There’s no escaping the pull of desire in this novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Torpedo Ink motorcycle club series.
When Czar shut down Lazar “Keys” Alexeev’s undercover mission, that should have been the end of the story. Instead, Keys is back in the middle of a nowhere town where a petite redhead with a pouty mouth and a ready smile drives him to distraction. He’s not sure why he’s breaking all of Torpedo Ink’s rules to spend more time around a woman who’s not even his type. He can’t get her out of his head—and now he’s facing the consequences.
Lyric Johansen doesn’t like to look anyone in the eyes, but Keys’s gaze is the one thing keeping her from a full-on panic attack. Her instinct to charge into the fray and help the biker fend off a group of vicious thugs has led to the most insane situation she’s ever been in: trapped in a coffin with a man she barely knows, minutes away from a painful death.
Survival means staying focused. But when Keys kisses Lyric to snap her out of losing it, he’s the one who ends up falling apart. He’ll need to unleash hell to get them out alive.
If only to get another taste….
My Review
Keys and Lyric wake up in a pine box after getting knocked out by some bad guys. Keys has been undercover in Lyrics small town for a few months and they have gotten to know one another a bit. But waking up in a box on their way to be slaughtered is not a good day.
Keys knows he can get them out alive but first he has to calm her down from having a panic attack which isn't easy since he's just found out she's claustrophobic. He gets through to her, tells her to act unconscious and he'll do the rest. It almost works but she's not known for her ability to take orders and sit idlily by when she thinks she could help.
Now the bad guys are dead, another bad guy is waiting for confirmation of their death, they're both hurt and Keys has no way to get ahold of his motorcycle club members to help them. But his club, Torpedo Ink does come for them when he can get word to them. Afterwards when the wounds are healed and Key and Lyric have time to themselves, they come to realize that they don't want to go back to being alone and want to make a life together but Lyric doesn't know if she'll be enough for him, to stay with her in the long run. It was fun watching these two learn how they fit together, even if Keys was way too bossy for my taste.
Keys makes it a point to show Lyric and tell her that he doesn't want to live without her. The first meeting with some of the other members of Torpedo Ink, doesn't go as well as Keys was hoping because the guys don't think Lyric is the kind of woman that Keys would end up with if he ever claimed one woman. There's some misunderstandings and then when Lyric meets Czar, their leader he can see that both Keys and Lyric are meant to be together. All of the members of Torpedo Ink have special supernatural type gifts. Steele is a doctor and can surgically repair injuries psychically. Someone else in the group is a human lie detector and Czar knows instantly if two people are meant for each other. They all have their own gifts in that way.
But the guys are all like family because they all went through something truly horrible as children. It made them killers, killers who go after human traffickers and pedophiles. Czar thinks that there's a human trafficking ring operating from the town that Lyric was living in when she met Keys. So, Czar and some of the others question her about what she saw and heard while she lived there. While she's not comfortable, she does her best to answer them. They know they have to go after the human traffickers and save whatever women and children they might have kidnapped.
While I liked the storyline quite a bit and loved being able to see what some of the other characters have been up to, Keys is over the top bossy and pushy in what he wants to do with Lyric. She goes along with him because she wants to please him which sat wrong with me on more than one occasion. I didn't love his characters the way I loved some of the others, but it was a nice addition to the series.
Twisted Road is the 10th book in the Torpedo Ink series by Christine Feehan. I've read all the books and they are best read in order to understand what the members have gone through since they were children. There's a lot of talk of murder, revenge and sex in these books. But these are not bad people, they spend their lives saving people when they can.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
Disclosure: I was given an e-ARC of this book via NetGalley but all opinions and thoughts are my own.
