The whole series revolves around motorcycles and hawt hawt men. The Wild Riders is a gang of special ops bikers who work undercover for the federal government.
The first book in the series (Riding Wild) was a finalist for Best Erotic Suspense for the 2008 Romantic Times BookReviews Reviewers Choice Award. This book features Mac who is working undercover as a thief, this time high-jacking a priceless artifact included in a museum exhibit from a museum in Chicago. He has traveled around the country looking for the right opportunity to steal it. Of course, the heroine is Lily who is a gun-toting ex-socialite ex-cop PI who was hired to protect said valuable museum exhibit and investigate the security for the museum. Mac was Lily's 1st love 10 years ago and they both quickly find the passion never died. Between Mac kidnapping Lily to their action packed escapades to Mac's Alpha personality and the scalding, scorching, searing, blazing hawt hawt hawt - hawter than the hottest pepper sauce made connection these 2 have, this book draws you in from the very first page to the last and even days later. Riding Wild is a must-read for anyone who loves sexy romances filled with plenty of action and suspense.
The 2nd book in the series is Riding Temptation and was again a finalist in the Best Erotic Suspense for the 2008 National Readers' Choice Awards which was really no surprise to me. This book again features an Alpha hawt motorcycle man named Diaz Delgado. Runaway Jessie Matthews who was caught by Mac (from the 1st book) and taken into the gang of special ops bikers. The guys have always thought of her as a kid sister - except, of course, Diaz. Unknown to Diaz, the feelings are mutual. On Jessie's first assignment for the Wild Riders, she is paired with Diaz and they go undercover as a couple to infiltrate and take down a group of bikers who are thought to be survivalists who are selling arms illegally. Jessie uses every single feminine wile to capture Diaz's attention and have him be her first lover. This book's hawt levels are even hotter than the 1st book as Ms. Burton intertwines kinkier sex, an orgy, voyeurism, and exhibitionism into this story that doesn't offend in any way as there is so much sensuality you don't realize the kink. The action out of bed goes into the 'code' that bikers live by and how riding is a passion and a way of life and was really interesting to me. She portrays bikers as everyday people and seldom criminals. The book has a lot of exciting action suspenseful scenes that just suck you in and keep you up all night. If anything, the 2nd book in the series showed me that Jaci Burton is not an author with a one book hit and hopefully will be around for a long time to come!
I was a little leery by the time I got to the 3rd book since I didn't think Ms. Burton could possibly outdo the other 2 but I was sure proved wrong in a hurry. Riding on Instinct is probably the hawtest of the 3 books and that is not putting the other steam factor down on the other 2 in any way.
Spence was in Riding Temptation and quite intriguing so I loved that book 3 featured him as the alpha hero. Spence is a true alpha who does not back down in any situation and is a confirmed bachelor who has prided himself on choosing women he can love and leave with no strings attached. But here comes Shadoe Grayson, a Justice Department Agent who is assigned to work with Spence and fellow Wild Rider agents Paxton and AJ. The mission is to determine the identity of a rogue DEA agent who is passing information to the Columbians about drug seizure operations at the port in New Orleans. The Justice Department suspects that the rogue agent is using a high-end strip club in New Orleans as a base of operations. The Wild Riders team and Shadoe are assigned to go undercover at the club to identify the agent and catch him passing intelligence information to the Columbians.
Spence is skeptical of Shadoe's abilities to pull off her undercover identity as a stripper as he pegs her as an uptight prim and proper straight laced woman. But Shadoe has a photographic memory and assumes her undercover role with an intensity that blows Spence away (I learned some new things too). Spence acts as her bodyguard and boyfriend. Since they are sharing a room in the French Quarter Spence is quickly drawn to her and her sexuality that just oozes out of her pores. Their passionate scenes simply set the pages on fire and are so appropriate for New Orleans: sultry, sweaty, and oh so sinful. The mission is suspenseful and thrilling as the agents infiltrate the bar, identify the rogue agent and are caught in the crossfire during a vintage "Wild Rider" climax to the story although the climax and 'bad guy' was not revealed until the very end and I was kinda surprised by who it was.
This story also featured Wild Riders agents Paxton and AJ, who are are best friends, and share ...ummm....EVERYTHING. Just their description made me hope this series was not over and there was another Wild Rider novel in the future. I got my wish and AJ's and Paxton's story in Riding the Night will release September 2010. I can't wait!
Thanks Terri for the heads up on this author that is now an auto-buy!
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