Lauren Gilley

From the author of the Walker Series comes a family drama like no other, a sprawling character epic, a forbidden love story full of angst, adventure, heartbreak, and second chances. Welcome to the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club; meet the girl raised by outlaws, and the fearsome man who will always hold her heart.Ava Teague left for college with a busted heart and a deeply ingrained love for her biker family. She returns home to Knoxville for grad school, just in time for her father to accept the burden of president...and for Mercy Lécuyer to roll back into town, looking to patch into the Tennessee chapter once more. Felix Lécuyer left the swamps of Louisiana for a life as an outlaw biker named Mercy, but it was his family, and the retribution he dealt because of it, that made him famous within the club. Fourteen years ago he fled New Orleans for Knoxville, to become an extractor and bodyguard within the mother chapter, guarding Ghost Teague's family, becoming a constant companion to little Ava. When she was seventeen, he finally crossed the line. Now she's twenty-two, and he's back in town as an old nemesis rears its ugly head, and puts the entire club in danger. The fate of the club is uncertain, but Mercy has no doubts about his heart; it still belongs to Ava. Now available as a complete novel, Fearless launches a thrilling new series about the Lean Dogs of Tennessee, and the women tough enough to love them. Look for Book II, Price of Angels, coming March 2015.

Fearless

Book II in the Dartmoor Series. Holly Jessup came to Knoxville in search of the Lean Dogs MC, hoping to find a killer among them. She's spent four months cozying up to Sgt. at Arms Michael, and it's time to make her move. Michael McCall isn't in the habit of accepting contract hits, but Holly isn't the kind of girl who chases after Dogs. She's petrified, and infatuated, and she might be the first woman to see him for the man he is, rather than the outlaw he seems. Maybe, for Holly, he can become St. Michael at last. After the events of FEARLESS, the Lean Dogs can't afford any more scandals. Michael never expected he'd be the one to bend the rules. And no one thought his feelings for one woman could shake the balance of the Tennessee underworld. Be sure to look for Book I in the Dartmoor Series, FEARLESS, and be on the lookout for Book III, coming Summer 2015. Lauren invites her readers to join her on social media: @lauren_gilley; hoofprintpress.blogspot.com; Facebook/Lauren Gilley - Author. Email her at authorlaurengilley@gmail.com.

Price of Angels

From the author of FEARLESS, the first in a new Dartmoor spinoff series: Colin O'Donnell grew up in a lie, believing the man who raised him was his father, stirring up hell in the Louisiana bayous. A shocking revelation about his parentage led him to his half-brother...and his half-brother's motorcycle club. Now Colin is a prospect for the Lean Dogs MC, and he's just been transferred from his home town of New Orleans to Amarillo, Texas, where Vice President Candyman runs a tight ship, and holds tight secrets. Jenny Snow has spent the last seven years in limbo, waiting for the pain to recede, when she unwittingly catches the eye of the club's newest prospect. She doesn't have the time or patience for a biker in her life. If only she can convince herself she truly believes that. SNOW IN TEXAS is the first installment of Lauren Gilley's new Lean Dogs Legacy Series, and features characters first introduced in her Dartmoor Series. Be sure to look for the Dartmoor novels FEARLESS, PRICE OF ANGELS, HALF MY BLOOD, THE SKELETON KING, and SECONDHAND SMOKE. Visit her at "Lauren Gilley - Author" on Facebook, at hoofprintpress.blogspot.com, or drop her a line at authorlaurengilley@gmail.com.

Snow in Texas

Real life. It isn't sexy. Isn't pretty. There are no alpha bad boys. No easy outs. No Hollywood soundtrack. Real life hurts like hell and tastes like the grit between your teeth. And love...love always bears a hefty price. This isn't a biker romance. This is love and war in the world of the Lean Dogs. Aidan Teague was born into the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club, a third generation outlaw with big biker boots to fill. A perpetual screw-up and playboy, he's never taken life seriously. Until now. If his accident a year ago was a wakeup call, then a jolting revelation from his latest lover is a life-altering shock. It won't be simple, but it's high time Aidan came into his own. With the club on the brink of a new war, beset by enemies old and new, Aidan must find the strength to lead, or risk everyone he loves. Secondhand Smoke is the fourth full-length installment in the Dartmoor Series, and is NOT a standalone. This is a work of literary fiction, so readers should expect lyrical prose and an emphasis on character development and realism. Look for the first four volumes: Fearless, Price of Angels, Half My Blood (A Dartmoor Novella), and The Skeleton King. Visit Lauren at hoofprintpress.blogspot.com, facebook.com/Lauren Gilley - Author, @lauren_gilley, or email her at authorlaurengilley@gmail.com.

Secondhand Smoke

Raised by a widower and a pack of uncles, Michelle Calloway has known only one way of life, that of the Lean Dogs MC, London chapter. When circumstances force her to flee to America, she fears her days of working alongside the club are over. But Derek Snow isn't the sort of man to let talent go to waste. In Amarillo, Texas, Vice President Candyman faces the challenge of preserving his club and protecting his growing family. If Charlie Fox's niece has a head for numbers, he's going to put her to use. But he never would have guessed little Michelle would be so grown up already... Club prince meets MC princess in book II of the Lean Dogs Legacy Series.

Tastes Like Candy

The Lean Dogs MC has long been a haven for the outlaws, the rebels, the ill-adjusted, and the outright monsters of Knoxville, Tennessee. They are a dark, dangerous brand of misfit, etched with ink, splattered with blood, and vilified by the town they call home. The only laws they follow are the ones set down in the club charter by their leather-clad forefathers. But some outlaws have secrets they can't even share with their club brothers. The Lean Dogs call him "Tango," but once upon a time Kevin Estes went by "Loverboy." It's a past his club could never understand, one that's going to kill him. Loverboy is the fifth full-length installment in the Dartmoor Series and is NOT a standalone. It handles sensitive, potentially-triggering subjects, and is intended for MATURE audiences only. Copyright (c) 2016 by Lauren Gilley

Loverboy

His club brothers call him the Money Man. Vice President Kingston Walsh is one of the most trusted members of the Lean Dogs MC. He's thoughtful, quiet, and he's all business. Who better to serve as guardian of the club's skeletons? He never counted on the girl, but he's not letting her go. She has skeletons too... Emmie Johansen has worked at the same horse farm all her life, and when the owner decides to sell, she's crushed. Briar Hall is about to be sold to real estate developers, and she's about to be out of a job, a home, and a purpose. Enter Walsh, and the Lean Dogs MC. Emmie thought losing the farm was the worst possible scenario. But when the club buys Briar Hall, and keeps her on as manager, she begins to unravel the farm's dark secrets...and learns the true meaning of "outlaw." The Skeleton King is the third full-length installment of the Dartmoor Series, and is NOT a standalone novel. This is a work of Literary Fiction, told from alternating points of view. Be sure to look for earlier books in the series: Fearless, Price of Angels, and Half My Blood. Book 4 coming soon.

The Skeleton King

Heart of Winter

It's summer in Knoxville, and if the outlaw crew at Dartmoor Inc. thought they were getting a respite from the drama...they were kidding themselves. Almost a year ago, Mercy's dying mother claimed he had a half-brother, sired by the beloved father he'd always thought infallible, raised by another man as his own. He's been in denial ever since, but when Colin O'Donnell arrives, it's time to face facts. Turns out his family isn't lost - he only wishes this member of it was. Holly McCall is determined to prove her worth to the other old ladies - Maggie, specifically. She never dreamed of a life like this, and as she searches for self-worth and acceptance, she is wrapped step-by-step in the gentlest love of the fiercest man. For Aidan and Tango, this summer is a season for realizations. For waking to a vision of the future. And for drowning in the past. In this Dartmoor Series novella, readers will spend time with the entire club, meet new voices, and fall deeper into the world of the Lean Dogs MC. Not a stand-alone romance, Half My Blood balances several central storylines with delicacy and passion. Brimming with emotion, spotlighting secondary characters, Dartmoor fans won't want to miss this bridge between novels two and three in the series.

A Dartmoor Novella

Half My Blood

NYPD homicide detective Trina Baskin is having nightmares. Vivid ones. Full of blood, and snow, dead wolves...and a young man with pale hair who howls like an animal. She chalks them up to stress and an overactive imagination, too many Old Country stories from her Russian father who, when he's had too much vodka, starts to rave about dark forces and things that look like men...but aren't. But then a case hits her desk that can't be explained. A young man found outside a club with a nasty bite mark on his neck - and not a drop of blood left in his body. With no leads, no theories that bear exploring, too little sleep, and a partner who seems to be willfully throwing his career down the toilet, the last thing Trina needs is a full-on out of body experience...in which her family's past is revealed to her, and everything starts making a whole lot of terrifying sense. In 1942, Trina's great-grandfather, Nikita, is a captain of the Cheka, the Soviet political police - or so it seems. He and his men are sent to Siberia to retrieve a "volunteer," the boy who's going to win the war against the Nazis - and potentially unleash hell on earth. The world's immortal population has been living quietly, secretly, hiding from the wars of men, hoping the past can stay buried. But what happens on the Eastern Front in the winter of 1942 will change everything. In 2017, Trina is about to come face-to-face with her own past in a way she never thought possible. It turns out monsters are real - and they might be the only hope for survival.

White Wolf

Joanna Walker knows she will be meeting up with Tam Wales, the love of her life, at her brother's wedding in an Irish castle. Jo has no idea why Tam broke up with her four years ago, or if she can even forgive him. Tam had his reasons--he had to leave her to keep her save.

Keep You

When she was nineteen, Lisa Russell's life turned upside down…and kept turning. Now, at twenty-four, she's a bartender, a receptionist, and too jaded for her own good. An only child, she's served as daughter and son to her father, tagging along with his mechanics and security contractors. She tests his rules and his patience, absolutely fearless…until someone from her father's past reaches out to deliver a mysterious threat. With bouquets of flowers, and a strange note, a killer with a bone to pick brings a terror to her world she's never known.Prize fighter Drew Forester knows only two things: that he's good in the ring, and that he's instantly attracted to his new boss's daughter. He's been charged with tailing Lisa Russell, keeping her safe, and keeping his hands to himself. It's a tall order, though, because Lisa takes too many risks – and because it's not just about the job anymore. It's about the girl.

Made for Breaking

In New York City, a string of increasingly-grisly murders leads Detective Trina Baskin, and her newly-immortal partner, Lanny, to a frightening facility with designs on studying all the immortals they can get their hands on. When one of their own is abducted, they'll have to rely on dangerous new allies, plunged into a world they can barely believe exists...much less survive. In a tiny town in Wyoming, a girl on the run and her self-appointed protector can't afford to sit still for too long, and they definitely can't accept the help of kind strangers. Ruby Russell has the kind of talent that turns heads, and draws powerful enemies. Her gifts are not her own, and the people who made her want her back. In the second subbasement of a manor house outside Roanoke, a centuries-old Wallachian prince goes walking in his dreams. Guardian angel? Or beautiful liar? The people he visits will soon learn, because like it or not, they're being drawn to his prison. All roads lead to Virginia in the second novel of Lauren Gilley's Sons of Rome series. Dark paranormal fantasy brimming with richly-drawn characters, and steeped in history, Red Rooster continues the adventure that began in book one, White Wolf.

Red Rooster

In 1931, a golden-haired man in fine clothes appeared to a Siberian boy. An apparition in the snow.In 2018, he guided a pack of misfits to his prison. A man made of sharp smiles, and smoke, who they can hear, but can never touch. He calls himself a prince, but how much does anyone really know about Prince Valerian of Wallachia? Is he friend, or foe? Is he real at all?Val has spent the past 550 years as a prisoner, venturing where and when he can, dream-walking, using his powers of astral projection to escape the confines of his cell. His jailers call him "brother-killer," and "traitor" - old rumors of the immortal realm carried forth by the sinister Ingraham Institute, a secret place hidden deep in the forest, bent on using the blood and powers of immortals to fight a gathering threat too terrible to reveal to the mortal world at large. Now, Val's brother, the infamous Vlad Dracula, is awake, hellbent on stopping the boys' wicked uncle, Romulus, once and for all. But first, the boys will have to come to terms with one another - and perhaps finally come to understand the tragedies that played out almost six centuries ago. In Book Three of the Sons of Rome Series, dream-walk to 15th century Romania, to a Wallachia besieged by the Ottoman Empire, and two immortal brothers fighting for their lives. Inspired by the true story of Vlad Dracula, and his family, Dragon Slayer travels from the palace at Tîrgovişte, to the Ottoman court, to the siege of Byzantium. A tale of brothers, and betrayal; of captivity, and revenge.The immortals of the world are gathering, and Vlad and Val, the original sons of Rome, stand poised to lead the charge against a timeless evil. If only they can keep from killing one another...

Dragon Slayer

Jordan Walker learned the hard way that dreams diminish with time and age. He dreamed of Olympic medals and golden shoes, of cheering crowds and endless stretches of red track laid out before him. Then he dreamed of state and nationals, of college scholarships. He dreamed of the unending support, the shining face of that angelic, flawless first love that gave him wings. And then reality reached out with jagged claws and crippled him just as surely as if he'd torn an ACL. Reality was more damaging than any injury. At twenty five, his track career is over, so he's settling for a gig as a college Health and Physical Science professor and coach at his alma mater. It's not his dream job, but really, who has the stomach for dreams anymore? Then he meets Ellie. English major Ellie Grayson has three objectives: graduate from college in three years, publish a novel, and let nothing distract her from either. But her young HPS professor is not so much a distraction as a fascination, and as she digs deeper beneath his impassive surface, she thinks he might just be someone worth dreaming about. Both damaged, both cautious, Jordan and Ellie have to decide where to draw the line between fantasy and reality, and more importantly, which one they really want. The second installment of the Walker Family Series, Dream of You begins a year after the end of Keep You, bringing new challenges for characters from the first book and introducing a new heroine who is a fresh addition to the family.

Dream of You

In 1942, Chekist Captain Nikita Baskin led his elite group of Soviet Secret Police into the wilds of Siberia on a mission to retrieve a "volunteer." Sasha Kashnikov, Tomsk University student and trapper's son, became a werewolf, an intended weapon against the Nazis. But in truth, he was meant to be the Familiar of the vampire Rasputin. In a clearing north of Stalingrad, amid blood-stained snow, Rasputin died, the pack burned, and Nikita and Sasha set off toward eternity together, bound by tragedy, and trust, and a tenderness neither would name. In modern day New York, their pack of two has grown to include two detectives, an artist, and the former tsarevich of Russia. And after what occurred in Virginia, Nikita and Sasha have reached a breaking point. Sasha, an unusually strong alpha wolf, remains unbound, and the forces on all sides of the looming war will want a chance to claim him - to make him a weapon again. All Nik has ever wanted to do was protect his precious Sashka. And all Sasha wants is to be more than a friend and little brother to the man - the vampire - he loves most. Book four of the Sons of Rome series is all about pack. About lovers, and friends, and found family. About learning how to be honest, and to let go of guilt, and about finding the courage to love without reservation. There's a Wallachian prince in town, enemies old and new, and a world to save. But first, Nikita has a confession to make. One that's been seventy-seven years in the making.

Golden Eagle

Black dogs. Demons. Hellhounds. Damned souls that haunt crossroads, taking the forms of hulking dogs with glowing red eyes. Legends of the Old World, but just stories meant to scare lonely wanderers. Mostly. Knoxville, Tennessee boasts black dogs of its own: the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club. And like all legends, the Lean Dogs draw challengers from every corner of the underworld. War's brewing in Tennessee, and the Dogs' first family is about to face its biggest challenge yet: the past. Ghost Teague has spent the last twenty-five years transforming a once-rough club into an empire with his queen by his side, the fearless girl who turned his life around when he needed her most. This new threat is a personal one, aimed at him, at Maggie, and it's calling into question all the decisions they've made thus far. With a rival club in town, and an old nemesis preying on their doubts, they'll have to save the city, the club, and their family. And there's only one way to do it: together. With past and present storylines, the sixth installment of the Dartmoor Series explores the king and queen like never before, an epic tale of rising, and ruling, and leaning on one another.

American Hellhound

What do you do when your murder victim is found in your ex-girlfriend's riding arena? For homicide detective Ben Haley, the answer is automatic: take the case. He's spent the past five years dodging her phone calls and keeping his kid at arm's length, but when Jade finds a body on her farm, Ben rushes to the scene. Eleven-year-old Heidi Latham, dumped at Jade's doorstep, is a painful reminder that his girls live in a dangerous world...and that their pull on him is absolute. Ben's charged with finding Heidi's killer, and keeping his relationship with Jade a secret. Jade Donovan has spent the past five years teaching lessons and training horses, leaning on the unswerving support of gay best friend, Jeremy, as she raises her daughter, Clara, alone. When she finds Heidi, Ben crashes back into her life, and she's too rattled to steel herself against his dark, stern magnetism. She needs him, she realizes, to hold at bay the terrifying evil that lurks in the shadows, claiming the lives of little girls. As the dark nights close in around them, they cling to the tatters of their relationship; Ben risks his job, and Jade risks her heart in the search for justice, keeping the daughter they both love safe.

Whatever Remains

Jessica Walker had the perfect husband, the perfect son, the perfect life…until she realized it was all a lie. In the wake of her husband's shocking infidelity, she knows only one thing: she has to start over. With her sister's help, she buys a dilapidated lakeside mansion with the crazy idea of turning it into an inn. If she can survive the renovations – and the attention of her contractor – she just might succeed. At least, she hopes so. But when has anything ever been so simple?Army Ranger turned contractor Chris Haley has big plans for the inn…and its owner. He's never met anyone as cool, as blunt, as totally impossible…or absolutely beautiful as Jess. He's been alone for too long, and he has a feeling she has too, even if she's hiding behind a bitter exterior as damaged as her new house. When it comes to renovations, hearts aren't so different from homes. Be sure to look for the first three volumes in the Walker Family Series: Keep You, Dream of You, and Better Than You.

Lauren Gilley

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