Title: Merciless Ride
(The Hellions Ride, #3)
Author: Chelsea
Camaron
Release Date: October
10, 2014
Model
Photo by Scott Hoover Photography
Model: Jacob Sones (Thanks to Ellie LoveNBooks Boys!)
Motorcycle photo
by Magnolia Ridge Photography
Cover Design by Author Jessie Lane
Merciless
Ride
Mercy is no friend of mine. Karma, she has yet
to show kindness to me.
The hits just keep on coming for Tessie Marie
Harlow. She has never had an easy life. Her mom disabled, her dad long gone, and a
single mom raising a rambunctious little boy, that’s Tessie’s world.
Her childhood aspirations to be a nurse long since
disappeared after a college spring fling both blessed and cursed her with a baby boy.
Dropping out of school, she returns to her hometown and begins to settle in. Getting
the only job she could as a bartender she spends her days caring for her son and
nights serving the Hellions Motorcycle Club and their affiliates.
Tired of waiting for Rex to grow up she’s faced with
the bane existence of her life until one night changes everything. In the darkest hour
of her merciless ride through life, she’s saved by a quiet, laid back Hellion.
Andy ‘Shooter’ Jenkins has always been around. Too
wrapped in Rex she’s never really noticed him before. He has never been loud or
known to have the girls hanging all over him. He is a mystery. A chance encounter
brings him to her rescue not once but twice.
The Desert Ghosts Motorcycle Club are in town and
bring their own brand of chaos right to Tessie’s door. Forced into her day to day life,
Shooter is doing everything he can to shelter and protect her as lines are crossed
and a war between two clubs begins.
Secrets revealed putting two brothers in the
Hellions Motorcycle Club at a serious crossroads in their lives.
This is not a ride for pleasure. This is not a ride for
safety. This is not a ride for love. This is a ride for survival. Mercy has never once
shined her grace down for these two, but in the midst of the danger and lies can they
learn to rely on one another and ride it out together?
This book contains strong language, strong
sexual situations, violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Please
do not buy if any of this offends you. This is a work of fiction and is not meant
to be a true or exact depiction of a motorcycle club but rather a book meant to
entertain.
Merciless
Ride Excerpt
Copyright © Chelsea
Camaron 2014
Shooter
“Shooter, again, I can’t take your car.”
“Look, your car, we gotta order parts, I told you that
already. Those take a few days to get in. I can’t leave you with no way to get to Axel,
your mom, and to work.”
“I’ll rent a car,” she replies firmly.
“Tessie, don’t be stubborn. We don’t even know
what your car will cost to repair. Take the Challenger.”
“Why are you so willing to help me?” Tessie asks
me.
“Call me selfish. If you don’t have a car, you can’t get
to work, and then who would serve me a beer?” I ask in mock innocence.
“Corinne will happily serve you, Shooter.”
“Ha. Got jokes do ya? Corinne will happily serve up
more than just drinks. Tessie, I’m just tryin’ to be a friend here.”
“I would hardly call us friends.” Her face set in stone,
not giving anything away. She’s tough, but there is a sadness deep in those brown
eyes that pulls at me.
“We could be,” I state watching for her to give me
some sort of clue or opening. Yet, she gives away nothing. “Take the car, Tessie.”</
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“I don’t need any new friends, Shooter. Keep your
car. Thanks for stopping by. I’ll get my car sorted. I’m no trouble of yours.”
“Come on, Tessie. Look, I get it, you haven’t had it
easy. Neither have I, but I have an opportunity to help you and I want to take it. No
strings, no favors, no debts, no markers, just me paying it forward so to speak.”</
span>
When she doesn’t reply or change her stance, I
throw out the big guns so to speak. “Okay, I’ll call Rex and have him arrange for your
transportation.” I begin to step backwards, making my exit.
“Wait! You wouldn’t really involve Rex would
you?”
“If you don’t take the car, yes, I will. Tessie, you’re
part of the Hellions family in a way. None of us want to see you struggle. Take the
car.”
“You won’t call Rex if I take the car?” She questions
as I watch the determination flash in her face. For whatever reason she does not
want to rely on my brother.
“If you take the car and agree to have dinner with
me,” I add totally knowing I’m pushing my luck here.
“Shooter!” She cries out in frustration, losing some
of her firm resolve to keep me shut out.
“What? I want us to be friends, that’s all. Seriously,
I’m a man with far too much bad history to bring a woman along for my ride. I want
to get to know you as a friend. I get the feeling you could use a friend right now and
just that.”
“I’ll take the car, but only until my car is fixed.
Things are complicated for me. I can’t accept your dinner invitation. To be honest,
it’s not in your best interest to be my friend.”
My buddy, Nathan ‘Boomer’ Vaughn pulls into
Tessie’s driveway. Handing her the keys to the Challenger, I smile.
“Baby, I’ve never been one to do anything that’s in
my best interest. We’ll have dinner one night, Tessie. Mark my words.” At that final
statement, I walk away.
The Hellions
Ride Series
One Ride
(The Hellions Ride, #1)
Forever Ride (Hellions Ride, #2)</
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About the
Author
Chelsea Camaron was born and raised in Coastal
North Carolina. She currently resides in Southern Louisiana with her husband and
two children but her heart is always Carolina day dreaming.
Chelsea always wanted to be a writer, but like most
of us, let fear of the unknown grab a hold of her dream; she realized that if she was
going to tell her daughter to go for her dreams, that it was time to follow her own
advice.
Chelsea grew up turning wrenches alongside
her father, and from that grew her love for old muscle cars and Harley Davidson
motorcycles, which just so happened to inspired her ‘Daddy’s Girls’ series. Her love
for reading has sparked a new love for writing and she currently has a few more
projects in the works.
When she is not spending her days writing you can
find her playing with her kids, attending car shows, going on motorcycle rides on
the back of her husband’s Harley, snuggling down with her new favorite book or
watching any movie that Vin Diesel might happen to be in.
She hates being serious and is still a big kid at
heart. She is a small town country girl enjoying life and, Chelsea hopes that her
readers remember not to take life too seriously and to embrace your inner five year
old, because five year olds know how to enjoy the simple things in life and how to
always have fun.
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