.75 stars-PROPERTY OF ANCHOR is the first instalment in Winter Travers’ contemporary, adult KINGS OF ANARCHY MC: MICHIGAN CHAPTER erotic, MC romance series set in the multi-authored Kings of Anarchy MC world. This is club president Anchor aka Grant, and twenty-nine year old, artist Pearl Richardson’s story line.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers
Told from dual first person perspectives (Anchor and Pearl) PROPERTY OF ANCHOR follows in the wake of the discovery of several bodies, over several days, floating along the shore of Skull Island. Skull Island has become the ultimate horror play ground with a haunted house, and ghost boat rides sponsored and run by the Kings of Anarchy MC: Michigan but the haunted house needed some updating, and Brush Masters has been hired to redecorate. Anchor never expected to come face to face with his future in the guise of Pearl Richardson, the woman who is about to star in his fantasies and dreams but shortly after Pearl and her team’s arrival, the bodies begins to amass, and someone is taking aim at our story line heroine. The Kings of Anarchy is the target but Anchor is determined to protect the woman with whom he is falling in love.
The world building focuses on the search for a killer, and the successful haunted house tours that are no going according to plan. Someone is targeting the KIngs of Anarchy MC, and the list of potential enemies goes back several years.
The relationship between Anchor and Pearl is one of immediate attraction but Pearl is doing a job, and has no idea if Anchor wants anything beyond a few days in time. Declaring himself protector and guardian, Anchor is determined to uncover the truth but as the days go by, they are no closer to discover the who, how or why. The $ex scene are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters are energetic and colorful. We are introduced to Pearl’s father Bert, and the painting crew: Bernice, Molly, Brian and Jake, as well as several members of the KOAMC: Michigan: vice president Skull, Bob, Wannabe, Vin, Cross, Push, Pull, Piney, Doc and Prime.
PROPERTY OF ANCHOR is a story of mystery and suspense, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships. The premise is intriguing and dramatic; the romance is seductive and fated; the characters are determined and dynamic -but I struggled with the use of the word-DOLL-used 53 times throughout the story line as an endearment for our story line heroine. It was as though Anchor forget the name of the woman with whom he was falling in love. PROPERTY OF ANCHOR ends on a bit of a cliff hanger-the conflict has yet to be resolved.
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