Toxic

Dark, dramatic, intense

TOXIC is the first instalment in Sam Crescent’s contemporary, adult SATAN’S DEATH RIDERS MC dark, erotic, MC romance series. This is twenty-one year old, diner waitress Rosalie Barlowe, and Satan’s Death Riders MC member Colt.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Rosalie and Colt, TOXIC follows the arranged marriage between our story line couple. In a desperate effort to end the war between two rival MCs, Warden, the president of the Satan’s Death Riders was arranging a marriage between his son Colt, and the daughter of Daemon, the president of the Evil F&*ckers MC. Rosalie barely knows her father, a man she despises but to protect her mother, Rosalie agrees to marry a man she doesn’t not know, a man she believes is just as evil the father she has only met a couple of times. Struggling to accept one another, Rosalie makes a deal with Colt, a deal that does not go well with our heroine’s father. What ensues is the building but acrimonious relationship between our story line couple, and the potential fall-out as betrayal, murder and bloodshed greet our heroine at every turn.

The world building focuses on the potential was between two rival MCs. Daemon is a monster, not well like amongst his own, but a man who rules with threats of murder and death. Battling between head and heart, Colt finds himself falling for a woman he knew nothing about, a woman who is innocent and unaware of life in the MC.

The relationship between Colt and Rosalie begins as a forced marriage, a marriage meant to unite two MC but a marriage that is meant to protect Rosalie’s mother. With a myriad of threats hanging over her head, Rosalie relents only to discover that her life and the lives of the people she loves, hangs in the balance, dependant upon the outcome of her future with the Satan’s Death Riders MC. From the outset, Colt takes a cruel dislike of his innocent bride but their first night together reveals an innocence he knew nothing about. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including several members for both MCs. We are introduced to Colt’s parents Warden and Kim: Rosalie’s mother Gabrielle, her father Daemon, and her best friend Petal.

TOXIC is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, murder and madness, obsession, acceptance, relationships, family and love. The premise is dark, dramatic and intense; the romance struggles in the face of hatred, misunderstandings, issues of trust and the forced aspect of the entire relationship; the characters are desperate, broken and dynamic. The epilogue fast forwards the story line approximately ten years.