Bud by Candace Blevins
The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club
Book 10
Nickie’s an investigative journalist who recently faced some of the worst men she’s ever confronted — which would’ve been fine if the FBI hadn’t lost them when she’d practically handed them over on a silver platter.
She vacations in Cancun to get away from the horrors she saw while probing into the human trafficking organization, and doesn’t expect they’ll be able to find her while she travels under another of her pen names.
Bud is in Mexico on club business, staying in a Cancun resort dressed as an American businessman. He meets the beautiful Nicole and gets caught up protecting her when he discovers she’s all alone in Mexico with human traffickers after her. She’d paid the resort extra to provide protection services, but Bud fears the bad guys have outbid her and bought her security out from under her.
Can Bud take an investigative journalist home to Atlanta? She’s good at her job, will she turn on him if she discovers how the MC makes most of their money? His wolf isn’t taking no for an answer, and once Bud discovers Nickie writes BDSM Romance under a pen name, he isn’t inclined to argue with his inner animal.
4 Stars
I love an MC romance, but generally don't read paranormal romance, and this was my first time reading anything written by Candace Blevins.
Bud is an intriguing, complex and enigmatic character. He's loving, loyal, passionate, persistent, confident, masculine, sexy, and incredibly arrogant and authoritative alpha. Bud is also an werewolf and a sadistic dominant in the bedroom.
Nickie is an investigative journalist, and author who is incredibly driven and seeks to correct injustice and wrongs she uncovers. She is idealistic and independent, and a switch and a masochist. Nickie came off as quite a judgmental character and I personally struggled to connect with her character.
This pair have an incredibly volatile relationship with quite a lot of conflict regarding miscommunication, trust and their differing ideologies and perceived notions of right and wrong.
This is a captivating, engaging and entertaining story featuring a variety of shape shifting animals and vampires, humans and members of the Rolling Thunder MC. The love scenes are incredibly hot and steamy and have elements of kink and BDSM.
I would recommend this title to anyone who enjoys a MC romance, romantic suspense or paranormal romance.
I look forward to reading more of Ms Blevins work in the future.
Candace Blevins lives with her husband of 18 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place, she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, a smoking hot Motorcycle Club series, and a contemporary BDSM Romance series.
Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, and three different species of vampires exist, as well as a variety of other mythological beings.
Candace’s two paranormal romance series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals and The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club, are both sister series to the Only Human books, and gives some secondary characters their happily ever after. Her three paranormal series are written so you can read one series, or all three, should you prefer only a particular genre.
Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different take on the lifestyle.
You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on Facebook at and Goodreads. You can also join Candace's Kinksters to get sneak peeks into what she’s writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.