Author: Renee Rocco

Sunday Spotlight: Jester by Renee Rocco

Posted October 31, 2021 by Casee in Features, Giveaways | 1 Comment

Sunday Spotlight is a feature we began in 2016. This year we’re spotlighting our favorite books, old and new. We’ll be raving about the books we love and being total fangirls. You’ve been warned. 🙂

Sunday Spotlight: Jester by Renee RoccoJester by Renee Rocco
Series: Masters of Mayhem #2
Also in this series: Wraith
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: October 25, 2021
Point-of-View: Alternating First
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 326
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Series Rating: four-stars

I'm a good criminal.I'm an even better deviant.
Ask anyone, and they'll tell you I'm Mayhem's favorite troublemaker. But I have a problem. I broke Faith Decker's heart. She spent the last seven years avoiding me. Now that she's back in town, I'm making it my mission to win her back...even if I have to chain her to my bed until she realizes we belong together.
When Faith gets caught in the crossfire of the Unholy's war with a drug lord, trust and believe I'll unleash hell on anyone who hurts her.

Excerpt

“Yo, Jester, there’s a dick on your Jeep.”
At Discord’s comment, my hand freezes on the driver’s door handle. “There’s a what on my Jeep?”
Laughing, he points at something on the passenger’s side of the vehicle. “A dick. You, legit, got a fat dick on your Jeep.”
That’s a new one.
Since I got the Wrangler, there have been plenty of things in it. Weapons. Women. Unholy. But a dick on it? Yeah, I’ve got to go with that being a new one.
Sure as shit, when I join Discord and Havoc on the other side and get a look at what they’re snickering at… Yep. There it is. Larger than life. Keyed deep in my beautiful paint. A big ol’ dick, complete with a mean ballsack. Not sloppy. Not rushed. Nope. Elegantly etched on my Jeep by the dainty hand of one vengeful Faith Decker.
Foreplay.
I dare someone to tell me otherwise.
Fore-fucking-play.
Game on, gorgeous.

Masters of Mayhem

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Review: Wraith by Renee Rocco

Posted February 1, 2021 by Casee in Reviews | 1 Comment

Review: Wraith by Renee RoccoReviewer: Casee
Wraith by Renee Rocco
Series: Masters of Mayhem #1
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: November 22, 2020
Format: eBook
Source: Author
Point-of-View: Alternating First
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Genres: Dystopian, Contemporary Romance
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four-stars
Series Rating: four-stars

It's a new world order—where the villains have become the heroes.

ERIC ‘WRAITH’ SHAWOnce upon a time… Yeah, no. Let’s stop right here. My life isn’t a fairytale. I'm not Prince Charming. And I haven't forgotten the day Jamie Ellis left town in handcuffs. But that feels like lifetimes ago. My high school crush is all grown up and she’s married to the man holding me prisoner. Drugged and tortured, I've become a monster who’ll stop at nothing to rip David Crane’s world apart.

JAMIE ELLISWhen I left Mayhem at sixteen, my heart stayed behind with the beautiful delinquent I’ve loved since kindergarten. But I'm a product of a life gone wrong, and I married David hoping for a better future. Now that I know the depth of my husband's depravity, I’ll risk everything to ruin his carefully crafted empire, because if Wraith and I want our happily ever after, we’re going to have to fight for it...

Wraith is a complete standalone in the Masters of Mayhem series.

When Eric Shaw was young, he loved Jamie Ellis. Jamie was younger than him, but he was still drawn to her. When Eric realizes how badly Jamie’s dad is abusing her, he makes plans to leave Mayhem as soon as Jamie turns eighteen. The day he decides he’s taking Jamie and leaving, she is arrested for murdering her father. She was acquitted, but she never returned to Mayhem. Eric looked for her for years without luck. Now Eric is Wraith, an enforcer for the Unholy. Wraith is a remarkable MMA fighter which catches the attention of David Crane. David kidnaps fighters off the streets, holds them captive and makes them fight each other for their very lives. They’re prisoners that can’t escape. Wraith knows that his friends are looking for him, he just has to hold on. He gets the shock of his life when he finds out Jamie Ellis is now Jamie Crane. The wife of the very man that he has sworn to kill.

Jamie Ellis has never forgotten the boy she loved since she was a child. She was sixteen when you was acquitted for her father’s murder. She didn’t think Wraith would remember or care if she went back to Mayhem, so she didn’t. After traveling around, Jamie found herself homeless and starving. David Crane rescued her from certain death, though Jamie had no idea at the time that David was a monster of the worst order. She has planned her escape, but when she finds out David is holding an Unholy prisoner, she knows that she can’t leave him. She doesn’t know who it is, but she does know that she won’t leave someone from Mayhem in David’s prison.

When Jamie and Wraith reunite, it’s as if no time has passed. Wraith is furious when he learns that Jamie married David Crane, but he soon comes to realize that she married him out of desperation. It doesn’t matter to Wraith one way or another; he’s going to kill David and make Jamie a widow. Though the two escape Gomorrah, they both know that it doesn’t end with that. The only way it will end is when David is dead. Something both Jamie and Wraith agree on.

I was hooked when I read this book. I’m a sucker for dystopian romances and this was exactly that. The captivity and the torture was so intense that I could feel Wraith’s pain radiating off the pages. I was pulled in immediately and read this book in a few days. If you like dystopian contemporaries, this book is definitely for you. The next book in the series comes out in July and I, for one, cannot wait.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Masters of Mayhem

four-stars


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Sunday Spotlight: Wraith by Renee Rocco

Posted January 31, 2021 by Casee in Features, Giveaways | 2 Comments

Sunday Spotlight is a feature we began in 2016. This year we’re spotlighting our favorite books, old and new. We’ll be raving about the books we love and being total fangirls. You’ve been warned. 🙂

Sunday Spotlight: Wraith by Renee RoccoWraith by Renee Rocco
Series: Masters of Mayhem #1
Also in this series: Wraith
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: Novemer 22, 2020
Point-of-View: Alternating First
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Add It: Goodreads
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Series Rating: four-stars

It's a new world order—where the villains have become the heroes.

ERIC ‘WRAITH’ SHAWOnce upon a time… Yeah, no. Let’s stop right here. My life isn’t a fairytale. I'm not Prince Charming. And I haven't forgotten the day Jamie Ellis left town in handcuffs. But that feels like lifetimes ago. My high school crush is all grown up and she’s married to the man holding me prisoner. Drugged and tortured, I've become a monster who’ll stop at nothing to rip David Crane’s world apart.

JAMIE ELLISWhen I left Mayhem at sixteen, my heart stayed behind with the beautiful delinquent I’ve loved since kindergarten. But I'm a product of a life gone wrong, and I married David hoping for a better future. Now that I know the depth of my husband's depravity, I’ll risk everything to ruin his carefully crafted empire, because if Wraith and I want our happily ever after, we’re going to have to fight for it...

Wraith is a complete standalone in the Masters of Mayhem series.

Excerpt

The day I turned eighteen, the Unholy baptized me in blood, and I was reborn as Wraith. Hearing the name Eric on Jamie Ellis’s lips is both a benediction and a blasphemy. Spoken in a place that’s an endless nightmare, where I’ve become more monster than man.

She’s a fantasy come to life, pulled from a corner of my mind reserved only for her.

It’d be too easy to find out if her mouth still tastes of apples.

Do it, the devil taunts.

Unfortunately for us, we’re in hell, and there’s no angel to counter the evil perched on my shoulder. Its incessant voice is a buzz in my brain, reminding me how Jamie left me hanging for eight goddamn years like I was nothing. Not even an afterthought. There’s no one to stop me from lifting her skirt, ripping off her panties, and sliding into her. Nothing to prevent me from stealing one moment of pleasure in this world of pain and misery.

Nothing but my conscience.

“You’re crushing me.”

Jamie’s breathy whisper sounds too intimate with her under me. My body throbs in empty anticipation of what I can’t have. Of what’s never been mine to take.

“No, I’m not.”

But I climb off her anyway. I may be a monster, but I’m not a rapist.

Disheveled, Jamie sits up and adjusts her skirt. Tendrils of hair came loose from its knot, and yet, that thing is still wound so tight it’s giving me a headache. She sweeps away those stray hairs and sits there, a portrait of tousled dignity.

She owes me a shitload of answers.

I start with the most crucial question. “What the hell are you doing here?”

In this twisted kingdom. In this cell. With me. Out of nowhere, like a fantasy pulled from a fever dream.

To Jamie’s credit, she cringes. “It’s complicated.”

I gesture around the cell. “Seriously?”

She crisscrosses her legs, the position childlike, her spine achingly rigid. “It goes back to what happened after the acquittal.”

“Since I’m not letting you rape me, we got nothing but time, sweetheart, so you better start talking.”

Masters of Mayhem

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