this sort of ceremonial thing every day.
“Your happiness, your health, your contentment are in my
care now, June Shellmound. I offer this
cuff to you to guide you in your journey through life.” He grinned and added in a less stiff tone,
“I’ll get you a better collar when I get down to P & E. This just happened to be here. Go with me on this.”
I finally looked down and saw he’d snapped a plain brown
leather wristband around my arm. The
contentment Lytton wished for me flooded through me instantly, and I found
myself saying, “I want to belong to you and go wherever you want to bring
me. I trust in you, Lytton. I submit to your guidance because I know you
want what’s best for me.” I have no idea
where I pulled that from, but it worked.
I did submit to his
guidance—in almost everything.
I probably would’ve said the dreaded “L word,” but he
silenced me with a kiss. Now he leaned
into me, pressing his hard-on against my very core, making my inner channel
flutter with anticipation. The shudder
seemed to resonate through my uterus and ovaries, sending a surge of estrogen
through me. I angled my hips toward him,
locking the heel of one shoe in his back jeans pocket. Love swept through me because he’d made me
his old lady.
It was almost as though he felt that love. Suddenly some intense and frantic libido took
hold of him. Bending at the knees, he
scooped my ass into his palms and carried me to the bed. He tossed me like a load of laundry and I
bounced, my arms splayed above my head, wide open for him. I knew I was smiling when he stripped that
wifebeater from his sculpted torso. I
could have easily stayed there for a century watching him lift his arms over
his head, the stylized eagle rippling as it wrapped around his shoulder.
But Lytton didn’t have all the time in the world. Last time I’d been with him, he’d been a
generous, sensitive lover, putting my orgasm first. He hadn’t even seemed to care about whipping
his cock out and finding release. Now,
though, he was all about unbuckling his belt in a flash and finding
satisfaction.
I wasn’t prepared—I didn’t exactly wander around Arizona
with old expired condoms in my wallet—but I knew it was the safe time of
month. At the moment, to be honest,
safety wasn’t first on my mind. When
Lytton shoved his jeans around his thighs and his long, fat cock leaped free, I
was his willing receptacle.
I knew Lytton wouldn’t make me pay for my meal, or bring
his fishing pole on a romantic vacation, or measure the spice in the curry
jar. He’d never had his retainer tossed
onto the school’s roof—for better or worse, he’d been the bully giving the swirlies and purple nurples
to the nerds. Lytton was a larger than
life renegade, a survivor of an impoverished upbringing. He was tough and courageous, with a fiery
spirit that could not be kept down, and right now he was sinking himself
balls-deep in me while I cried out with a soul-splitting wail, begging to be
filled.
My Review: 5 stars
Once again Layla has just outdone herself. This is the second book in the Bare Bones series, and it's spectacular! Once again, this is not a gentle, easy MC story. This is harsh and brutal at times, but for me, always sexy. These men, Lytton and Ford, are hotter than hell, demanding, commanding, renegades who aren't afraid to break a few laws or even a lot of laws. They see what they want and they go after it. You get in the way, you get hurt. now that that's straight, you want to read the first book before this one. It lays everything out for you, so you can get to know the characters, and how things get done.
This book introduces more characters who are at times difficult to like, let alone love. I've got to say I thought Lytton was a huge egomaniac and a completely insensitive prick until he met June. June comes home to take care of her dad, and once she meets Lytton pretty much all hell breaks loose. That would be because of June's relationships and the way that Lytton has chosen to get revenge on Ford. I did love the parts with Ford and Maddy that we got to see. I loved that Lytton figured out who and what he wanted, and that it wasn't the same old thing he had been having. June worked her way into his heart and just wouldn't go away. He felt more for her than he wanted to admit, but finally did. The bigger the player, the bigger the fall. The story just drew me in and didn't let me go until the end. There is so much that happens, it seriously made me stop and take a minute to wrap my head around what had just happened. And that didn't only happen once. This was a roller coaster of gut-wrenching action and some serious what just happened moments. I loved every bit of edge of my seat holding on to see what happened next! Layla has some pretty fantastic characters that he has added to this series, and I'm looking forward to reading more about them all. More, more, more please!!
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Layla has published 25+ erotic romance titles under the name Karen Mercury.
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Thanks for the insightful review, Kirsten!
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