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.
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Layla has published 25+ erotic romance titles under the name Karen Mercury.
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