Title: Taking The Heat
Author: SD Hildreth (Scott)
Series: Selected Sinners MC Book II
Release Date: March 25th
Cover Artist: Jessica Hildreth
Stand-Alone, HEA, No cheating. Selected Sinners MC Romance Book II.
After serving half a dozen tours in Afghanistan and Iraq as a US
Marine, Cambio Todelli - known as Toad to his MC brothers - is left with a
penchant for violence and no emotional attachment between his heart and his
groin.
As the Sergeant at Arms for the Selected Sinners, Toad has one
assignment and he takes it very seriously. Keeping his Brothers safe from harm
at any cost.
Although he believes he ultimately stands for what is moral and
justified, he admits sometimes the lines simply become blurred. In short, Toad
is a walking contradiction. The descendant of a long line of prideful Italian
American US Marines, he is now living a far cry from his upbringing in the
Catholic church.
Sydney Shephard is an orphan, and has recently lost her only
sibling, an older brother, to a lifelong prison sentence. After losing her job,
she is now homeless, penniless, and without any form of family or friend.
As easy as it may be to do so, she refuses to lose her spirit,
her spunk, or her sense of humor.
After having been in multiple abusive relationships in her past,
Sydney has vowed to either live a life of solitude, or find a man who will
treat her as an equal.
When a bank robbery goes awry, leaving Toad on one side of the
bank, and Sydney on the other, Toad must make a decision and make it quick.
And when Toad decides to do something, heaven help anyone who
tries to stop him.
*NOTE TO READERS* This book is a stand-alone love story and the
second book of a series. No other book is required to tell THIS tale. It does
contain explicit language, sexual situations, and the intricacies of being in
an Outlaw Motorcycle Club.
All sexual partners in this MC
Erotic Romance are over the
age of 18. Stand alone love story. HEA.
No cliff hanger.
Review
Taking the Heat by Scott Hildreth has become one of my favorite MC stories. The second book in this standalone series focuses on Toad, a member of the Selected Sinners we met in the first book, Making the Cut. Cambio "Toad" Todelli, is one of the characters you can't help but liking and loving. A Marine and veteran of the war, Toad sees it as his duty to uphold the balances of right and wrong. While he has become desensitized to some things in life, the character has a heart of gold that you'll see in his interaction not only with his club members, but when he helps out people like Junior and Sydney, a girl who could possibly be what he needs.
Taking the Heat is a story I loved from beginning to end. Scott Hildreth knows to write complex characters that you are drawn to and want to know more about, Toad and Sydney are no exception. The different elements of finding the balance of good and evil, learning to live without regrets, just make this an all around great read. If you haven't read anything by Scott Hildreth, check him out. He's an author worth reading and a book like Taking the Heat proves it.
Rating: 5-Stars
Cover
Artist: Jessica Hildreth
*WARNING* Depicts an Outlaw
Motorcycle Club, criminal activity, graphic sex, and violence, but has HEA, no
cheating, and NO sex outside the relationship.
Avery, a Criminal Justice major in college, yearns for a bad-boy. An alpha male. An unattainable guilty pleasure. The unicorn of men.
When the Selected Sinners Motorcycle Club rides into Avery’s bar one night, her heart stops, and her mind goes to work. She's immediately attracted to the baddest man in the group, Axton. She wants him at any cost.
Axton isn’t only a bad boy, he's the President of The Selected Sinners Motorcycle Club, a 1%er Outlaw Motorcycle Club. At the onset of a gun deal with a notorious Mexican prison gang, there is no place in Axton’s life or mind for a college girl with a smart mouth.
Avery quickly becomes willing to sacrifice whatever she must for a shot at Axton.
Axton is willing to sacrifice nothing, and has no interest in her advances. His mind and devotion are on his club brothers and finishing the gun deal with the MS-13, which will allow one of his brothers in prison to make it out alive.
But Axton finds in doing the deal, he needs Avery and her Criminal Justice education to complete it.
If Avery makes it out alive, it will be a small miracle.
If Axton makes it out without falling for her, it would be an even bigger miracle.
*WARNING*
This book is a stand-alone love story. It does have tremendous violence, explicit language, sexual situations, and the intricacies of being in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club depicted. All sexual partners in this book are over the age of 18.
*NOTE TO READERS*
Stand alone love story. HEA. No cliff hanger.
Avery, a Criminal Justice major in college, yearns for a bad-boy. An alpha male. An unattainable guilty pleasure. The unicorn of men.
When the Selected Sinners Motorcycle Club rides into Avery’s bar one night, her heart stops, and her mind goes to work. She's immediately attracted to the baddest man in the group, Axton. She wants him at any cost.
Axton isn’t only a bad boy, he's the President of The Selected Sinners Motorcycle Club, a 1%er Outlaw Motorcycle Club. At the onset of a gun deal with a notorious Mexican prison gang, there is no place in Axton’s life or mind for a college girl with a smart mouth.
Avery quickly becomes willing to sacrifice whatever she must for a shot at Axton.
Axton is willing to sacrifice nothing, and has no interest in her advances. His mind and devotion are on his club brothers and finishing the gun deal with the MS-13, which will allow one of his brothers in prison to make it out alive.
But Axton finds in doing the deal, he needs Avery and her Criminal Justice education to complete it.
If Avery makes it out alive, it will be a small miracle.
If Axton makes it out without falling for her, it would be an even bigger miracle.
*WARNING*
This book is a stand-alone love story. It does have tremendous violence, explicit language, sexual situations, and the intricacies of being in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club depicted. All sexual partners in this book are over the age of 18.
*NOTE TO READERS*
Stand alone love story. HEA. No cliff hanger.
Scott Hildreth is a very analytical sort who bases his beliefs on
statistics he compiles in his head. Often going as long as a month without so
much as a single sip of water, he drinks coffee as if it were the lifeblood of
his writing.
Scott fears flying, clowns, and amusement park rides. Tall and lean with a cleanly shaven head and covered in tattoos, he doesn’t blend in well. After reading his writings, this makes perfect sense. His vibrant characters, backstories, and plots, although always relatable, generally stand out as much as he does.
Willing to discuss matters at length most people shy away from, Scott’s writing has revolved around such subjects as domestic abuse, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, cancer, divorce, homosexuality, religion, and lack thereof.
Born in San Diego, California, Scott now calls Wichita, Kansas his home. He is a proud father, and lives devoted to the love of his life, Jessica. When he isn’t writing, he may be found on his motorcycle or in a local coffee house.
Scott's novels include Broken People, Undefeated, Unstoppable, Unleashed, Unbroken, Baby Girl - Ruined, Baby Girl - Owned, Baby Girl - Loved, To the Depths of Hell, The Alpha-Bet, Finding Parker, Karter, Confessions of a Smut Author, When It All Began: A Jessie Jayne Novella, Making the Cut: Selected Sinners MC Book I, Taking the Heat: Selected Sinners Book II and now his newly released Threefold.
Scott fears flying, clowns, and amusement park rides. Tall and lean with a cleanly shaven head and covered in tattoos, he doesn’t blend in well. After reading his writings, this makes perfect sense. His vibrant characters, backstories, and plots, although always relatable, generally stand out as much as he does.
Willing to discuss matters at length most people shy away from, Scott’s writing has revolved around such subjects as domestic abuse, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, cancer, divorce, homosexuality, religion, and lack thereof.
Born in San Diego, California, Scott now calls Wichita, Kansas his home. He is a proud father, and lives devoted to the love of his life, Jessica. When he isn’t writing, he may be found on his motorcycle or in a local coffee house.
Scott's novels include Broken People, Undefeated, Unstoppable, Unleashed, Unbroken, Baby Girl - Ruined, Baby Girl - Owned, Baby Girl - Loved, To the Depths of Hell, The Alpha-Bet, Finding Parker, Karter, Confessions of a Smut Author, When It All Began: A Jessie Jayne Novella, Making the Cut: Selected Sinners MC Book I, Taking the Heat: Selected Sinners Book II and now his newly released Threefold.
Keeping Up With Scott:
Scott is a participating author in the THIRD ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS FUNDRAISER!
During May all sales of Scott Hildreth's Baby Girl Series will go in support of this fund:
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To keep up with Scott, what he is doing, and where you can find
him, because he does do book signings and on occasions he has been known to do
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