Heart Recaptured
Hades Hangmen Book 2
By Tillie Cole
Genres:
Contemporary Romance / MC / Dark Romance
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Synopsis
Even salvation can be delivered through the love of the damned…
Beauty can be a curse.
Faith can be a cage.
Only love can set you free.
A few long weeks after being reluctantly ripped from the comforting embrace of her sacred prophet’s religious commune—the only life she has ever known—a terrified Delilah is thrust into a world enveloped by evil and swimming in sin.
Steadfastly devout in her faith, and retaining the deep belief that her soul is innately tarnished as a branded ‘Cursed woman of Eve’, Delilah is determined to find her way home to her people in The Order and away from the corrupt and damned outlaw motorcycle club—The Hades Hangmen—who hold her at their secluded compound for her protection—a ‘protection’ she strongly resents.
Delilah yearns to return home, convinced that only amongst her own people, and under the holy guidance of the Lord’s revealed prophet, can her Satan-spawned soul be truly saved. Conditioned her entire life to believe she is a witch… a life-long temptress… the devil’s whore… Delilah increasingly resents her beautiful face, her shapely body and her sensuous effect on men. But when a man of the motorcycle club—a deeply sinful yet stunningly beautiful man—is charged with her care, Delilah begins to see that this dangerous and moralless sinner from the ‘outside’ may offer her something she did not know could truly exist: unconditional love.
Kyler ‘Ky’ Willis loves his life: a daily abundance of brotherhood, liquor, the freedom of the open-road and—best of all—his pick of hot women. Raised a biker brat and now VP of the most notorious MC in the States, Ky has no shortage of club sluts warming his bed; a situation he takes full advantage of… until a certain blonde enters his life… a gorgeous pilgrim-blonde he can’t get out of his head… a pilgrim-blonde he and his club recently-rescued from some backward religious cult… and a pilgrim-blonde he’s been ordered to keep the hell away from and his whorish hands off.
When yet another in a lengthy line of drunken blunders forces Ky to reluctantly take charge of the pilgrim-blonde’s care, he realizes that there could be more to this woman than just supermodel looks and a stacked set of tits. He begins to see that she could be the woman who could do the impossible—tame his wild ways and capture his reluctant heart.
But the unyielding bonds of Lilah’s past are strong, her ‘people’ determined and, with a new Prophet in charge and hell bent on revenge, they are mightily reluctant to let her go…
Dottie’s Star Rating
(5 Stars)
Review
(Note: This is the second book of a series that MUST be read in order. If you are curious about it, and read the review for the first and are moving on to check out the reviews for the series thus far – before reading any of these books – please stop here. Go back, READ the first book. It’s outstanding! Then come back and read this review (although, you might not bother, you’ll want to read the second book after the first in all likelihood). By its nature, sometimes, subsequent books in a series will give spoilers or at least strong clues about the series and as a result, by its nature, this review might offer some spoilers about the first book in this series. I urge you to read that book before reading this review).
Again, wow! This is the second time I’ve read this book, once when it was first released (and I was waiting on tenterhooks for its release, believe me) and just now, when I was rereading it in preparation of reading the newest release, Souls Unfractured (book three of this Hades Hangmen series). And in all honesty, I think I loved it even more the second time around. I saw more, I noticed more. This series is not for the faint of heart. But as I said in my review for the first one, I also think this is a series all adults should read. That this series has the potential to change lives. It’s dark but yet hopeful. It’s full of violence but also full of redemption and learning about unconditional love.
This is Ky’s story. Ky is the vice-president of the Hades Hangmen MC. They are an outlaw club, definitely 1%’ers. And Ky, bless him, is a gorgeous total man-whore who puts many other book man-whores to shame. He was raised within the MC and taught (by his old man) pussy was to be pounded and enjoyed but never worshipped. Ky lives his life to its fullest, he parties hard, he fucks hard, he rides hard, and he loves his club beyond all else.
His club president and best friend now has an Old Lady. She escaped from a zealous-type religious cult and found her way to Styx, her now Old Man. At one point in the first book, she is captured and taken back to the compound of the cult and the Hades Hangmen went in to rescue her. And in doing so, also rescued her two “sisters,” Maddie and Delilah (or Lilah). And when Ky first laid eyes on the blond gorgeous beauty of Lilah, he was struck dumb. He couldn’t stop starring at her despite the chaos that surrounded them at the time. Ky had never experienced this feeling before; a single woman awed him and he craved being around her.
As for Lilah, she’s all sorts of turned around. It was not her choice to leave the cult; the Hades Hangmen brought her back to their compound with them (and Maddie in tow) at Mae’s request. Lilah is actually pretty horrified at her new surroundings; she’s sure she’s landed in in hell with a bunch of devil worshipers. She doesn’t know who to trust or what to think of what has become her new life. And this makes Mae sad. When Mae is sad, Styx does something about it. This time he orders Ky to take Lilah under his wing, show her around, show her the world they live in. And as torturous as that sounds to Ky (who can’t be anywhere near her without aching for her), he follows the orders of his president and begins to teach Lilah the ways of the outside world. And as he does, things begin to change – for both of them…
Suddenly, hands gripped my waist and, with a surprise cry, I was hoisted up into the seat. As I turned to face Ky, he slammed the door and walked around the front of the machine to jump in beside me. Ky pushed the keys into an opening and said, “Seatbelt.” I stayed silent, not understanding his words and not wanting to anger him. Ky looked at me and repeated, “Seatbelt.” “What is a seatbelt?” I asked quietly. Gripping the large wheel in front of him, Ky blew out a breath and tipped his head. “This is gonna be one fuckin’ long day, huh, bitch?…
As they spend more and more time together, it was pretty cool seeing Ky going from a man-whore to a man who only had eyes for one woman. And for a guy not used to ever working for the attentions of a woman, being around Lilah was a challenge. And sex – yeah, well, he was used to literally snapping his fingers and woman would bend over for him. This was not the case with this woman and he didn’t know how to communicate with her that he wanted her but that it was her choice – for the very first time in her life. This was a very difficult concept for Lilah to grasp…
…”Lilah! For fuck’s sake, I’m not gonna hurt you!” Lilah’s huge blue eyes came into view as she lowered her arm a few inches. Strands of her blond hair were plastered across her stunning face and she blinked. “Lilah, I-“ “You. . .you are not her to punish me for my rejection of your advances?” she asked in a frightened tiny voice. I frowned. “What the fuck are you talking about?” Fully dropping her arm, she glanced over her shoulder at me, her big eyes confused, and said, “Back in the. . .the room for drinking, you wanted me to join with you and I pushed you away. . .You. . .you licked my skin and said explicit things in my ear. . .” She looked at me, urging me to understand. “You’re hot. I’m hung like a donkey. And I’m fucked off my face. It sounded like a fuckin’ perfect suggestion at the time. But right now, sweet cheeks, I have no fuckin’ idea what you’re talking about.” She turned to fully face me, seeming bolder, and explained, “You are here to punish me because I refused you sex. It shamed you as a man for me to say no, to not welcome you into my body.” She straightened, closed her eyes, and, turning to bend over, hands on a rock and ass in the air, said, “Please, if I can request that you do not cause me pain?” “I-“ I went to explain that I weren’t gonna hit her, but then I looked at her, looked at what was facing me. . .saw that she was soaking fuckin’ wet. . .in a see-through slip. . .I could see everything. . .and I fuckin’ . . .I – Then her legs parted, a bare pussy coming into view, and I groaned, my hard cock punishing my whoring ass. Fuck. I drowned. I drowned and this was my hell…
Obviously, as in the first book, this cult is a major component of the story line. It rears its head often, and especially with Lilah, she is having a very difficult time with the outside world. Everything just seems wrong to her…until it doesn’t. Until she starts to blossom under Ky’s care. Until it all comes to a screeching halt and everyone must regroup and deal with the fall-out of the Hangmen and their decisions. And some of it is BIG!
This series, as I’ve mentioned before, is important. It is an excellent book, don’t get me wrong, but there is a lot of this that is based on what some of the women in some cults have actually had to live through and is based on their true stories of life within the walls where they had no voice. And now, with the writings of these books, some of them do.
This series is dark. But first and foremost, it’s still an excellent love story that is about as fair from a run-of-the-mill story as it can get. To combine an MC and a religious cult of fanaticism is a harrowing undertaking, but to her credit, Tillie Cole completely pulls it off! This is a story we should all read. It’s fiction. But as in the best fiction, there’s also a lot of truth within it and it is outstanding. Not reading it would be your loss, and honestly, who wants that? (And by the way, the first two books are currently on sale on Amazon for $.99 and the newest, just released is only $2.99! Very affordable at the moment and so far, both 5-star reads for me!) I’m going to dive into Flames story in a moment (book #3) and I can hardly wait!
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About Tillie Cole
Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
Being a scary blend of Scottish and English, Tillie embraces both cultures; her English heritage through her love of HP sauce and freshly made Yorkshire Puddings, and her Scottish, which is mostly demonstrated by her frighteningly foul-mouthed episodes of pure rage and her much loved dirty jokes.
Having been born and raised as a Teesside Smoggie, Tillie, at age nineteen, moved thirty miles north to the ‘Toon’, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where she attended University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Religious Studies. She returned two years later to complete a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching High School Social Studies. She regards Newcastle to be a home from home and enjoyed the Newcastle Geordie way of life for seven ‘proper mint’, ‘lush’ years.
Tillie, from a very young age has been part of the theatre community and loves nothing more than to entertain through the mediums of cheerleading, dance, drama and singing (sometimes in the rain). She can also be found in nightclubs around the world imitating her favourite artists alongside her crazy BFF’s – The Teesside Massive – or, sat on the front row at the theatre bopping along to her favourite musical, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show ‘, clad in a only a maids outfit, clutching a bag of rice and sporting a vibrant shade of red lipstick.
One summers day, after finishing reading her thousandth book on Kindle, Tillie turned to her husband and declared, “D’you know, I have a great idea for a story. I could write a book.” Several months later, repeating the same tired line, she was scolded by her husband to shut up talking about writing a novel and ‘just bloody do it!’ Immediately she set off on a crazy journey, delving deep into her fertile imagination. Tillie, ever since, has written from the heart. She combines her passion for anything camp and glittery with her love of humour and dark brooding men (most often muscled and tattooed – they’re her weakness!).
After years of teaching high school Social Studies and following her Professional Rugby Player husband around Europe, they have settled in Calgary, Alberta where Tillie spends most of her days (and many a late night) lost in a writing euphoria or in her dream of pursuing a dazzling career as a barrel-racing, tasselled-chap, Stetson-wearing cowgirl… Ye-haw!
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