The Bent Zealots MC Book #8
Action Adventure, ay Fiction, LGBTQ Romance
Independent
March 17, 2022
Kindle
238
Amazon
They do not apologize for a damned thing.
VAN. Revenge for the death of my lover led me west, out of the Appalachian holler where meth-making defined me. I was not that backwoods addict but a clean member of a motorcycle club where violence and mayhem prevailed. My only outlet was cruising the dating apps, and yes, catfishing juicy hunks under a fake profile. Some sleazery just never vanishes. But I was trying.
HUNT. As an astrophysicist and family man, I was seemingly living the good life. But the persona I’d kept hidden for decades insisted on bursting forth. I needed to handle the crazy, so I came out to my wife and children. A heart attack showed me the path, and it led directly to the loving arms of Van Rossi, a down-to-earth fellow hillbilly. His rustic persona brought out the lusty, experimental side of me, and I’d follow him to any jackoff club at the end of the earth.
VAN. Dr. Mountjoy is beyond my redneck reach. I loathe myself for scamming such an upstanding academic—with such upstanding equipment. My stunning archangel has dropped from heaven just for me, and I don’t deserve him. And when the Society’s Baggers come to blast the Bent Zealots MC, Hunt will see the real me. I’m not even brave enough to follow through on my revenge. How can this beautiful saint see anything in me at all? I have my whole life to apologize for, but he doesn’t need to apologize for a fucking thing.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Two men who came from the same place, one an astrophysicist and one a meth addict and meth maker. These two men whose childhoods started the same but whose lives followed totally different paths would find each other and prove that opposites do attract.
Van Rossi is a Prospect for the Society’s Bag MC, a club known for their violence and hatred for gays. As a gay man Van must keep his desires under lock and key discovering he is gay would be a death sentence. He decided to secretly join a gay dating site called Plugr using the tag, SoulWrestler. He begins communicating with StarGazer and man whose pictures push all the right buttons, but StarGazer stops writing when Van asks for a picture of him without a shirt. He is caught by one of the other Prospects and manages to protect himself by saying he was catfished. One of the leaders, Jackie Daytona suffers from severe back pain and when he discovers Van is being catfished by a scientist he sees a chance for someone to make drugs for him.
Van has a secret SoulWrestler, under the name Claude is a sham and the pictures he has sent are not him. His reason for joining Society’s Bag MC is another secret he is keeping, and it is a secret that could be deadly. When he attempts to carry out his reason for joining it fails and he finds himself leaving with his life hanging in the balance. Van finds himself at a fish fry with the Bent Zealots and that is when he sees the man, he hasn’t been able to get out of his mind, Hunt aka StarGazer. Hunt doesn’t recognize Van since he never saw a picture of the real him and the two have an immediate attraction for each other.
Hunt was married for twenty years and has two teenage daughters but when his wife asked him straight out if he preferred men, he was honest, and they were heading for divorce which was very amicable. Hunt had one experience with a man when he was in college and now coming out as gay and trying to live the lifestyle is a whole new experience for him. It is Van who happily introduces him to being gay and it doesn’t take long before the two of them only want to be with each other but, unfortunately, Hunt doesn’t know the real Van and that could bring the relationship to an end.
This book leaves very little to the imagination both in the violence and in the sex. There is a time when the Prospects must prove themselves and it is called Red Wings night. I have no intention of explaining what that means or what the Prospects are expected to do but I can guarantee it is mind blowing.