What I'm Reading: InkSlinger PR Review + Excerpt + Giveaway: Ride Wild by Laura Kaye

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Laura Kaye brings you the third novel in her Raven Riders Series, RIDE WILD. A sexy contemporary romance series, and a spin-off from Laura’s Hard Ink world, about a different kind of motorcycle club with a protective mission. The Raven Riders Series takes you on an adventure and kicks it into overdrive! RIDE WILD is the hot and emotional story of a sexy single father wild with grief over the death of his wife several years before and the strong survivor he hires to be his nanny. Order your copy of RIDE WILD today!

About Ride Wild (Raven Riders #3, 10/31/17)

Brotherhood. Club. Family. They live and ride by their own rules. These are the Raven Riders...

Wild with grief over the death of his wife, Sam “Slider” Evans merely lives for his two sons. Nothing holds his interest anymore—not even riding his bike or his membership in the Raven Riders Motorcycle Club. But that all changes when he hires a new babysitter.

Recently freed from a bad situation by the Ravens, Cora Campbell is determined to bury the past. When Slider offers her a nanny position, she accepts, needing the security and time to figure out what she wants from life. Cora adores his sweet boys, but never expected the red-hot attraction to their brooding, sexy father. If only he would notice her...

Slider does see the beautiful, fun-loving woman he invited into his home. She makes him feel too much, and he both hates it and yearns for it. But when Cora witnesses something she shouldn’t have, the new lives they’ve only just discovered are threatened. Now Slider must claim—and protect—what’s his before it’s too late.

My Thoughts:

Ride Wild is probably my favorite book out all the Raven Riders. We've seen Cora throughout the series, and I actually thought she would end up with Phoenix. However, their relationship isn't like that. The more you see them together it's kind of like a brother-sister relationship. Man I wish Phoenix would get a book, so Cora could totally tease him about a girl. *Wishful thinking* Back to Cora. She has been Haven strength when decided to run away. However, there was more of a reason why Cora wanted to runaway from her father. Let me say it's kind of a shocker. I have to say Cora is extremely strong, and a sassy personality. Strong enough to take down the one of the most intimidating guys, Slider.

We haven't seen much of Slider throughout the series. I mean he's here and there, but he's been pretty much out of the loop since his wife died. Since having Cora in his life he realize that he's only been living half a life. So, he starts coming back to life in Ride Wild. We also learn something things about Kim that aren't too pleasant, and I think Slider should be offer sainthood for what he did. Seriously, he's a decent guy that can be a bit gruff.

These two are fabulous together. Cora brings light into Slider's dark world. Plus, his boys love her. However, it wouldn't be Raven Rider book if there wasn't any kind of trouble. The trouble has reached the boiling point and it's about to explode. The previous books it has been simmering, but now trouble is truly knocking on their door. I honestly was waiting for it to happen. I mean yeah, the Cora and Slider thing was good, but we needed trouble. We can't have a perfect ending without trouble.

Overall, I loved Ride Wild. I love Cora and Slider. I absolutely love how Cora slipped under Slider's skin. He needed someone that was full of life to bring him back. Slider is a big ol' softy deep down. Then again anyone with eyes would see that when he was with his kids. Yes, everything gets tidy up in this book. Cora finally finds a family that will love her for her.

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Excerpt:

Slider wrapped himself around her, his forehead against hers, his arm around her shoulder. She pulled him closer, needing his touch, needing his comfort, needing him.

Eyes still flooding, Cora heaved a deep breath, then another, until her breaths were shuddering but becoming more even. But her eyes wouldn’t stop leaking. Damnit.

“Come here,” Slider said, his voice full of grit. He pulled her off the bed and into his lap there on the floor of her bedroom.

Cora wrapped her arms around his neck. “Just being stupid,” she said.

“No way,” he said. “Big hearts are bound to get bruised, Cora, and yours is the biggest I’ve ever seen.”

And now she was crying again. She laid her head on his shoulder, her face pressed to his neck, and cried herself out until she was limp and exhausted. He rubbed her back and stroked her hair the whole time, just holding her and being there for her. And, man, that would’ve been enough. But it was the little kiss against her hair that had her too-big heart feeling entirely too full for her chest.

For being wrecked, broken, and more than a little lost, Slider Evans had a well of sweetness so deep that Cora wasn’t sure how she’d ever find her way out. Or if she even wanted to.

On another deep breath, Cora finally lifted her face and met Slider’s blazing light green eyes. He cupped her face in one big hand and swiped at her tears with his thumb, but it wasn’t enough, so he lifted the edge of his shirt and used that instead.

Cora managed a chuckle, even as she messed him up to put herself back together. “Sorry.”

“Don’t be,” he said, his voice full of gravel. “Aren’t we a pair?” He swallowed hard. “You feel so much, and I can’t feel enough.”

The words were so revealing that they nearly made her gasp. “Oh, Slider,” she said. “I think you feel more than you let on.” She hadn’t meant her, but the flare of those strange eyes told her he took it that way. And it made her want to backpedal. Fast. “I mean—”

He kissed her. Hand in her hair, his lips came down on hers in a soft press of skin on skin. It wasn’t the frenzy of their first kisses in his bed, but there was an intimacy in the softness, in the sweetness that hit her just as hard.

When he pulled away, his expression was intense and thoughtful, like he wanted to say something and needed to figure out exactly what it was. And then he nailed her with a stare and said, “Cora, you—”

Knock, knock. “Dad?” Sam called from outside Cora’s door.

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HARD AS STEEL now available RIDE HARD now available RIDE ROUGH now available RIDE WILD coming October 31st, 2017

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About Laura Kaye:

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.